This is my first fanfic.. so please r/r. Please if you have any criticism for my story feel free to tell me. Disclaimer: All characters belong to Tamora Pierce
She stared at Blayce. "Didn't I kill you?" She inquired, very confused. She had killed Blayce a year ago. He just looked at her and smiled. Blayce drew his sword, and, before she could react, stabbed her through the stomach.
Kel woke up, gasping. She had been having these dreams since she had killed Blayce. Kel wondered why she kept dreaming about him. Was she scared he would come back? Did she only think she killed him? After a few minutes of questioning herself, Kel's stomach still hurt. She reached down to feel her stomach to check for blood, but a small chirp stopped her. She looked down. Nari was perched on her stomach, her talons covered in Kel's blood. * I must been shouting again. * "I'm up now okay?" Kel said, not too pleased to being woken up that way. Nari cocked her head to the side as if to say "and you thought I didn't know that?"
She looked around the room. Kel was back at her own fief, Mindelan. Taking her glaive down from the wall and did a few patterns, swinging the glaive wildly about the room, as was her usual morning routine. Kel changed out of her sweaty practice clothes and quietly crept downstairs, so she wouldn't awaken anyone else. As she entered the dining room, so she could eat and then go for a ride, Kel saw her mother, Ilane, sitting at the table.
"Kel, you have a letter. It was delivered earlier this morning. It's from Neal and Yuki." Kel silently opened the letter and whooped with joy.
"Yuki's due in two weeks! They've invited me to stay with them until the baby is born." Kel looked up into her mother's solemn face. "Can I go?"
"You're a grown woman, and a knight of Tortall. You don't need to ask me if you can go." Ilane said to her overjoyed daughter.
"Thank you mother. I will send news when the child comes. I'll see you in a few weeks." But if she had seen the look on Ilane's face, she might have thought otherwise.
Kel packed as quickly as possible and ran out the door to the stables. She saddled Peachblossom and rode to Queenscove.
A few days later, Kel arrived at Queenscove. Neal and Yuki came walking out. Neal was supporting Yuki, who was almost waddling, because of her heavy burden. Kel sprinted up to them and hugged both tightly. Neal sarcastically drawled, " Took you long enough Mindelan."
Kel replied to her friend, "I would have been here quicker if you weren't such a meathead." Neal opened his mouth as if to protest, but Yuki cut in.
"Oh stop it you two. You're already leaving me out." Kel looked at Yuki and smiled.
Kel replied, "Yuki, we'd never leave you out. Neal likes you too much." They all laughed and Kel brought her clothes to her room.
Later on in the evening, Kel, Yuki, and Neal sat around the fire. Kel caught up with them, because she hadn't seen them in about four months. Halfway through her visit, a week before Yuki was due, a messenger came.
"Sir Nealan of Queenscove, I have a message from the King."
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