Infinite Devotion (Infinite Series, Book 2) by L.E. Waters

Author:L.E. Waters
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: spirituality, reincarnation, past lives, fantasy series, time travel, heaven, historical fantasy, spirit guide, soulmates, highwayman, lucrezia borgia, spanish armada, reincarnation fantasy, redmond ohanlon, infinite series, infinite sacrifice
Publisher: L.E. Waters

Chapter 16

Everything’s quiet for a few days, when suddenly Bella alerts us. We run to the turrets to see men on horseback trotting calmly in a single line down the narrow path through the bog, with English banners and flags waving. Great disarray ensues once they realize they can’t go farther since the pathway ceased purposefully. Trying to turn, the horses are forced to step off the stones and into the bog. They all get stuck and whinny frantically, causing their embarrassed passengers to dismount and pull them out of the stubborn mud, many dropping their esteemed flags in the mud while doing so. We can still see them as they slink back a half mile on land to where more stable pasture fields lay, and they dismount to discuss their unusual situation.

Later that night, a band of brave men try to pull a cannon out to the shore of the lake, but it’s so wide it keeps falling off the path and gets stuck as the exhausted men have to keep prying it up with crowbars and pieces of wood. These mud-men give up halfway there and abandon the cannon. The next day, trumpets sound by the shore, and all rush to see what’s happening.

Two men stand on the hill. One shouts through a long voice trumpet that carries remarkably well over the lake up to us. He shouts a long monologue in what sounds like the tongue of the savages.

No one within the castle understands what he says, so the captain shouts in Spanish through his voice trumpet, “I can’t hear you from there! Come closer!”

We snicker at his attempt to get them within range. The captain shouts, “Speak in Spanish so we can understand the terms of your surrender!”

Every Spaniard snickers at his cheeky presumption. The trumpet’s passed to another man beside him, and then he speaks in English-accented Spanish.

“I am a messenger for our Lord Deputy, William FitzWilliam, ordained by Her Majesty the Queen.” He keeps pausing to take another large breath to yell out sentence by sentence. “We are under orders that all Spaniards who have crashed upon our shores, after assaulting England, are to be detained and tried. The traitorous MacClancy clan is harboring these enemies to the crown within these castle walls, and if they are not surrendered to us, we will attack without mercy or regard for Spaniard, Irishman, woman, or child.”

The captain yells, “Sounds like how you conduct business wherever you fight!”

Laughter erupts from the turret and carries across the lake without the aid of the trumpet.

This man then translates to a regal-looking man sitting straight on his white horse with a full body of armor, a short distance up the path. This must be FitzWilliam. He snaps something back angrily and kicks his horse to turn back, and the horse stumbles a bit on the high rocks on the side of the path, humiliating the rider in his haughty exit.

The man speaks again across the lake. “You leave us no

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