Author's Notes: This is broken up into Fourteen Days, with a few "Night" interludes when necessary. Some Days will be long, some will be short. Not all are vitally important to the plot you see. Some are just character development and/or comic relief. Don't ask me about the double titling for every Day. I started it with Day I and just kept it going because I liked it.

This was inspired largely by Quest for Camelot, so you can blame that. This does not take place in Japan or Europe, and indeed, the culture is something of a hybrid between the two. This is another world entirely. In my mind, however, they are speaking Japanese. I just have it all in English to make it easier on me and my feeble Japanese skills.

Don't expect all our major SYST characters to show up. Kivrin is the main character, and the other girls pop in and out as/if needed. The boys (Touma, Shin, Ryo, Seiji, and Shu) may be mentioned but will not appear in the actual story.

I also may have played around with the Ancestors' characters some. I don't know all of them all that well. But remember that this is another world, an Alternate Universe; there are some points the same and some different. So don't kill me, Tav, okay? ^_^'''

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Her maid stroked the brush through her hair as she thought about what to wear. Her Lord was nervous about the impending visit from the other local Lords. Even Grand Lord Chouwa would be there, which was in and of itself enough to make one nervous.

Doubtless they would not understand her or her position. The question now became one of whether she should meekly try to stay on their good side, or flaunt the truth, as she was much more used to doing. Everyone here had accepted her by now...well, almost everyone. If they didn't accept her, they respected her abilities and feared them, at least. That was something.

But that had taken time. The Lords were only here for a fortnight.

She sighed and directed her maid to fetch her favorite dress. The rich blue would show proper loyalty, and was fitting for someone of her station and rank. And it was a Dress, so she didn't see how the Lords could complain. When her maid finished laying out the dress, she instructed her that she would not need a complicated coiffure.

"Just pull my hair back as always. No earrings...well, no, I will wear my simple lapis-lazuli ones. The point is, nothing overblown or too fancy or They will not take me seriously."

Her young maid nodded and bustled about her.

Lord Inazuma's Champion sighed.

 

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Day I
(MLC) Kivrin file