Farley
The new recruit of new bloods came in the day after the Lakeland army retreated. I called Mare here to talk to them. They all volunteered to be in the army. All born in the country. A bunch of weak farmers, is what I think.
They all look the same. Tan, light hair, and freckles. Except for one of them. One guy out of the entire group seems not to know anyone. They all grew up together. Apparently not him.
He is tall, pale, and has black hair. He reminds me of Maven. Except he has more muscle then the weak prince did.
All the new bloods are seated and talking with each other. I'm just enjoying this bagel I happen to be eating.
The door at the end of the hall opens. And in comes Mare, the face of the new bloods herself.
She looks confident in herself as she walks through the crowd. All the people looking at her and talking about her.
You can see the fake long lost princess in her. Mareena Titanos. The girl they drilled in to her head. The girl she learned how to act to be. She takes her former role when she needs a shield. When she is tore up on the inside and does not want anyone to know. But the people closest to her always know when that shield is up.
She meets me at the chair I'm sitting in. Up close, you can tell she's been crying. I'm sure she will tell me later.
"You ready?" I ask, she nods. I motion her to the front of the room. She is short so people in the back couldn't see her. Mare must be used to this because she grabs a crate from near by and props herself on it.
All the voices quite. "Hello." She says. "As you know I'm Mare." People start whispering. "And I would like to thank you for volunteering to be here. We all knew this war wasn't over. Therefore we have to finish it with us coming out on top." Everyone cheers. "General Farley and I will be training you in the next two weeks. We will help you develop your abilities and your hand on hand combat skills. I believe that training without abilities is better and prepares you more. So we will not be using them for the first week."
Some of the new bloods frown. Mare nods to them.
"Yes. I know it's frustrating. I know you want to use them and explore your capabilities. But you have to be able to fight with out them. I know that first hand." That takes the frowns right off their faces. They all know her story. They tracked it as it happened. She is the unofficial leader of newbloods. The face of them all. They respect and look up to her. "Now, any questions?"
A girl about 17 raises her hand. She has bright red hair and her eyes are different. They are two different colors. One is brown and one is blue."Yes?" Mare says pointing to her.
"Why did you decide to come to Montfort, instead of staying in Norta? Didn't you fight so you were treated better there? Why did you leave?" The girl asks.
Mare is thinking of an answer. "Well, I realized that Norta is not where I or my family belonged. Montfort was safer, plus all the scarlet guard is here." The girl nods. "Any more?" No one raises their hands.
"Good. We start tomarow morning." Mare says with a clap of her hands.
MareI step of the crate heading towards Farley. One of the new bloods comes towards us. He has black hair and pale skin. He has a good foot and a half on me, but not quite as tall as Cal.
"Hey, I'm Baylor." He says sticking his hand out. Me and Farley both shake it.
"I'm General Farley and this is General Barrow." She says coldly.
I smile at him trying to up for her. "Mare, you can call me Mare." I say eying Farley. He smiles.
"You can call me Bay." Bay. That is a nice name, hopefully for a nice person.
Cal
I decide to go blow off some steam.
I head down to the training fields for a run. The track is a dark shade of green. It's about a third of a mile around. So three laps gives me a mile. I figure I will do five miles today, so I get started.
Half way through my seventh lap the midday sun really starts to get to me. I start sweating.
I feel like a waterfall is drenching me from head to toe.
I stop to wipe up some sweat with my towel. Right before I decide to back to runing I spot Davidson on the feild talking to some soilders. They are laughing so Davidson must not be forcing them to give him information like Mare.
Should I go over there? Does this count as "watlzing in and confronting Davidson"?
I decide to.
Once I reach him he spots me, and waves off the other men he was talking to. "Hey Cal. Do you need something?" I shake my head. Studying him I can tell he's happy.
"No. I was just wondering what you were talking to Mare about?" He looks confused.
"When?" He aks.
"Last night." I say. I'm getting frustrated. He is lying.
"I didn't talk to her. Last night I had dinner with Julian in the study." He says confidently.
"You didn't?" He shakes his head.
"Ask Julian. I was with him." I raise my eye brows. "Trust me," He says, "I was."
"Okay." I say. He smiles.
"Okay." He says patting me on the shoulder. "Now if you don't mind, I have a meeting to get to." I nod and he leaves me standing in the middle of the field confused.
