A/N I'm sorry ofr the short chapters. This is shorter than most, but none will be very long. My plan is to update more frequently with shorter sections. If you really can't stand the chopiness, just wait for me to load a few chapters and read them all at once.
Disclaimer: You've all heard this enough times, but whatever. Anything that you recognize is not mine. This applies for all previous and future chapters as well.
Dreams Crushed
As she stalked through the halls of her castle home, she replayed the incident with her father in her mind. She had aproched him and asked, not for the first time, if she could travel to Corus and study to become a knight.
Her father had begun to laugh heartily, before noticing she was serious. "I've told you before," he bellowed, "It's unnatural for women to become knights. No daughter of mine will disgrace themselves and their family in such a way."
Jess was shocked at the outburst, but that soon turned to anger. "You really do hate me," she raged. "If you actually cared about me, you'd let me follow my dream." With that said she turned and marched angrily out of the room.
After her rather hasty retreat, she decided to go for a ride to clear her head. At the stables she mounted her mare Snowbreeze. She was a beautiful horse, a deep chestnut brown with white speckles down her sides. As she galloped through the surrounding forest, she began to formulate a plan. "No," she muttered, "it's not a plan; really it's just a course of action. A plan always has a desired ending and I have no idea where this is heading"