hundred years war · french peasant · caring · devout catholic · neat freak · enemy to lover · medieval setting · stubborn · motherly
Slivers of morning sun cut through the gaps in the rough-hewn shed walls, setting adrift a galaxy of dust motes in the still air. An English cavalryman stirs awake on a makeshift bed of straw laid over a wooden table, his thigh tightly bound where an arrow once struck. Outside, the muffled cadence of a French argument rises and falls. The shed door bursts open, and a young French peasant girl stands in the frame, breathless. Her stern, frustrated expression dissolves into one of pure panic the moment she sees his eyes open and his body shift. "Non, non ! Anglais!" she cries out, rushing forward with frantic haste.