Swordplay

Chapter 1: "The Very Pointless Introduction"

By Dragon

Rating: PG-13 for swearing and implications.

Disclaimer: World belongs to Tamora Pierce. In some cases, the characters belong to Tamora Pierce. I'm not even going to bother with the "don't sue!" comment, because I'm sure none of you will. Thank you for reading! Please review.

Once upon a time, there was a girl. This girl grew up to be a wonderful and hardworking knight that became a great service to the throne. But this story is not about her. This story is about the supposedly crazy girl the hardworking knight spent most of her training years with. This "crazy" girl took most of the fame, but fortunately the hardworking knight didn't care.  

Very smart this girl was, but she didn't tend to use her brain unless it got her money. Very beautiful, and don't think she didn't use that to her advantage. Of course, being very smart, beautiful, and somewhat crazy this girl did not have to work hard for anything she had. But there was another reason why this smart, beautiful, and somewhat crazy girl did not have to work hard. She had a very rare gift that was almost perfectly normal and did not consist of magic (although she had a somewhat powerful gift).

She could memorize anything amount of things simply by seeing it, reading it, or being told about it. This made her a prodigy and gave her the ability to become anything she wanted. Again, she was very smart; she just didn't use her brain. And even when she didn't use her brain she tended to act smart anyways, so nobody could ever really tell.

This girl, knowing she had a very special gift, usually used it to her advantage. So when she got bored with life as a lady she decided to pull an amazing stunt that would for sure get her thrown out. She figured that maybe she would actually get to go home this time. Well, this stunt worked. Sort of. It did get her expelled from all the convents, but she didn't end up at home.

Her father obviously decided she needed stricter discipline and shipped her and her large amount of stuff off to the palace where our story shall begin.