Jody Lynn Nye - The Old Fire

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The Old Fire

Jody Lynn Nye

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Mev clenched her hands together to keep from jumping into the

arena after her daughter. At ten years of age, Kitra was so small, so

delicate, Mev worried about her getting hurt. But this was the final

examination. If Kitra was ever to prove herself, this was the time.

The little girl stood at one side of the sandy expanse, taking big

breaths that made her shoulders heave under the oversized leather

tunic. Suddenly, she sprang into action.

"Eeee!" Kitra shrieked, bearing down on her opponent, her little

sword raised in both hands above her head. "Take that! And that!"

The other child, taken by surprise, put up a poor fight. In no time

at all, Kitra was holding the bigger boy down with her foot. She

pointed the blunted sword at his throat and shrilled, "Surrender or

die!"

"That's my girl," Mev said, brushing a tear from the corner of her

eye. The child not only looked just like her, with her broad, pointed

chin and eager black eyes, but she was a chip off the old tilting block.

Mev was so proud she felt her heart would burst. From the hubbub

coming from the judges' enclosure near the barrier, she thought it was

a sure thing that Kitra would be accepted for junior combat training.

The other parents, most of them farmers, millers, coopers and

shopkeepers, gathered up their disappointed youngsters, and went

back about their business. They weren't really cut out for the warrior

trade. Kitra, on the other hand, had just proved she was fit to carry on

a proud family tradition. Mev might not be in the adventuring

business any more, but she was giving the world its next heroine.

Something rapped Mev on the shoulder, and she turned around,

hand automatically reaching for the sword at her belt. Secondary

responses took hold in a moment, telling her that there wasn't a sword

there-hadn't been for years-and that knocking the head off one of her

neighbors was frowned upon. Instead, she folded her arms and stared

balefully at the man who had touched her. He was a stranger.

"And who the blazes are you?" Mev asked.

"You're Mev Grayshield?" The man asked, looking her up and

down. "I was expecting someone more…"

Mev put her hands on her hips. True, those hips were somewhat

more rounded than they'd been when she was part of the attack force

that brought down the Fendarian citadel ten years before, but

nevertheless, they were an integral part of the same woman. True, her

mass of thick, frizzy dark hair pulled back with a leather thong was

shot with white, and her muscular arms were getting a little flabby

around the triceps, but how did anyone dare to doubt her identity?

"More what?" she snarled, sticking out her jaw. It was still an

impressive jaw.

The skinny, bearded man backed up a hasty pace. He wasn't so

much to look at, himself. Probably fifty, ten years older than Mev, a

hand's-breadth shorter, and he had the pathetic, pale complexion of a

man who went outside only when he had to. He blinked watery blue

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