"Girls, while here you mustn't tell anyone what will happen the future.Nothing but the obvious. Do not let anyone trick you into telling them the future. I will put a spell on the both of you if you can't remember that." Edgemon was warning Tori and Justice outside the page's wing. Both girls had visited the palace tailors earlier that morning. They wore cream-colored blouses under crimson and gold tunics, instead of breeches or hose the girls wore red knee-length skirts with a thin gold ribbon on the hem, and cream stockings with sturdy black shoes from the convent. These were the clothes for the girl's academic classes. For the training yard the girls would wear the same as the boys, a shirt, breeches and boots."
"Master Edgemon, I think Tori and I can remember not to tell anyone anything." Justice was nervous, but for a shy dreamer of a girl, she wasn't showing a lot of nervousness. Tori smiled, she knew how much her friend hated talking to adults. Tori was proud of her friend, "Uncle, Justice and I will be just fine. Now may we please go to lunch?"
Just then Edgemon's stomach growled. Tori and Justice giggled.
"Alright, let us go to lunch!" Edgemon opened the door and the three of them walked into the pages wing and toward the page's dining hall.
"So, is it true that two girls are coming to train with us?" a short brown-haired boy asked a taller black hair boy.
The black-haired boy stopped eating and said, "Yes, two girls. One of them is a princess and the other is a lady. Now let me eat."
"But there hasn't been any girls here since Lady Keldray…."
"Matthew, does it really matter? They are coming and there is nothing any of us can do about it. We will deal with them as you put it when they get here." The black-haired boy went back to eating, obviously agitated with the boy named Matthew.
"Sorry, Your Majesty, but I'm nervous. What if these girls already have some training? Like Lady Kel? They say she was already a good fighter when she came to court."
"Matt! Leave me alone! I just want to eat and not think about girls!" The princes' face was turning red with anger.
"Sorry… I'll stop."
"Ahhh, don't let Matt get to you, Liam. You know how flighty he is about girls." Said a tall boy with brown-red hair and hazel eyes that danced like sunshine on a stream.
"That easy for you to say, Alan. You're used to girls." Liam of Conte accused.
Alan of Pirates Swoop shrugged, "They really aren't much different from us, just look at my sister. Aly does just fine at fitting in with us and she never complained of being treated differently. You should be used to girls yourself you do have two sisters." Liam glared at Alan and continued to eat.
"You and your sister are the son and daughter of The Lioness. Your sister is far from normal. But who do you think will sponsor them?" Matt inquired.
"I don't know. Why should I know?"
"Shut up, both of you." Liam blurted. Alan and Matt laughed.
Suddenly the doors of the mess flew open. It was the training master, "Hello, boys!" he walked to the front of the mess hall and onto the raised dais, " I assume that all you children know by now that we are having some guests in the palace. Well, these guests are special. And not because they are girls, mind you. No, my doves, one of these girls will someday be Queen of Tortall in her time and the lady coming with her is being breed and raised to be her champion." Padraig of haMinch paused for a moment, "Now to answer your obvious questions. Yes, these girls are from the future. Yes, they are to be treated as any other page or Gods help us The Lioness and Lady Kel will have my head and my… well you get the point… for a trophy." Padraig grinned, "Yes well, the Ladies are here and it is time for you knights-in-training to meet them. Oh and I warn you the Princess has a temper and you will see who from when you meet her." He grinned wickedly in a way that only someone who enjoys a prank.
The doors opened. Boys craned their neck to get glance the tall man in grey and blue robe and two girls in crimson, cream and gold.
"Welcome, Master Edgemon, Princess Victorie and to you Lady Justice." Padraig bowed graciously to the trio with a blazing smile. Justice giggled. She like her new teacher. He was much more charming then the First Sister. Tori glanced at her friend and smiled.
"Thank you, Lord Padraig. I would like to introduce to the boys here, Princess Victorie of Conte, heir to the throne of Tortall. And Lady Justice of Naxen. Now, if you will excuse me I must find Master Samalin. Tori, Justice don't forget to eat your vegetables." Edgemon smirked and bowed himself out of the room. Tori glared at her uncle. All eyes went to Tori and Justice. Tori looked around the room. Everyone was looking at her eyes. She felt very uncomfortable with so much attention focused on her, "Hello… please Victorie is much too much to say all the time. Call me Tori. Everyone at home does." Tori smiled kindly at the boys.
"Very well, Tori, we would all be happy to oblige such a lovely specimen of female flesh. I am Alan of Pirate's Swoop and I shall be your sponsor. I see in some way you and I are related? Do you know how?" Tori was shocked. She stared at this strange boy who had come up out of nowhere to her and Justice.
"Ummm… through your twin sister, Aly. I'm sorry you seemed to have startled Tori. That happens sometimes when she doesn't know what to make of someone." Tori glared at her best friend. Justice just grinned.
"I'm not startled. He's just strange." Tori turned to Alan, " And I thank you for sponsoring me. Will you be sponsoring just me or will you be sponsoring Justice too?" Tori inquired.
"No, Prince Liam will be sponsoring Justice." Alan turned and grinned at his friend.
"Huh? Um oh yeah ok." Liam stuttered and then blushed a deep red.
Justice turned toward the prince, "It is very nice to meet you, Your Majesty." Justice curtsied deeply and the prince stood and bowed. It seems four years in the convent had done her well. She curtsied no more then proper of a lady to a younger prince. Tori eyed her friend with envy. Tori was not very good at courtly mannerisms.
"Very well then, Alan, Liam, take these new pages through the line to get their lunch and then make sure they get to their classes after mid-day break." The training mater informed them
Author's notes: Hello my faithful readers!!!! First and for most i would like to say, I am thrilled to have faithful readers!! Its a dream come true... If only i could get people to read my poems and look at my art as regular as you wonderful people. Secondly, I have very little idea what is going to happen next. Yes I know some of you have been given little spoilers... But I would like very much to keep you reading and wondering.
I know that on my last chapter i got lazy and didn't correct it or anything. but I promise that I went through this whole chapter and corrected everything i could find.
Next: Yes I know that in Tamora Pierces book the priestess of the Goddess where called Daughters and not Sisters. Please let me Explain: I'm Wiccian. And In Wicca Everyone is a daughter of the Goddess, therefor they are also sisters with every other woman on earth. I wasn't thinking about the terms used in the books when i first started typing this story. I Never even meant to put it on Fanfiction, but I did. And honestly, I'm too lazy to go back and change them. Thank you to I live Life by My Own Rules for pointing this out to me.