I have rewritten this story it was called 'In My Brother Place'. I hope you guys like it. Please let me know what you think or what you would like to see in later chapters please let me know.
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Prologue
"You can't let her do this!" a young girl with long dark brown hair looked up from her drawing in the dirt when she heard her mother yell from inside. "She is bearly ten summers!"
"And what of her twin brother!" there was anger and sadness in her father's voice. "Do you think I want this! I am to either see my only daughter and her twin taken from me or both of my sons. Rome will come and take two of my sons whether Alya posses as one of them I have yet decided."
Alyan walked up and sat down next to his twin sister and gave a reassuring smile. The girl only went back to playing with her drawing in the dirt. It was her fault her parents where fighting and she knew it, but she was only trying to help. Her father had been looked over by the Roman's when they came for him and the other boys at the time. Rome had sent word that this time they would take two since he had been mistakenly looked over.
Alya had offered to go in her elder brother's stead for many reasons. Maeron had just married and his wife was expecting a child and Alya didn't want him to be taken away from all that, because he was happy, which Alya was not. Alya felt as if she was meant for more then marrying and have children and maybe the Romans taking her to become a knight was it.
Glancing over at her brother Alya realized the main reason she wanted to go. Alyan would be taken away from if she were to stay and she would not have that. Everyone who knew the twins knew they did better in everything when they were together and to separate them would be an awful thing for the two of them.
"Alya, come in here," she was brought out of her thoughts by her fathers voice.
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"Promise me two thing," Alya's mother looked at her only daughter with tears in her eyes.
"Anything for you!"
Her mother put her hand inside her pocket and pulled out a thin leather hanging from it was a small pendent, "That you will when the time is right the woman you truly are," her mother put the necklace on her daughter, "And if you should ever lay with a man while you are still hiding who you are, that you will where this."
