Legend by Nicole Zoltack

Author:Nicole Zoltack [Zoltack, Nicole]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Nicole Zoltack

Chapter

Sixteen

All day and into the night, Alena hid away, not working as a maid, not doing much of anything honestly. She was so very confused, and nothing made sense to her. What was she supposed to do? How could she be a leader to the people when she could hardly decide if she should stay or flee?

Most everyone ignored her, although she did hear some whispers. Ula approached her at one point, but Alena merely shook her head. She did not wish to speak with anyone, and she certainly did not wish for gossip to be spread about her. While she had started to think of Ula as a friend, Alena could not be certain that the young maid would not tell others that which Alena might have confided in her, and so, Alena told her nothing.

That forced isolation Alena inflicted upon herself only made matters worse. By the time the moon rose, she found herself back in the servants’ quarters, in her bed of blankets. She could not settle. Sleep would not come, and eventually, Alena rose. This was not her place, though she could not say where her place might be.

Alena left not only the servants’ quarters but the entire castle itself. It did not surprise her when her feet brought her to the anvil. Returning here only seemed fitting, not that she consciously had chosen this destination to go to.

The sword remained stuck in the stone. Had she left it as such when she had fled? She could not recall. Perhaps she had in her haste, or mayhap another… No. No one else appeared able to do as she had. The magic in the sword saw something in her, or perhaps the wizard who had imbued the sword with magic had chosen her.

Why, though?

That seemingly chance encounter with Marvina at the marketplace. Perhaps it had not been so random after all. Had the wizard been looking for someone such as Alena? What made Alena so special? Her mysterious parentage? Even if she were distantly related to the last king, she had no true claim to the throne.

“No more than that right given to me by a magical sword stuck in a stone,” she mumbled.

“Only the one deemed worthy to lead all of Britain back to the days of her glory will be able to remove the sword from the stone.”

Alena jerked and whirled around to see Marvina there. There was no mistaking the wizard for anyone but herself, and Alena knew the other woman from the cemetery was not her but another. Another woman, certainly. Another wizard perhaps.

“I am not worthy of anything save to clean grime from floors and polish windows,” Alena said. “Oh, and pretend I am a page to a squire who would have ruined my reputation had I been reared as a lady.”

“You can do much and more than you believe yourself capable of,” Marvina said.

“And you know me so well,” Alena said. She only managed to refrain from rolling her eyes by

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