ocr: Roland 4 a d a - Then was the sweetest Of moments. It was as if the whole world had stopped on its axis. AUl noise abated. The din and clang Of the Field slowed. The musiclans on the ramparts were still. U watched a Fat courtier, mouth Full Of meat, stifle a laugh and motion to a companton. Ih held him there, not a breath between us, as the sounds Of the world died awag. Finally, in an unrivaled silence, as the eyes Of a thousand - Christian and Infidel - looked on, Focusing, boring into the moment, pouring the expectation and heat and joy Of death into the space setween us: Islapped him. With ...