Meet Joachim, a gypsy that tends the horses for the Blank Shields, and keeps the stables. He’ll tell you that he is a wandering soul, and might not be here tomorrow, but he’s been saying that for three years now.
<Joachim laughs, and winks> “And if the Captain keeps stocking the good wine, I’ll be saying it for many years yet!”
Most of the horses are pastured in the fields below the fortress, but there are a dozen stalls and a small paddock behind the walls. Martin’s destrier lives here, as well as the fast courier steeds and any mares in heat. As Joachim will tell you, “It’s cheaper to breed your own horses than buy from someone else. Cheaper still is to steal them, but with a soft job like this, who needs to be a horse thief?”
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