Disclaimer: Anything that you might recognize in this story probably not
mine. I either based it on Tamora Pierce, or else unconsciously based it on
something I read. If you recognize anything as yours please accept my
sincerest apologies, and if it bother's you, inform me through review.
"So, Cleon, Neal, Seaver, Meric, Faleron, and Prince Roald are nice. Joren and his gang of stupid heads are evviiilllll..." Minzhara je des Grethel, nine year old Lady of Fief Banded, dragged out the last word, making her eleven year old companion laugh. Minzie was very pleased with the feat. There had been precious little laughing done by Keladry of Mindelan since she was cast out of the knightly training program a month ago. And Kel's levity had decreased even more when she had arrived at Banded Castle. The gloom that had come with Minzie's mother's death, three weeks ago, had yet to lift. And the brutal way the Lady Aminda had been killed, gutted and strangled with her own...... Well, it is sufficient to say that nobody was feeling especially jolly in the House of Min.
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If you were to ask anyone, except perhaps a scholar, how long the current family (the je des Grethels) had ruled over Banded, they would, after looking at you queerly for not knowing, reply, "thirty generations". A scholar would say that the je des Grethels had ruled for thirty- three generations. In a way, both are true.
"So, Cleon, Neal, Seaver, Meric, Faleron, and Prince Roald are nice. Joren and his gang of stupid heads are evviiilllll..." Minzhara je des Grethel, nine year old Lady of Fief Banded, dragged out the last word, making her eleven year old companion laugh. Minzie was very pleased with the feat. There had been precious little laughing done by Keladry of Mindelan since she was cast out of the knightly training program a month ago. And Kel's levity had decreased even more when she had arrived at Banded Castle. The gloom that had come with Minzie's mother's death, three weeks ago, had yet to lift. And the brutal way the Lady Aminda had been killed, gutted and strangled with her own...... Well, it is sufficient to say that nobody was feeling especially jolly in the House of Min.
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If you were to ask anyone, except perhaps a scholar, how long the current family (the je des Grethels) had ruled over Banded, they would, after looking at you queerly for not knowing, reply, "thirty generations". A scholar would say that the je des Grethels had ruled for thirty- three generations. In a way, both are true.