43. Watchtower

Hanging by leather thongs from the ceiling of this room are three large brass horns. Tables and chairs are in the corners and away from the openings; sitting in a cozy nest of chairs and a table in the northwest are two statues. Statues of men-at-arms in chain mail carrying axes or swords stand gazing out the windows, which are openings four feet tall and six feet wide. Shutters hang over the windows, latched out of the way. The horns are used for signaling different things: a small one will sound only loud enough to be heard inside and in the general area, and the two larger ones can be heard from a distance but have different tones. The smallest can be carried by a man but the larger ones are intended to be left in place and too big to be easily moved around. The statues are all soldiers turned to stone. From marks on the floors in front of the windows it can be deduced that soldiers stand long shifts at the windows looking out over the village and surrounding country side. The two statues sitting in the north east have cups between them and one is raising a bottle of wine, which of course has run empty.