One Morning
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Kiva wakes up one morning in her room at fort Hope to the sounds of clashing metal outside her room window. She stretches briefly as she gets up from the rickety old cot that seems like it has been there for decades, from its worn frame and cloth to its heavy creaking as she moves.
She covers her mouth as she yawns walking over to the window, when pulls back the pale worn curtain some moths fly out, she a couple who travel to close to her face.
When the dim sunlight peers through the window her ears lower forgetting that the glass is caked with heavy dust, dirt, and grime on it from years of neglect, and the outside of it has bars in a grid pattern. She tries to clean a section of the glass just enough with the curtain to peer outside.
Below her window in the fort’s courtyard, is Xander and with several soldiers sparring with each other. As Kiva watches she notices the largest of the soldiers tries to get the jump on Xander trying get him in his blind spot.
A blue and yellow sparrow suddenly lands on the moss-covered stone sill of the window right in front of where Kiva is watching from blocking her view staring back at her tilting its head looking at her.
Kiva tries to shoo the bird away so she can continue to watch is happening below, but all the bird does is preen its feathers and look back at her and knocks its head side to side not understanding her hand gestures.
“Move bird! I want to watch what’s going on with the sparring come on get out of the way!” she yells.
The sparrow spread its wings turned around nestled back down and decided to take a nap. As this happens Kiva can hear a loud clashing of metal followed by grunts, and the thundering sound of someone hitting the ground.
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