Fic: working title (The Proclamation)

[kaytstarr]

Title: (working title: The Proclamation)
Author: kaytstarr
Characters: Darken Rahl, Palace guard, Palace worker
Rating: T
Word count: 1423
Genre: fantasy/adventure/Drabble

Summary: Too many people are being attacked in the city at night, so Lord Rahl issues a proclamation.............

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[kaytstarr]

I am a big Terry Pratchett fan and borrowed the name The Shades. I had in mind the streets of Ankh Morpork as I wrote the chase sequence.

Background for Emily is that she is a Mord'Sith, she was 'recruited' as a child when she was found surviving alone on the streets. I imagined another Mord'Sith seeing her and recognising her potential (if she was tough enough to survive the streets, she would survive training. I also thought that it would be a legitimate way for Mord'Sith to recruit someone). I can imagine a scruffy little nine year old urchin being dragged back to the Palace (no one in The Shades would care) and protesting loudly as she was scrubbed clean in a bath before starting her training. Now much older, she would have been chosen by the Mord'Sith to act as decoy because of her specialist knowledge of the area, in fact she would have chosen Leeches Lane as a place to lure the men to.

As for Darken Rahl, after his proclamation was clearly ignored, he probably just said to his Mord'Sith "Sort this problem out for me" not caring how they did it, or what happened to the perpetrators (he had after all given them a fair warning)

John, the old man and the servants walking from the palace with Emily would have all known she was Mord'Sith. Poor John because he saw her at the palace and probably fancied her, the old man, who may have seen the Mord'Sith preparing earlier in the day for the night attacks and the servants who had seen her at the palace (no wonder they all walked in silence)

Sorry for the long explanation, there was a lot more in my head than went tinto the story.

[meridian_rose]

Oh, that makes sense :D Maybe you should more of the backstory for Emily; the protesting urchin being scrubbed clean, the Sister's delight in training such a stubborn child with great potential.

"Sort this problem out" - and the Mord'Sith do :D

Yay, another Pratchett fan :D

[brontefanatic]

I'd love to know more about Emily. Her story sounds fascinating, and she would know so much about everything that goes onbehind the scenes, so to speak.

[kaytstarr]

I might tweak the story a bit more so that it is a bit clearer, but don't want to lose the surprise/twist. I'll have to think about it a bit more, sorry I'm not up to the super fast story writing that some of the other writers can do.

[meridian_rose]

No, no, let me clarify. I meant another story, telling Emily's backstory :D When you're ready. I know some people churn stuff out but you need time and inspiration. I just think you've created a great character and if you have her trained by one of the canon characters there could be a great fic in it :D
Sorry for the confusion :D

[kaytstarr]

Sorry, thought you meant you wanted more detail in this story. I will definately think about writing a story on Emily's background & training.

[brontefanatic]

I meant the same thing as Lisa - a separate story about Emily. Once you've established her in this fic, you could write an entire backstory for her.