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Carmigwen Domanis Reubane,sole-heir to the Thrystine throne, was running her sword through yet another of the countless enemy.The war between the Thrystines and the Amnethetas had been raging for the past five days.The war had been going longer, however, the fighting had just begun.

Carmigwen wheeled her pure-bred Palamino,Sunfire,around to meet the next wave of enemy forces.She quickly glanced to the left to see if her father was still well and standing.He was.She smiled.King Aurouro of Thrystine had fought through many battles and would not be felled easily.

Carmigwen urged Sunfire foreward and plunged her sword into the heart of an Amnetheta woman.She quickly withdrew the sword as she recalled her mother,the late Queen Annthetas,who had been killed days earlier by an enemy sword.She threw up her shield to halt an on-coming arrow and felt a sharp pain in her thigh.

She glanced down to find a grinning Amnetheta holding the dagger that had been plunged into her thigh.She beheaded him.She withdrew the dagger from her leg and threw it towards the nearest Amnetheta's chest,She grimaced as it hit its mark.She did not enjoy killing.

She looked around.The Thrystines were thriving whilst the Amnethetas were dwindling.This battle would soon be over.Gwen saw her father surrounded by enemies.She pushed Sunfire into full-gallop and raced towards him,screaming the Thrystine battle-cry at the top of her lungs.The battle cry turned to a cry of anguish as she watched her father fall to the ground one last time,the King of Thrystine was slain.

Gwen turned away from the sight and fought her way to the top of the hill, taking about thirty Amnethetas down along the way.She did all this without a thought for all was fair in love and war.She took out her horn and blew the three identical notes that had been played at her mother's death.The army knew that her father was dead and that she was Queen.This was her army,her land.She wished it wasn't.

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