COMPELLING AS A PIPER (KEEPERS OF ENCHANTMENT #4) BY KENDRA MORENO – eBook Details Online
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- Authors: Kendra Moreno
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The ceremony is a lie. Or at least, that’s what it feels like as I watch
Finley run through her own piper challenge. It’s a long-standing
tradition. Every piper must go through the ceremony if they want to
earn their pipe. There are no rules about how many times you can go
through the trial. A piper is a piper as long as he finishes at some point. No,
the real problem doesn’t come from the test. It comes from those around
you. Your friends.
Your family.
I come from a long line of pipers. It’s in my blood just as it’s in my
sister’s, just as it’s in my older brother’s. We’re destined to be great like my
father was, like my mother was. It’s expected of us from birth. The way we
repay our debt of being born is to bring something valuable to our family
name. And if we don’t, well, we’ll know that shame well. We’ll wear it
around our shoulders for all to see, and our father will remind us of it.
Every. Single. Day.
As the youngest of three, I’ll be the last to complete the test, and this
year is not my year. I’m not old enough. My father would argue I’m simply
not strong enough, but it’s unheard of to complete the challenge before your
twentieth year. This year is Finley’s year, and my sister has always been
promising according to father. Not as promising as Finnian was, though.
Finnian is Dad’s favorite. We all know that. We all know we’ll never
measure up to him, not unless we, too, are named a war piper.
Some part of me revolts against that.
I don’t want to be a war piper, but I know it’ll make my life much
easier. Finley wants it as badly as the air she breathes. Finnian has already
achieved it and follows in our father’s footsteps. He’s now a very sought
after war piper from the extensive line of Bonaventure pipers. My father’s
line has always had a war piper in each generation. At least one. Finnian is
the first. Father is hoping Finley is the second. Mother hopes. . . I don’t
know what she hopes. She has no opinion outside what Father wants.
I watch Finley scale the cliff, her fingers curling into the stone and
leaving behind blood marks as her nails crack. She’s done this climb a
million times, but she must be clutching the stone too hard today in her
anxiety. We’ve never been close, but part of me hopes she gets the pipe she
wants. Part of me wants her to win. She’s my sister, even if she’s always
been one of my bullies.
I’m the runt, the one without promise. No matter that fact I have yet to
complete my challenge, they don’t think I’ll get anything other than a
comedy piper. There are six distinct types of pipers, and a comedy piper is
fated to be no more than a court jester. It’s still a powerful position among
regular people, but not among pipers. It’s considered the worst piper to be,
the weakest. And Bonaventure pipers are never comedy pipers. Father
thinks I’ll be the first, a shame I carry with me despite not knowing yet,
despite not knowing for a few more years.
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