Tales of the Peacemaker: The First Peacemaker

By Ashley Hall

This is book 1 of the series. How does the peacemaker come to be? What magic does she have, and why?

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Oct 30, 2017
• ISBN: 9781543459081

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Copyright © 2017 by Ashley Hall.

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Rev. date: 10/17/2017

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Contents

Life below the Sea

Exploring above Water

A Friend

Marriage

Illness

Meeting with Dragons

Children

Life below the Sea

Once there was a young mermaid princess named Merth-Ann. She was an only child and would inherit all rights to rule the Mer nation when she turned eighteen; and the Mer council meant, the highest rank off of each clan.

Most magics at that time only had one child, and most magics lived up to three thousand years. Some lived up to five thousand, and when a magic age is stated, it is either the non-magic equal or their actual age. Meaning the non-magic assumption of their age. Every year could be up to three hundred of ours. As magics stopped physically aging at age eighteen. Once they turned eighteen, they stayed no more then twenty non-magic years in a non-magic land. So they did not have to explain how they looked exactly the same as they did at that age, and it kept them safer.

If a young child was close to dying, the Guardians of the magic land they were closest to would protect the child as long as the child had not harmed any magic. The child would either be returned to the parents or, if to far gone to live otherwise, the child would become magic. If the child was given magic, the child stayed in magic lands and no one ever saw the child again. This was to protect the magic and not cause others pain and confusion.

Merth-Ann was quite an adventurous young one. She considered life as one big adventure. Merth-Ann would often challenge the other Mer children to race. She would always win. She did not enjoy their races as she knew the others would slack off pace if they thought they would win—even the children of the council members—just because she was their princess. Merth-Ann was very serious, active, and fast.

She continued to challenge them to race to make herself swim her best. She wished they would actually race her and try to win. It would be more fun, and she really wanted to know how fast she was and could be. She timed herself, and tried to beat her time. Forcing herself to get faster. It was the only way she could tell if she was getting better.

Most Mers were of olive complexion, had dark hair, and either had green or blue eyes. Their tails were scaled green and blue, with the exception of the healers and the royal family. When they had legs and were walking around, a ribbon of their clan and family line and class was around their waist. So everyone knew who they were talking to if they needed to.

The healers had