The court erupted with angry shouts of agreement. They were urging an immediate action to have her banished to the wastelands and they were not backing down. There was nothing she could say or do to convince them otherwise as even her husband did not squeak in her defence. She was done for.
Before the sun could set that day, she was escorted out of the kingdom. A crowd gathered in the streets to bid her farewell, and she had a feeling they would be celebrating once she . . .
Alfred was tired. It had been a long, hard war, and though he had won it, he had barely rested since, knowing that the peace would not last long. For an English king, he had learned, it never did. There was always another war.
He had spent his entire reign defending his homeland and his faith against the hordes of Norse barbarians from across the sea. For nearly a century, they had been arriving in fleets of longships, raiding England’s coastline and laying s. . .
Pre-publication copy. All rights reserved, September 2014.
The Reich and Your Duties: A Very Brief History of the Reich Territory for Students Entering Gymnasium
by The Reich Institute for Child Development
Note: To be issued and read on the first day of gymnasium to all schools within the Territory
Welcome to Gymnasium, a scary and turbulent but also exciting and wonderful time. You will spend the next years of your life training to be a good Citizen of t. . .