p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; text-align: center; line-height: 18.35pt; background: #FEFEFE;" align="center"emspan style="font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Monotype Corsiva'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: navy;"~'*Chapter. 2 : My 3 Holy Swords, My Knights of the Round*'~/span/em/p
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p class="MsoNormal"emspan style="font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Monotype Corsiva'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: indigo;"However my betrothal did not fall un-noticed. My 3 Holy Swords, my Knights of the Round, Timaeus, Hermos, and Critias, were the first to fly to my defense. They had long been my father, King Lyness' most trusted advisors, and I had long ago, crowned the 3 of them to be my personal champions. Timaeus/span/emspan style="font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: #333333; background: #FEFEFE;" /spanemspan style="font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Monotype Corsiva'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Courier New'; color: indigo;"was my first Knight, and for awhile, he had been my only Knight. I Knighted Hermos, and Critias, shortly after Knighting Timaeus, for Timaeus, and I had known both Hermos, and Critias since we were all children, ourselves. Our families were all of Noble, and Royal blood, we all grew up together. I loved both Critias, and Hermos as though they were my own brothers./span/ememspan style="font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Monotype Corsiva'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: indigo;" In their efforts to protect me, they had attempted to advise my Father of Viceroy Darts' mal-intentions. They wished not to see any harm befall me, Timaeus even moreso than Critias, and Hermos./span/ememspan style="font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Monotype Corsiva'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: indigo; background: #FEFEFE;"br / br / /span/ememspan style="font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Monotype Corsiva'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: indigo;"My Father, the old fool, for the first time in his life, completely ignored their advice. My Father announced that there was to be a formal ball to celebrate my betrothal to Viceroy Darts. It was then Timaeus, Critias, and Hermos all shared one goal in common, to protect me, and our Sacred Water Crystal, no matter the risk it would take later down this most dark, and treacherous of roads.../span/em/p
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p class="MsoNormal"emspan style="font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Monotype Corsiva'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: indigo;"However my betrothal did not fall un-noticed. My 3 Holy Swords, my Knights of the Round, Timaeus, Hermos, and Critias, were the first to fly to my defense. They had long been my father, King Lyness' most trusted advisors, and I had long ago, crowned the 3 of them to be my personal champions. Timaeus/span/emspan style="font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: #333333; background: #FEFEFE;" /spanemspan style="font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Monotype Corsiva'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Courier New'; color: indigo;"was my first Knight, and for awhile, he had been my only Knight. I Knighted Hermos, and Critias, shortly after Knighting Timaeus, for Timaeus, and I had known both Hermos, and Critias since we were all children, ourselves. Our families were all of Noble, and Royal blood, we all grew up together. I loved both Critias, and Hermos as though they were my own brothers./span/ememspan style="font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Monotype Corsiva'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: indigo;" In their efforts to protect me, they had attempted to advise my Father of Viceroy Darts' mal-intentions. They wished not to see any harm befall me, Timaeus even moreso than Critias, and Hermos./span/ememspan style="font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Monotype Corsiva'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: indigo; background: #FEFEFE;"br / br / /span/ememspan style="font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Monotype Corsiva'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: indigo;"My Father, the old fool, for the first time in his life, completely ignored their advice. My Father announced that there was to be a formal ball to celebrate my betrothal to Viceroy Darts. It was then Timaeus, Critias, and Hermos all shared one goal in common, to protect me, and our Sacred Water Crystal, no matter the risk it would take later down this most dark, and treacherous of roads.../span/em/p