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shouted, “Alright maggots! You think I’m just a kind sweet little girl now, but by the gods, by the end of these two weeks you will know that the devil isn’t in the details, it’s in me!” She saw humor on their faces and snapped her rapier like a whip against Fayth’s behind and said, “Do you find me funny? Now run, you weaklings!” When they didn’t immediately move she lifted her rapier over her head and started circling it around her head. They all took off at a run, With Basam laughing the whole time.
What did I agree to
Two months and two weeks apart from Uktesh
When Laurilli woke up, the smell of smoke and the sight of people stumbling around greeted her. She sat up and realized that for the first time in a long time she had slept soundly. She yawned, stretched, noticed that there was no tightness in her chest, and jumped up to her feet. She quickly found a place to relieve her bladder and just as quickly headed back to where she’d slept. She put her sword belt on the ground and laid on it. She rolled to her left with the belt buckle in her right hand and carefully and grabbed both ends in her hand and looped the end through the buckle. She tightened the belt and slowly slid her hand down the belt, keeping the tension tight, found the metal tongue and pushed it through one of the holes in the leather and tucked the rest of the belt to the side.
She stood up and shook her hips to ensure it was on tight enough. When she was satisfied she rolled up her bedding, tied it with three strings and picked up her canteen. She swished some water around in her mouth and spat it out to the side of the road before she drank two deep gulps of the water. She bunched up a new shirt before she stripped off her dirty shirt and quickly worked her way into the clean shirt. She looked around, but saw that no one was watching her except for Pamfilo, who Laurilli had learned, wanted to baby her, regardless of how Laurilli felt about it.
She walked down the other side of the road to the stream and filled her canteen with water. She took another deep gulp of the cool water. She knew that she, and the rest of her group, had to be in Bainbridge and ready by high noon, and when she glanced at the sun she knew they didn’t have much time to spare. She roused the twins, who were always the last ones awake. She helped Basam coral Robyn, Katy, Kayla, and Elysha, who were having a water fight in the stream. After fifteen minutes of battling the twins to get ready and the children to stop playing, they were all finally in a line and everyone had a partner. She sighed in relief that they could start moving and without a backward glance they started walking toward the town. At the edge of the camp, she thought about yelling to wake up those that had somehow slept through the chaos of the morning, but decided against it. Those who would be there would be the better recruits, and she didn’t want to upset the system.
With a shrug she walked away from the group of people who’d slept together for safety. After an hour of walking the group made it into the town. They crossed underneath a drawbridge gate and found that there were two guards with bored expressions standing around a fire for warmth, their breastplates dull and poorly kept. Laurilli and her group weren’t even questioned as they walked in--armed as they were--and so she continued forward toward the crowd of people. She flowed with the crowd and pulled Elysha with her, hoping that everyone would be able to stay together by linking hands. She saw homes and shops with two stories of space. She was surprised that a town this small had begun to build up rather than out. Back in Manori the bigger the house was the more ground it took up, but here it looked like the status symbol was not the biggest house, but the tallest. Some seemed to end with a loft like she and her mom had had at their old home, but
What did I agree to
Two months and two weeks apart from Uktesh
When Laurilli woke up, the smell of smoke and the sight of people stumbling around greeted her. She sat up and realized that for the first time in a long time she had slept soundly. She yawned, stretched, noticed that there was no tightness in her chest, and jumped up to her feet. She quickly found a place to relieve her bladder and just as quickly headed back to where she’d slept. She put her sword belt on the ground and laid on it. She rolled to her left with the belt buckle in her right hand and carefully and grabbed both ends in her hand and looped the end through the buckle. She tightened the belt and slowly slid her hand down the belt, keeping the tension tight, found the metal tongue and pushed it through one of the holes in the leather and tucked the rest of the belt to the side.
She stood up and shook her hips to ensure it was on tight enough. When she was satisfied she rolled up her bedding, tied it with three strings and picked up her canteen. She swished some water around in her mouth and spat it out to the side of the road before she drank two deep gulps of the water. She bunched up a new shirt before she stripped off her dirty shirt and quickly worked her way into the clean shirt. She looked around, but saw that no one was watching her except for Pamfilo, who Laurilli had learned, wanted to baby her, regardless of how Laurilli felt about it.
She walked down the other side of the road to the stream and filled her canteen with water. She took another deep gulp of the cool water. She knew that she, and the rest of her group, had to be in Bainbridge and ready by high noon, and when she glanced at the sun she knew they didn’t have much time to spare. She roused the twins, who were always the last ones awake. She helped Basam coral Robyn, Katy, Kayla, and Elysha, who were having a water fight in the stream. After fifteen minutes of battling the twins to get ready and the children to stop playing, they were all finally in a line and everyone had a partner. She sighed in relief that they could start moving and without a backward glance they started walking toward the town. At the edge of the camp, she thought about yelling to wake up those that had somehow slept through the chaos of the morning, but decided against it. Those who would be there would be the better recruits, and she didn’t want to upset the system.
With a shrug she walked away from the group of people who’d slept together for safety. After an hour of walking the group made it into the town. They crossed underneath a drawbridge gate and found that there were two guards with bored expressions standing around a fire for warmth, their breastplates dull and poorly kept. Laurilli and her group weren’t even questioned as they walked in--armed as they were--and so she continued forward toward the crowd of people. She flowed with the crowd and pulled Elysha with her, hoping that everyone would be able to stay together by linking hands. She saw homes and shops with two stories of space. She was surprised that a town this small had begun to build up rather than out. Back in Manori the bigger the house was the more ground it took up, but here it looked like the status symbol was not the biggest house, but the tallest. Some seemed to end with a loft like she and her mom had had at their old home, but
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