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Everyone knows my story. How I was made to ring but they never finished me before King Valdemar died. But I still tolled without a clapper or rope the day that he died.

I was attached to a temple but that vanished and now I'm just a tower. The companions only come near me when someone dies. They say that horses can't cry but in my time I have seen them cry. It almost makes me want to cry with them.

I know all of the stories for which I have tolled.

One that I remember clearly had to do with a herald-mage trainee. Maybe you know his story. His name was Tylendel Frelennye. He was lifebonded to Vanyel Ashkevron. They were a great couple. They had so much love for each other.

The night that 'Lendel and Van went out seeking revenge I wish I could have tried to talk them out of it. I wasn't sure what was happening until Gala went after her chosen. Gala was a sweet companion.

She knew that she was going to her death but she went anyway. When she died I knew that 'Lendel would follow because he was already mad with grief from his twin's death and then to be repudiated by Gala, that was what broke him. Of course there was the sane part of him trying to stop him because he had Van still.

'Lendel climbed all the way up to the tower and when he jumped I just wanted to freeze time. I thought that for once I had when he almost hovered over the ground but I was wrong because he dropped like a rock and I can still remember the sound he made when he hit the ground. It was sickening to say the least. I could hear all of his bones break and crunch as he hit.

I was scared that Van was gonna follow his lead, when he realized what had happened but instead he ran away. That's how I knew his story was gonna change.

Then I saw Yfandes go after him and I knew then that she was finally gonna bond to him and that he would be ok.

I didn't have any clue what Van's story was gonna be though. He had lost is lifebond and they, the heralds and everyone else, tried to help him but they knew that they couldn't. No one could help him.

I take it in my turn to know all of the stories about the heralds and companions that I will ring for. I know that that's a lot of people and stories to keep track of but I mean hey, I'm a bell, what else am I supposed to do?

I liked to keep track of Van because he did lose his lifebonded and even though he tried to kill himself he stilled managed to live his life. Then Stef came into his life.

Stef was a great bard, and he had a very intense interest in Van. At first I thought that Van might try to get rid of Stef because he was getting more and more distant from other people. But Stef saw right through Van's wall and armor of stone and was determined to have him for himself.

Well of course Stef won that battle because he never gave up.

It turns out that Stef and Van were meant to be lifebonded. There was also another twist with fate when it turns out that Stef was actually 'Lendel come back. I was happy to find that out. They were right for each other.

Young love; I have seen a lot of it in my time. And not just lifebonds, I have seen love, pure, simple, love. Then from that love was a promise made to each other. I never knew that if you made a promise with love that it was a bind of its self.