Chapter three! Sahara spills all. Just a note: Sahara is MY character, if you steal her then... well I don't know what I'll do but it'll be nasty! The rest of the characters belong to Tamora Pierce so you can't steal them either because she CAN get really nasty and send you to prison. R/R. Cold Fire Within x
Chapter 3.
Timon brought chairs for Numair and Sahara, followed by tea and cakes. The King and his mage listened intently to Sahara's story.
"I was born in Scanra, just outside a village called Coldpeak. My mother died giving birth to me and I barely survived the Winter that followed. Coldpeak was renowned for its murderous winters and it was three days after my birth before someone came from the village to see how my mother was coping. They marvelled at my survival and named me Sahara: she who brings sun to every day. I realised I had the Gift at the age of three. That was when I was banished from Coldpeak. I accidently set fire to the village witchdoctor and in a rage he turned the townspeople against me. They drove us (my surrogate mother and I) out of the village; out of Scanra althogether. I haven't been back since. We journeyed far and wide- to Galla, Tusaine, Tyra. Even as far as Carthak. It was at Carthak that pirates took me and sold me to a Yamani slavedealer. What became of Rina, my adoptive mother, I have no idea. She was either killed or sold into slavery. As we travelled to the Yamani Isles, a great winter storm hit us and tried to sink our ship. It was then I realised my full power; I could control the weather. Using my Gift I drove away the massive tempest and saved our boat from sinking. My fate took a change for the better on that day. It just so happened, and thank the Gods it did, that an Imperial Prince, the heir to the throne of the Yamani Isles, was on board. He had been returning from peace negotiations in Carthak and missed his ship and had to come aboard this slave-ship. The captain told him that it was I who had saved the ship, and his life. He was sceptical at first. Of course he should have been, I was sceptical of myself. A nine-year-old orphan-slave controlling a gigantic storm. It was a ridiculous notion! Nevertheless, he took pity on me and rewarded me well; he adopted me. It was then I became Princess Kimiko-Yukiko: child without equal-born of snow. I lived with the Yamani until I was fifteen, when I begged my adoptive father, Prince Daichi to let me expand my Gift: let me go to the City of the Gods. He agreed. He did not want to anger Takako, the Yamani goddess of magic by preventing me from expanding my power. I spent a further five years under the instruction of the world's greatest weather mage, a Bazhir tribesman called Abdul-Aziz. I earned my black robe and passed the examination with a higher mark than anyone else- making me the most powerful mage in this part of the world. It was then I ditched my Yamani name and took my birthname upon myself. I had never know my mother, so i could not use her surname, instead I took the name of my surrogate mother, in tribute to the love and sacrifices she made for me. Sahara Silverrain."
The King and Timon were dumbfounded. Numair had been at the City of the Gods with her and so knew most of her extraordinary tale.
"Come, Sahara," he said, taking her arm. "Come meet my wife and children."
What will Sahara say when she sees Alanna? Is Roger safe with two of the most powerful mages on his tail?
R/R or I won't tell you. CFW x
Chapter 3.
Timon brought chairs for Numair and Sahara, followed by tea and cakes. The King and his mage listened intently to Sahara's story.
"I was born in Scanra, just outside a village called Coldpeak. My mother died giving birth to me and I barely survived the Winter that followed. Coldpeak was renowned for its murderous winters and it was three days after my birth before someone came from the village to see how my mother was coping. They marvelled at my survival and named me Sahara: she who brings sun to every day. I realised I had the Gift at the age of three. That was when I was banished from Coldpeak. I accidently set fire to the village witchdoctor and in a rage he turned the townspeople against me. They drove us (my surrogate mother and I) out of the village; out of Scanra althogether. I haven't been back since. We journeyed far and wide- to Galla, Tusaine, Tyra. Even as far as Carthak. It was at Carthak that pirates took me and sold me to a Yamani slavedealer. What became of Rina, my adoptive mother, I have no idea. She was either killed or sold into slavery. As we travelled to the Yamani Isles, a great winter storm hit us and tried to sink our ship. It was then I realised my full power; I could control the weather. Using my Gift I drove away the massive tempest and saved our boat from sinking. My fate took a change for the better on that day. It just so happened, and thank the Gods it did, that an Imperial Prince, the heir to the throne of the Yamani Isles, was on board. He had been returning from peace negotiations in Carthak and missed his ship and had to come aboard this slave-ship. The captain told him that it was I who had saved the ship, and his life. He was sceptical at first. Of course he should have been, I was sceptical of myself. A nine-year-old orphan-slave controlling a gigantic storm. It was a ridiculous notion! Nevertheless, he took pity on me and rewarded me well; he adopted me. It was then I became Princess Kimiko-Yukiko: child without equal-born of snow. I lived with the Yamani until I was fifteen, when I begged my adoptive father, Prince Daichi to let me expand my Gift: let me go to the City of the Gods. He agreed. He did not want to anger Takako, the Yamani goddess of magic by preventing me from expanding my power. I spent a further five years under the instruction of the world's greatest weather mage, a Bazhir tribesman called Abdul-Aziz. I earned my black robe and passed the examination with a higher mark than anyone else- making me the most powerful mage in this part of the world. It was then I ditched my Yamani name and took my birthname upon myself. I had never know my mother, so i could not use her surname, instead I took the name of my surrogate mother, in tribute to the love and sacrifices she made for me. Sahara Silverrain."
The King and Timon were dumbfounded. Numair had been at the City of the Gods with her and so knew most of her extraordinary tale.
"Come, Sahara," he said, taking her arm. "Come meet my wife and children."
What will Sahara say when she sees Alanna? Is Roger safe with two of the most powerful mages on his tail?
R/R or I won't tell you. CFW x