"Life growing up in the castle? Well, it have its dull and exciting moments. Alaerth and I always liked learning physical things. Like riding horses, sword play, essentials of survivng in certain climates, things like that. Things like studying and the fine points of being royalty are trivial, but unfortunatley neccessary." She smiled fondly at her childhood memories, "It was so nice when our mother was alive. The four of us were really a family then, because our father stayed with us. Aunt Alliene came by more often too...she was a lot nicer then than she is now." Alae sighed "After mother died, things changed a lot. Father went back to his mountain, Alliene only came by every quarter century, and of course we had a war. Our people were supportive though." Her eyes looked distant. She obviously did not want to leave her kingdom.
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