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Chapter 2: Raiders
The hallways were covered in tapestries of Yamani gardens and wars from Tortallen history. It made life in the castle a mix of cultural history. She didn't know that blending the two cultures together was a feat not yet mastered in the capital city.
Coming into the great hall she was surprised to see not one person, but two. Both ofthem looking slightly lost. She stepped into the light of the dimly lit hall and dropped into a curtsy.
"Good afternoon, I am Yazlia, Daughter of Sir Neallan and the Lady Yukimi. Welcome to our home, I was told you have business with my father, correct?"
"Actually, we were hoping to speak to both of your parents. If that is acceptable?"' The woman asked. That surprised Lia, most of the time the men spoke for the group, but the man didn't seem at all perturbed by her actions.
"I will have my mother meet you in my fathers study." Lia just wanted to be done with this; she was grossly bored by the disgusting politeness spouting from her mouth. She was disgusted with herself, here she was unbelievably mad at her father and she was treating his guests like kings.
"This way please." The man looked like he was about to faint, he was red in the face and shaking.
"Are you okay?"
"You, your Meatheads daughter?" He asked incuriously. Leaning against the wall he began trying to slow his breathing rate down. The woman was smiling.
"We used to call your father Meathead." She said as if that explained every thing. And it did, sort of.
"Oh, we call him the stubborn pig." And I can't believe I just said that, I cannot believe it. To her great surprise, the two of them just laughed.
"That works as well," the man said. "I don't know if we properly introduced ourselves. I'm Dom, and this is Kel." Lia's mouth dropped.
"The Kel? As in Keladry? As in Keladry of Mindelan?" By this time they had reached her fathers' study and Lia was standing in front of the door with her mouth open.
"Yes," Kel said very slowly not knowing if it was a good thing or a bad thing.
"Oh, would you mind doing me a favor?" Lia asked, not getting a response continued. "You see my father won't let me be a knight, and my mother is trying to convince him to let me, bur he won't even consider it. And you see, I have to be a knight." Lia pleaded, trying not to be to whiny. The Lady knight nodded her head.
"What do you want me to do?"
"Just mention the fact that he should let me go. And of he says no you could knock him around a bit. Please? I really need to do this."
"Don't worry about it. I'll make sure you get to be a knight." Kel rested her hand on her shoulder and looked right at her.
"Thank you, well here we are, don't be too nice to him." Lia said smirking.
"Not a problem." Dom said with an evil glint in his eye as they walked into the library. She could hear her father greeting the two and saying what a surprise this was. Lia ran to get her mother.
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Dinner that evening was interesting, as Lia and her mother weren't talking to her father. Dom and Kel were reminding him of all he idiotic things he had done in the past. Like writing grotesque poetry to noble ladies while he was a squire. Or falling of a cliff trying to catch a ball that had already hit the ground. Her father was an odd duck.
"So, Neal what'd ya do?"
"What? Nothing!"
"Then why aren't your wife or children talking to you?" He didn't even get to answer because Max answered for him.
"Daddy won't let Lia be a knight" Max said smartly. The twins nodded and continued talking through their mind link thing.
"Oh, really?" Kel asked, "And why is that?" Lia realized that she should never argue with this woman about something she believed in.
"It's not a good idea."
"How so?"
"She'll get hurt." Was his blatant reply.
"And you think she's not getting hurt by being forced to stay home and not allowed to even try?" Her mother exclaimed. "She may not be hurt physically, but she is mentally. Her own father doesn't believe enough in her to let her try." He thought about it getting hurt for a minuet.
"She's to old."
"You where fifteen Dad." Lia said waiting for an answer. Maybe Kel had convinced him.
"I'll think about it." He said after a few minuets of consideration.
"Will you tell me in the morning?"
"Yes, I'll tell you in the morning."
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