noblility

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Ponderings of a Lieutenant General

 A very old, battered and what was once a little black book, but now mostly faded back to a pale, tamer sort of gray book were found on a desk in a hidden location somewhere in Undercity, its contents exposed, pages filled with neat, formal handwriting torn out in places or blotted out, with one freshly inked entry. 

Dear Diary. There was a slient pause, as the next words filled a few lines after the title

 

It's been a while. There has been so many things happening, since the last entry, that I have had not managed to fill the pages with, and it would be far too much to fill the pages, and not only that, there are things I'd rather forget.

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Persistence

Under the searing hot midday sun I stood on the roof of a building, considering the distance to the next house. I was dressed in a light cloth shirt and pants, with leather padding on the elbows and knees. Leather boots and fingerless leather gloves completed my city-scaling outfit. Despite weeks of intense training, or running around that I fancied to be training, I didn’t trust my strength to carry me across. Instead I turned to my right, climbed a stack of crates, granting me access to a wooden overhang, from which I could jump to the next building. I managed to grab the ledge and clambered up. I stood up and looked back victoriously. I was nowhere near the level of the man in white, but I had come a long way, especially for a spoiled noblewoman. In the beginning my father expressed his distaste at his daughter running around on the rooftops of the wretched quarter. However, he once again relented eventually.

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