Sir Karadín's lover puts on the cloak and to his delight, he sees that she has indeed been faithful to him. Surely she must be the only maiden in the land who has been completely faithful to her knight. Wrong.
A quiet, young maid who was serving the king and his subjects their meal was persuaded to put on the cloak as a joke from the drunken knights (too many drinks for dinner). She was shy and slightly hesitant but put on the cloak at long last. To everyone's surprise, it fit perfectly. There was no such unfaithfulness found in her. Now the deal was whoever the cloak fit perfectly should have it for themselves, but here there was a problem. Both of the maidens who had the cloak fit perfectly did not care who kept it, but the men being the pigs they were wanted to see a winner. Basically they just wanted to see who could get in the goody goody's pants.
King Arthur, seeing the knights longing for a decision, decided that the two young ladies would fight for it. Normally the knights entertained others with their clashes and fights, but now the knights were in for a little dinner and a show. Sir Karadín gave his sword and gear to his maiden to protect her, the young waitress, not having her man there, was forced to fight without armor and a borrowed sword. The knights moved the tables out of the center of the room and cleared an area for the fight to go down. The two maidens took their respective sides very uneasily and waited for the word from King Arthur to begin their duel. The knights eagerly leaned in and waited, King Arthur took a quick glance around the room and then yelled, "FIGHT".
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