Circle of Reign by Jacob Cooper

Author:Jacob Cooper
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Epic, Fantasy, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Literature & Fiction
ISBN: 0692246738
Published: 2014-07-23T18:30:00+00:00

“Blasted Heavens! We’ve been waiting here so long my robe is nearly dry.” Holden looked abashed for using such language, remembering where he was. The two perpetrators had been sitting outside the High Vicar’s office since mid-afternoon and now had completely missed evening meal.

“What do you think will happen to us this time?” Ryall asked. He did not sound overly concerned.

“Perhaps they will finally see you for the worthless bag of hair and bones you are and expel you from the monastery,” Holden jabbed.

“If only the Ancient Heavens would be so kind—”

“But where would you go, Ryall? Your father would never accept you back after being dismissed from the monastery. He barely accepted you in the first place. No doubt he has been breathing sighs of relief ever since he sent you here and they granted you entrance.”

The two boys had grown up together in the Eastern Province, barely a span apart in age and both sons of minor houses. They were also both third sons. This fact alone charted their destiny in life. Lord Grady Orion sat as Provincial Lord of the East, the largest province in all the Realm. Third sons, according to Lord Orion, were only granted to men of his province to serve the Ancient Heavens and were therefore required to enter the Changrual Monastery when fourteen years of age. Holden and Ryall had dreamt together of someday scaling the Jarwyn Mountains and crossing over to the Falls of Olin on the east side of the great mountains. From there, they would take the journey down the perilous precipice to the Sea of Albery and sail out beyond the Runic Islands to meet the sun where it rose every morning.

Holden had since accepted his status in life, but Ryall seemed determined to stubbornly hang on to his dreams of adventure and voyaging beyond the Realm. He stared at the ground without actually seeing it as he answered his long-time friend wistfully.

“The world has never seemed to want us, third sons of minor houses. It is as if our fates were determined for us without us even being asked. I want to be free, free as the birds that fly through the sky and as the whales that roam the deep. Can you imagine what it would be like? No one to answer to and nowhere we must be. We would live as we choose, no one to force us. Can’t you feel the…the…”

Ryall didn’t know the word he was searching for. Freedom, autonomy, liberty, independence all ran through his mind, but they were somehow inadequate. The feeling he was trying to describe was somewhat ineffable to him. Holden listened to his friend but also just stared down at the ground. He knew Ryall had retreated inside himself again and was not seeing the stone and dirt they both plainly stared at as he voiced his greatest desires.

Ryall finally settled on “power” as the assistant resident Vicar opened the door to the High Vicar’s office and motioned them in.

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