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Fulk slept heavily that night, so heavily that when the day had come he did not hear the opening of Isoult's door. Stepping over him as he lay, she stood for a moment, looking down at him and at the naked sword by his side.
"Had it been an enemy, something would have warned thee, Fulk. They would not have caught thee sleeping."