Six Sentence Sunday – alone

When I went to sign up for the next Six Sentence Sunday, I found this announcement:

There will be no Six Sentence Sunday this week as I migrate the site to a more reliable platform and even it's own web address. But it'll be back in time for sign ups to start on June 7, 2011. 

See ya then!
Sara

Doh! So only for my beloved regular readers, here's a Six Sentence Sunday all alone!

This is the last time I'm posting something about the Southern Kingdoms. Next week I'll start posting excerpts of Books of the Immortals – Fire, which is set 150 years later, when all those wonderful India/Persia inspired kingdoms are no more. Sigh.

Anyway, due to the overwhelming response to last week's piece (which nobody will see, except you regulars, but shame on them, not you, if you're here, thank you! ), here's more from The Slave (same scene as last week, skipped a few lines). Kushan has asked her where she comes from and she said her country is called Queendom of Maadre and is ruled by a woman.

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"A ruling queen?" he couldn't believe his ears.

"That's why we call it queen-dom instead of king-dom," she said, looking at him as if he were dumb. It seemed very obvious to her, but he had never heard that concept before.

This explained her behavior, though. A country ruled by women. No wonder she was so outspoken and could look him in the eyes without blushing.

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Now you can imagine why he was jarred by her compliments and behavior! The Slave is included in Arquon (2 Tales of the Southern Kingdoms) along with The Sect (a free read on this very blog).