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Spring was emerging in the land of Asano. The trees were budding bright green, and the people were coming back to life, as the weather warmed. The castle town of Terimina was all bustle today, the inhabitants preparing for the first wedding of the year.
A young girl, no more than 15, lay on the parapets of the wall surrounding Terimina. She was not excited in the least about the wedding. The fact was, it was her sisters wedding. Her fourth eldest sister. she had sat through five weddings already in her lifetime and she held no love for the ritual. First it had been her brother, Sprig
then her sister Layla, her sister Yarrow and then her brother Donov. and today was Zahna's wedding. there were still Kandra and Khaz's weddings this year.
Sprig, was 34 and had quite a few children already with his wife Foxglove. and Layla was 27, her husband Gron had died in a wall-rebuilding accident just a few years ago, she had two children. Yarrow was 26, and already had quite a few children. Her brother Donov's wife was pregnant with their third child.
and since Zahna was being married today and Kandra and Khaz were already engaged it only meant that her parents would start making arrangements for Shard. Oh how she despised that fact. and how if she even socialized with boys anymore her parents took it as a sign that the boy she might have even asked the time of day was who she would like to marry. three times already she had been asked if she would like to marry a certain boy. and, of course she'd said no. which turned out rather embarrassing when the parents of the boy had made him dress up and go to the dwelling of Shard's family to make wedding arrangements. Shard thought it ridiculous to be married at fifteen. but it was the way the world worked.
and, being just the daughter of a blacksmith, she did not have, nor ever would, have the power to change that particular bit of society.
 Prince Ripoff · Mon Mar 19, 2007 @ 11:03pm · 1 Comments |
