<strong>Name</strong>: Hildebrand Junker<br/><strong>Location</strong>: Outside the Knight's Shield<br/><strong>Time</strong>: Day 1, Noon<br/><strong>Tagged</strong>: Vera Hellatious, open<br/><br/>Surprise rippled through the squires, as they listened to the handmaiden announce the challenge. It was not so much that the princess could use a weapon, that much would have been expected in the north, where raid or siege might force even the most fragile of noble flowers to use a weapon to defend her home but it was more the fact that she hunted. With bow and arrow! A long the frontier and through out most of the Empire itself, noble ladies did not hunt, rather they hawked, using trained birds of prey to take small game, which would be collected from the birds, by male huntsmen. It would be a truly impressive lady, who could ride and hunt like a man. A strong woman, worthy of a strong man.<br/><br/>"I will relay your message" said Hildebrand, who then paused for a second. Anyone behind him or looking at him from a distance, might think he was pondered a question but for someone, say as close as Princess Vera, it would be very clear, that his lips moved to form the words; your royal highness, in a silent completion of the sentence. A small smile spread across his lips, a knowing smile, confident that he was right in guessing who was addressing them, not a handmaiden but a princess in truth.<br/><br/>"Which of His Imperial Majesty daughters" the young man continued, speaking out loud once again, "Might you serve, my Lady? My Lord, Erwin von Ritter, will want to know and what might your name be?"