Prologue.

I wrote this when I was a teenager and I am only re-publishing for the sake of nostalgia. If you found this, enjoy the first drafts of the first few chapters! It has all the clichés: abuse of the phrases "raven haired", "just a normal child" etc, sentences with about a dozen clauses, unnecessary amounts of visual description, and lots of violations of show-don't-tell. But you know what? I kind of love it.

UPDATE: I went a bit mental and wrote a bunch of plot, dreamt up a load of stuff to add to the existing first few chapters to improve them, and so I think the first five chapters will be Part One of three parts, aiming for 15 chapters overall. The overarching themes could be fantasy-political intrigue, archaeology, found family, and rediscovering heritage. I've yet to decide how I'm going to approach magic.