Kelvin Luclosure: Begining

[Stubbz04]

?Times have come and gone my friend. Very soon you and I will no longer be needed here. As you can see he has already taken on twice as many pupils as he once did when the two of us walked through those doors so many years ago.? Kelvin said to the man.
?But where would we go?? The man asks.
?Does it really matter? Everything we have known since our younger days has been within and around these very walls we walk.? Kelvin replies. ?I just don?t feel this is my place in the world anymore? He pauses and looks for any sign of emotional response from his companion.
Kelvin knew however that the next phase in his life might well be spent alone, because he has no intentions on remaining in the compound any longer.
Kelvin turns to face the man and as sincerely as he has ever told him anything before he says ?I will miss you Glovan, the times we have spent together will forever remain with me, and I do hope that we can someday continue our adventures in life outside of these walls? Opening his arms widely as if presenting the building to his friend.

Glovan looks at him long and hard trying to read his expression and asks ?You?re serious aren?t you? You?re really going to leave??
Kelvin nods in response.
Glovan lets out a long Sigh. ?Very well my friend, I do not wish for you to go, but I must stay, I feel I have too many responsibilities here, and I do feel obligated to fulfill them before I will depart.? ?When do you plan to leave?? He asks
?In the morning? Kelvin states almost too quickly and immediately after the question is asked.

?So shall I meet you at the gates in the morning around sun up?? Glovan asks.
?No, I plan to leave before the sun is up. I want to be well on the road before it pokes over the mountains? Pointing out the window at the mountains shadowing the small structured building. ?If you are there, than so be it, but I do not expect you to be there just to show me you are a friend, I know that you are and always will be? Kelvin says.

Glovan snorts. ?Don?t be absurd of course I will be there ya dolt? Rolling his eyes as he speaks.

The next morning Glovan was there at the gates just as he said he would, anxiously awaiting his long time and only true friend?s arrival. Just as he was beginning to think Kelvin had changed his mind with the first showing of light beginning to peak over the mountains, Kelvin came racing towards him on the back of his horse almost at full gallop.
Startled Glovan begins to move off to the side of the gateway for he feared his friend had no intentions of stopping and may well run him down where he stands.
Abruptly and almost tossing him from his mount Kelvin stops just to the side of the where Glovan now stood along the outer sides of the wall.
?What have ye done?? Glovan asks.
?I only took that which belongs to me? Came Kelvins reply.
Glovan looked at him wide eyed and with shear terror. ?Ye did not..?
?I did, and I have no intentions on returning it neither? Came the long winded reply.
?Well than best you be on your way than? Extending an arm for his parting friend one last time.
Accepting the extended arm, and embracing his friend for a short moment Kelvin looks out to the road than back to his friend. ?I need to be gone now and fast before he learns what has happened.? Kelvin tells him.
With a nod and backing a few paces Glovan looks down the road and says ?Don?t know why yer still standing here than.?

Just like that Kelvin is down the road. No idea that his life is about to change far beyond that of relinquishing a item of minor magical qualities given to the head Instructor by his father as a token of thanks for allowing his son to be taken in as a pupil.

[Stubbz04]

“It has been many years since I have stepped foot onto the Duke Le’Madres’ school. Not that it was ever really a school; it was more like a war fortress. A place for young men to come and learn the arts of fighting, coming attuned with your body using it and the weapon you yield as a fine tuned machine in hand to hand combat.
I learned more in those 7 years about life however than I think I ever will anywhere else I may venture. I once trusted people, held faith in those around me. I thought that when you could rely on a person to watch your back and keep you alive by not allowing an “enemy” to flank your side and stab you in the back with a sword or dagger.
How wrong I was. So young and na?ve to think that these same people that would more than willingly take a blade for me would also be the ones to plot against me. These same people whom I trusted to ensure the camp was secured at night while I laid my head down to rest weary from a long battle fought hard but not yet won the day prior would also be the ones to try and bring down my standing amongst my elders.
They may not be the ones holding the dagger in physical terms, but the realization to me didn’t feel much different. So now I come to a crossroad in my life, I have decided to walk away from this life with hopes to start a new one. Where than will I go? I ask myself this every day. I have heard of many places where I can make a living as a sell sword. Is this the life I want to live? I think not, although to “live” in these times means to eat, and to eat means to have money. In order to do these basic things I must either take the life of a thief, a common street thug taking from the weak and unknowing for my own personal gain. Or I offer the services I have to provide in the only trade I know... Fighting…
I do not and will not consider taking up another trade. No, to many years I have put into being a master of the weapons I yield, and I am happy with the skills I have obtained. No, I will not take up the life as either a sell sword or a thief. I feel those are not why Tempus has bestowed the gift of combat upon me and to do these would be to shame him and the life he has guided me towards.

So I shall put my faith in Tempus and pray that he helps pave the road for me and all the choices that come with it. I may not trust those around me, but I hold my faith strong and keep Tempus close to my heart. Perhaps I will come to trust people once again, but I do not see that coming anytime soon.”