The Embassy
This is really the same text as the original first chapter, just reformatted, I think. Sorry for the delay, I'm just to lazy to set up chapters from my full document.
Chapter One: Good-bye Kel
"I cannot allow you to stay. You should go home and save your life before no respectable family will take you as a wife. You are dismissed." Lord Wyldon looked at the girl sitting across from him. Keladry of Mindelan stood from her seat and looked down at him.
"You will soon come to regret this day. The day you made me leave." she said, her voice ice cold, before turning on her heel and walked swiftly out of his office without even pausing to bow. She made it to her room and was almost done packing before her trembling knees and the force of the rejection caused her to fall asleep on her feet. She swayed upright for a second before collapsing in a heap on the floor. Neal, in his room down the hall, heard the thud and raced to see what it was. He heard the sparrows and their frightened attempts to get out Kel's door before running to find Salma.
After several minutes of begging, Neal finally convinced Salma to let him in. When he walked into Kel's room the first thing he saw was Kel's lifeless body sprawled out on the floor. Soon after he noticed her mostly packed trunks and realized what had happened. Letting a single tear to fall, Neal was sentimental, he realized belatedly how much she had come to mean to him in the past year. He placed a finger to her forehead to wake her and Kel came to in a flutter of lashes. She looked up at Neal, and her eyes widened in shock, before she turned away and started to cry. Neal, startled by her sudden display of emotion, reacted by rolling her back towards him and raising her torso so she was leaning on his shoulder and chest, sobbing. Several minutes had passed before her tears dried up. "Thanks, Neal."
"No problem Kel. Is he really sending you away?"
"Yes, but don't worry. I know where I'm going, the people there said I get to take Peachblossom with me, and I'll be back."
"That irritable horse won't be much comfort. Promise you'll come back?"
"I promise. And don't worry, I'll be back for your ordeal. When I come back I'll be very different, but it will be a good different. And you know I don't forget details." Kel put a grin on her face. "And besides, if I don't come back, who will make you eat your vegetables?" Neal smiled.
"I know. I'll tell our friends."
"Thanks, and Neal?"
"Yeah?"
"When my parents come tomorrow, can you show them where my trunks are? They know where I'm going and to go I can only bring a set of saddle bags."
"No problem Kel. No problem at all." Kel hoisted her now packed saddlebags on her shoulders and walked out to the stables with Neal. Stephan stood there with a saddled Peachblossom and Neal looked on as Kel attached her saddlebags and mounted up. "Promise you won't forget Kel?"
"I promise. I'll be back." And with that Kel pulled away and rode Peachblossom towards the gates. Just before she reached them two figures with long blond hair and long white robes pulled out of the shadows of the gate to ride on either side of her. The three riders galloped out the castle gates and out of the city on to Kel's next great adventure.