Post by allymarty on Mar 8, 2010 17:59:13 GMT 10
Title: Kinsmen 17 - Savior
Rating: G
Length: 150 (not including the book quote)
Competitor: Faleron
Round/Fight: 2/A
Summary: Seventeenth in a series of stories about the relationship between two kinsmen and the eventual object of their mutual affections.
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The next morning Lord Wyldon sent groups out in different directions to map terrain and to hunt for supper, each with a senior page in command. Kel was in Faleron's company, along with Neal, Prosper of Tameran, Merric, Owen and Seaver....
Faleron stared at the riders; his eyes flicked from those on the right to those on the left, uncertain. Kel turned to Neal as the oldest. He was as bewildered as Faleron. Kel looked at the others. Merric, Seaver and Owen were staring at her....
Faleron spoke up. "We might be dead but for Kel, my lord. I froze when they came at us. Kel's the one with the cool head. She found that cave when we all thought we were trapped."
The other members of their hunting party chorused agreement.
-- Tamora Pierce, Page
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She was his savior. Keladry of Mindelan had saved all of them on that cliff and Faleron could feel only gratitude toward her. Without her cool head and uncanny awareness of all the action around her, he and all the other boys in his hunting party would have died that day. There was no doubt about it.
Some of the other boys - the pages who weren't there and who could never understand what had happened - teased Faleron mercilessly. That is, they tried to tease him, until he beat the crap out of Garvey one night to shut him up. Of course, both boys told Lord Wyldon that they'd 'fallen down' while on a mission to collect more wood for the campfire, but everyone knew what really had happened. Afterward, the snide comments ceased.
Yes, Kel was Faleron's savior; he owed her his life and he'd never forget it.
Rating: G
Length: 150 (not including the book quote)
Competitor: Faleron
Round/Fight: 2/A
Summary: Seventeenth in a series of stories about the relationship between two kinsmen and the eventual object of their mutual affections.
^^^^^^^^^^^^
The next morning Lord Wyldon sent groups out in different directions to map terrain and to hunt for supper, each with a senior page in command. Kel was in Faleron's company, along with Neal, Prosper of Tameran, Merric, Owen and Seaver....
Faleron stared at the riders; his eyes flicked from those on the right to those on the left, uncertain. Kel turned to Neal as the oldest. He was as bewildered as Faleron. Kel looked at the others. Merric, Seaver and Owen were staring at her....
Faleron spoke up. "We might be dead but for Kel, my lord. I froze when they came at us. Kel's the one with the cool head. She found that cave when we all thought we were trapped."
The other members of their hunting party chorused agreement.
-- Tamora Pierce, Page
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
She was his savior. Keladry of Mindelan had saved all of them on that cliff and Faleron could feel only gratitude toward her. Without her cool head and uncanny awareness of all the action around her, he and all the other boys in his hunting party would have died that day. There was no doubt about it.
Some of the other boys - the pages who weren't there and who could never understand what had happened - teased Faleron mercilessly. That is, they tried to tease him, until he beat the crap out of Garvey one night to shut him up. Of course, both boys told Lord Wyldon that they'd 'fallen down' while on a mission to collect more wood for the campfire, but everyone knew what really had happened. Afterward, the snide comments ceased.
Yes, Kel was Faleron's savior; he owed her his life and he'd never forget it.