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I only had a little of the pizza, while I watched her devour theas she ate She looked like she needed cheering up I glanced at a clock above us, there was enough tily asked, "Want to hear a story?"

Her eyes lifted to htly in the smoky brown depths of thehtened up her downcast features

She really was a gorgeous wo myself in deeper, but there was no hope for it

"I know enre type story and I'll try to pick one out for you"

Her eyes now positively glowed, "For real?" She asked excitedly

I nodded thinking again to ht she had been

"H old and Robin Hoodish"

I put my elbows on the table and leaned forward conspiratorially toward her and watched her eyes get big I began dodom of Artaxoriana was a prosperous one ruled over by a wise king It was a tudoms fell all the time, but such was not the case for Artaxoriana Since its inception by its king it was a place of well-run order, for her king adhered to the old ways and was just and righteous For 300 years this king ruled and governed his people well Tiht up to him and he made plans for his departure from this life to the next He wanted all of his children to be left with so He had several wives and had accumulated over the years in excess of 100 children He planned to give so that his inheritance and position of prominence would be least of all, chose instead, to ask his father for his blessing to leave the kingdom and venture out and make his oay and be prosperous on his own terave hiet far Two days later traveling along the seacoast he was picked up by pirates and turned into a galley slave The king died and the son he appointed to rule in his stead was dom Many atrocities were co's wives rose to the forefront and elihters, who they abused horribly before they let them die The brothers s had been and she had warped her sons with the unclean tenets of her faith in the dark arts She believed her blood was of pure divine origin They went so far as to keep the purity of their blood that all four brothers jointly do toere raided and traders left off trading with the kingdo brothers and their sister Several kingdoether to attack Artaxoriana in order to end the rule of the brothers, ere bringing instability and econoion The attack failed and the other kingdoht under harsh submission Help for the situation ca incoht trade ships for the pirates to prey upon they had no rich gaeest son alley slave to become a pirate in order to save his life He was as his father had been and soon the pirates of the galley looked to hi trade ships were left they protected theest son had a bigger idea though He took the initiative to solicit other pirate ships to do the same He even married a pirate queen in the process Instead of just protecting the re kingdoalleys as trade vessels as well They aided the surrounding kingdoest son asked only that food be given to the starving people of Artaxoriana by the surrounding kingdo yet lived the people rose up and the arest son of the old king at the head of a dom savers, with his beautiful pirate queen by his side The four brothers and their sister were removed frodom was restored aided by the pirates that now protected the trade routes themselves, who in turn were made fabulously wealthy by the protection tariffs that they charged There you go, was that Robin Hood enough for you?" I asked, as I leaned back into my seat and away from the table

I only had a little of the pizza, while I watched her devour theas she ate She looked like she needed cheering up I glanced at a clock above us, there was enough tily asked, "Want to hear a story?"

Her eyes lifted to htly in the smoky brown depths of thehtened up her downcast features

She really was a gorgeous wo myself in deeper, but there was no hope for it

"I know enre type story and I'll try to pick one out for you"

Her eyes now positively glowed, "For real?" She asked excitedly

I nodded thinking again to ht she had been

"H old and Robin Hoodish"

I put my elbows on the table and leaned forward conspiratorially toward her and watched her eyes get big I began dodom of Artaxoriana was a prosperous one ruled over by a wise king It was a tudoms fell all the time, but such was not the case for Artaxoriana Since its inception by its king it was a place of well-run order, for her king adhered to the old ways and was just and righteous For 300 years this king ruled and governed his people well Tiht up to him and he made plans for his departure from this life to the next He wanted all of his children to be left with so He had several wives and had accumulated over the years in excess of 100 children He planned to give so that his inheritance and position of prominence would be least of all, chose instead, to ask his father for his blessing to leave the kingdom and venture out and make his oay and be prosperous on his own terave hiet far Two days later traveling along the seacoast he was picked up by pirates and turned into a galley slave The king died and the son he appointed to rule in his stead was dom Many atrocities were co's wives rose to the forefront and elihters, who they abused horribly before they let them die The brothers s had been and she had warped her sons with the unclean tenets of her faith in the dark arts She believed her blood was of pure divine origin They went so far as to keep the purity of their blood that all four brothers jointly do toere raided and traders left off trading with the kingdo brothers and their sister Several kingdoether to attack Artaxoriana in order to end the rule of the brothers, ere bringing instability and econoion The attack failed and the other kingdoht under harsh submission Help for the situation ca incoht trade ships for the pirates to prey upon they had no rich gaeest son alley slave to become a pirate in order to save his life He was as his father had been and soon the pirates of the galley looked to hi trade ships were left they protected theest son had a bigger idea though He took the initiative to solicit other pirate ships to do the same He even married a pirate queen in the process Instead of just protecting the re kingdoalleys as trade vessels as well They aided the surrounding kingdoest son asked only that food be given to the starving people of Artaxoriana by the surrounding kingdo yet lived the people rose up and the arest son of the old king at the head of a dom savers, with his beautiful pirate queen by his side The four brothers and their sister were removed frodom was restored aided by the pirates that now protected the trade routes themselves, who in turn were made fabulously wealthy by the protection tariffs that they charged There you go, was that Robin Hood enough for you?" I asked, as I leaned back into my seat and away from the table