Dawn of Adventure by Andrew Bardsley

Author:Andrew Bardsley [Bardsley, Andrew]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-05-26T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter 13

In the cold still darkness of the morning a gentle breeze moved through the trees around the camp. The noise of the birds was just starting to wake up the world with their twittering. Other than the sweet sound of the birds, the camp was mostly quiet. Except for some slight snoring from a few bodies around the fire. Lizzy slowly moved out of the tent. The tent had been crowded as the all the Bennet's daughters had to sleep in the same tent. Usually, the two youngest would have slept by the campfire as was their preferences. Unfortunately for propriety's sake, as the dungeon masters party was present, they all had to be in the same tent.

Late into the night, Lydia had boasted to her sister how she had gotten the Dark Knight to accept the challenge. Lizzy was sure that the rest of the camp could hear her in her loud remarks. So, she tried to keep her sister quiet. This was to no avail as she was ignored by her obnoxious sisters.

From what she had broadcasted to what seemed the whole world. She and her sister Kitty had planned it as they had seen an opportunity to make some gold of the prouder man. With her skills as a rogue, she could easily tell that he was a vain noble that relied upon expensive weapons rather than personal development. Then it was just a simple matter of gloating him into a challenge. Which had been ever so easy.

In the end, Lizzy had a long chat with her sister about the appropriateness of the scheme. But it had ended with the younger sister again just ignoring her. She had just turned her back on Lizzy, deliberately counting her ill-begotten earnings as the gold clicked in her hands.

With this memory still fresh in her mind, she strolled through the campsite, worrying about the propriety of her sister’s actions. Several people were huddled around the fire, still rolled up in blankets trying for the last few minutes of sleep before the day began. She guessed that was where the snoring was from. The fire now was a pit of embers that were glowing coals of white and orange giving of a slight heat haze. This gave slight light to the darkness of the morning. Small wisps of smoke were rising into the dark canopy above the camp and disappearing into the dark early morning sky. The whole scene reminded her of a classical landscape painting with misty darkness in the foothills with large looming white snowcap mountains just visible in the darkness.

With the light from the glowing embers, she was just able to navigate to the outer edges of the campsite. Then when she was sure she would not be disturbing any of the sleepers, she lit a magical light and moved off into the dark hills surrounding the campsite. Slowly she crept to beyond a small rise to start her morning exercise routine. Looking around a little hollow, she had found trees surrounding the open clearing.

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