Sunday, February 8, 2009

The end of my book. 300 page post.

It was the next night and Dashti went to Batu and asked him if he would help her stop Khasar but not to tell Khan because she knew that he would not allow Dashti to do what she was going to be doing. She was planning on leaving the tower and wanted to get close enough to Khasar to sing, hoping to turn him into his wolf side. Dashti believes that if his men see him change into his wolf side then they will be afraid of him and will retreat leaving him powerless. Batu agreed to help her, in the morning he would lead her to the east city gates and tell the guards to let her pass. After she got through the gates she would go by herself to hopefully to defeat Khasar. The next morning they set out to the city gates, when Dashti got to the gates she took her boots off and when her feet touched the ground they went numb because it was so cold. She started walking towards Khasar's army and when she got close enough she yelled to him. He yelled back to her, and told her not to move any closer or he would kill her. He was letting her live because he wanted to know if she was just an offering. She told him that she was Lady Saren, he didn't believe her at first and said to let him see her eyes. He was still to far so she took her hood off and put her head down. To make him believe her, she said, "The day you threw flames into the tower, the day you tried to smoke me like winter meat, I guess I've never been so scared in my life." He laughed because he remember that this was true. He still wouldn't let her come near because they thought she could have a hidden weapon in her cloak. She could sing to him unless he was close enough, so she unhooked the neck clasp and let her cloak fall to the ground, she was standing there nude showing them that she didn't have a hidden weapon. She started to beg him to let her put her cloak back on and take her with him. He started to walk towards her, getting closer and closer. He was close enough to her now and she bowed down on her knee's so that he couldn't see her face and she started to sing the song of the wolf hoping that he would turn into his other form. Suddenly he had his head thrown back, Dashti almost stopped singing but she kept singing praying that he would change. He stumbled back a few steps and Chinua his war chief, was trying to talk to him so that he wouldn't change into his wolf form. Dashti stood up and got right up next to him so that she wouldn't be shot with arrows because she knew that they wouldn't shoot their leader. Khasar started howling at the sky and pushed Dashti to the ground, and Khasar kept thrashing and he slowly changed into his wolf form. He dropped down on all fours and growled. Chinua yelled at the men not to shoot because it was their leader in his wolf form. Dashti was hoping that he would attack his own men but he wasn't she was giving up hope that her plan was failing. Dashti was moving back to her cloak so that she would be warm again. That was a bad idea, when he heard her he turned around and his eyes were on her and he crouched and snarled at her. He jumped on her and she felt a terrible pain in her leg, he was trying to bite her neck when an arrow hit him in the rear. One of the warriors had let go of his arrow by accident and Dashti knew it was Under the god of tricks and that he was on her side. Khasar turned towards his men and lunged at them. Chinua was still yelling not to shoot him. Arrows kept hitting him and then he would attack the men that had shot him with arrows. He killed several men and had to many arrows in him to chase any other men that had ran away. Dashti tried to drag herself towards the gates and away from the wolf. He started coming towards her and pounded on her again, he was going to bite her neck then his body slumped and he collapsed on her and didn't move. He was dead from all the arrows that had pierced him. Dashti tried to push the wolf off her but it was so heavy that she couldn't budge it from her leg. She thought she was going to die, then she heard drums and horns and she looked to see five hundred warriors coming from the west gate of the city with Batu leading them. They stayed at a safe distance because of Khasar's army, it still had many men with arrows to shoot at them. They yelled to her to make sure that she was ok, Batu said that if they leave that Batu will not attack and that they can make it back home before a full winter hits them. Dashti got a sudden pain in her ankle when Chinua started dragging Khasar off of her. Dashti tried to get up and hop towards Batu but she thought she looked funny and tried to walk on her other leg and when she did, she collapsed screaming in pain. Khan came to her and carried her to his horse and then they all rode into the city gates again. Dashti said that her ankle was broken and that Khasar didn't like her ankles so that is why he broke her ankle. Dashti was back in the tower with her leg wrapped up and she was next to the fire. She was going to be marring Khan and she wanted to tell Lady Saren that she could go and tell him the truth about who she really was and that he would love and protect her. Lady Saren told Dashti that she wanted Dashti to marry him for her and then she would tell him the truth, she didn't want him to change his mind before the wedding. Dashti couldn't do that to Khan, she had been lying to him for so long and she wasn't going to marry him under a lie. Lady Saren was mad and they got into an argument about. Dashti was going to leave the next morning so that she wouldn't hurt anybody. She said goodbye to the mucker girls in the kitchen and Lady Saren. She was leaving when Lady Vachir found the book Dashti had left behind for Khan telling him everything that had happened and why she was leaving. Lady Vachir's guards chased her down and Lady Vachir was going to have them chop her head off for interfering with getting married to Khan. The mucker girls could hear Dashti screaming and came to see what was going on, they said that she couldn't do that because the chief's had to approve of it. Lady Vachir knew they were right and said to just cut off her leg so that she couldn't run away again. They were going to cut her foot off and she was so scared but when the sword didn't fall her looked and saw that Khan was next to her and protecting her. Lady Saren had gone and got him, Khan picked Dashti up and was arguing with Lady Vachir. Dashti was locked up because she lied about who she really was and that was a big crime. The chiefs were going to decide her punishment and Khan came to see her to say that he was sorry and that he didn't know what to do. There was a meeting where all the chief's were also Lady Saren, Lady Vachir and Khan were, they were talking to Dashti about everything. Dashti told them she pretended to be Lady Saren because she was told to and there was a big argument and in the end Dashti had won and she wasn't going to be punished. Khan asked Lady Saren to marry him and she said, " I would rather not marry you. However, I retain my right to our betrothal, and I exact it for my sister, Dashti." Khan was so happy, he kissed Saren on the forehead and asked Dashti to marry him. She accepted and they were getting married in a few days. She was so happy, it was a dream come true. She wore a deel dyed as blue as the Eternal Sky, embroidered with yellow and gold thread, sunrise ans sunset sunning up and down the sleeves. They were now married and Dashti went to change so that she could dance now and have a big party.

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