No matter how long you train someone to be brave, you never know if they are or not until something real happens.
No matter how long you train someone to be brave, you never know if they are or notuntil something real happens.Veronica Roth
“Moffat!” Jack shouted. “Take out a dozen mounted infantry and see what’s happening!” He glanced at the walls, where the sentinels were at their posts, peering into the desert. “Sound the stand-to!”
The bugle call rang out. “Colonel Wahiba! Get your men onto the walls!”
The dust crept closer, hazing the horizon as Moffat led out his mounted men, trotting eastwards. After a few hundred yards, Moffat sent out scouts on either flank.
“Good man, Moffat; you’re learning.”
The mounted infantry returned within half an hour. “False alarm, sir,” Moffat repo
