Whenever Sir Gunnar thought he had tapped out on things to fear, he was faced with a new twist in his life that made him realize he was never done learning. Such was the life of a knight.
"Don't follow me just yet," he ordered the two apprentices.
The knight was the first to dare climb up over the trail that was partially blocked by a rockslide. He could feel himself holding his breath as he went over because if he slipped on the loose rocks, there were hundreds of feet of drop on the other side. When rocks slid from where he stepped, he would pause for a moment before being forced to press on.
However, that wasn't what he was so scared of.
He wanted to go first because he had a long, thick rope in his pack. He could hold onto it so that if one of the apprentices started to slip, he would be able to rescue them as long as they could hold onto the other side until they could be saved.
