I posted these together because there short R&R please
Chapter 3
I woke to the smell of coffee and saw Will was already up and brewing a pot of the dark goodness.
He asked, "do you like coffee?"
"Does the sun rise every morning." I replied
While I ate leftover stew and drank the delicious coffee, Will broke camp and saddled Tug, Ebony waited below the pony's heels, eyes alert and watching.
Will asked, "Does your former master have a horse?"
"Yes", I replied, "I don't have money to buy it though."
Will replied, "I can lend you the money or you can promise to return the horse. It will work out, besides you can't walk all the way to Redmont."
A shiver of anticipation went through me, a new life awaited me there, one where I could be anyone, I would no longer be the unwanted ward who was too small and weak for anyone to want. As we neared the farmhouse I asked Will, "What could I do there?"
Well he began, "It is much like the other fiefs so you could be a cook or a scribe or many other things or… you could be my apprentice."
Chapter 4
My mind reeled with the possibilities, a ranger apprentice, really! To become a ranger, a life lived in the shadows of the forest and shrouded in mystery. Why not I thought, a life of adventure and wondered does that mean ill become a sorcerer. I dismissed the thought immediately, Will was no sorcerer and gossip was not to be regarded as truth. I realized Will was waiting for my response and said, "I would love to become your apprentice. "
A smile lit up Will's face, "then we should barrow the horse, a ranger horse will be assigned to you like Tug here."
A horse I thought a horse of my own, who knew only yesterday I was a farmhand now I was a rangers apprentice. We walked into the farmhouse only to find it abandoned, a note was left on the table, it read,
Amber
Take care I have left the horse to you as compensation for my husbands misdeeds, take whatever you need I have left to visit some friends and plan my future.
Best of luck to you,
Kathy
I looked up at Will who said, " I wonder do they have any coffee?" Laughing I went to gather the few possessions I had left in the farmhouse and left turning my back on my old life. Now I was Will's apprentice and I couldn't wait to begin my training.