Five days passed in a blur as heartbroken maids helped her pack. Many brought her small gifts, and the cook had bought her a little kitten that she named Grapefruit. When it was time for her to go, she was in the middle of a mass of hugs and good wishes and demands that she would write often. When all the maids and the cook had been sent back to work with tears in their eyes, all who were left were her mother, Grapefruit and a pretty tan mare with a golden tail and mane. "Aw, mum, She's beautiful!" Fey exclaimed with a gasp when she was told it was hers. "Thank you!" she said and gave her mum a long hug before saddling up and facing the long road north. "Be careful and always be watchful of bandits or highwaymen or the sort," mother said while fixing her shawl. "I love you darling. I hope you become just as if not more successful as sir Alanna. She shone with motherly pride as her daughter rode off to her fate in Corus.

I've been dreaming and waiting of this moment for ages! So why is it so hard to leave suddenly? Fey thought as she galloped away from her home. It's not my home anymore, only my title. My home is in Corus, at the palace! At this thought she swelled with pride at being one of the pages of King Roald! The mere thought was very overwhelming! Just when she met the road she was to take to Corus, she heard the sound of heavy hoof beats. She turned quickly and in the same movement unsheathed a long silver dagger, which had been her fathers before he died.

Im soooo srry I havnt been able to post more but if I do ittle ruin the suspense, and yall noe how much I looove suspense!! :D don't take nuthin against me fer this lil cliffy, and ill TRY MY HARDEST to make the next one a lil less suspenseful so I can put more! Yall gunna kill me later!!! **arrg, why do I keep sayin too much???** *Grapefruit sneaks up from the story and fixes ducktape over my mouth* MMMHMHHHM!!! (subtitle: YOU JUST GAVE SOMETHIN AWAY IDIOT CAT!) *Grapefruit wacks the subtitle dude* .."



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(Srry if that face dosnt work ..")