Hello, welcome back to Stories Podcast. I'm your narrator, Kelsey Lee, and today we're

reading the Magic Armor, a story about a brave young squire called Max Goodname and his

adventures at a royal tournament in honor of a young princess. I hope you enjoy!

In the Kingdom of North End, during the great summer at the sweet southern winds, a beautiful

princess was born. She was pink like the horizon at sunrise, and her downy hair was the

beautiful blonde of warm honey. The king loved his little child so much. He decided to

throw a great tournament in her honor. It was to feature archery and to knife throwing

and axe juggling and sword fighting and all manner of exciting events, but the biggest

event of all was to be the jousting. Now, jousting was terribly dangerous, so it was only

done by the bravest of all the knights. In a proper joust, each night would get on his

horse and take a long blunted pole called a lance and ride straight at the other. They

would meet in the middle with a great crash and try to use their lances to knock the other

night off their horse. The knights wore their full suits of armor, but even still, each

joust usually ended with a few broken bones. The jousting at this tournament was to be extra

special, because in honor of the young princess freshly born, the king decided that he would

have a special jousting event just for the squires. Squires are young men, usually no more

than 14 years old, and they act as assistants to the knights. They clean their swords and

armor and fetch their lances. They tend to their horses, and usually it takes many years

for a squire to prove himself worthy of being dubbed a knight, but the king said that

in honor of this daughter's birth, the winning squire should be raised to knighthood then

and there. Of course, this was an attractive proposition to all squires, so they flocked

to the tournament to prove themselves worthy of being knighted by the king, which was a very

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