"Pray, will you idle there as the day wanes?" she spat, marooned amidst the gentle brook. Mine eyes did marvel at her tresses, kissed by Sol's own light, her visage a portrait of chagrin, and her gown of gilded threads, surely a fortune's sum in a commoner's purse. My steed, noble and wise, beheld her too. "Shall we embark on a gallant quest to rescue yon damsel?" I inquired of my four-legged compatriot. A lady of such resplendence she was, accustomed, perchance, to the world bending to her will.