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Titus The King

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Wearing his blue robe, embroidered with the royal crest, and the black metal crown that was made at the castle blacksmith shop, the king appeared to be worried or troubled. With his right hand resting on the handle of his long sword, he would occasionally stroke his beard, which like hair is completely white, with his left hand. With a stern and demanding look on his face, the king made eye contact with each person sitting on the other side of the table as he walked by. Stopping when he got to Titus, the king looked the boy for a moment, then started to walk away. Stopping he turned to look at the boy again. He has seen the lad scurrying around the cattle from time to time. Titus, he recalled, was always on the move, looking as …show more content…

He also mentioned that the boy had taken over some of the wizard's mundane duties because of the wizard advanced age. The lad, said the adviser, “Knows the name and ranks of all the knights, and their seating order in both the grand hall and banquet rooms.” Titus, the king was told, ‘Can also predict the weather,” “And he can do it with amazing accuracy.” Titus appears to be of average height for a boy in his early teens. However, his body frame is a little smaller than most of the boys his size. While the others like to Pretend, they are knights fighting dragons or invaders. Titus prefers to read, and to practice the magic being taught to him by the royal wizard. Titus occasionally joins the other in their fantasy world, and plays with a wood, or unsharpened metal sword. However, his lack of experience and strength to defend himself, is often laughed at by his companions. Should the truth be known, the magic used by wizards and warlocks is much more powerful than the sword, or bow and arrows used by the knights, and can stop either in …show more content…

However, he has enough freckles on his face and arms to fill a small water bucket. Over the years, so many people have made comments about his freckles that he is not sure if he should be proud or ashamed of them. “There is absolutely no reason to be embarrassed by your freckles,” His mentor the royal wizard says. “Look at them as memory spots, every time you learn something new, you get another one.” In fact, he has so many freckles that some of his friends call him spots, a nickname that he has grown use too. . No one is sure of how old the boy is because, both his father, a knight, and his mother were killed several years ago while fighting off the Vikings who invaded the castle. Herman the royal wizard, a gray-headed older man of average height and slender build, with a slight hunch to his upper body, a long-time friend of the family, took the boy in, and is raising him as his own son. The wizard, sitting between two knights decked out in their shiniest armor, is usually dressed is black boots, loose-fitting gray pants with a fluffy sleeved dark-blue tunic tied at the waist with a slim rope. However, today he is wearing a bright green tunic that reflects in the shining

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