Before Will and Gilan Halt had another apprentice, the best in the corps, a master of unseen movement, the finest shot the corps had ever seen. The apprentice was also the youngest to receive the silver oak leaf. She started her apprenticeship at nine years old. Before that she was raised by Halt, he found her at four years old wandering the forests of Hackham Heath. The cavalry almost ran over her in their haste to find a ford. However Halt saw her holding a Saxe knife. She was only four years old but when he tried to grab her to bring her to a safer location she gave him a nasty bruise with the butt of her knife. He eventually grabbed her and realizing there was a ford across the river led the cavalry through there. When he arrived at the commander's tent, the King and the ranger's commandment, along with the battle masters were certainly not expecting to see Halt walking with a little girl at his hip.
"Um Halt," the king asked. "Care to explain yourself?"
"I found her when she was about to be run over by the cavalry. She put up a fight and it looks to me like she has been out in the forest for days. She was also carrying this." Halt said as he set the Saxe she had been carrying on the table.
"She nearly took my eye out." He said as an afterthought.
"How do you know she doesn't have a family?" Battle master Rodney questioned.
"Well look at her, for one she looks as if she's been wandering for days, she is also carrying a knife and is very fond of it." Halt added as the toddler went to reach for the knife.
"Can we deal with this later?" King Duncan questioned. "We are at war."
So the fate of the girl was left undecided. With Halt discovery of the ford, which never would have happened had he not had to capture the girl, the battle was quickly won. After Morgarath fled Halt took the girl and left to go find the child Daniel spoke of. Halt was too late to save the mother so he took Will with them as well. Will was placed in the ward, Halt promising himself that he would train him when Will was old enough. As for the girl, well, he had grown fond of her and decided to raise her.
So began the life of Alexandria or Alex as she liked to be known. When she turned five Halt gave her a miniature recurve bow. She loved archery and soon became an amazing shot. When she was six she was given a double knife scabbard that the rangers all loved. When she was seven she received a cloak and was quickly sent about working on her unseen movement. Alexandria was a genius, she memorized maps and could trace them to perfection, and she had been tacking as long as she remembered. Quickly she ran out of new things to learn so she learned languages. Gallic, Iberian, and Hibernian, one day when she was nine years old she nearly scared Halt out of his wits when she started talking about random things in Hibernian. When Crowley came around to visit a few months later he gave Halt his permission to train her as the youngest ranger the corps had ever seen.