The squire’s duty was to support his knight, even when he was sent to destroy a wicked sorcerer and his minions.
They fought bravely, but in the end his lord was slain and the squire’s blade lay broken in the grass.
Rather than grant him an honorable death, the sorcerer cursed the lad with a monstrous shape.
Unable to return home, he spent years defending the kingdom from the shadows.
When he finally had the fiend at his mercy, the former squire couldn’t slay him. Living with the curse had changed him from a callow youth to a true knight.

“Knight” by Walt Stoneburner is licensed under CC BY 2.0.

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