The Escaped Courtier
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The Guardians discover the City of Paradise after it was raided by orcs and the White Clothed Men. The people still living in the city are divided without any sense of families and many orphans. The women are courtiers who are patronized by men. One scout learns one courtier is planning to escape and that she's the key to rebuilding and reuniting the city.
Ali Noel Vyain
I'm a strange and unusual writer/graphic designer who writes mainly in the urban fantasy/science fiction genres about people who come in different shapes, sizes and colors and may not all be heterosexual.
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The Escaped Courtier - Ali Noel Vyain
Chapter 1 Paradise
A young elven girl ran around a huge beautifully landscaped yard. She screamed in joy. Her father was busy talking with some other adults. She wasn’t interested in what they adults were doing and many of the adults didn’t want her around. She didn’t mind. She just ran around the courtyard. Some cats were running with her. Her father glanced her way now and then and smiled at her.
A young elven woman blinked. She knew it was a memory of her childhood. But it was too dim to make out anything more. Who was her father?
She sat in an abandoned, dilapidated house with several cats, her only real companions. She wore an outfit that was different from what women were expected to wear. The blouse women were expected to wear had a scoop neck collar and covered their breasts, but not their stomachs, arms, or lower backs. Her blouse was long sleeved. It had the scoop neck collar and it covered her stomach and lower back. Like the other women, she also wore a ruffled skirt, but hers went down to her ankles. Usually the skirts stopped about knee length. Her feet were bare. She didn’t have much jewelry other than a plain silver ring. She sat near the sleeping cats and wondered what to do.
Her clothing wasn’t so standard for a courtier of Paradise and she had a tiny moon shaped scar over her left eyebrow. This young woman was alone in the world. Her only friends were the cats who loved her as much as she loved them. She shared what little food she bought with the money she had earned from singing or found growing with them.
She remembered the taunts from the other women, who insisted that she didn’t have any talents as they did since she had nothing. Or at least nothing of value as far as they were concerned. Otherwise, if she really did have any talents, she would have money, and jewelry, and clothes, and all sorts of things that the other women had.
In her head she could still hear them echoing their judgement of her. Amelia, you’re so stupid. If you did what we did, you’d never go hungry and you’d have a good home with lots of stuff!
She sighed.
This poor courtier sat and pondered her situation. She loved to sing and thought she was good at it. Unlike most women, she had a full rich alto voice that she could use for seduction, if she had only wanted to. She also had a figure that many men loved. She even was bright and could figure out all sorts of things. She was kind to the cats and they all loved her for it. Even the cats who were supposedly other people’s pets, loved her the best and would often run away from their homes to be with her.
Still, she wasn’t happy and she was often hungry. She knew that the other women had money because they were willing to take off their clothes and let guys do whatever they wanted to do with them. This courtier was different. She didn’t want to take off her clothes or let guys have their way with her. That was the difference that caused her to be so poor. She had an idea in her head that this wasn’t the way it was everywhere else and she was deciding on where to go and how to get there. She wasn’t sure if her feline friends would come with her, but she figured she would just tell them let them to decide when it was time for her to leave.
She couldn’t stay, nor did she want to. She didn’t like the way guys stared at her or treated her. She wanted to be a person and to be treated as such as she and the cats all treated each other. She knew she was a person when she was a child. Why couldn’t she remain one for her whole life? So, she sat and planned her escape from Paradise. It certainly wasn’t for her, but she didn’t care anymore. She didn’t want to live as a slave to guys who didn’t care what happened to her.
Paradise wasn’t a large city, but it was a city just the same. Not all the houses had been maintained. The one Amelia claimed was in bad repair. It was falling apart. Not that she or the cats were always aware of it. The section where Amelia stayed was broken down and left unattended. In some ways she was safe from the guys who wanted her. In others, well, there were times when she had to rescue cats. Or when she would have to be careful where she stepped.
One of the cats, a Sir Steven by name, knew something was up with his beloved Amelia. He knew she wanted to leave and he was quite upset about it. He worried about it day and night and hoped that she wouldn’t leave him as his mother did and as other human companions in his past had done. He didn’t think it was fair. Amelia had always been so good to him and took care of him when he was sick.
Sir Steven watched and waited and hoped he wouldn’t lose his dear Amelia. He hated to travel, unless by his own will, so he didn’t know what to say or do when she finally told him the news.
Sir Steven, I am leaving, but I don’t want to leave without you. Will you come with me? I’m trying to gather everything that I need and I will get a special traveling compartment just for you, if it helps.
Sir Steven cried. He tried to