He then said that failure of this task would result in immediate execution of our families and then he left with that constant thought in my mind that failure was not an option.
We set off early morning on horse on our way to Burnham forest. Our sources had told us that Banquo would be riding through today. We then made one of our our well camouflaged traps. We left a tree that was loose hanging up and when they went past it would collapse either killing them or blocking their path. After a couple of hours of waiting and staring at the clouds we saw some figures in the distance. It was them!
We waited for them to ride past and in an instant the trap was released. It failed to hit them by a few meters however with the shock they fell of the horses. Immediately we charged at them and went into sword combat with Banquo. Although we had the three on one advantage you could tell he was a noble warrior as he had the upper hand against us. Our swords clashed together like pans in a kitchen but this was with a lot more intent. After a couple of minutes of skirmishing, one of our men had captured Banquos’ son.
Although he had nearly killed me on a couple of occasions and I had killed him I would have to admit this, Banquo was a noble man! He then stopped the aggressive sword tussle with me and turned to save his son. He managed to shoot the man who captured his son and his son fled to safety. However this gave me the perfect chance to kill him. I lunged towards him with my axe and stabbed him in the back. He stopped dead in his tracks and was upright for another couple of seconds. Then he fell crashing down into a river which lied ahead!
We went to tell Macbeth the news as we thought we did a good job. It was only a boy was going through our mind. What possible harm could he cause; it was Banquo who was the real target.
However this thought changed in a matter of seconds when the new was presented to the king. His face expression changed rapidly like he could see Banquos ghost. At first he was worried and this rapidly changed to rage. He threatened that he would find where we lived and torture our families. Then he would publicly humiliate us.
Then as soon as Macbeth was out of sight I fled home. I quickly gathered my possessions and my family and within a couple of hours I had fled Scotland. Leaving all my life and most of my valuable items behind on the run within one day!
Now its one week later and I have heard that my house in Scotland has been burnt down. I have sold my father’s gold chain which he passed down to me to get somewhere to live. It was hard giving that up as he was not a rich man but he managed to build up some money and buy me that just before he died. Now I have sold it and it is all thanks to Macbeth.
I here there may be an army coming to revolt against him and if it is I will be joining it in order to get Macbeth off the throne.
