Hey guys! Forgot to do this too! (when I uploaded it on ffnet without the authors notes, it was 500 words!)
Bear with me and my different line breaks. I'm experimenting to see which I prefer.
I'm not going to ask for reviews and beg. It turns out nicer :)
Not that anybody reads what people tell them to read when it is put into stories, but if you are really bored and have a lot of spare time, you can read a fixed up version of the role-play my friend and I do at school which she published on for some reason I don't know about. Her penname is Darth Maximus (if you're not stuffed she's on my favourite authors) and it's Episode1. If you have time. If you are bored. (it also has nothing to do with star wars...much :D)
Kel woke up with a start, sweating all over. She repeatedly told herself that it was only a dream, though with it brought a torrent of memories she would much rather forget then live once more.
She knew that, if she had continued revisiting those memories, she would have to go through once more the life she had lived in the Shang Base on a mostly uninhabited island, two days by ship from the coast of Yaman, that didn't have a name itself, only referred to as the base.
Knowing that, Kel thought she could not go back into the sleep-like trance she learnt as a Shang, instead, she stood up, fully dressed with all her weapons secured on her and walked out of the lean-to. She found a tree stump and using her dagger, scored a rough target in the tree about fifteen paces away and stood on it.
Taking a dagger out, Kel aimed at the centre of the target and threw. She frowned. It had missed the trunk entirely but upon closer inspection, she saw it grazed the side. Retrieving the dagger, she tried again.
Kel was satisfied as she saw it nearly hit the centre square and tried again with all her other daggers. The next one hit the square but the rest didn't, to her minor disappointment, but as they were near it and not far enough to entirely disappoint her, she knew that it was okay and was content with her result.
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Kyalia woke, knowing the sun had just risen. She looked around the lean-to and noticed that Keladry was gone. Gone? She thought, how could Kel be up before this time of day? Thinking further she realized that Kel must've been trained to do this at the base and immediately thought of her being the Shang Gryphon. Pushing those thoughts aside, she walked out.
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Kel blinked and looked toward Ky, as she had been standing upon the stump and throwing daggers toward the target with extreme force in order to forget the dream and was currently trying to pull out one that was particularly stuck in the tree. She gauged the time by looking through the clouds to the sun behind, and saw it were about one and a half candle marks since she'd started throwing.
"Kel," Ky started, "Do you need help with anything?"
Kel looked confused, "What do you mean?"
"See, if you were okay you would not be throwing your dagger this hard," Ky replied, helping Kel pull the dagger out and succeeding.
"No, thank you."
"Come on. We still have a few days walk to go. We have to go the long way, also, because I have heard rumours of a griffin eyrie near the main pathway. We possess no wildmagic like Verliadaine Salmalìn, the Wild Mage, so we must stay clear in case there is a roost there." Ky stated, starting to destroy the lean-to, "We need to leave soon."
Hope this clears up a few things!
PS. I hate uploading on ffnet. I can only add the new chapter in IE, and I use Firefox. :(