03-14-2007, 04:04 AM
And those two louts more than knew Lynn's dulcet voice, so the moment she spoke, the men backed up, her actual words only frightening them even more. "Hey, no harm, no foul Lynn. It's just Justin...", the boy that everyone had picked on for actually taking classes from the roaming teachers and who'd gone off two years previously to be a royal messenger.
"I think now might be a good time to go inside, George." The shorter man nodded, and both of them fled, leaving Justin the dirt staring up at the girl who'd so casually threatened two of the bigger men in town.
"Lynn?"
The boy who until he'd left to join the royal corps had been a bean pole of a boy, and was now much better filled out now that he wasn't the smallest of 8 brothers and actually eating well. And that god awful stutter was gone too.
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