Chapter Five“Why did you do that?” Seonaid faced me across the width of the chamber, her hands on her hips and her face flushed with fury.
“Why did I do what?” I asked, astonished.
“Why did you draw attention to me like that?”
“I thought you would be pleased,” I told her, more sharply than a gentle knight should. “Now that you have Alistair Mor's protection, you are safe to wander anywhere you like in the castle, or probably anywhere you like in Badenoch! Nobody would dare interfere with you!”
“You fool, Fergus!” Seonaid spoke in a sibilant hiss, her words cutting at me with as much force as Lachlan's sword. “Do you not realise that now we are marked? We will be watched wherever we go. How can we escape?”
“Escape?” I stared at her. “What do you mean, escape? Wherever would we go?” I t
