Kendra Kandlestar: Legends & Lore from the Land of Een by Lee Edward Födi

Author:Lee Edward Födi [Födi, Lee Edward]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Simply Read Books
Published: 2015-10-31T04:00:00+00:00

The Story of Kojo’s Hope

LONG AGO, WHEN ALL WERE MANY, two Teenlings fell in love, and their names were Kojo Kindfire and Anoora Auldsong.

“Let us get married,” Kojo told Anoora, “for I never want to think of spending another moment without you.”

Anoora’s heart ballooned to hear such words from the Een boy, but on her face she wore a frown. “I’m afraid our marriage can never be,” she told Kojo. “For you are but a weaver’s apprentice, and my father is a wizard, and an Elder of Een. He will never allow us to be together! For he has decided that I should marry into one of the great wizarding families, such as the Griffinskitches or the Evermoons.”

Kojo would not be dissuaded. He showered Anoora with gifts, and persisted with his proposals until, at last, the girl could resist no longer. However, just as she had suspected, her father erupted with anger upon hearing of his daughter’s plan to marry the weaver’s apprentice.

“Have you fallen and knocked your head?” Aldric Auldsong, the girl’s father, demanded. “Have I not raised you with any sense? No, you shall not marry the weaver’s apprentice. I completely forbid it.”

When Kojo heard of the old Een’s pronouncement, he was heartbroken and locked himself in the shed behind the cottage where he worked for the weaver, Wilston Windfingers. As for Anoora, she did not despair. Indeed, her father’s words only served to stir up her passions. That very night of his tirade, she snuck from the house and crept across Faun’s End to the place where Kojo lived.

“Come out, Kojo, come out!” she hollered through the door of his humble home.

The Teenling boy soon appeared and when he saw his love standing there in the moonlight, his face blossomed into a smile. “Has your father changed his mind?” he wondered.

“Nay,” Anoora said. “But, do not fret. For we shall be married! Let us sneak away, you and I, to the far corner of Een where we’ll be married and live ever more.”

“Would you dare to defy your father?” Kojo wondered.

“Better my father than my heart!” Anoora declared boldly. “Now, come let us go and not waste another second.”

“Let us wait one week,” Kojo told the girl. “I would finish up my work with old Windfingers. He has treated me well, and I do not want to abandon him so suddenly. And we should bring some supplies with us, for no matter where we go, it will be a long journey.”

Anoora did not like the idea of waiting, but she reluctantly agreed with Kojo’s plan. They arranged to meet in the woods across the River Wink, one week later. Then they would escape to the south of Een and live near the Mountains of Thune.

Now, little did the two Teenlings know that Anoora’s father had guessed that his daughter would betray his wishes. So he had directed his familiar, a moth known as Talon Trueflame, to spy upon Anoora. Because of this, Talon had fluttered after Anoora into the night, all the way to Kojo’s doorstep, and overheard their arrangements.

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