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A Warrior's Heart

Chapter 1 : The Beginning

Alanna looked at her brother disbelieving what did he just say. Thom continued to stare back with a mixture of fear and resolve showing on his face. He had just stood up to the one person he had never believed he could. His sister. Alanna hissed through gritted teeth, "What did you say."

As he stood there he thought his knees might give out while he said again with a little more force, "NO!"

Alanna, trying to keep her temper in check said, "Why," and with that simple word you could just feel the hallway get cooled by the second.

Thom tying not to anger his sister anymore replied, "Be-Because I don't want to. Alanna I have been going along with your little plans and getting in trouble for them my whole life. But not any more. I'm taking my stand and I don't care what you say, I won't back down." With each word he grew a little more confident till he looked almost more powerful than Alanna herself.

But, as Thom had said that poor Alanna of Trebond had been getting smaller. When he finished she look like a stricken little girl about to through a tantrum. Only she didn't through a tantrum. She ran down the hall and to her room.

As she went Thom could almost swear he saw tears in her eyes. But that was nonsense Alanna couldn't cry. She hadn't cried since she was born, and he wasn't too sure she had cried then.

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As soon as she was around the corner to her room she whipped the fake tear away and smirked. So what, he had dashed her first plan of switching places. She had come up with that one in seconds, she had already begun to see the faults herself. But the best part was, he totally fell for it. The whole fake crying thing had totally gotten him. Whatever scheme she came up with next he would follow without question. She decided to go to sleep. Maybe something will come to her.