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June 20, 2012- Chapter improved
Prologue
Julianna had alway been told that she was beautiful with her light colored auburn hair and sparkling electric blue eyes. She was told that she would catch many young men's eyes when she went to court after the convent. She had a quick whit and sharp tongue. Her temper was not to be tested as she had very little patience.
Well, almost everyone she met had told her that. Admittedly, those people who she had met were stuck up, status concerned, courtiers. The men would rather be studying a document that would hold no secret to the universe or power. The women, their wives, who had nothing better to do then try to gain royal favor and gossip. Many of them had tried to arrange a marriage with their sons, after all, Ravensguard was one of the oldest, wealthiest fifes in the kingdom.
The other people she had met were the ones who she cared about, the real knights of the kingdom, the few that traveled to the isolated Ravensguard, the servants who actually cared about her well-being and happiness.
By them she had also been told that she was the best archer at Ravensguard. She was a better fighter than her brother, three hours older then her.
And she wanted to put those skill to use, after all, she had always dreamed of being a knight for the kingdom of Tortall. Just has her brother had always dreamed of being a document studying scholar like her dad. Though he was actually interested in things that could benefit the kingdom. He had some theory about disease and another about clean water and he wanted to study the field of Science. Which was only taught a the school for boys connected to The Convent where Juliana was set to go.
Yet that dream was forbidden, a violation of the law. However that never stopped a Ravensguard, well, a true Ravensguard, not one who didn't give a damn about battle tactics.
So despite that law she traded places with her brother, dressed as a boy,and headed off to the palace to do the unthinkable, become a knight.