The Threads of Life
Chapter One
Family
Disclaimer: This isn't mine.
Kel gasped, her sharply trembling hand dropping the dry bit of parchment that she had grasped moments before. Her mind was roaring, she didn't know what was happening to her. Memories flashed before her. Memories of her parents, of the Yamani Isles, of her friends. She thought to herself 'How could this happen? How?'
There had been a mass slaughtering at the Palace only days before. Most of her family had been there due to her nephew getting married to a palace heiress. An unknown group had interrupted in the middle of the celebration, senselessly slaughtering her entire family plus a group of Thayet's riders who had been there for the sole purpose of guarding the area. The letter hadn't explained how it had happened. How attackers had managed to get by an entire group of riders undetected, all of them having been killed. What she did know though, was that her life had been shattered forever.
"Ma'am....'scuse me, but are you all right milady?" The messenger who had delivered her letter asked, snapping her out of her reverie. She turned her head slowly up to him, her usually unemotional face conveying her every feeling at that moment.
"Thank you Tobe, but I need some time alone right now," she said glancing up at her ever faithful servant. Her voice had threatened to choke up, but thankfully she had just enough composure to send her servant away.
She wished that she could run to a cliff and jump off, to spare herself the misery of the rest of her life, but unfortunately, there were no cliffs near Port Caynn. She was staying there overnight until the weather cleared so she could be on her way to Corus and holiday, a mere mornings ride away. Oh! If only she had gone yesterday! Then she would be spared this grief and misery.
A knock at her door interrupted her suicidal thoughts.
"Who is it?" She grumbled, sounding more like her hero Alanna the Lioness than her usual self.
"I just came to see if you were alright," said a familiar voice, "I heard the news." The door creaked open against her will, and Domitan of Masbolle, her friend and a squad leader in the Kings Own. She didn't feel like talking to him in the state she was in, so she turned away and choked up her tears.
"I'm fine," she said, trying not to tear up.
"Of course you're not, anyone can see that," he said. She turned around surprised. He was actually being serious, not his usual sarcastic self. "Listen, if my entire family had died today and I was the only one left, I'm sure I wouldn't even exist anymore. I would have given up about five minutes after I got the letter."
"Really?" She looked up at him through bleary eyes. She was touched by his caring.
"Listen, I'll escort you down to the palace tomorrow for the beginning of your 'holiday' as much of one as it will be." With that, he walked out of her room, and Kel stared after him, wondering.
A/N: This is my first fanfic, if you couldn't tell, but I have loved writing the first chapter! Please R/R, and Ill make the next one faster!!
