Esther was wearing a riding suit: white blouse with long sleeves, jodhpurs and knee high riding boots. When Esther picked the riding crop from the man...le, her habit was complete. She could not find enough courage to sustain her gaze and, as she had been doing a lot since she first arrived at Esther's domain estate, she lowered her head and looked at the floor. Esther approached her and with the tip of the riding crop under the chin slowly raised her head. A tear pearled at the corner of her. She gave me another perfunctory smile, slid the book back on top of the stack, and continued on past me. I just couldn’t let this girl walk out of my life, so I quickly said after her retreating form, ‘Michael! My name is Michael!’ She turned with a questioning look on her pretty face, with a long strand of blonde hair hanging down over the side of her face. She looked at me for some seconds like she was studying me, she juggled her books a little to push the loose strand of hair back into. He didn't realize the truth ... that she was more embarrassed by his words because they were absolutely, completely true."Fine," Judy muttered darkly. "Well, we both know what you want. Let's get this over with." She started to kneel in front of her son, descending down between his splayed legs. To her surprise, though, Bobby held up a hand in front of her, his smirk growing even wider as he gave her the indication to stop. Twirling his finger, Bobby pointed upwards, motioning for her to stand. It took very little time for them to break free without casualties.Phillip himself was left to die in the middle of his own camp, the victim of a surprise raid.The Macedonians demoralized with the death of their leader returned to Macedonia with their dead king.Prince Alexander was forced to deal with Greek city-states who rose up in open rebellion after the announcement that King Phillip was dead. Believing they could finally break free of Macedonian reign they fought against the young prince.