When they entered the city, they were granted passage immediately because of the wizard that went with them and somehow, the guards happen to recognize Gilbert from the other day when he made them laugh and loved their company already. They rode on horses this time instead of on foot, because the wizard knew the path to the kings domain is quite a long distance to cover on foot and needs a quick flight to it. However, before they went to the palace of the king which lied almost at the end of the city, Alexander the white had stopped somewhere within the city of Athens and changed horses, for he formally rode on a brown horse, but afterwards, he stopped and whistled so that an amazing thing happened, a horse appeared from nowhere, differing from any other kind in the entire lands of greece,
