Disclaimer: I do not own the land of Tortall, the Copper Isles, or any characters you might recognise from the books.
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nine years later...
Juani paced in her room in the squires wing of the palace. It was Midwinter and she was to be the first of her year to take her Ordeal. She had just returned to her rooms, her friends had dragged her about the city in an attempt to keep her mind off the Ordeal. In all honesty the harder her friends tried to distract her the more stressed she had become. Now that she was alone in her room she started to reflect on the last nine years.
With the help of her godsmother Dove, she had convinced her parents to let her come to Tortall. Her mother was still not too happy about it when she left, although her grandmother was beyond joy. Juani had done well in page training, where she had become friends with Yvenne and Fianola, the only other female pages in her year. She was also friends with Lynia of New Hope and Masbolle another famale page and with Derom of Queenscove who had a crush on Yvenne and Cynthea of Jesslaw Cavall (a/n: Yes, Cynthea is Lord Wyldon's grandaughter). All three were a year younger than Juani. Juani had served as squire to Sir Owen of Jesslaw, Cynthea thought it was hilarious that Juani was her da's squire. Juani had liked her knight-master even if he referd to everything as 'jolly' . Juani was happy with her life, even though she had only seen her parents once since she left the Isles, but her brother still came to stay at The Swoop with their grandparents in the summer. Juani's mood mood went from nervous exitement to sadness with the thought of her parents, they would not be here to see her get her shield but she would bet her right arm that her mother would would have one of her spys in the audience who would report in detail everything that happend. A loud knock on her door shook Juani from her trail of thought. She glanced out the window and saw the sun was going down. ''Well time to get this over with.'' Juani thought as she opend the door and her knight-master led her to the chapel.
the next morning...
Juani's red hair fell across her face as she knelt in front of the ageing king Jonathan. '' I dub you Lady Knight Juani Crow of Pirates Swoop.'' the king said loudly as he touched each of her shoulders and her head with his sword. Juani stood as her grandmother came forward with her shield and lifted the cover. It was beautiful , a black crow on a midnight blue field and a distaf border of silver and black. The Lioness fitted it to Juani's arm and told her to hold it up to the crowd. Juani did so and the crowd burst out in deafining applause but Juani could hardly hear them over the one thought in her head,' 'I did it.''
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Thank you everyone who read this.
Review replies starburst99: thanks for the constructive criticism, and yeah I know i din't stick to cannon. :)
KrisEleven: I know the storyline is over done but it was somthing Ive had stuck in my head since I read the book.
KiKiKaKes: Heres that update you asked for and thank you so much for reading, it made me really happy to find out someone liked my fic enough to count the days between updates. You rock!