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Post by PeroxidePirate on Mar 8, 2010 4:41:52 GMT 10
Title: Unexpected Places 1 Rating: PG Length: 209 words Competitor: Buri Round/Fight: 2/D Summary: Training at the palace, Kel's heard rumors about a woman warrior. She wants to know if they're true. (Sequel, of sorts, to “Little Girl Lost.”)
The top floor of the furthest wing of the palace housed misfits and mages, high-ranking exiles from foreign lands, and those who were officially under royal protection but could neither be trusted not to be an embarrassment among the nobles nor left to their own devices in Corus.
It was to this floor that Kel made her way, one morning. She didn't quite sneak, for she was a squire, and she had her knight-master's badge to prove it – although perhaps Sir Raoul of Goldenlake didn't know exactly where Squire Kel was going just then.
As Kel made her way down the hall, she peered at the nameplates on the doors. These were embossed brass, unlike the slates where the names of pages and squires were chalked: residents here stayed for years, often decades. Numair Salmalin, Daine Sarrasri, Lindhall Reed, Onua Chamtong, Buriram Tourakom.
Kel stopped in front of the last door, steeling herself. This was the woman she'd heard so many rumors about: she had come to Corus as the bodyguard of the princess who became queen, and she was – as far as most people knew – the only true woman warrior in all of Tortall.
Now or never, Kel told herself, and knocked on the door.
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Kit
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Post by Kit on Mar 8, 2010 17:15:51 GMT 10
I can really see this: her movement through the halls, the suppressed nerves/excitement. Kel is wonderfully young here.
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