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The camp fire crackels. It's fire warms five people, three as they sleep and two as they watch over the others. Their journey is a noble one but some of their pasts and futures aren't.
The two men still awake are there to keep watch over the forest but only one is really doing that. The second has his eyes locked onto the other man. As he looks at the other mans face his thoughts turn to hate but he does not act on the thoughts. His queen, only about five feet away, has ordered that there would be no fighting between anyone of them but why... why did that have to take this scum... why did the queen ask him to join them... why did she say that she may pick up more people like him... no scum like him... So what if he had training in battles... did she not trust her own guards training... Thoughts like this was in all of the guards heads but this one guard, Grant, it was in his head the most. He was the head guard. He had gotten the job because of his father. There had been talks that if it wasn't for his father he wouldn't have gotten this job and if it wasn't for the two other guards he wouldn't have kept the job. If that was true would never be shown.
"I believe we're watching the forest not me..." The Scum said calmly. This pissed Grant off more but he knew he couldn't do anything with the queen right there. Him and the other two guards had already planned on killing him out of the Queens eyes.
Grant grinned his teeth and looked away. "Just know your spot scum!"
This normaly would piss people off. In this time scum was a pretty bad thing to be called. But oddly the man didn't even act liked he cared he was called scum... even odder was that he didn't care. Scum was one of the best things he was called. His story, his life had felt so long that little things like that did not bother him.
The night went by slowly. Sleep started to get to Grant. He started to slowly close his eyes then open them real fast then slowly close his eyes again.
"If you want to sleep I can keep watch" The Scum had said.
"If you think that i am going to let you be awake alone with the Queen right there then you are mad! I am not letting you rape her as we all sleep!" Grant said madly.
The scum didn't even look at Grant as he talked. He hadn't the whole night. "Then wake up one of the other guards..."
Grant was mad with this scums come backs. He was a smart a**. Grant never liked people like him. He couldn't battle them with his voice. He always wanted to battle them with his sword but he couldn't battle him. Queen's orders.
He looked at this scum a bit more then softly nodged another guard. He wanted to wake him up without the scum seeing but tho the scum did not show it he noticed.
After a bit of trying the other guard wake up almost silently. He got up and looked around. He then looked at Grant "Sir... do you want me to take over watch?"
Grant looked at him "Yeah... sure... make sure nothing happens to the queen Jeff."
"Yes sir..." Jeff looked at the scum and then around the forest then back at this scum and he kept doing that all night.

In the morning the group started off again. The queen was on horse back and there was one guards that were the same, Grant. The other two guards walked and so did this scum.
"Robert!" The queen said looking at this scum.
"Yes my lady?" Robert asked softly.
The queen had noticed his sword when they first met and knew what the symbols on it meant. That is why she wanted him to come with them. He was a warrior. But what she did not know at the time and what she learned on the road was that he never spoke like a warrior. He always spoke softly and like if he didn't have a care in the world... or like everything he cared about no longer lived in this world. "did you not sleep last night?" she asked.
Grant knew that his answer could get him and the other guards in trouble but before Grant could answer the queen Robert already did and it wasn't the answer Grant thought he'd say.
"I am a light sleeper. I have been for many years. I can guard and sleep almost at the same time." He let out a small laugh "Just yesterday I was sleeping and walking."
The Queen smiled. She did not know if he was kidding or telling the truth but she thought it was funny. She had heard of old warriors being trained to sleep and fight at the same time. It was meant to give them the power of always having rest and also being alret even when they sleep.
The thing that she did not know was that Robert was not joking. He really did sleep and walk and even guard in his sleep and talk in his sleep.
A few hours passed without a word. This was how all their trips normaly were. The queen liked to talk but her guards didn't. The queen did not know Robert enough to try and dig into his past without bothing him so she did not try.
"We are almost to Justifer my Queen" Grant told her tho she already knew that. She did not say thank you. She didn't even act like she knew he had said anything. Robert watched them, he studied all of them.