• (countinued)



    Never agian would he sit laghing in the feasting hall. King Alton was dead,like his wife,the queen,before him. The fever had taken them both; And now...

    Now endon will be king the young prince, Jarred thought. He shook his head trying to make himself believe it. He and endon had been friend's since they where young childeren. But hat a diffrence between them!

    For endon the son of the king and queen,the prince of ashenvale. And jarred was the son of a trusted servant who had died in the king's service when Jarred was only four years old.

    Jarred had been given to Endon as a companion,so the young prince would not be lonely. They had grown up together,like brothers. Together they did their lessones in the schoolroom, teased the guards, and persuaded the cooks in the kitchen to give them sweet's. Together they played in the vast green gardens of the palace. The other childeren who lived in the palace---the sons and daughters of the nobels and servants----kept to there own rooms and and their own parts of the grounds. As well the palace custom, Jarred and Endon never even saw them, exept in the great hall on feast days. But the two boys did what they could to entertain themselves.

    They had a secret hiding place in a hollow tree near the palace gates. They hid from fussy old min, their nursemaid, and prandine, the king's chief advisor,a tall, thin, sour man they both disliked. They practiced archery together, playing a game they made up called "aim high," where the first to shoot an arrow into the topmost fork of the hallow tree would win.

    They invented a secert code and used it to pass messeges or jokes,and warnings to each other under the noses of there teachers, Min or prandine.

    Jarred would be hiding in the hollow tree, for example, because Min wanted him to take a dose of the fish-oil medicien he detested. Endon would walk by, and drop the note where he could reach it.


    (the code read's)

    DEL ONEL O TELGEL O TELO TEL HELE KEL ITLE CEL HELE NEL SEL MEL I NELI SEL TELHEL E RELE

    The messege looked like nonsense, and no one in the palace could guess the meaning if they picked it up by accident. But the code is simple. All you had to do to decode the messege is take out the "EL" wherever it appeared.

    (what th code reads)

    donotgotothekitchenministhere

    Then you divide the letters into words that made sense

    do no go to the kitchen min is there.


    As Endon and Jarred grew older there was less time for games, there days where filled with chores and duties.



    (To be continued)

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