Chapter 6: Leaving for Sunspear I[EDITED]
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[POV Lancel]
"I must leave immediately for Sunspear. I will go to talk to my father in the blacksmith shop to convince my mother to let me go."
"Lisa, I'm going to the blacksmith shop. Wait for me at home. I'll be back in two hours," I say, taking the steel sword and crossing it behind my back.
"Alright," she replied, still focused on training. Her dedication doesn't surprise me; she will be incredible when she fights seriously against an enemy.
"Remember to rest for a while, don't let your muscles tense up," I say, leaving our house.
"Okay," she replied. She stopped practicing and then went to sit down to study the book of the Faith of the Seven.
[Third-person POV]
Lancel left his house to find his father in the blacksmith shop. Upon arrival, he noticed fifteen small swords near the furnace where his father was.
"Father, why did you make so many swords?" Lancel asks, surprised by the number of swords.
"They are the trial swords I made to see which one would suit you best. And by the way, what are you doing here?" Robert says after tempering a sword.
"I want to talk to you so you can allow me to go train with the Dornish and become a good warrior," Lancel says, approaching and taking one of the swords near the furnace. When he lifted it, he noticed that it was too heavy to hold for a long time, and it was also too long for stability.
"Why don't you train here with the knights of House Dayne?" Robert says, laughing at him struggling to hold the sword.
"I want to excel in all types of combat, as well as travel to other kingdoms," Lancel says, after letting go of the sword and picking up another one.
"You're only four years old, and you already want to travel," Robert says, taking a scabbard and sheathing the newly tempered sword.
"It's better to learn as soon as possible to develop your own fighting style," Lancel says, after realizing that the sword did not suit him because it was too short for him.
"We'll have to talk to your mother first, and then inform Lord Dayne so he can find you a good master," Robert says, looking at him holding that sword.
"All these swords don't suit you. It took me a long time to make one for you, considering the weight and width of the sword, and then making sure the length suited you. Until I had the idea to make a sword the size of your navel to your foot. Haha, I'm a genius," Robert says, laughing at it.
Lancel had a look of gratitude for the effort shown by his father to give him a sword that he feels comfortable with.
[POV Lisa]
After the two hours my brother told me, I go out to the front door and see my mother coming.
"What are you doing here waiting at the entrance?" My mother says to me with a raised eyebrow.
"Waiting for my brother, he went to my father's blacksmith shop," I say, entering the house with her.
"Fine, he left without permission. I'll go cook dinner; he won't have meat on his plate tonight," my mother says angrily.
'Hehehe, my brother got into trouble again' I thought.After a short time, I see two silhouettes coming in the night, and I know they are my brother and my father, so I go out to meet them.
"Hello daughter, here I bring your sword," my father says, taking out a thin sword resembling a needle from the scabbard.
"Needle...!" My brother is surprised by the shape of the sword.
Immediately, I tell him that my mother is angry because he left without permission from home and that he won't have meat on his plate tonight, hehehe.
[POV Lancel]
Upon entering the house, I notice my mother sitting at the dining table with a sword scabbard nearby; immediately, I feel a cold sweat running down my back.
'Darn,' I thought, worried."You got lucky this time because you didn't come back injured, but you won't eat meat today," my mother says, sighing.
"I'm sorry; this time I will ask for permission," I say, sitting in the chair next to my sister.
"Why?" My mother asks me, serving the dishes on the table.
"I want to go train in the lands of Sunspear. I think we should allow him to go and talk to Lord Dayne to find him a good master," my father Robert says, looking up at the sky.
"You want to make me angry on purpose," my mother says to me, with one hand grabbing the sword scabbard.
Lisa looked at me with a sad look; she seemed like a puppy being deprived of food from her plate. I immediately looked away.
"Allow me to go, mother. I will return as a great knight," I say to her with seriousness in my eyes.
"Fine, we will talk to Lord Dayne; you won't eat meat either," my mother says to my father, making him regret sharing my punishment.
After dinner, Lisa approaches to talk to me.
"Are you really leaving?" She asks, sitting on my bed.
"It will be for a while; if you keep training, time will pass very quickly. Then I'll see how much you've improved when I return," I say, with one hand caressing her hair."
Then it will be the first time you are defeated," she says, angry that I am leaving her alone and leaving the house.
The next day, my mother takes me by the hand, and we head to the castle of House Dayne. Upon arrival, the guard goes to tell Lord Dayne why we are here.
[Third-person POV]
"Show them in," Lord Dayne tells the guard.
"Yes, my Lord," the guard says, going for Mary, Robert, and Lancel.
"Enter; my Lord is waiting for you," the guard says to them, after fulfilling the order, he stays at the entrance of the castle.
"My Lord," the three of them say to Lord Dayne in unison, kneeling down on one knee.
"Stand up. So, Lancel wants to go train in Sunspear," Lord Dayne says, touching his chin with two fingers and looking at Lancel's hands.
"That's right, my Lord," Mary says to Lord Dayne, to confirm what she told the guard before Lord Dayne allowed them to see him.
"Tomorrow he will leave with Gerold to deliver the tax payment; you will go with him," Lord Dayne says, pointing to Lancel and looking into his eyes, similar to his sister's.
"I will send a letter to my Lord, Prince Doran Martell, to find you a master. You may retire," Lord Dayne says, gesturing for them to leave his presence.
"Thank you, my Lord," the three of them say before leaving the castle of House Dayne.
Lancel was thinking about who would be his master, and if he could convince Oberyn Martell to go to King's Landing and save Elia Martell, as well as her children.
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