Hey, sophtheLOTRfan also helped with this fic. It's my first but if you guys really wanted to know that you probably could have figured that out.
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Kaida of Queenscove had been given a tough decision. Her father wanted her to become a healer like her grandfather, but what he didn't know was that she wanted to become a knight. Her father's best friend who was also her godmother was the second lady knight of Tortall and had proved that the Lioness had not been a fluke. Now it was more common for girls to become pages and there had been a new wing added to the castle for the girl pages though it was much smaller than the boys' wing and half of the rooms were still empty. The black haired girl wanted to follow in her godmother's footsteps as well as her father's who was also a knight of Tortall. She decided that it would be easier to decide if she talked to her godmother who was visiting Queenscove with her husband and two children.
She found her godmother teaching two young boys of around eight years old and a girl of around six years how to use a staff. One of the boys was her younger brother Neal and the other two were he godmother's and uncle Dom's children.
"Kel, can I talk to you"
"Of course you can, Kai." She left the three children with some simple exercises then led Kai to a bench in the rose garden.
"Well father wants me to become a healer like Grandfather." Kel gave a small laugh at this remembering all the times Neal had said he regretted not being a healer though he hadn't meant it. "But the thing is, I want to try for knighthood like you and Da."
Again Kel laughed. She was remembering a day twelve years ago when a seer child, Irnai, had prophesized that Neal's daughter would try for knighthood. Only the seer and Kel knew of this. It seemed that day had come. "Kai, have you told your father?" she asked guessing that the answer would be no.
"No," the girl responded.
"Well you should talk to him. I'm sure he will understand and you can still learn some healing like your father did, "the lady knight responded.
The girl got up and ran towards the house after giving her godmother a hug and throwing a "Thanks Kel," over her shoulder as she left. Kai ran to her father's study and found him reading a book behind his desk. She knocked before she entered. Her father raised his green eyes to look at his daughter and smile spread across his face. "Kai, Did you need something"
"Actually Da, I was wondering if I could talk to you."
"Of course sit down" Sir Nealan of Queenscove told his daughter.
"Well," the girl started, "I know you want me to become a healer, but Iwanttobeaknight," the girl finished all at once.
Though it had been mumbled the man knew what she had been trying to say. For a moment he sat there speechless. He had never thought that his baby girl would have wanted to become a knight. Then he looked in his daughter's eyes, which were almost identical to his own. He saw the strength both he and his wife, Yuki had seen when they named her Kaida, which was Yamani for little dragon and he realized that she would indeed make a good knight.
During her father's analysis Kai sat on her chair nervously. She wished that she had asked Kel to come with her then her father spoke. While she waited she looked around the room. The desk was large and made of mahogany. The four wooden legs had carvings down them. The top carving was the Queenscove coat of arms. It had a crown in a circle of rock and water. After that there was the symbol of a healer then a Yamani lucky cat and several Yamani symbols. On top of the desk were piles of papers. The bookshelf was behind the desk. One shelf had the Yamani lucky cat Kel had given Sir Neal for Midwinter one year alongside the shukusen Yuki had given him as he exited the Chamber of Ordeal, the last test before a squire becomes a knight. There were also several trinkets that Kai and Neal had given their father. On the next shelves down there were books on the Immortals War, Tactics and Strategy, Tortall and it's neighbors and of course Emry of Hayrse who happened to be Kai's great-grandfather though she had never met him. Her fathers voice broke the silence, "I will write a letter to the training master now."
"Oh thank you Da, thank you." The girl rushed around the desk and gave her father a hug. "Now off you go, I need to write this letter," her father said with a sad smile, "Oh and don't forget to tell your mother or she'll have my head, or at least my head will have a bruise from that fan of hers". The girl rushed out of the room with a huge smile on her face forgetting the yamani manners that her mother had taught her and forgetting that she was to show no emotion.