OK so this is Tortall just like 100 years ago, not much was different except, of coarse, the characters. I don't like to use the same ones because I liked them just the way Tamora Pierce did them. Kaara is like Jonathan's great-great-great-great-great-grandmother. But don't say it doesn't have to do with Tamora Piece.
Martin's Iris
Prologue:
Martin heard his mother's screams from outside, his father was yelling something but the pounding of his heart was drowning it out. He wiped sweat from his cold brow and licked his cracked lips. His father had a long sword in his hand.
"No, God no, please no!" His mother screamed, the look in Martin's father's eyes was unbearable, rabid almost… Martin looked away. Suddenly everything was silent except for Martin's own sobs.
"Mother!" he yelled running out to the garden. His father stared at this mother's now crumpled and lifeless body.
Blood was everywhere covering his mouth Martin stifled a scream…by his father's foot lay his the head of his mother, her mouth open in a scream of horror and pain. Her eyes were still filled with fear. Martin bent to his knees and covered his eyes.
"Mother, mother!" he cried, then he looked up at his father, eyes red: "Why did you?" he spat.
"The graveyard hag damn that adultress." was all his father said as he slowly trudged into the house.
In the morning Martin buried her body under her favorite willow tree. Where she used to help him climb and play all the games he wanted to play. The eight year old slowly dug. Lifting his mother's body into the pit with the head in a bag he looked much older, more mature. You would never have guessed he was the same carefree boy the day before who had played a knight game with his mother, one of the queens most favored ladies in waiting.
A tear fell onto the dead woman's breast. Wiping his eyes Martin pushed dirt into the hole. He made another hole with his finger on the grave and set a single iris seed. He cared for the flower until winter when it died, leaving new seeds to take it's place, he would always care for the iris' on his mother's grave
Gradually Martin learned that his mother had been a mistress of the king and as soon as his father learned he killed her on the charges of adultery. The king of Tortall wept and was angry at Martin's father but could do nothing since Naomi, Martin's mother, was an adulteress therefore the killing was not counted as murder, but the king kept his evil eye on Martin's father; which is why he was hung for first-degree murder of one of the kings men no more than a year later, guilty? No one knew.
Martin was an orphan… whom the king paid far too much attention too, for "he was the offspring of devils who had made the king's life a living hell." He wanted that boy dead…
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