Trystan put me down from Elaine while my father shook his to Trystan and then to me several times.
"Thorry you should go to your mother or your siblings. I need a moment to talk with your father. Alone" He says with a kind voice. I nodded and started to run to my brother Alex. He is currently leaning on the plow. I begin to speak.
" Soooo ignoring their anger with me. Hows grandpa? I see he brought gifts and well you know." I gesture to his head. He sighs.
"I tried to defend myself from him but when even father agrees then there is nothing to be done. All in all he is quite fine. He even is in a good mood. They talked about some city guard selection and that the prisons would be mostly empty again soon. I tried to ask them about It but they wouldn't explain till you were here."
My sister Sophie speaks up suddenly.
"I heard you are leaving with grandpa to the capital soon. Whats that about? Why didn't you tell us?" She tries to hide her tears coming from her eyes as I look at her with a dumbfounded face. Starting to speak really quick I respond.
" I don't know. I heard that for the first time. What do you mean I am going with grandpa? I don't want to go with him. He's a cheapskate and no fun. He always scolds us for being kids and playing in the woods. I want to stay with you here. I dont want to leave the farm....." Tears start to trickle down my face. My siblings start to hug me and we start crying loudly together.
A loud bang is heard as the door from our house is opened forcefully. An old man walks out while grumbling. He wears a chainmal armor with the tabard of the city guard a white blooming tree. His head is shaven and he has no beard. His face is quite round and he got a beer belly. He got multiple scars over his forehead the biggest one looks a bit like a X.
" WHAT IS THE COMMOTION HERE? WHY ARE YOU ALL CRYING IN THE GODDAMNED 9 HELLS?"
Sophie cries back.
" We heard you are taking our big brother away from us. WE DON'T WANT THAT YOU OLD GEEZER GO DIE IN A DITCH!" she screams out. Theres a sudden silence over the field. Grandpa slowly walks over to us.
" Yeah I am taking that little spoiled brat and I will make him into a city guard like I am and then he will serve a noble family in the capital. Like It was promised before even your father was born. So my dear grandaughter there is nothing you can do. Even your mother and father already agreed. I even paid them. SO BE A LITTLE GRATEFUL OR WHY DO YOU THINK YOU GOT THESE PLUSHIES" He stands before us as he raises his fist to slap Sophie. As he tries to hit her I move quickly between them and eat the slap on my cheek. I return the favor before I feel the pain I take my forehead and ram it into his nether region. He starts groaning in pain and falls into the mud.
" You little mongrel. I will make you starve 5 days for this before we start training" He slowly gets up and grabs the hilt of his longsword. He takes a swing with it and hits me stomach. I start to hurl from the pain and collapse into the mud. Taking his feet he tries to press my head further into the mud.
"You will go with me If you like or not. You dont have any say in this." As his foot slowly reaches my head. He gets grabbed by the shoulder from a metal gauntlet.
" I think thats quite enough. Don't you think city guard captain Redfield?" Trystan stands behind him with a displeased face but before he can react to Trystan my father pushes Trystan aside and clobbers my grandpa with his fist directly on the nose. It makes a big crunch and grandpa again fells into the mud. He broke his nose and starts bleeding rapidly from It.
" I GAVE YOU MY SON! THAT DOESN'T MEAN YOU CAN TREAT HIM LIKE THIS! THE DEALS OFF!" He screams before continuing.
Thorry is a small boy from a town called Silvertree. An encounter with the dragonborn Paladin Trystan in a goblin attack changes Thorry's fate. He undergoes a training regiment from this paladin. Watch as Thorry tries to make something of himself in this world of divine and arcane magic
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