In the morning his whole body ached, especially the left forearm, where the arrow hit, so they drove more slowly than usual. The end of the fourth day of the journey led them to a rather lively inn in the large commercial city of Regensburg. Everywhere there was a hubbub and noise. After talking with the people, Eric found out that Arab merchants were going through the city. Of course, he immediately went to look at them and assess their strengths and benefits from a small accident. Alas, but with the merchants there were four dozen well-armed equestrian warriors. Yes, and the wagon is huge - what to do with a whole column of carriages with valuable eastern fabrics was completely incomprehensible. In general - no luck. However, later, eating with Morrigan in the common room of the tavern, he found out that literally across the table from them sat the guys from the guard of a certain Mr. Stefan Solvati, who was going to Genoa with an order from one Krakow trading house. The guards were recruited from different nations, and therefore they communicated among themselves in broken Latin, often distorting it and babbling on their native dialects. If it were not for profound knowledge of vulgar Latin, it is still unknown - would understand what our young baron or not from their conversation. Having eaten, he went up to his room and began to explain that the young Irishman must learn by turning around in the hall. Her idea was not very pleasant, as robbing emissaries of trading houses is dangerous, but obeyed and left. After a couple of hours, when it was completely dark, she returned, carrying with her information on the protection of a curious Italian and other interesting details. In general, nothing particularly iridescent did not work. In total, our Stefan had one servant and a dozen guards. Guard experienced, sensible, in good armor and with quality, well-groomed weapons. At the same time, it was especially unpleasant that every guard had a good Hungarian bow. They were going to spend another day in the city, talking about something with the Arabs, and then leaving for Milan. They always stop exclusively at inns, move very carefully and in general the level of vigilance goes off scale. The only weak point was the storage of provisions, which they keep in the cellar of a tavern, because it's hot outside. If we summarize, then we get a strong and vigilant company, which we can not take by available forces. But the level of their equipment and vigilance was intrigued to the extreme, because only one armor cost not less than three or four marks, and about what they were carrying, it remains only to guess and to lick. After calculating the situation, the young baron began to torture Morrigan about her, extremely useful, knowledge received from a kind grandmother in the forest. By morning the plan was ready, and they went to the pharmacist for the ingredients. But they decided to stop by one by one. At first our young lady was going on, who talked for a long time about herbs, treatment and other interesting things with an elderly, esculapius. Having found out that he has the right amount of dried belladonna and hoof oil, she paid for everything without bargaining. The batch of grass was taken quite considerable, with a margin, according to our beauty's calculations, it is enough for a double lethal dose in each wineskin. The stock was taken with the expectation of an unforeseen situation.

Meanwhile, Eric himself went to the market and tried, quite randomly, to get acquainted with Stefan. Strangely enough, but such an interesting young man himself attracted the attention of the Italian. The fact is that after realizing what the Italian is following, the baron arranged a small bush with a tight-fisted merchant. Well, the poor fellow was not at all willing to give him a piece of parchment for half the price. The beauty and elegance of the designs that our baron weaved from the correct Latin language, in the process of invoking the head of the gargoyle of wrath of the most diverse Gods and body parts, amazed imagination, and therefore were duly appreciated by the Italian. He gladly joined in this fun and, together, they were able, in front of the gay audience, to repulse the parchment for the young knight. And got acquainted. They talked and were surprised to find that they live in the same tavern. So, swearing vowingly to wake up in the evening and talk about the hard life of travelers, they went about their business in an excellent position of spirit. From the market, our joker went straight to the pharmacist where, on the list compiled by his herbalist, he bought the ingredients for the additive and neutralizer. The main problem was that the trading emissary accidentally break out with the company, should be outside the city, preferably on a deserted road. Therefore, it was decided to poison the wine in the road wineskins, which they kept in the basement of the tavern, and that in the morning they all wanted to drink abundantly, in the evening with them to hike and drink wine with a small additive causing a strong and persistent dryness in the mouth and throat. Nothing dangerous and you can survive, but you will want to drink very solidly, so they sip their wineskins for a sweet soul. Until the first tavern is not reached, as a vyhlebayut. The concentration of poison decided to do a little, so that it did not cut down the people at once, but let it go away. The reason for drinking, in addition to the glorious acquaintance was mutually beneficial transaction for the sale of the letter, which was seized during the last catch. As it turned out, it was very useful for trade people. For the letter, ten denarii were poured, which were peppered to the undisguised joy of the guards. One misfortune, the additive causing dryness had to be added to all the wine that was in the tavern, so that the mass of people in the morning will simply be deceived with pleasure. Except, perhaps, our treacherous couple, which was prepared for itself by an additive neutralizer.

Evening came. We sat. We chatted. Stefan's guards were particularly pleased with the story of the escape from the castle and the battle with the robbers. The authority of the young knight in their eyes has grown significantly. Drank, surprisingly, modestly. But additives and from one glass should suffice, and have drunk not less than three mugs each. They sat there merrily, setting the tone for the whole room, but, alas, everything once comes to an end. So our craftsmen had to disperse. As usual, they said goodbye for a long time, shook hands. The Italian invited to visit Genoa and told in detail how to find his house. A little more and they would have started to fraternize, but Morrigan intervened in a timely manner, as she was observant of everything from a distance, because the woman was indecent to drink with men. All went to the rooms and went to bed. But our hero was not up to sleep - he was intolerably anxious for sex, as the young hormones played so violently that banally prevented him from falling asleep. At hand was the Irish, but she could not be touched, since she was subordinate and after such a precedent it would be difficult for him to keep a distance with her. You could always go down into the common room and seduce one of the girls that carry the food, but the chance of getting a good, good sore on your lower head exceeded all reasonable limits. It remained to look for young virgins and try to achieve success with them. Dirty, of course, but in addition to irritation mucous, nothing terrible will not work. But this is an idea! In general, after half an hour he flirted at the porch of one of the houses with a young special fourteen years old, who clearly had an interest in our baron. Whatever you say, but at the age of 14 he looked very solid and attractive: a soft bass, a stern face and a harmoniously built, strong body. As a result, an hour after he went hunting, he was already doing "gymnastics" in full swing in the collapse of the hay behind the city stables. Filling his bubbling physiology, he took a note on the note and subsequently used it more than once. When our young Lovelace returned to the room, Morrigan did not sleep, but carefully pretended. In the end, he caught her at the moment when she opened her eyes. Realizing that the conspiracy had failed, she looked condemnantly at our hero and, pressing her lips, pointedly turned to the other side.