The Sapphire Brothers

Kapella's scarp: Meeting with the dream

He grabbed the thief's scarf and when the moon appeared from behind the clouds stood they gazing at each other for the first time. The thief's hair spread in the wind, it was long and red like a flaming wildfire. His heart beat faster, it wasn't a dream. She was real.

It couldn't be true, she wanted to disappear through the ground, he couldn't be true. He was a dream, a profetia too impossible to be true, he didn't really exist! Her breath quickened. Her cheeks flushed, everything she'd dreamt about him. No. NO!

She throw herself backwards, away from him. He didn't exist, he couldn't exist!

He didn't try to catch her, they would still meet again. His destiny had caught up with him, all the times he had seen her in his dreams and visions. He knew what it meant and he had tried not to think about her, tried to not fall for her. But now he was here and his feelings couldn't be stopped, it was already to late.

As they had finished packing a group of people appeared from nowhere. They stopped away from the camp and one man dressed in uniform walked up to them. He observed each of the members before he walked up to Lespan and deeply bowing delivered a scroll. Lespan read through it quickly.

-We are apparently welcomed to stay at the royal family Kapella's residence during our visit in the city Kapella.

-Hello, but have you seen any castle around here, any less a city?! Thirsty exclaimed.

-Do you except the invitation? The guard asked Lespan while ignoring Thirsty's snide comment.

Lespan looked at his friends, they were all tired and worn out.

-Yes.

They were let into the throne room which was surprisingly large. In the back stood two thrones, both carved from boulders with the same sandy colour as the plain. They closed in and bowed infront of the king who were seated in one of the thrones. Beside him sat a young woman with the same red hair as the king.

-This is my daughter, Kapella Mardina, the king said.

-Is it after you they named the scarp? Thirsty asked.

-No, it's after a myth about a woman who threw herself down the scarp to save her country and lover, Mardina emphasised the last part. -Her lover named their daughter with the same name and so it countinued.

The king cleared his throat.

-I have asked you to come because...

-I'd like my scarf back, thank you, the princess interrupted.

Lespan took a step forward and handed her the scarf. Mardina took it and gave Lespan a beautiful necklace.

-We're even, she said and looked bored at him.

-So you had the neckalce afterall?

-No, some petty thieves that took it.

Mardina turned her back on him and returned to her throne. Lespan went bakc to his friends.

-As I was about to say, the king seemed fairly unaffected by the intrusion, I have asked you to come here. I am honored to even meet the Sapphire Warriors during my lifetime, that you even do us the great honor of staying here in our country and at our residence is unimaginable.

Yes, his name is really Thirsty.^^ This is one of my stories that I consider as the first "book"-stories I've ever written. Mind you, I didn't even came as far as the first chapter but it was the first story I thought that this could be a book and for a really long time I thought this was going to be my first book.

I begun to write it approximately 8 years ago. It begun as project with my friends, we created one character each and I was the one to write the story. My charater was Lespan, he's a very quiet guy with very serious thoughts in his mind. Thirsty was created by one of my friends. He, Thisrty, if I remember correctly, acts more on impulses and is full of humour. When my friend thought of the name she just thought of what sounded okay to her and in the end it became Thirsty. I think it suits him, I think of him as a character that is thirsty of life, knowledge and warmth.

Ok, so I'm going to try to explain the scene above. The group that camps on the plain are Lespan, who's sort of their leader as he is levelheaded compared to the others, then there is Thirsty and Rasty. Those three lads are the Sapphire Brothers or Warriors, whatever you like, and they are famous and all. In the group there's also Marka. They are going to the city Kapella but don't know where it is. So they've walked on the plain till they came to a scarp, Kapella's scarp. During their trip Marka looses her necklace and they think they're being ambushed by thieves. And so one night when Lespan guards Mardina appear. They are each others fates and both have had dreams and vision about each other and their future. And as Lespan's future isn't that bright (he dies) Mardina is terrified when she actually meets him, she always thought they were just dreams. The same goes for Lespan. When he meet Mardina he knows he's going to die. It's very sad.

So I don't think I need to explain anything else... Hopefully not but if you have questions ask away!

//J.L.Frick