Post by PeroxidePirate on Mar 8, 2010 4:36:02 GMT 10
Title: Little Girl Lost 2
Rating: PG
Length: 250 words
Competitor: Alanna
Round/Fight: 2/D
Summary: Coram talks Alanna around.
“It's simple,” Coram insisted. “Mindelan has more children than he knows what to do with, especially now he's a widower. Why shouldn't the youngest be fostered by a neighboring fief?”
Alanna's eyes narrowed, suspiciously. “Why should she be?” she countered. “Does this have anything to do with the disappointment I've been?”
“Just the opposite,” he growled. “That child'll never be a lady, any more than ye will.”
“You'll make her a knight, instead? So she can sit alone in a castle on a hill, being useless, with no friends and no duty...”
“Ye chose that part – leastwise, the sitting alone part. Ye do have friends. Ye've got me, and Rispah, and our brood. Ye've got the Rogue himself, still, travelin' leagues and leagues just to see ye. Ye've got little Thom, and I know it must be hard, seeing him raised as one of mine--”
“You still don't understand!” Alanna bellowed. “I'm a trained and blooded knight and I can't use my skills because there's no way I could fit back into that corset!”
“I'm sorry,” she continued after a moment. “I didn't mean to yell.”
“Well, now.” Coram patted her back, just as he had when she was a child. “Maybe we won't make Keladry a knight, then. At least we can give her a few more years before she has to be a lady. Did ye know she's only six years old?”
Rating: PG
Length: 250 words
Competitor: Alanna
Round/Fight: 2/D
Summary: Coram talks Alanna around.
“It's simple,” Coram insisted. “Mindelan has more children than he knows what to do with, especially now he's a widower. Why shouldn't the youngest be fostered by a neighboring fief?”
Alanna's eyes narrowed, suspiciously. “Why should she be?” she countered. “Does this have anything to do with the disappointment I've been?”
“Just the opposite,” he growled. “That child'll never be a lady, any more than ye will.”
“You'll make her a knight, instead? So she can sit alone in a castle on a hill, being useless, with no friends and no duty...”
“Ye chose that part – leastwise, the sitting alone part. Ye do have friends. Ye've got me, and Rispah, and our brood. Ye've got the Rogue himself, still, travelin' leagues and leagues just to see ye. Ye've got little Thom, and I know it must be hard, seeing him raised as one of mine--”
“You still don't understand!” Alanna bellowed. “I'm a trained and blooded knight and I can't use my skills because there's no way I could fit back into that corset!”
“I'm sorry,” she continued after a moment. “I didn't mean to yell.”
“Well, now.” Coram patted her back, just as he had when she was a child. “Maybe we won't make Keladry a knight, then. At least we can give her a few more years before she has to be a lady. Did ye know she's only six years old?”
This story's definitely not done with me yet...
Maybe once we'd have seen it during Smackdown!