Chapter 1
Keladry of Stone Mountain smiled as she opened her eyes and seeing the comforting powder blue of her bed‚s canopy. She had just had the most wonderful dream of being knighted. She sat up and her smile dissapeared in an instant the trunks of clothes and belongings at the foot of her bed reminded her that her dream of becoming a knight would never be. This is it, she thought unhappily, this is the day they ship me off to the convent.
She had raised a huge fuss when her parents told her she would be going to the convnet. „But mama,‰ she had protested „I don‚t want to be remembered for who I married or what my sons did, I want to be remembered for what I did, MY acheivements, MY life.‰
They still had said no, no daughter of Stone Mountain would even try for her knighthood, it was indecent, it just wasn‚t right. And so here she was ready to packed off to the Gods blessed convent to learn how to be a lady.
With a resigned sigh she lifted herself from her bed and got dressed in a sturdy traveling dress of brown cloth and secretly added her brother Joren‚s old breeches under her skirts.
The goodbyes were short and definately not sweet seeing as she was so angry at being sent away. The only people who got sencerely loving goodbyes were to her brother Alan who had supported her idea of trying for her sheild and her younger sister Cythera who wanted her‚s too.
Keladry of Stone Mountain smiled as she opened her eyes and seeing the comforting powder blue of her bed‚s canopy. She had just had the most wonderful dream of being knighted. She sat up and her smile dissapeared in an instant the trunks of clothes and belongings at the foot of her bed reminded her that her dream of becoming a knight would never be. This is it, she thought unhappily, this is the day they ship me off to the convent.
She had raised a huge fuss when her parents told her she would be going to the convnet. „But mama,‰ she had protested „I don‚t want to be remembered for who I married or what my sons did, I want to be remembered for what I did, MY acheivements, MY life.‰
They still had said no, no daughter of Stone Mountain would even try for her knighthood, it was indecent, it just wasn‚t right. And so here she was ready to packed off to the Gods blessed convent to learn how to be a lady.
With a resigned sigh she lifted herself from her bed and got dressed in a sturdy traveling dress of brown cloth and secretly added her brother Joren‚s old breeches under her skirts.
The goodbyes were short and definately not sweet seeing as she was so angry at being sent away. The only people who got sencerely loving goodbyes were to her brother Alan who had supported her idea of trying for her sheild and her younger sister Cythera who wanted her‚s too.
