The Swordmaster's Daughter by Terri Green

Author:Terri Green [Terri Green]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: VixChix
Published: 2022-07-27T00:00:00+00:00

Next morning, despite a fitful sleep, she woke early with the dawn. Rosalind showed no signs of rousing, so she carefully crept out of their shared bed, rearranged her hair and splashed herself with some water she found in a flask. Drifting over to the bookshelf she idly leafed through a folio or two, her fingers coming to an abrupt stop when a page came loose from Robbie’s copy of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. Trying to fit it back into the pages, the title of the piece caught her eye. The Swordmaster’s Daughter. Was this? Should she? The temptation was too much. She read on, curiosity and anticipation proving stronger than conscience or qualms. As she ran a finger under each of the fourteen lines, the words burned an indelible imprint into her heart.

The Swordmaster’s Daughter – Sonnet No 1.

No soft and fragile petal set to fall.

Nor sweet fair rose, although beset by thorn,

more prickled weed, sown wild, grown proud and tall,

untamed, unshaped, entreaties met with scorn.

Fire in her hair, steel eyes ablaze with fight,

she wields a blade with deadly practiced grace.

One gaze, scorching heat swiftly doth ignite

mad passion, desire burning for the chase.

Thrust. Parry. Lunge. I plunge into her path.

What cost? Who cares? Not I. Her face enough

a frozen heart to burn, this lonely hearth

no longer cold and bleak. Could this be love?

Yet still she spurns protection. Throws me down.

Sweet insurrection, leaving me… to drown.

Hastily she stuffed the sheet of paper back between the folio’s leaves. She turned around to find Rosalind wide awake and studying her.

“He’s a deep one, our Robbie,” she said. A flush of heat suffused Lucinda’s face. Rosalind gave a wan smile and swung her feet out of bed. “He is always trying to do the right thing and protect everyone else. I fear he knows not how to save himself.”

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