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The Book of the Lion Chapter 34 Summary

  • Hours later the camp still smells like blood. Hubert and Edmund are in shock, and Hubert comments that this war is not what he expected.
  • Hubert asks Nigel if he can sail back to England, but Nigel refuses. No real surprise there.
  • Nigel begins to tell the boys how nobody chooses to be a part of war, but they have a duty to fight. He himself is no longer young but has done what he feels to be right by his king and Heaven.
  • But there's more than that. Nigel is shaken up from the slaughter of all the prisoners. When Rannulf says that the king has given further orders, he makes a sarcastic comment about having to kill a girl's choir on the king's command.
  • Rannulf says that the French are going home and the camp is breaking up; the English will pursue Saladin's army into the South.
  • They work all night to break down the camp and get ready to leave. The women are forbidden to follow until enough protest allows the washerwomen to join them.
  • As they begin to ride, dreaming of the battle they have been anticipating all along, the horses act uneasy.