Gifts for liesofdesire
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A peaceful, easy mission? Yeah, right.
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Huh. Hey. Big thoughts.
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A Knight Like No Other by ineptshieldmaid for liesofdesire
Song of the Lioness - Tamora Pierce, Tortall - Tamora Pierce
19 Dec 2010
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It's funny, he thought later, how much the clothes became the person. How little you knew them, with something else on. It wasn't that he hadn't known by then that Alanna was a girl, but sometimes he could go whole days without thinking of it, and then it would come back in a rush, at some perfectly normal moment. That's Alanna; that's my squire there, pouring wine, and she's a girl. No one knows my squire's a girl.
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Alanna had not expected to like growing old. And, sure enough, there was plenty not to like about the process. Stiff joints, old wounds that twinged and bothered her at odd times, new wounds that took too long to heal.
But she was hearty and strong and in better shape than many knights her age. When the day came that she began to lose ground on the practice courts, when age-hardened sinew and decades of experience had to give way to youth and vigour, the expected backlash never emerged.