These Boots Were Made For Walkin'

"Hey!" you yell, pointing your finger in his general direction. "Just what the heck is going on here?! Tell me! Tell me!"

The knight turns around and snarls. "Didn't I just shove you through that door a second ago? Didn't that give you the general impression that you were not wanted around here? Bad little girls deserve to get spanked!"

He reaches for a bullwhip strapped to his belt. Anger courses through your veins, and you charge, screaming a bloodthirsty battlecry. The knight barely has time to draw the whip before you sprint up the side of his armour and plant both boots in his face, breaking his nose and jaw.

Boots? Weren't you wearing regular shoes a second ago? This you wonder as you leap off the falling knight and roll across the ground into some silken skirts.

Skirts?

A rough hand grasps you by the scruff of the neck and lifts you into the air. You struggle, yelling and kicking before you realize that you're looking into the face of your mother. But something is different about her. Instead of the tank-top, mini-skirt and flip-flops she was wearing at the mall, she now wears a long crimson dress and diamond tiara, her hair done up in a lengthy braid.

"So this is were you were hiding, Eleanor." your mother says. "Do you have any idea how you've vexed your poor mother with your absence? What would Lady Rowena think?"

"Forgive me, Lady Teodora!" the fallen knight cries, struggling to stand. "I had no idea! I'm new here... I've never seen the girl before. I..."

"Get thee gone from my sight, wretch before I have you scourged. This is between me and my daughter." your mother says. The knight is up immediately, fleeing very fast for a man in such heavy armour.

"Mom, what's going on?!" you say as she sets you down. "We were just at the mall, and now..."

"You know perfectly well what's going on, Eleanor." your mother sighs. "The day of apprenticeship is upon you, the day you must begin your training as a Pegasus Knight. Lady Rowena has arrived from many leagues away to meet you... and you dissapear, hiding in the castle like a scullery wench. The embarrasment! The scandal!"

"I don't understand. Apprenticeship? P-pegasuses?"

"Now Eleanor, you know this is hard on me too. But Lady Rowena is a fine matron for you, the best we could have hoped for. Her holdings are impressive and her army is unmatched. Some say she even has the ear of the Empress. So now, be a good girl and follow me. She is waiting to meet you."

1. Play along with this strange masquerade.
2. Get angry and throw a fit.
3. Kick your mother in the shin and run away.

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