ORLANDO & LADY HARMONY AND DAUGHTER DARA

ORLANDO EL NAIRAD

8th part

  Orlando after leaving the city of Port Olni, stopped at Port Kar, a very difficult and hostile city, they had told him that his younger brother Darian lived there, and worked at the Scribes' tower as a Lawyer, as soon as he arrived at the port he asked everyone he met about his brother Darian, but no one seemed to have ever seen him, when he arrived at the Scribes' tower, he asked for the Head of the caste, but he was one of the twelve Captains, and traveling with his ship for alliances, at that time Port Kar was at war with the city of Ar, and the situation in the city was not simple, the Regent was another Captain, I tried to help him by browsing the files in the archives, but for years no cases had been celebrated and no one reported anyone, the old citizens were all far away, there was no way to get news.

   One morning while he was walking, on the bridge overlooking the valley towards the hills of the mines, a girl called Orlando, he looked at her with curiosity, she was armed and half naked, surely one of the women of the Panther tribe who lived in the village on the heights at the end of the valley, she approached furtively and said she had heard that he was looking for Sir Darian, Orlando's face lit up and she said, please give me some clues to find him, she always furtively, did not want to be seen talking to a free man, she told him that Darian, had been in their village as a guest of the queen, they had lived together with her for some time, then they had left for the Black City, to participate in a tournament between warriors, the Queen had died during a fight, Darian due to the strong pain and deep sadness for having lost his beloved had left for the south to find his mother and brother.

    Orlando was sad, for what he had heard, but happy to have news of Darian and that he was still alive, after a few days he left Port kar to return to the South, but on the ship he met Lady Harmony also headed south, Harmony was a beautiful woman, she was very educated, even if she was only a merchant, who traveled the planet for her business, Orlando immediately fell in love with that woman, she told him that he was the heir of the Oasis of the seven palms, and that one day he would rebuild the city, she was enthusiastic and fell in love in turn with that beautiful man with sunburned skin, tall with flowing blond hair, she invited him to her house in the city of Brundisium, there he had his warehouse, and the palace that his father had left him.

    Orlando followed that woman who took him with her to the palace, and together they decided that soon they would celebrate the Ceremony of companionship, and after a few Hands they went to the Scribes' office for the registration and organized the ceremony at the temple and the party in the large garden of the palace, they lived happily loving each other until one day Harmony told Orlando that she was expecting a child, it was the height of happiness, finally she would have the heir of her dynasty ''El Nairad'' but her real dream was the reconstruction of her Oasis, so they decided to have the boy or girl born in her rebuilt city.

   They set out to reach his ancient land, where now there were only ruins, which recalled a distant shining past, Harmony called the best builders, who rebuilt the Oasis of the seven palms, a beautiful city with many houses and a large palace with a garden all around, the Oasis was on the track that from the city of Ar leads to the Oasis of Cartassa, so the caravans stopped there carrying riches.

    Finally a beautiful baby girl was born, Orlando was very happy even if he would have preferred a boy but he loved that little girl, together with Harmony they decided to name her Dara, in memory of his brother Darian, everything was going well, life was slow and happy, until one day Harmony left for a business trip to the North, and never came back, Orlando tired of waiting and seeing the oasis emptying day after day, decided to leave with his daughter in search of his companion, heading to the North, but when he arrived in Brundisium at the old palace they told him that the ship Harmony was traveling on had sunk during a storm, and nothing more was heard of her and her escort, it was a hard blow for Orlando, he had the little girl with him now grown up, who needed to study and grow up happy, so he decided to return to Port Olni his adopted city, and where his daughter would study, without forgetting to look for his brother Darian who he hadn't seen for years.

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