AN: this is an original story that I tweaked to adapt it to Tortal. It is
set about a hundred years before the dragons banned visits to the mortal
realm and when there where the warrior maidens that Alanna and Kel read
about. Please RR I want your opinion b/c this is my 1st fanfic.
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Hello, I'm Lady Gweneve of Trebond and the year is 813, the year after I ran away from my home of 18 years. I ran because my father, Lord Lewis of Golden Lake, just died and my brother, Lord Rayand, took over the fief. I know what you're thinking; why hadn't my mother taken over? Well, she died when my brother and I were 6. Now my ungrateful brother said I had to be married before I could run the estate. Which is totally silly, there is no law stating a lady has to be married before she can rule, but my brother just took the estate out from under me.
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"Gweneve, I called you here to tell you, I've made my decision about your staying here." After my brother told me this I knew that I wasn't going to like what was coming. "You can stay, only if you marry Lord Paupon of Trebond." See, what did I tell you? Lord Paupon, a friend of Rayond's, was just about the snobbiest person I knew.
"I wouldn't marry Paupon if my life depended on it," there that will put a major dent in his plans.
"Is that the way you want it? Than I will send you to the Convent." Ouch! That hurt, see, I wanted to marry but I hadn't found the right guy yet. That's when it hit me, I could run. I would take my brother's horse, and I couldn't stand the thought of Rosen, my horse, in the company of Rayand, so I took him too, and why not a dog, Chinook – the puppy that my father gave me for my last birthday. I wouldn't tell anyone where I was going, well, because I didn't know exactly where I was going. I also knew it was safer for a man to travel alone than a lady. So, I would go in disguise as a nobleman who had just bought a horse for is love, so it wouldn't be questioned why I had two horses with me.
I hid Washingtonian, my brother's horse, in the forest and rode into town on Rosen, bought some men's clothes, said it was for my brother, rode out towards home. When I got to where I had hid Washi, I changed into the clothes I had just bought, mounted Washi, and rode out away from my greedy brother.
**~~~** Raymond
The morning after talking to my sister about Paupon, after breakfast I wanted to go for a ride. When I got to the stables, the head groom had some bad news; it seemed that someone, most likely from the court, stole both my and my sister's horses.
After hearing this, I went straight to my sister's chambers only to be informed by her maids that Lady Gweneve wasn't there. That's when it hit me, my sister ran away, taking our horses. I asked my court mage to track her but he said that there was to much action around the castle and had to go into the mountains to meditate and scry for her. I knew that was quite dangerous and I didn't want to lose Pental, because he was the greatest mage in eastern Tortal, but I agreed it was the best thing to do, so I let him go.
A few days later, Pental returned with news that he saw Gwen on land he didn't know, but it looked like she was heading west. I knew the only safe place west of here was the Cat's Lounge a small non-decrepit little inn and after that was Naxen, so I went to Naxen to head her off, yet when I was just outside of the village of Naxen I saw the remains of a fire, and was reminded of the City of the Gods to the north of here. I decided to search there.
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Hello, I'm Lady Gweneve of Trebond and the year is 813, the year after I ran away from my home of 18 years. I ran because my father, Lord Lewis of Golden Lake, just died and my brother, Lord Rayand, took over the fief. I know what you're thinking; why hadn't my mother taken over? Well, she died when my brother and I were 6. Now my ungrateful brother said I had to be married before I could run the estate. Which is totally silly, there is no law stating a lady has to be married before she can rule, but my brother just took the estate out from under me.
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"Gweneve, I called you here to tell you, I've made my decision about your staying here." After my brother told me this I knew that I wasn't going to like what was coming. "You can stay, only if you marry Lord Paupon of Trebond." See, what did I tell you? Lord Paupon, a friend of Rayond's, was just about the snobbiest person I knew.
"I wouldn't marry Paupon if my life depended on it," there that will put a major dent in his plans.
"Is that the way you want it? Than I will send you to the Convent." Ouch! That hurt, see, I wanted to marry but I hadn't found the right guy yet. That's when it hit me, I could run. I would take my brother's horse, and I couldn't stand the thought of Rosen, my horse, in the company of Rayand, so I took him too, and why not a dog, Chinook – the puppy that my father gave me for my last birthday. I wouldn't tell anyone where I was going, well, because I didn't know exactly where I was going. I also knew it was safer for a man to travel alone than a lady. So, I would go in disguise as a nobleman who had just bought a horse for is love, so it wouldn't be questioned why I had two horses with me.
I hid Washingtonian, my brother's horse, in the forest and rode into town on Rosen, bought some men's clothes, said it was for my brother, rode out towards home. When I got to where I had hid Washi, I changed into the clothes I had just bought, mounted Washi, and rode out away from my greedy brother.
**~~~** Raymond
The morning after talking to my sister about Paupon, after breakfast I wanted to go for a ride. When I got to the stables, the head groom had some bad news; it seemed that someone, most likely from the court, stole both my and my sister's horses.
After hearing this, I went straight to my sister's chambers only to be informed by her maids that Lady Gweneve wasn't there. That's when it hit me, my sister ran away, taking our horses. I asked my court mage to track her but he said that there was to much action around the castle and had to go into the mountains to meditate and scry for her. I knew that was quite dangerous and I didn't want to lose Pental, because he was the greatest mage in eastern Tortal, but I agreed it was the best thing to do, so I let him go.
A few days later, Pental returned with news that he saw Gwen on land he didn't know, but it looked like she was heading west. I knew the only safe place west of here was the Cat's Lounge a small non-decrepit little inn and after that was Naxen, so I went to Naxen to head her off, yet when I was just outside of the village of Naxen I saw the remains of a fire, and was reminded of the City of the Gods to the north of here. I decided to search there.
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