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Krystralline looked over her daughters and found not one in the bunch that she considered woman knight material. She said, "Darn, I could have sworn Elizabeth had potential."
Elizabeth decided she did not want any daughter of hers to lose a mother at eight years old as she did.
Krystaline looked through the generations and than she a woman named Ilane of Seabeth and Seajen. By this time though people deemed women ineligible for knighthood so it became even harder for a woman to become a knight. Women were thought of as weak. Krystaline was annoyed how it would be even harder to find a suitable candidate. But her conscience told her that if she had not made that prayer perhaps more girls would have joined up that were not of her blood-line or the dreadful Lord Corwin's. So she had just made more of an effort
Ilane was Krystaline's great, great, great granddaughter. She tried popping in the idea of being a knight but the idea was completely rebuffed. Ilane started thinking that Krystaline's image in her dreams was a torture of wishing to fight. Ilane's father was no help and said quite often the only women who were fighters were women of ill repute. Ilane followed what her parents wanted and went to lady school. She was an amazing dancer and great at sports on horse and on foot.
At the same time the Goddess was encouraging the other person she agreed the promise a Lady of Trebond, Alanna.
Krystaline when waiting for Ilane's daughters to see of a good candidate, watched the daughter of Corwin's line. Alanna or Alan in school was an amazing fighter. She thought it was a pity that Alanna was of the Trebond line and not her own.
Ilane married her true love something that Krystaline completely approved of. Krystaline was forced into marriage until her husband died and there was no loss of love between the two.
Then Krystaline examined each daughter. After seeing 5 children without any potential she thought she had to. Then she met the person of her line who would make her prayer a reality: Keladry. Keladry had a spunky attitude and mind potential for a commander that Krystaline did.
Krystaline went on the process of making Keladry into a knight but did so very differently than she had tried with Keladry's mother.
AN thank you Tammy Minerva and SpectralLady. I became interested with Krystaline from when I read and the two female knights who brought back a new age of female knights. The next chapters will be longer I promise!