by James F
“Um, sir? Would you step down?”
“Step down? Step down? Don't you see? This is the end! It’s all over! This noble faculty is ruined, doomed!”
“But the Red Gryphon is defeated, sir! We don’t have to worry about their tabards any more! Never again will there be red tabards with red charges on to blazon! High Captain Matteus…”
“DON’T MENTION HIS NAME! Don’t you understand? He’s High Captain, and Champion! He wears his family arms, the governor’s arms, the golden pale, the crowned halberd and the silver sword! How can we blazon that? How can we draw it, even?”