• PREFACE

    It was a dark and wintery night when even the drunkards have gone home, when someone knocked on Mirany and Barfell's door. Mirany answered wondering who that could be. She opened the door to find a small child wrapped in soft cloth along with a note that read:

    wench, please keep him for i cannot. I gave him a name but if you don't like it you may name him. Ky.


    "Ky?" She knelt down and picked up the child who was surprisingly, warm, and called him by that name. Mirany thought it an odd name more or less but the parent wanted it that way so it will have to do. She creeped back up the stairs with the silent baby held to her bosom, and slipped into thier hard, and now warm bed.

    "Good night, Ky." She wipered as she drifted back to sleep.


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    CHAPTER 1

    "Kiriam, get over here woman!" Barfell shouted as a small girl with a frilly dress set the tankard down on the table.

    "Yes father." She answered quietly.

    "Boys nothin but a crossdressin' mumbler! you should sell him off! I'll gladly take 'im off your 'ands for a small price of course!" The man that Kiriam gave the tankard sneered.

    "Not while I'm still alive you flim-flam drunk!" Mirany shouted over the clamor of the tavern.

    "Aww, be nice I was only just-a-foolin!" He crowed haughtly.

    "I don't care if your foolin or not you can't 'ave 'im!" She threatend as she marched back upstairs.

    All of the men looked in shock at the answers the woman gave. "What's 'is name then?" one of the costomers called.
    "Ky." She answerd

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    In the empty allyway out back behind the tavern Ky winced and trembled as his father beat him ruthlessly.

    "I...told...you...not...to...look...like...a...boy!" Barfell growled every word with menace scream .

    "I'm sorry, but he grabbed me an-" Ky tried to speak but his father lifted him by the throat and tossed him into the wall. Ky shakely got back to his feet and wiped the blood off of his face using the inside of the maid outfit he wore.

    "I don't care if he tried to take you! But now they all are goin' to stop comin' here if word gets out that you're a boy." He snapped at Ky and stalked back into the bar putting on a haughty, smiling face.

    Ky fell back against the wall and cried cry . His shoulders shook as he sat there all bloody and smelly from the grime in the allyway. His tears leaving long clean streaks on his swollen cheeks.