Ok so this is my story about how Halt or Will see each other throughout Will's years growing up at the Redmount Ward. Most of this will be based on Halt seeing Will. So anyway, this is my first chapter, I think there will be about 4 or 5 different ones. So Read and Relax, I had fun with this so please enjoy.
Halt stood silently in the shadows of the dinning hall. The candle lit lights glowed brightly above the table as three young kids zoomed around the table, and although they glanced his way every now and then they never knew he was there, thanks to his cloak that camouflaged him into the background. He stood in the corner of the hall; he had absently gone to check on the ward children, he had stalked in while they had been finishing dinner.
Checking on the children of the Ward had become a habit of his, he knew why, but would never really admit it. It was because of one child in particular, he found it such a bother, but whenever he tried to cast it from his mind, it would always find its way back to his thoughts. So he often made his way out to the castle when he found free time, coming to see the children, but not letting them see him.
He just barely let a smile touch his face as he watched one young child in particular as he tripped and fall to the floor, only to spring back to his feet.
"Are you alright Will?" A young girl with already long blonde hair asked.
"Of course I am!" He replied, his brown always curly hair bounced as he rushed after her, his big brown eyes wide with happiness.
Will, the one child he had left of the doorstep of the Barons' castle four years ago. He knew it was best, for both, Will and himself, but he couldn't help but feel sorry for the young boy, no one knew who his parents were, except for him, he hadn't said any specifics for who his parents had been, because he hadn't really known the people.
At least he isn't alone; Halt thought to himself, there had been two other orphans that had come to the Ward in the past four years.
There was George, a thin little boy who had just came this year, and his parents had died in a fire. He was shy, Halt had noticed, it had taken him a couple days to even approach Will.
Then there was the blonde, already tall, girl that he had learned was named Alyss. She had come the same year as Will, taken care of at the Ward sense she was a baby as well. Except there was one difference, people knew who her parents were and have the ability to tell her about them.
Of course Will couldn't be told about his parents, no one knew who they were, and again he felt the erg to go and tell Baron Arald about Will's parents, but he knew he couldn't. The fact that the Baron could have suddenly come up with that information after four years was all but impossible, and he couldn't tell anyone that it had come from a mysterious ranger. That would never help people get along with Will.
Someday I can tell him, Halt thought, but I don't know when that will ever be. I just know that's not anytime soon.
Halt stood and watched the kids run around the room a while longer until they finally all yawned and ran out of the room. Halt walked over to the door, only to see young Will standing in the doorway.
He looked into the eyes of the young boy, they were full of curiosity and wonder, but he didn't ask the man anything. It wasn't unusual to see someone that he didn't know in the castle, but he stared at the man a second long, there was something about him.
He looked down at his feet for a second; Halt could tell he made him nervous. Halt didn't move, and when Will looked back up from the floor, he looked side to side, like he was trying to find where he went. Of course Halt was still standing there, but his cloak saved him from saying anything to the boy.
Will looked around for a few seconds, then giving up retreated back down the hall with a call from Alyss.
Oh, yeah I knew that Alyss came the same year as Will but there was never any specifics of when his other friends came. So I put George in because I wanted 3 kids. So anyway I hope to be posting the next one soon! Hope to have you read the next one then!