Extract from Lady of Fire
“Lukka! There is a letter for you. It's from your cousin, Lucile.” The frustration in his voice was clear as he finally gave up looking and threw the letter down onto the paved stones before turning to return to the palace.
The elders did not live in the palace as a general rule; it was Lukka's home, or rather the palace of Dominia; though she never really used it. Marlo's palace was found in the city of Zoestra and Radow's was in Ziya so the city of Queteria belonged to Dominia as Marlo's daughter. The elders' home was the temple in which the fire of Aisimecca could be found.
Marlo had insisted that Mordecai should move into the palace whilst the other members of the royal family were absent to make sure that he did not get himself into too much mischief.
Cautiously the young man descended from his vantage point and collected the letter. Making sure he was still undetected he moved back to the roof top where he had been nestled for the last two hours,
It was not unusual for his cousins to write to him. They all knew how bored he was being tutored by the elders and that his training in combat was less rigorous, or to his mind, less fun than that which the Anaguras took part in.
He quickly unrolled the letter and began reading, firstly about the training exercises that they had started running with the royal guard and also with news of the battle that he had been kept from. There was nothing out of the ordinary in this missive, except for one paragraph towards the end.
We all know how terribly bored you are. I spoke to mother and she says if you can give the elders the slip and make it all the way to the throne room in Castle Anamoore without getting caught then you can come and live here until we get called for...or the war ends...hope it's the former.
Oh and if you do it, then you get to have your very own sword!
Swords were not merely bought and sold as those on the mainland were. Within the Order you had to earn your sword, help to forge it and then and only then could you name it.
His cousins that were old enough to have seen battle had all earned their swords long ago, but he had never been given the opportunity; Marlo was always telling him that it would come soon enough.
The idea of being able to have his own blade was more appealing even than escaping the dreadful clutches of the Elders. He knew that Mordecai would have read the letter and so would know that he had been given the challenge to escape, but to Lukka's mind that only made the game so much more fun.
Lady of Fire
The elders did not live in the palace as a general rule; it was Lukka's home, or rather the palace of Dominia; though she never really used it. Marlo's palace was found in the city of Zoestra and Radow's was in Ziya so the city of Queteria belonged to Dominia as Marlo's daughter. The elders' home was the temple in which the fire of Aisimecca could be found.
Marlo had insisted that Mordecai should move into the palace whilst the other members of the royal family were absent to make sure that he did not get himself into too much mischief.
Cautiously the young man descended from his vantage point and collected the letter. Making sure he was still undetected he moved back to the roof top where he had been nestled for the last two hours,
It was not unusual for his cousins to write to him. They all knew how bored he was being tutored by the elders and that his training in combat was less rigorous, or to his mind, less fun than that which the Anaguras took part in.
He quickly unrolled the letter and began reading, firstly about the training exercises that they had started running with the royal guard and also with news of the battle that he had been kept from. There was nothing out of the ordinary in this missive, except for one paragraph towards the end.
We all know how terribly bored you are. I spoke to mother and she says if you can give the elders the slip and make it all the way to the throne room in Castle Anamoore without getting caught then you can come and live here until we get called for...or the war ends...hope it's the former.
Oh and if you do it, then you get to have your very own sword!
Swords were not merely bought and sold as those on the mainland were. Within the Order you had to earn your sword, help to forge it and then and only then could you name it.
His cousins that were old enough to have seen battle had all earned their swords long ago, but he had never been given the opportunity; Marlo was always telling him that it would come soon enough.
The idea of being able to have his own blade was more appealing even than escaping the dreadful clutches of the Elders. He knew that Mordecai would have read the letter and so would know that he had been given the challenge to escape, but to Lukka's mind that only made the game so much more fun.
Lady of Fire
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