NexLord: Dark Prophecies by Philip Blood

Author:Philip Blood
Language: eng
Format: epub
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When Dono and Aerin arrived back at the house, Gandarel was there with Katek, though neither of the boys were practicing.

"What's up?" Gandarel asked when Aerin dropped down from the roofs with Dono.

"Have you heard about Lor already?" Aerin asked.

Gandarel shrugged, "Only what Katek told me, Lor's mother passed away."

"Has Mara come out since she took Lor into her room?"

"No, and I'm thinking that I better go back to the Seat soon," Gandarel informed him.

Katek looked up, and motioned with a nod of his head toward the upper balcony, "Here they come."

Mara and Tocor, preceded by a subdued Lor, came down the stairs to the practice grounds. Their teachers stood back as Lor approached her friends.

Lor stopped five paces in front of the four boys, with her eyes downcast. "I am here to tell you the truth, and to apologize."

Most of the boys were puzzled, but Aerin thought, I think she is finally going to do it.

"I would like to apologize for misleading you all, and letting you think I was something other than what I am. It has taken the last request of my mother, just before she passed away today, to give me the strength to come clean with you all. I beg your forgiveness for what I'm about to reveal."

"Oh just tell us, it can't be that bad," Gandarel stated impatiently.

Lor's face came back up with her familiar strength back in her eyes. With iron courage showing in the rigid set of her shoulders she looked at her friends. "What I'm about to tell you changes nothing about how you are to treat me. For reasons of my own I have led the life of a young boy, but I am not."

"What are you then, an old man?" Gandarel asked.

"No, I am a girl."

If Lor had told them that she was made of cheese, it wouldn't have shocked the boys any less.

"But..." Dono said, a hundred things flashing through his mind, answers fitting questions he hadn't even considered in the right light before.

Of them all, Gandarel was the only one angry. To his credit, he held onto his anger in deference to Lor's emotional state from the loss of her mother, but inside he felt anger and even dismay; Lor's skills in some areas were better than his. He had always had a hard time with Lor's abilities in acrobatics; her coordination and speed were incredible. Knowing that she was a girl made that knowledge even harder to take.

Katek frowned at this development as well, but he was not angry, just puzzled at reconciling a simple fact, which he immediately stated in his outspoken way, "Girls should not fight."

Lor bristled; her emotions were running on a short leash as it was. "I dumped you on your butt the first time you tangled with me, and I'll do it again if I hear such nonsense, and that includes any of you!"

This is what Mara had been waiting for, so she stepped forward.

"I am the teacher here, Katek, and I decide who I will teach.

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