The tournament started. The challengers came out in formation, and exhibited such good horsemanship that they were loudly applauded. Then five knights came out and each touched the shield of the challenger that each wished to fight with. There was a system used to say whether or not they wished to fight with sharp weapons; if they used the non-sharp end of the lance, they did not want to fight with sharp weapons, if they used the sharp end, they did want sharp ones. All the knights used the non-sharp ends, and they were all defeated. Then several more waves of knights came, but all were defeated. Then there was a long pause, broken only by the heralds, who were trying to rouse the knights to fight. But none would. Then a knight rode into the lists, and he had written his name as the Disinherited Knight. He touched the shield of Sir Brian de Bois-Guilibert, one of the challengers, with the sharp end of his lance until it rang. Sir Brian, rather astonished by this rudeness, came out and did battle with him. The Disinherited Knight won, because the girths of Sir Brian's saddle burst, and he did battle with the four other knights and won them all. That's all for now!
More soon,
Bell
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