The violet eyed Baroness twitched her eyebrow and opened her eyes, suddenly she was jumping around the room smacking her forehead.
"What's wrong love?" grumbled her husband George Cooper Baron of Pirate's Swoop. "Found a Pimple?"
Alanna finally settled down and sighed. Mithros she swore silently, knights are supposed to be brave, not cower when they see a spider, even if it was on her forehead. Choking the urge to throttle her husband
"Go back to sleep" she growled. Alanna was NOT a morning person.
"Ah, cheerup darlin'" George said "we oughta get going anyways" when Alanna looked at him blankly he chuckled "Surely you didn't forget we're going to Corus today on King Jon's....... suggestion
Alanna sighed she was very tempted to wait until her King ordered her to come but she wanted to see her foster father anyways. She closed her eyes thinking of that scroll that needed translating. Suddenly her husband pulled the covers off her, groaning, she got to work.
Hugging Thom one last time she mounted her stallion Thunder and with the accompaniment of her husband rode through the gates
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The copper haired camper listened to her husband's yelps and grinned. With a choice between being dirty or a cold wash in the nearby lake, she choose dirty, she could wash tomorrow at Corus. Suddenly George appeared right in front of her......stark naked. Alanna bit back a laugh. He reached for his sword "We got trouble, two over there" he nodded his head to the east" you want to go around and take 'em from the back?"
"Get dressed first" she said snorting "you're not fighting like that!" he threw on a pair of breeches and they started to sneak. With George's stealth they were soon behind the invaders. Alanna took a flying leap and tackled one's back while George took care of the other. Rolling in the dirt Alanna managed to get her opponent in a head lock, it wasn't until she had her knife at his throat that she realized George was laughing.
"I thought I raised ye to be nicer to strangers" said a familiar voice Alanna swore colourfully she turned her prisoner.
"CORAM!" she shouted "Well why in all the heavens are you here?"
"And I thought ye might be pleasant enough to share ye'r dinner." Alanna looked at her husband who was embracing his cousin Rispah, she grinned,
"well come on"
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Later that night in bed baroness turned to baron with a question in her eyes. "I know what you're thinking" her husband said "Sweet, I already asked him, how did Coram know where we'd be? He said that King Jon sent him down to hurry our leisurely time up. There is trouble brewin' up there I can feel it."
"I know" murmured Alanna pressing her face to his chest "I just hope we're ready for it."
A/N this is my first fic so please give me constructive criticism ::winces:: well I think that there well be more to come if you'll like it please pardon spelling and grammatical errors that's what I am really good at ::snorts:: also... sorry about Coram's accent I'm no good at such things