By sundown, the Castle gates were closed and all exits secured. Finding a way out was not going to be easy. In the kitchen, the master cook chopped vegetables for a large stew and the resident baker pulled scones out of the hot stone oven, but no one else existed in the room constructed to feed hundreds. Each slice of the knife and every clatter of the pot echoed in the cavernous room. It was much the same in the rest of the massive castle. The population which had ...