Kit's Bannerfall Works
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On the third day after her father’s burial, Cherri was crowned queen.
There was no time for a proper coronation, and though it was offered that one be held, well-meaning advisors and scribes at the ready, she shook her head, head held high. “This is a time of war. When the enemy no longer attacks our land, it will be a time of celebration, but, for the remainder of this war, I will be in grieving for what they have and are taking from us. There is no space- nor resources- for celebration. Send out missives to inform everyone of these happenings.”
For that moment, when Apo looked at her, there was no longer the princess she’d known at the palace, but instead the queen she’d now been forced to become, holding herself with the same rigidity of steel burned in the hottest of forges.
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- Part 1 of Kit's Bannerfall Works
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Katie had been described as a lot of things in her life. Brave was not one of them, or, at least, it hadn’t been until a princess came crashing into her life, gown trailing in the dirt but eyes alight with a sort of fire that made it hard to take anything she said as anything but the plainest truth, made it hard to brush her off when she leaned in close and called Katie brave.
Her knight, Apo, was more reserved, but, between all the exhaustion and protectiveness, she’d called her Katie the Brave, said that she was courageous enough to be a knight.
Cherri had said that she was braver than Apo, which she didn’t really believe, because the more she got to know the other knight, the more inadequate she felt in comparison, but someone of Apo’s caliber coming to mind at the thought of Katie- well, maybe, in some, small way, they couldn’t both be wrong about her.
And, maybe, on some level, when they looked at her like that, she felt something settling in her, saying that she had something to be brave for. She had the kingdom, of course, and she still cared about it so much, but in that moment, she had someone to fight for, someone who could call her their knight.
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- Part 2 of Kit's Bannerfall Works