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OBLIGATIONS.
I felt drained.
"Everything is politics. Nowhere is there honour. I am a beginner in the world of the accomplished."
Lord Stup shrugged at my remark.
"Your late father was responsible for making you unique. For reasons known only to him, he raised you as a son, not a daughter. You have a brain that thinks differently to anyone else, where he taught you how to use your Mindpower as a male, combining masculine daring with the natural caution of a mother. It was what attracted me to you in the first place. When we played games of strategy on the checkerboard you made moves that no-one else would have considered."
"Like everyone else, I still lost every time."
"But you forced me to think. You stretched my mind. Our time on the checkerboard were as rewarding to me as our times on the mattress. If it had been only sex that you offered, you would have been one of several. You would not have stayed under my roof for four years. And you certainly would not have risen from a whore to become the richest female in Galbreichia, let alone be allowed to own the country's first private army."
I stayed silent. With my lands confiscated, and me being forced into exile, I would be an easy target for the many powerful people who hated me. My successes on the battlefield had shredded their secret designs to wrench power from the king. But I was already planning for the future. I had too many obligations to those who had put their trust in me- and died.
Meet twenty-one-year-old Lady Bekam, thrown into running the largest and most isolated estate in Galbreichia on behalf of her infant son when her father had a fatal accident, and seven years after he banished her from the family home. The army hates her, for her irrational battlefield strategies that has given Galbreichia its biggest successes for several generations. The common citizen loves her, for returning almost all their sons and husbands home after her stunning victories. The king is scared of her, knowing she could tear the country apart- but she has sworn his banner will always fly above hers. The priests consider her a Deviant, because she refuses to name the father of her six-year-old son- but the Earth Goddess herself appears to be protecting her.
And a champion swordsman accepts he will almost certainly die because he refuses to abandon her.
"Everything is politics. Nowhere is there honour. I am a beginner in the world of the accomplished."
Lord Stup shrugged at my remark.
"Your late father was responsible for making you unique. For reasons known only to him, he raised you as a son, not a daughter. You have a brain that thinks differently to anyone else, where he taught you how to use your Mindpower as a male, combining masculine daring with the natural caution of a mother. It was what attracted me to you in the first place. When we played games of strategy on the checkerboard you made moves that no-one else would have considered."
"Like everyone else, I still lost every time."
"But you forced me to think. You stretched my mind. Our time on the checkerboard were as rewarding to me as our times on the mattress. If it had been only sex that you offered, you would have been one of several. You would not have stayed under my roof for four years. And you certainly would not have risen from a whore to become the richest female in Galbreichia, let alone be allowed to own the country's first private army."
I stayed silent. With my lands confiscated, and me being forced into exile, I would be an easy target for the many powerful people who hated me. My successes on the battlefield had shredded their secret designs to wrench power from the king. But I was already planning for the future. I had too many obligations to those who had put their trust in me- and died.
Meet twenty-one-year-old Lady Bekam, thrown into running the largest and most isolated estate in Galbreichia on behalf of her infant son when her father had a fatal accident, and seven years after he banished her from the family home. The army hates her, for her irrational battlefield strategies that has given Galbreichia its biggest successes for several generations. The common citizen loves her, for returning almost all their sons and husbands home after her stunning victories. The king is scared of her, knowing she could tear the country apart- but she has sworn his banner will always fly above hers. The priests consider her a Deviant, because she refuses to name the father of her six-year-old son- but the Earth Goddess herself appears to be protecting her.
And a champion swordsman accepts he will almost certainly die because he refuses to abandon her.
247 pages, Kindle Edition
Published May 15, 2015
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