Prophecy of the Twins

Prologue Rodon is the country of fortune-tellers where they have existed for the last couple of centuries to serve the Kingdom. In Rodon, we already know what kind of life we will have, we know who will be our friend, who we are going to marry, how many children we will have, how and when we are going to die. Here, everyone knows what is waiting for them and makes decisions based on that. Everyone, apart from myself and my twin sister, Alana. Chapter 1 For the beginning of summer, it was a very hot day, but nothing too unusual. In our seaside city, it was hot all the time; the temperature in the smithy did not help either. My family’s huge workshop stood on one side of the plot, and we used only half of this building as a smithy. The other half was kept for practising our craft with wooden dummies and wooden weapons. Because of the weather conditions, I was working in short trousers and had just finished making a knife which had been ordered for tomorrow’s wedding when the warning bells started to ring. Shirela, the fortune-teller of our city had already notified everyone that the tax collectors were coming today. I hoped that my sister was somewhere around. I stopped my work and pushed the old anvil aside to open the door of the hideaway beneath it. The hideaway stood in semi-darkness at the side of the smithy. Alana, my twin sister had just arrived. Her beautiful, long blond hair was tied up and completely covered with a grey kerchief. Her long, grey sackcloth covered her body everywhere, hiding her real shape. She had light skin, gold blond hair, blue eyes and a short feminine slender shape, which completely differed from the tall, dark-skinned local people in our city and province. When we were young, her different appearance was subject to ridicule and derision. She used to dress in awful sackcloths that no one else wore; after all these years, her fashion sense had still not changed. These clothes concealed her shape and invited ridicule and derision from those around. All our family members were different from the local people, and it is well known that the people in the city owe a lot to my family.