Higginson Village:
Prologue:
Mary-anne's POV:
"Stop her! That rascal! She's stolen again!" I am panting but I keep running, my feet burning against the ground. I keep running looking back at the woman yelling. Some people start chasing after me. I suddenly trip over someone's foot. A man had tripped me to stop me.
My bread that I had stolen goes flying on the ground ahead of me. "Are you going to pay for it or will you work to pay it off?" The woman who was yelling asks with her arms crossed. My eyes fill with tears that are ready to start streaming at any moment. My pants are ripped at the knees which have already started bleeding.
"Let it go guys...she'll tell her parents. Oh wait..." everyone erupts into laughter. Tears fall to my shirt. I was an eight year old girl who had been abandoned by her own parents when I was really young. I don't know why. They just left me here, with these people. They all hate me. I have no escape...
I get up and grab the bread. I start running again leaving them all behind. I get to a river just further down the path. There's a log next to the river. I run over to it and sit down. I break the bread into pieces and feed it to a baby fox who looked very hungry. I had stolen the bread for him. Even animals have more compassion than some humans.
I look at my reflection in the river with dark clouds forming above me. My green hazel eyes sparkling from the tears and some strands of brunette hair sticking to my face. My light skin stained with marks of dirt and scars. "Who am I?"
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FantasíaMary-Anne, a poor girl from Higginson Village, gets an opportunity to finally live out her dream as a knight in the kingdoms first female knight squad. Things start going well for her until Angela, the princess of Charnok, lays eyes on her.
