Summary:
Warning: for the sake of this story, our lovable gray BOY is being turned into a GIRL lol
Branch, born to a 3rd class family and having been born female, is required by law to be offered to a rival families son as an arranged marriage. However, there are 2 rival families to choose from, plus Branch's parents don't want her to be tied to someone she doesn't love. They defy the law and hide Branch, lying to their King and society and try to convince the rest of their people that Branch is male. The deception can only last so long before it all comes crashing down.
Chapter 1: Laws being made
Things were different back in the old days. Citizens of the 3rd class families were put down, shunned, and basically made to look like social outcasts. What made them 3rd class was their lack of money and status. They were the working class, the ones who others used almost like slave labor. They got paid very little and were treated like less than normal people. For the 3rd class Trolls, they had little to look forward to in life. Over a couple generations, one of their Kings decided to change all that.
"Attention all Trolls. I, King Aspen, am making a new decree. As of the last several generations, our lower class citizens have felt they have nothing to live for, so I plan to change all that. Effective immediately, any female children born to a 3rd class family will be promised in an arranged marriage to a 1st class families son. Not only will this benefit the 3rd class families child by giving them a future, but it will benefit the 1st class family as well by giving them a means to produce an heir for their family. If for any reason a female child is born and not given over in an arranged marriage, the family responsible will be held accountable. The parents will be sent to prison for going against the law and the child will be taken and given to the 1st class rival family anyways. This decree will remain in effect till another King or Queen rescinds it. Thank you for your time and attention."
The trolls all look at each other and start talking about the new order. At that time, there was only four 1st class families, the top families being the Diamond family and the Riverwind family. The Riverwind family was known to be a group of spiritual trolls and were favored by many. Their temperaments in public however left a bit to be desired as they acted pompous and rude. The Diamond family was just the opposite in public and were always kind and considerate to everyone.
For 10 generations, the law was kept and the families seemed okay with it. During that time, another King, King Peppy, took over rule of the trolls. He in turn held up the law and made sure that everyone abided by it. As King Peppy gets older, he monitors the family lines and writes them down in a carefully written ledger.
"Alrighty, Diamond family had a boy they named Guy." He writes down the name of Guy Diamond into the ledger and looks at the birth records at the next entry. "Okay, Riverwind family had a boy as well. Creek Riverwind, thats a very fitting name." Writing those names down, he checks over the logs to see who the rival family or families were to those two lines. "Figures, only the Oakley family is rivals to them. I really feel sorry for that family if they have a girl." Secretly, he was hoping that the Oakley's would have a boy so that their child would not have to endure being tied to the Diamond or Riverwind families. "Maybe, just maybe, they'll even be crazy enough to defy the law, have a girl, and try to pretend that girl is a boy." King Peppy laughs at himself. "They would have to be totally out of their minds to try to pull off something like that." He looks over at his wife who was heavy with pod but also quite ill. He was not expecting his wife to survive long after having the baby. He writes down his weird train of thought and tucks the note safely in the back of the ledger, just in case someday the crazy happened to become real.
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chapter 1. Let me know what you think :)
