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| Chapter 4 | ||||||
| Once outside I realised that the Elvin were back in the caught yard but were no longer staring at me in fact they were avoiding my gaze, as I watched them I hadn,t realised that my walking had improved and I wasn,t stumbling as much | ||||||
| But as soon as I did realise my back legs noted and I went down knocking all the air from my body | ||||||
| A deep light boomed about the compound and the old centaur that both the king and prince addressed as Grandfather trotted up | ||||||
| 'You were doing well lad while you were using instinct and not concentrating' he supported me with his body as I got up again, 'May I help in assisting, Calrin to your home, my prince' he bowed to the prince when he nodded a yes | ||||||
| As the three of us walked, Grandfather talked to me constantly, he showed me the main layout of the royal compound, | ||||||
| The compound was a large rectangular area surrounded by wooden fortifications and sparsely filled with single story long houses | ||||||
| The largest I was told was the Grate House where the King gave audience and also his chambers were there; the king was the only person who had private rooms I was surprised to find out | ||||||
| The other long houses were for the staff and the Elvin responsible for day-to-day running of the place. A guesthouse and the quarters of the Kings guard, and his mages | ||||||
| The buildings we had come from and where I had been imprisoned, were storerooms and the last of the long houses, the smallest, he didn't tell me about just opened the large door for the prince and myself | ||||||
| �It took a few moments for my eyes to adjust to the darker inertia of the long house but soon enough I saw it was all open plan, their were no apparent rooms at all. | ||||||
| At the fare end a partition divvied it almost the whole of the back end off from the rest of the long house and partitioned alcoves lined both long walls | ||||||
| Most of the alcoves open to the centre of the long house, held beds, others held stores and one near the opening of the back division was in the process of being adapted for me | ||||||
| I watched as the two Elvin, working on it filled half the area with some kind of bedding material held back by a low wooden barer, they had obviously designed living for centaurs before | ||||||
| As they finished I thought of the only thing I could think of to do to thank them and bowed on my fore legs speaking my thanks as I did. | ||||||
| But I still had limited control of my new form and ended laying uncomfortably with my for legs outstretched before me and my hind legs I a knot | ||||||
| Grandfather just laughed with those who had been working on my new home as he got me to my feet once again | ||||||
| The prince looked on with a smile until I finally got to my feet again | ||||||
| 'I know my father hasn't said as much but Calrin welcome to your new home' | ||||||