Chapter One. The morning stunk of autumn and the death of summer. Now I know what you’re going to say “Stop being such an Underbridge”. Well excuse me for being less than ecstatic about summer’s end and what autumn brings… At the moment, I lay in my bed, atop comforters still too heavy for the unseasonably warm weather we’d been having here in Ursa Minor. A heatwave, caused by some sort of tropical storm in the kingdoms to the south, most specifically Camelopardalis. Even with the unseasonable warmth the Kelp Ancestral Tree hadn’t been fool. Nearly all it’s leave above my skylight having already changed color. Tinting my room in a spectrum of pink and orange. My White comforter absorbing the pink as the rest of my room’s wood finished dressers …show more content…
Telling my only daughter what it is she means to me?” She asks mockingly with an over exaggerated taken insulted attitude spoken within her words. “I’m 13 mom! If I were a girl I’d of already started like Alison did last year.” I turn my back to her as I draw deeper into myself. Arms firmly wrapped around my stomach. “Besides, I’m going to be a Pillar just like dad. That means I have to be strong like he is. I have to be a boy.” “Korin Stella Kemp! I will not labor my ears to hear such nonsense from my most beautiful daughter.” I feel her now laying beside me and then her arms wrapping around me pulling me into her embrace. Her lips sit close to my ear as if to whisper a secret. I close my eyes to fortify my will to ignore her as best I can. “You are not late your body merely operates on it’s own time not so unlike yourself or your father.” She tightens her embrace and I feel a smile run across my face but immediately force it back down. Compensating for that moment of weakness with a concentrated troll face. “Korin, you have not noticed because you have not been watching. I have and I see the changes every moment of every day. You are growing into a lovely woman.” She loosens her hug and pulls herself halfway over me in an attempt to look into my eyes. I try looking away even closing my eyes to avoid and ignore …show more content…
Accept my armor of Down Blankets had betrayed me. They were now more like a straitjacket, binding me in place. “Have you already forgotten about your combat teacher? The mightiest Pillar in all of Pandora, Lady Titania?” “She is no longer a Pillar though mom, she is disgraced like daddy.” I grumble. “I will not stand to hear you utter those words ever again. Not of Lady Titania and especially not of your father. There is no dishonor to be had in the selfless service of others.” “I’m sorry. I didn’t mean to.. I don’t think that of daddy… It’s the other kids who say that and they don’t ever say it to my face anymore. Not after I made Julian Artello’s nosebleed.” I smiled, no one dishonors the Kelp’s in front of me and gets away with it. My mom smiles at me but shakes her head. “You’re father really tried to raise you as his son. All he succeeded in doing is raising a tomboy.” “I’m not a tomboy! I’m a young man and I’m no weak girl. No one has ever beat me in a fight and no one ever