Chapter 2
It had been 8 years since her parents had sent her to the convent and finnally the Priestesses decided that she was ready to be presented at court. Kel and her best friend Alianne of Kings Reach readied themselves for the journey Kel made the tunic she wore look like a bodice and slipped her skirt on over her breeches which she had bought at the village market on a day she had earned to leave the convent for „good behavior‰ little did
they know that every morning she went to the guards and trained with them, learning swordcraft wrestleing and even some jousting. Now she would be free of the convent and could even learn as she pleased.
The two girls stepped into the carrage only to find their sworn enemy Ilane
of Trebond. Ilane was snobish enough that you wouldn‚t think that her family had only been given their royal land grant when Lord Thom had died 20 years before. Her grandfather Coram was faithful to Lady Allana who both girls had decided was a good enough sort even if she did have a temper and so when she was married she told the King to give the fief to him and his wife Rispah. „How did we get so lucky as to have you as our traveling companion,‰ Kel asked sarcasticly.
„My father has found me a husband in a Knight by the name of Faleron of Kings Reach.‰
„Oh God‚s I‚m doomed‰ Alianne whispered to Kel „why did father have to pick her, with all her airs maybe he‚s never heard much about her‰
Then she smiled sweetly at Ilane „Why we shall all be glad of your entrance into our family circle,‰ she said much to both of the other girls surpise „but I do advise you that you will be part of a working family we may be among the richest familys of the kingdom but we are definately not above work.‰
Kel struggled to keep her face straight like her Yamani friend Yukimi had taught her before she went back home to the Islands. Luckily the carrage started and so any noise was drowned out by the sound of the carrages and their guards.
It had been 8 years since her parents had sent her to the convent and finnally the Priestesses decided that she was ready to be presented at court. Kel and her best friend Alianne of Kings Reach readied themselves for the journey Kel made the tunic she wore look like a bodice and slipped her skirt on over her breeches which she had bought at the village market on a day she had earned to leave the convent for „good behavior‰ little did
they know that every morning she went to the guards and trained with them, learning swordcraft wrestleing and even some jousting. Now she would be free of the convent and could even learn as she pleased.
The two girls stepped into the carrage only to find their sworn enemy Ilane
of Trebond. Ilane was snobish enough that you wouldn‚t think that her family had only been given their royal land grant when Lord Thom had died 20 years before. Her grandfather Coram was faithful to Lady Allana who both girls had decided was a good enough sort even if she did have a temper and so when she was married she told the King to give the fief to him and his wife Rispah. „How did we get so lucky as to have you as our traveling companion,‰ Kel asked sarcasticly.
„My father has found me a husband in a Knight by the name of Faleron of Kings Reach.‰
„Oh God‚s I‚m doomed‰ Alianne whispered to Kel „why did father have to pick her, with all her airs maybe he‚s never heard much about her‰
Then she smiled sweetly at Ilane „Why we shall all be glad of your entrance into our family circle,‰ she said much to both of the other girls surpise „but I do advise you that you will be part of a working family we may be among the richest familys of the kingdom but we are definately not above work.‰
Kel struggled to keep her face straight like her Yamani friend Yukimi had taught her before she went back home to the Islands. Luckily the carrage started and so any noise was drowned out by the sound of the carrages and their guards.