Sentence
The Fivehundredandtwentieth
But, of course, in
1266AD, neither Tavish, nor Tammy, nor Bernie, nor even Lolly, knew
nothing of any of this, nor did their new friends Sister Evadne
Eglantine and Griselda of Longformacus, prisoned, as it were, in the
guest rooms of Albany Palace, under the watchful eye of the Duke's
guards; "Albany thinks himself an ubermensch," said
Tavish, "and he thinks – well, knows - "that he
can get
away with murder; he's the King's consigliere, and he has
alchemists on his payroll searching for all kinds of handwavium, but
I think we can use our own knowledge to exploit that: have you ever
read A Connecticut Yankee at King Arthur's Court?" and
both Bernie and Tammy started singing 'I'm busy doing nothing,
nothing the whole day through, trying to find lots of things not to
do . . . . ." and Tavish grins: "okay, you've seen Danny
Kaye in the movie, so you get the idea; we have knowledge in our
heads of things that no-one here knows about, and we can use that to
our advantage," and he noticed the nun and her sister staring at
him, confusedly, so he spoke to them: "Sister Evadne, Lady
Griselda, I know it is difficult for you to understand how we have
come here, have somehow travelled backwards in time . . . . . we
don't pretend to understand it ourselves, but the fact, which I hope
you will believe, is that it is true; now, here and now, we are all
in great danger – the Duke is a member of the same cult as Sir
Parlane MacFarlane, and despite the fact that he is of your own kin,
I don't think that would stop him harming or killing you for his own
ends; although I am an old man, I do have a certain afflatus – a
kind of inner strength or inspiration which, if you will trust me,
trust all of us, I do believe that we can use our own abilities to
not only save ourselves, but smash The Ring of Gold; MacFarlane and
his man Doubleday are already dead – that I can swear to, and our
aim is to track down the other members of this evil guild and put
them all out of action," and a startled look swept across Sister
Evadne's face - "I cannot, I will not, be party to the murder of
any man," she said, and turning her back on him, she took
her sister's hand and they both knelt and began to pray!
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