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Winnifred Foster crept out of her window, her carpetbag swinging from her arm. She wandered towards the graveyard to look at the graves of her parents. She was thirteen when they died in a buggy accident, and had been sent to boarding school, but now she was home for the summer, with her aunt. Winnie ran silently into the forest, searching for the water. At last she found it. Taking a small bottle from her pocket, she scooped up some of it, her fingers touching the cool water with trembling fingers. She looked back once, and caught sight of the T carved in the tree trunk. Winnie smiled. She missed her darling Tucks. She hadn't seen them for six years, and it brought tears to her eyes when she thought of them. But she couldn't linger here, her watchful aunt would be awake in a few hours, and if she wasn't far away by then, she'd be doomed. Turning away from the spring that had changed her life, she began to run towards the stables. Winnie had inherited a horse from her father when he died, and she often rode her when she was home, (siddlesaddle, of course, her aunt would always watch.) now, reaching the horse, Bree (A/N I know this is one of the horse's names in the Horse and His Boy, but I couldn't think of anything) she quickly saddled her, then mounted her astride, and rode out of the stable, her coat flying behind her. Several hours later, she had reached the port, and boarded the ship, handing the usher her ticket, and giving Bree to one of the stablehands nearby. Sneaking a second glance at him, he looked like Jesse, but it was probably her imagination, since she was trying to find them. Winnie figured the best way to find the Tucks was to go far away, somewhere away from Treegap. Presently one of the porters came up to her to show her to her room.
"Is there anything I can do for you, Miss...?"
"It's Tuck. And no,
there isn;t anything, thank you." After the porter left, Winnie
stared at the wall, realising that she had just called herself a
Tuck. And why not? Winnite thought, dropping into a nearby
chair. If
I drink the water, it's for Jesse. He's the one that wanted me to
drink it, and if I do, I'll marry him and I'll become a
Tuck. Right? Wow. Those are a lot of "if's".
First chapter done! Please review. I hope I can update soon, this was a spur of the moment thing. I haven't decided what Winnie will do.