LJ Idol: Friend & Rivals. Week 1 - Trust Everyone, But Cut the Cards

[wupuga]

The Cards Can Be Rewritten

Lena was betrothed to Theo--the son of the Gemlen clan’s chieftain--since she was a week old. Their betrothal was a promise of peace, a promise to let rivalries and bad blood lie. It was an uneasy peace, but each clan was able to live without the fear of bloodshed from the other.

Now, eighteen years later, Lena stood

Comments

[rayaso]

Very good -- I will certainly read the next installment. I loved the plot.

[eternal_ot]

Superb plot ! And waiting for the next instalment like others..:)

[prog_schlock]

I realize this isn't the main point of your story, so I'm going to shrink it.

Every time I see somebody arguing in favor of "traditional" marriage, its scenes like this that I think of. Traditional marriage? It was a tradition to marry daughters off to seal contracts for hundreds of years. We've all seen, by now, the many different ways the Bible defines marriage or that marriage is practiced in other societies. Marriages where women had closer-to-equal rights with their husband are relatively new in the USA - and when we see "traditional" marriage in the 21st century, its always suggested that its a family like the Duggars (and we've all seen where being a traditional marriage got them

[ex_uf0s886]

i really enjoyed this and yasss that ending.

[whipchick]

Really interesting beginning to what sounds like a complex story!