Lars laughed. ‘Oh, I see. Well, they did. But that was many years ago.’
Lars stopped talking. The men moved on.
The Silent Woods were very dark. The trees were tall. You could hardly
see daylight.
Later, Alfred asked, ‘Do you know where we’re going, knight?’
‘Yes. I’ve been here before.’
‘When?’ asked Alfred.
‘A long time ago.’ Lars thought back. He remembered the fight between
King Andur and King Arthuren. It was one of the biggest battles in history.
Before it, the woods were called the Animal Woods.
But after the battle,
they became the Silent Woods.
Lars continued talking. ‘When I was younger, I fought for King Andur. I
was in the battle in these woods.’
‘What was the battle for?’
´King Andur started it.’
‘And why did he fight his brother?’
‘King Andur wanted a
fountain
in the woods.’
Lars walked in silence for several minutes. Alfred stayed silent, but he
was thinking. He wanted to know more about the great battle. He had
always thought that King Andur was a peaceful king.
‘Can I ask you something, Lars?’
‘Yes.’
‘What kind of fountain is it exactly?’
‘Wait and see,’ was all Lars said.
Lars and Alfred were silent for an hour. The other
guards talked softly at
times. There were only trees and silence – nothing more. At last the group
came to a
lake. ‘We’ve arrived,’ the knight said.
‘What is this?’
‘A long time ago, this lake was a fountain.’
‘The fountain from the battle?’
‘Yes.’
The guards and the knight walked to the lake. Lars finally spoke. ‘A long
time ago, there was a fountain here. There wasn’t much water. Nothing like
this.
But the original water was
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