{"id":2660,"date":"2020-01-28T13:21:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-28T13:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/startersites.io\/blocksy\/blog\/?page_id=2660"},"modified":"2025-12-20T03:42:43","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T03:42:43","slug":"default-width","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sagaeuropa.com\/?page_id=2660","title":{"rendered":"Grimus"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n\r\n\r\n

The bishop, a chubby, grey-haired fellow, strode across the castle courtyard and swung the stable doors open.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

\u201cBring the prince\u2019s horse outside, Grimus. They\u2019re about to leave!\u201d<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

\u201cAt once, Your Excellency,\u201d the squire replied.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Grimus peeked outside. Guards were mounting their horses in the yard. He brushed the stallion\u2019s neck, then he led it past the bishop.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

\u201cDon\u2019t forget your duty to God and to the queen.\u201d<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

\u201cI won\u2019t, Your Excellency.\u201d<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Mounting his own horse, Grimus rode towards the group, guiding the stallion behind him.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

\u201cGood day, my lords,\u201d Grimus bowed as he passed the prince’s guards. Reaching the royal steps, he dismounted and waited for the prince, as his new duty required.<\/p>\r\n

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Duty was indeed what Grimus did best. He was an hardworking squire who enjoyed grooming and saddling horses. \u201cNo one is better than Grimus,\u201d the stable-master often said.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Not that Grimus was his real name, but it had stuck with him since childhood. His sunken cheeks, shifty eyes and especially his distorted mouth, which made his smile look more like a snarl, or grimace<\/em>, had given him the name. Through hard work, he\u2019d risen up the ranks till he\u2019d become a squire. But royal squires were teenage boys, not balding thirty-year-olds like him. So, after a few years, the castle dismissed him and he returned home to help his poor father raise goats. So, imagine his surprise when Bishop Sorenson suddenly summoned him back to serve Prince Eric, the heir to the throne. Grimus almost fell into the goat pen in joy!<\/p>\r\n

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\u201cPrince Eric is young and prone to getting himself in trouble,\u201d the bishop had said. \u201cThe queen needs someone trustworthy to watch him and his guards: Most importantly, someone to report their every movement to me.\u201d<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

\u201cYou mean a spy?\u201d Grimus had asked.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

\u201cI mean someone to report everything<\/em> to me,\u201d the bishop nodded, his eyes narrowed. \u201cCan we trust you, Grimus?\u201d<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

\u201cYes, your Excellency. Yes Sir! I will not let you down. I will not let Her Majesty down. You can count on me, Your Excellency.\u201d<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

\u201cGood!\u201d<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

And that was it.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Although spying on the prince wasn\u2019t as pleasant as grooming warhorses, it rescued him from the dreary goat farm he\u2019d begun to hate. He was determined to do his duty for the queen.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

As for the prince? Grimus didn\u2019t like him. The princeling<\/em> was a spoiled, irresponsible brat who preferred frolicking and adventure more than the royal court \u2013 totally unfit to rule, Grimus thought. Perhaps he could teach the youngster a thing or two about being responsible. Hah! Perhaps he\u2019d be so useful, when the prince became king; he\u2019d be made prime minister! Grimus smiled at the thought of that. Minister Grimus<\/em>! That would be an achievement! The people in his village would look up to him then, chant his name, name their children after him, perhaps even build a statue\u2026<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

\u201cWhy are you smiling Grimus? Please stop! You\u2019re scaring the horses.\u201d<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

The guards burst out laughing. Grimus frowned.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

\u201cHis Highness is coming out,\u201d someone said, and the laughter ceased.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Just then, Prince Eric appeared. He was young and handsome, barely seventeen, with long golden hair, piercing eyes and a confident smile which became an angry scowl when he saw his new squire. Grimus knelt till the prince mounted the stallion.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

\u201cLet\u2019s go!\u201d the prince said.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Within moments the group of horsemen galloped out through the castle gates.<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The bishop, a chubby, grey-haired fellow, strode across the castle courtyard and swung the stable doors open. \u201cBring the prince\u2019s horse outside, Grimus. They\u2019re about to leave!\u201d \u201cAt once, Your Excellency,\u201d the squire replied. Grimus peeked outside. Guards were mounting their horses in the yard. He brushed the stallion\u2019s neck, then he led it past […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2660","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":6}},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sagaeuropa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sagaeuropa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sagaeuropa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sagaeuropa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sagaeuropa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2660"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/sagaeuropa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4230,"href":"https:\/\/sagaeuropa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2660\/revisions\/4230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sagaeuropa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}