Summary: And Alanna thought becoming a knight was difficult… 

When Linnet's parents forbid her to pursue her dream and become a lady knight, she follows the footsteps of her heroine Alanna and disguises herself as a boy.  But she has no twin brother sorcerer to take her place- and so she must live two lives at the palace, the life a page and the life of a lady-in-training.  Above all, a new threat has entered Tortall, and Linnet must use both the skills of a knight and a lady to defeat it.   

Disclaimer: I do not own Tortall, or any character, place, or idea that belongs to Tamora Pierce.  Things that you don't recognize belong to me, so please don't use them without my permission.

A Sample Scene-

"A knight?"  Linnet could sense the deadly anger behind her mother's apparently calm tone.  "All this because you wanted to be a knight.  Rosemark is a respected fief!" Now she knew her mother was angry.  "Your father is not some –progressive- to allow you to do such a thing.  Neither am I, for that matter.  You will learn to be a lady as your sisters have before you, and I before them."  She spat the word 'progressive' as if it was poison.  "Where have you been getting these ideas, Linnet?"

"I've just- heard stories.  Of Lady Alanna, and Lady Keladry, and I thought that sounded better than- better than becoming a lady."

"You do not become a lady because it 'sounds better' to you," her mother told her, tone still bitter but a great deal more gentle.  "You become a lady because that is what tradition demands; because that is what the women of Tortall have done for hundreds of years."  It was no use, Linnet decided, to argue. Aline of Rosemark would never understand how she felt.  Neither would her father, if she asked him- he was even more rigidly conservative than her mother was.  "You should hope I do not tell your father about this," Aline said, as if reading her thoughts.  "As it is, we should send you off to the convent right away- or the palace.  It seems more fashionable of late, to send young girls to the palace, where the can make an example of the ladies there."

"The- palace?" Linnet asked, surprised.  An idea was beginning to form in her mind…

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