Before she took me out of the woods and over to the wagons, she sat down in the woods with me. She said that I must leave and not come back, mayb... forever. The sheriff thinks that I used my knife to murder one of the men who killed father, because they found my knife sticking out of the back of one of the vigilantes that hunted down father and hung him from a tree. Father was found outside of town, hanging from a tree. The sheriff says that father was hung because they thought. “Geir, I saw a bit of your duel in the square. I’m surprised you had such trouble with such a young opponent.”Geir bowed his head slightly in embarrassment. “My Lord, I was fortunate to come away from that encounter with my life. Hjalmar and Idar were both felled by her hand. Luckily for me, Idar managed to wound her enough to slow her down.”I paused, surprised that so small a warrior could have killed two accomplished veterans.“I believe this qualifies her as villein,” said Geir.“If what. It was 2 or 3 inches in diameter."Hit that tree a single blow as hard as you can, about head level," he said."Why?" Just do it. Cut it in half if you can."Lormia stood by the tree. She took two practice swings and than swung the sword with all her strength. Her sword stuck less than half-way through and stuck. Ree'al pushed the tree aside to free the blade."Give me your sword," Ree'al said."Now watch," he said after he had the sword. "I'm going to strike the tree three times." And he did.Lormia. I am sure you will be begging me to be allowed be an extremely obedient girl by the time I am finished with you and I am sure you will be repeating your feelings again tomorrow afternoon when we repeat these measures.Of course at your bedtime tonight I will still expect full cooperation from your impudent bottom regardless of how well loved it may be. Now over here and let me remove those little pants of yours. You may as well do your fetching bare bottomed today". Sir Lawrence stood the boy.