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Flamewing galloped in behind the carriage, he had caught up to it relatively quickly. He could hear his parents talking inside, and could just make out what they were saying. "Are we to tell him?" The man asked.
"I don't believe it is our place." The woman answered him.
"Then who's place is it to tell him the truth?" The older elf asked somewhat angrily. Flamewing was listening more closely now that he knew they were talking about him and some secrete. "Your not the one to tell him." The female scorned him, "You know full well, I would have told him long ago that he wasn't our son, if it had been our place."
When Flamewing heard this he kicked the mare into a gallop again, riding easily past the carriage and on toward the castle. "What was that?" he heard as his father put his head out the window of the carriage. Flamewing was already out of sight around the next corner.
The driver looked back him and shrugged, "I do believe Sir, that it was Prince Flamewing on a royal mount." Again the man shrugged not entirely certain of this.
"Wonderful, pick up the pace." He pulled his head back inside the carriage looking at his wife. "Your right dear, it wasn't my place." He chuckled softly then, "But you certainly did a fine job of telling him."
"What...He was listening to us?" She looked at her husband in shock and panic. "Why was he mounted?"
"I don't know." He put his arm around her to comfort her then.
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"Blazemir!" Princess Redwings called as she came into the stable to put the cloak back. Blaze jumped up from where he was napping, "Yes! I'm awake." He looked over at her and breathed a sigh of relief. "Where is your mount?" He looked at her curiously now.
"With Prince Flamewing." She answered with a grin. "Your not to mention it is my mount and your not to let him know you are anything more then a stable boy. Understand?"
"Yes Mi Lady!" Blaze bowed to her taking the cloak and putting it away. Redwings nodded to him before leaving the stable, she returned to her room to clean up and make herself the known Princess she was. It was half and hour later when Flamewing road into the stable yard, his face was streaked with tears. Blazemir came out and walked over to him, "Can I help you?" He tried to act somewhat rude to the other boy on there horse. He was checking over the mount as he did this.
"Yes, I'm Prince Flamewing. You can take my mount. Take very good care of her." He had dismounted by now and was handing Blaze the reigns. "Alicia will be here for her later, and can you show me a place I can wait for my guardians to arrive and clean up?"
"Certainly your Princeliness." Blaze bowed to him and then turned leading the mount to the stall she belonged in, where she grazed on the oats in her trough. "I clean up back here and I usually hide in that stall. You can join me." He smiled at him as he lead the was to the back. "I'm not allowed in the castle. I'm very lucky to get to groom the staff mounts. They won't let me touch Redwing's mount, say I'm to big I'll hurt the beast."
Flamewing followed him quietly, he had whipped away the tear tracks now. "How long have you been stable boy?"
"Oh since I was five. I was big enough to do the work so my family sold me." Blazemir was lying quiet convincingly. "The king and queen bought me my freedom back. I can leave if I want but I like it here."
"I didn't think there was slavery in the kingdom." Flamewing murmured more to himself then to Blazemir.
"There isn't, not anymore anyway." Blaze nodded vigorously, "I was the last Slave sold and the first Slave to be freed."
"Oh, so you opened their eyes to what it was to be a slave?" Eric asked curiously
"No, I think it was the thought of you being a slave, or something like that. You were the same age. If memory serves me right, which it often doesn't,...I was born the day you were found." Blaze pumped the handle of the well spout while Eric washed up.
Eric's expression changed and he looked at Blaze in confusion. "What do you mean found?"
"Oh, you didn't know. I'm sorry, I didn't know that you didn't know." He handed Eric the towel he used. "Ummm...Will you excuse me? I have to go talk to my friends." Blaze hurried off before Eric could answer him.
"Well he was certainly strange." Eric finished drying his hands and face, "But that would explain part of what I over heard." He walked over to the stall which Blazemir had indicated, tilting his head curiously as he thought he saw some kind of spark on it.
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Redwings was dressed in a teal evening gown that Highlighted her wing nicely. She loved the feel of the cloth and the was the shirt moved. She opened the door to her room just as Blaze was about to knock. "So you told him some you weren't suppose to, what was it?"
"That he was found." Blaze said as he steeped inside and closed the door. "I told him to wait in the stall for his mount. I doubt he'll be able to get out anytime soon."
"Perfect, how did he react to it?" She was curious about this because she had no indication of him knowing anything about himself or why he had been chosen.
"He didn't know. He seemed really upset when he first showed up. What did you do to him?" Blaze asked he actually kinda liked the Prince now that he had met the guy.
"Nothing that would have made him cry or anything." Redwings looked at Blazemir in confusion now. "I hit him in the wing with a marble. It knocked him from the sky but he was all smiles when he left me."
"Well something certainly upset him between here and there. He had clean streaks on his face from the tear tracks." Blaze said with mild concern now, "He had to be pushing your mount pretty hard to kick up that much dust."
"He better not have over taxed her!" Redwings said not really caring one way or the other how Eric was, she passed off the concern in Blazemir's voice as it were for her mare and not the Prince.
"No she's fine, I checked her out really well and he didn't even notice. He is going to need a lot of training in that area." Blaze said to reassure her about the mount. "How much longer do you think it'll be until the guardians show up?"
"Two or three hours, their carriage wasn't moving that fast." Redwings frowned at her own estimate. "I'm going to get board of waiting here. I'll be in the garden if anyone comes looking for me." She had picked up a book which was laying on the table, and now grabbed her walking staff from beside the door. she left the room without another word. Blazemir frowned as well, and then hurried off to find Tessa for company and some help.
 AzmonSierra · Wed Aug 20, 2008 @ 12:58pm · 0 Comments |
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