Six Sentence Sunday

From my latest release Conall's sons out on Smashwords and Kindle.

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"Giordano, now that you're seventeen and a man, I need to tell you something important." Mathilda was serious, but Giordano smiled and nodded politely.

He thought she wanted to help him to choose a bride – soon his father would send him to the Capital to pick up a woman and he was looking forward to traveling and seeing some of the world. He expected advice and suggestions also from his mother, who had come from such a faraway town he couldn't even begin to imagine it, or maybe she had messages for her northern relatives she wanted him to carry.

But her words surprised him. "You're the son of a man who doesn't live in this land, or better, he isn't even citizen of the Empire," Mathilda told him, looking him in the eyes.

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