8 Dragon Basket upgrade
Two of the town people dragged Andy Hill to Sasha. Lady Rushing glared at the man, and Wayne Rushing, who was a teenager frowned at the man, and his father.
Sasha observed the family interaction keenly.
Seems Little lord Rushing could be cultivated, and be taught to rise above his family station of knightly family, and become a lord.
A lord is owed more duties to their liege than a mere knight.
For now though, half the property of Rushing's was confiscated, and along with it, all their businesses are to be inspected for tax evasion.
Lady Brune is on this paperwork, and she has proven to be far more capable than Sasha expected her to be.
They returned to wind castle, with the day's business concluded.
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Sasha played with the ice in her hand, forming and dissolving an ice rose in various stages of blooming. She has built up remarkable stamina in the past few days.
She closed her eyes, and cast herself north this time.
Her cousin awoke.
This is the second of her visions coming true.
If her visions are to be believed, then, her cousin will travel to the fire kingdom. There, he will fall in love with the fire empress, and eventually, he sought her help to deal with the Ice sorceress.
However, Ice sorceress has long grown insanely powerful, and her strength in frontier is stronger than that of gods.
She subdued and re-animated the dragon of fire queen, and the entire Winterland suffered her wrath. This time around, the dragon which the ice sorceress re-animated was already robbed by Sasha.
Her cousin must be stopped from going east all the same. Any dragon that travels to the Frontier will meet the same fate, thus, Sasha must stall her cousin as much as possible.
This is one of those missions where ends justify the means, no matter how unethical those means are.
He was enroute to the port of white beach to travel east.
Currently, he camped at the trisection that led to white beach, Strong Fort , and mountain kingdom.
Sasha closed her eyes, and concentrated.
Wind raged to the east of the inn the man was staying at.
Soon, two snow slides happened near the inn, entirely blocking the road east.
Dan Frost looked at the snow mountain that blocked the road, and frowned for the first time.
This is a freakish occurrence.
It is like some higher being is stopping him from going east.
The Flayers, who were the strongest vassals of the Winterchild family, have betrayed and killed king Raul Winterchild, and have taken over their home StrongFort.
Flayers are known for their hunting hounds, and infantry. All the roads a hundred miles from Strong fort will be very much monitored.
So, going west is impossible.
Now that the way east is blocked, he has no choice but to go to the mountain kingdom to take the boat.
The man stood astride his black stallion, and looked towards east.
Sasha has taken in his appearance.
The fly away curls, solemn gray eyes, a face that's handsome enough to attract both men and women, a figure that made even the most dreadful leather armor look like fashionable clothes.
He is more than six feet tall, as was the characteristic of most men in Winterland, and he has a lean build like the men of the far east.
For the first time, Sasha realized where the foreign ness in her cousin Dan came from.
When young, people always said Dan resembles their father most. However, Sasha could never see it.
Her father has rough hair, square jaw, and looked masculine and sturdy whichever direction you looked from.
Her cousin Dan has silkiest jet black curls she has ever seen, a face far too pretty, barely masculine, and lean build unlike every one in Strong Fort.
He was the handsomest man she knew.
Perhaps that's why the eight year old Sasha wanted him to be the prince who stole her, and they kissed under the table. It was Sasha's first kiss.
After the kiss, the prince Dan graciously pledged his eternal love and loyalty to herself, and promised to whisk her away to his summer kingdom.
It was the happiest Sasha has ever been.
However, they were caught by her mother soon, Sasha was scolded, but Dan was sent to sleep in stables and punished with chores for a month.
It has been a very unfair punishment, given they were both naïve children. Dan bore it with silence and fortitude.
When the month was over, Sasha stopped talking with Dan, and had taken to calling him half brother.
She was the one who pushed him away, yet, now she is the one who is reeling him in.
Her curiosity well satisfied, Sasha waited in her castle, and looked after affairs of the kingdom.
The journey from the north will take more than two weeks.
The problems at junction city need to be solved next. She could not afford for Dan to get arrested at Junction city, and shipped off to the evil queen.
Nestled in a valley between three mountain ranges and two rivers, the city is rife with pirates, low lives and all sorts of lawless men.
It is the border city of any and every kingdom, be it kingdom of water, mountains or Winterland.
The family that ruled the city is known to be both disloyal, and treacherous.
They evade the control of the Winterland, by saying they are part of the mountain kingdom, of the mountain kingdom by saying they are part of Winterland.
Now that the kingdom of mountains, water and Winterland all belong to Winterchild, there's no way for the lord of the Junction to run, unless he imprisons Dan as a hostage against her.
The artisan's created the new bamboo basket, this one capable of carrying thirty knights in full plate armor.
It looked like the whipper in the kitchen, with it's top part cut off. At the ends of iron wires are seats, with seat belts, and there is a strong round golf stand kind of basket to hold the weapons.
The knights readied themselves with full plate armor, their glistening baby blue masks with half of it having a symbol of gray wolf.
They looked mighty as the winter sun reflected off their armor.
Sasha is the only one who was on the dragon.
The dragon kicked off into the air, and flew a single loop, then clutched the handle of the cage with a practiced motion, and set off towards white knife.
The knights who got on the flying cage for the first time looked downwards over the passing scenery with their jaws dropped.
'Wow!' is the only thing they could think of.
They were all too thankful the masks are covering their faces, and no one else would know how stupid they looked as they gawked like children at the ground below them.
All too soon, their journey was over, and the dragon dropped them right in front of Wisden mansion.
