In cerca di Angelica

It's a beautiful summer morning. You are taking part with other Paladins to the merry celebrations in honor of Angelica and Medoro at the Blue Fountain forest. They will last a week and this is just the first day. Nobles and warriors, damsels and high prelates converse in groups in the clearings, play, listen to the musicians. You notice among them also several of your colleagues now celebrated by poets and storytellers:
Rinaldo, Bradamante, Ogier the Dane…
Alcuin of York entertains onlookers with his witty riddles: one in which he asks how to ferry one at a time across a river a wolf, a goat and a cabbage without leaving alone an animal and his favorite food quickly spreads across the whole court.
Suddenly you hear a confusion behind a clump of trees. Yells, stamping of hooves, female cries for help. While you and others run to see what happens, a beast half horse and half griffin rises in the sky: it's a hippogriff, a rare mythical animal. Above it, you glimpse a man cloaked in blue and a
woman wrapped in a net. With much flapping of wings, the creature heads off fast to the east.
You decide in your heart to free the unfortunate woman, whatever the cost!
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