Arion awakes to the sickly sweet smell of unchanged straw, ‘the Barracks’ he thinks rolling over in his sleep. Dimly as if his sleep caused the it to come to him from a great distance he becomes aware of a voice trying desperately to bring him to consciousness “please sir Arion wake up, the king has summoned you immediately.” These words bring him fully awake in a flash, He looks at the squire before him and snaps, “ Go tell him I am coming I must make myself presentable to the royal apartments lest I dishonor him with the smell of common riff raff.” The last Two years had taught him well how to buy time wi