"You know I think Gavin looks more like your side of the family as he gets older"
Imelda Bithiah looked up from the large tome she had been paging through to gaze lovingly at her two sons as they leaned over the board game in the ancient library. As always Gavin was chatting away at his more reserved younger brother Magnus while he pushed pieces around on the Risk game board. She watched her boys for a time and then said to her husband Adrastos Bethuel "yes he does resemble my family more but it is his nature that more closely resembles your own".
Adrastos contemplated his two sons and was once again struck by thier differences. No two children could be more different both in looks and personality. Gavin was small but fast and wiry. When Gavin was in the practice ring he was truly the White Hawk of battle as his name of power. Fast pretty much summed up Gavin. He did everything at breakneck speed with little to no regard for his own safety much to the chagrine of both his father Adrastos and his mother Imelda. Magnus on the other hand was more of a strategist he preferred to survey the entire battle and only once he had all the pertinent information was he inclined to make a move. This is why Magnus usually won at boardgames, Gavin simply didn't have the patience for the strategy. They were different in looks as well Gavin resembling more Imelda's side of the family with his thick blonde hair and huge hazel green eyes while Magnus resembled his fathers side of the family with his Dark curling hair fathomless brown eyes so brown they were almost black and his darker skin. One light and one dark. Polar opposites in just about every way except one, both boys were being trained to inherit the same legacy, that of the Circle.
i'm running out of time at work to type anymore but i'll be writing some more as soon as I figure out what the circle's charge in history will be..any suggestions you all have please feel free to share them. No one creates a story in a vacuume.
ReplyDeletehmmm, I will ponder this in those moments throughout the day when I disappear there very much among the the children if you get me ;) I LOVE the beginning..
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