𝓹𝓻𝓸𝓵𝓸𝓰𝓾𝓮
𝓒𝓻𝓮𝓼𝓽 𝓸𝓯 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓱𝔂𝓮𝓷𝓪 𝓚𝓲𝓷𝓰𝓭𝓸𝓶 
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I felt the wind flowing trough my soft wavy
redish brown hair, while hearing to the sounds of the the birds chirping between the trees, the river that flowed through the cracks of every little stone making little soft splashing sounds.
My hand neared the glowing grass, touching it made all of my cells in my body tickel.
Standing up and getting into positiont,
I took an arrow from my back quiver,while starting to Draw the bow tightly. I opened
My brownish eyes which were glowing like ruby like when the sun hit them. The tension of my body subside as I exhaled deeply.
That was the sign. I let go off the bow and it glit trough my sweaty hands in direction of my target..
Seconds felt like hours. And I my inner Hyene became nervous until it finally landed. My lips widened forming into an big smile.
"Finally!" I whispered.
The sleeples nights were finally going to be worth it. I couldn't believe I was precise enough to hit the little coin,which was positioned on a slim pillar.
"Avena You finally got it! " a cheerful sound broke out. I turned briefly around and recognized just from the wavy brunette hair, that this was Densmond ore more precisely said prince Desmond, on the back of a white horse staying at the edge of the clearing.
"Congratulations Avena from Rubinstone. You're finally in one of highest ranks in the art of archery but that still doesn't mean you're finished. You could be a high achiever but it takes years to master the art of Archery
I sacrificed my whole youth for this. So bear in mind, in life you never stop learning there will always be something new to discover. All the things I saw in my whole shifter life you would be surprised!"
"I would like to here it one day Sir Ragnar."
I was really curious, shifters lived much longer than ordinary creatures and were aging slowly. This is why many historical events were still remembered by the generations older then us.
"Surely! One day..! You re a young shifter you probably will adventure a lot!" He said in a deep calming voice.
Desmond swung down from his horse and walked toward me in his royal brown-white suit, embellished with gold patterns and of course the crest on his crown.
"Come on Sir Ragnar she is one of your best students! Don't be to harsh on her. " broke Desmond in the Conversation.
Oh Prince Desmond, your majestie. I don't even know why you're here. Do you not need to be at the castle? "
"Nah... maybe... I just wanted to look if my friend was going to pass her assesment even though I never even had doubted that she wouldn't and I was right. "
"Thanks Des! But Sir Ragnar is right you should really go and should not let the queen or more precisely said your aunt wait! Go!"
"Yeah I am going to but will you come? He asked."
"Eh No!? It's wrong that a warrior student attends this gathering! I' m not a Royal! And these kind of gatherings are not my specialty. You know these are your relatives and your close known people! Not mine!"
"Yeah but we're childhood friends and that should count as someone close we know. You've said it yourself! So no need to be relatives. Queen Ernestine likes you anyways . You know that!... Please? I don't want to attend it without you it's going the be probably pretty boring!"
I rolled with my eyes."Fine I' ll be there just let me go home first! "
He simled cause he knew he won. But I couldn't care less. My Mood was high up right now and nothing could bringt it down. Well some things could... But... Argh could you just shut up Avena!
I strolled through the bustling streets of 𝓡𝓾𝓫𝓲𝓷𝓼𝓽𝓸𝓷𝓮. Small, diverse markets surrounded me on every side. Some smelled of freshly baked bread, others of sweet aromas, and some of freshly roasted meat. My eyes widened when I spotted something at one of the stalls that I had never seen before,
a beautiful silver bracelet studded with Diamond stars. It was breathtaking.
I could feel even my inner hyena captivated by it.
Like something that Royals would be out to wear. "Good day, Milady," an elderly gentleman greeted me. "I see you are quite captivated by this bracelet. This is a Special piece! You can't find something like this nowhere I this Kingdom! Would you like to take a closer look?"
Of course I would, but I was far from having enough coins for a piece like that. As a student, it was common not to have many coins, although I worked at a small bakery, my earnings barely covered the essentials.
To be honest Desmond often tried reaching out and wanted to hand me out an amount of coins but I didn't agree on that and my mom would have neither.
I wanted to be able to stand on my feet all alone! It just felt wrong being handed coins from him.
My face fell in disappointment.
"Thank you, but perhaps another time."
I replied with a forced smile. So much for nothing being able to spoil my mood.
I continued walking until I made an turn into the street where my cottagr was placed. Before my small cottage of the windowsills were small blue Flower boxes. The cottage wasn't that big but still a cozy Place. I pushed the wooden door and shouted a "Hello!" into the Room.
"Hi, sweetie come in!" my mom's voice rang out.
I walked into the living room and there she was sitting on a wooden bench upholstered with fur.
My mom was disabled she lost a her leg when she was Pregnant to me. My dad lost his life there too. He sacrificed himself when the were getting attacked by the wolf shifters. This happened before the new treaty in with the kingdoms were at 'peace' .Unfortunately my mom couldn't escape without any injuries either. This was the only thing I really knew about the incident. I just didn't want to cut her inner wounds deeper by asking.
I just hated them so much.
They took so much from me!
I still didn't wanted to accuse an entire species for it. But this was one of the reasons why I wanted to become a warrior, so I would be able to defend the people I love and myself of course.
I sighed in frustration.
"How was your day!" My mom said,while looking directly at me. I could see how I got the eyes of my mom. They were literally the same. But she didn't have the light in her eyes anymore like she told me. They were covered with this deep sorrow she bear.
"It was great mom ! I finally advanced to the next rank!"
"That's great! I'm so proud of you!"
"Mom Ehmm I don't know how to explain it but...-"
"I know Avena, Desmond invited you to the gathering! And yes you can go!" she said with a soft voice.
"Oh, really?.Well. Thank you mom!"
"But what about the dinner? What re you going to eat?"
"Don't worry about me I can manage on my own. Besides, I'm meeting a friend for a meal today."
"Ah okay! "
I gave her a quick hug and walked into my small room covered in wooden planks. It started getting a bit late. I really should start to get myself ready. At this moment when I opened my small closet door, it hit me.
I didn't really have anything regal just this pastel yellow dress. All the other one were my Work aprons and training warrior outfits.
I groaned annoyed.
I needed a plan. It might be, that I could sacrifice one of my training outfits cause they had these bronze stripes. I could try to sew them together with my low level sewing skill onto the short slevees of my pastel yellow dress. It wouldn't be the best thing. But still better than all of my other options.
I took my small sewing set out of my little dresser, lit the candle on, stared cutting and sewing the pieces one by one together...
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