Starfall, the home of house Dayne whose proud Tower stays tall like a beacon toward the sky. The Torrentine in which the castle was built near the river’s mouth, the waters flowed through the island toward the red mountains, the castle of blackmont and ended in the summer sea. Today was a special day, all men not pledged to a woman have been summoned, for the daughter of Starfall finally will choose a betrothed or so was the gossip. In reality the girl has been extending her maiden status for far too long, turning away great matches with a easy smile. The eldest among the siblings have decided that it has been enough of her childish tantrums and she should be by now a lovely mother with a husband a house for her own. Easy to say for him, he’s lord of the house, well married and with a child on the way Allem forgets that even in Dorne sometimes men are a little bit more privilege than the women. Imagine if she is to be married with someone outside of their borders? what would her fate be? And so the ceremony of courtship became a challenge harder than the just of well experienced knights
One suitor after the other started to fail and Ashara soon saw herself free of the chains of marriage,she even found the task amusing enough to drink and laugh and gossip with her hand maidens, who will whisper at her side and comment on the futile attempts of trying to win her hand.
Of course she was not foolish lad, not easy prey, her plan was well developed and with Allem’s blessings of course, he could not say no to his dearest young sister. Even Arthur laughed at the weak resistance, because if Ashara made her eyelashes flutter everyone falls to her charms. Days, became weeks, weeks became months and her plan has not been yet discovered and neither has been solved her ‘simple’ test.
After 3 moons have passed the young lady was tired and bored and wished nothing but the end of this torture. All the men in the room have failed, except one a new comer from far away lands. And Island too and she gave just a lazy glance as Allem welcomed the new visitor, she instead said nothing and let the man speak and introduce himself.