June Vagsto

Journey to the Kingdoms of the North

Enui is the daughter of a miller. One day, a messenger arrives to the valley of Lore, where she lives, but is killed by an arrow. A black arrow. The miller shouts to Enui to run away, but he is also killed by the same group of messengers that killed the first one. Enui flees on time, arrives to her teacher´s house, but faints when he is going to welcome her. One day, Vitero (who is Enui’s teacher) helps her to flee again, to give the message to the one who sent it: the king of Rotharam at the north. Rotharam as one of the Five Kingdoms of the Five Rivers. After she went out of the valley, she discovered her friend Suroma, and took whim to the Monastery of Batercklo to visit Suroma’s brother Gio. They meet an old monk, Brother Brimeltu, who protects Enui from the other monks because she is a woman, so they do not trust her. The director of the Monastery arrives when Suroma and Enui are still there, held by a monk of another monastery. The director is very sick, and is taken to the hospital. Enui helps to cure him with the help of Brother Brimeltu, but another monk catches them and starts saying that Enui is a witch, and Suroma, with his red hair were sent by the Devil. Once more, they are forced to run away when the monk calls to the police.

Traveling to the north, they are forced to go through the Dry Swamp. They are attacked by the inhabitants of the Swamp, but before they are taken away, they are saved by a gardhel, Faruh. He takes them to the desert where his people live: the oasis of Almadret, which by pure bad luck starts burning. Enui and Suroma start helping, and that night they celebrate that Almadret was saved, and Enui falls in love to Faruh. The gardhels catch 2 horses for Suroma and Enui, so that they ride them, and their mule carries their things. They continue the journey and arrive to a town, where they find the men who killed Enui´s father and the messenger. Haklos, one of them; apologizes to Enui, and takes his mates to another direction, for they are looking for Enui. Enui and Suroma take a different path and meet on the way a huge man dressed in wolf skins. He saves them from being eaten by a pack of wolves, but when the mule gets her paw hurt, he buys her and kidnaps Suroma. Enui camps near the man´s house and starts crying, and while she tries to figure out how to save Suroma, Faruh (arrived somehow from she doesn’t know where) rescues Suroma.

The three continue to the North and cross the Patur Mountains, where they are challenged to a bow and arrow competition. Faruh accepts, but uses his blowpipe and wins. As a prize, they obtain the gratitude of the village of Xetan and are helped to cross the mountains. When they cross, they arrive to the Bombadox River, where the other 4 rivers end: Rotharam, Zerba, Woroll, and the Nergöroh. After they arrive to Rotharam, they find a friend of Batercklo, and an unexpected person: Haklos, but Enui doesn´t trust him still. They go to palace, the summer palace of King Mustha, where Enui finally reads the message. She discovers that she is not the daughter of a miller, but the princess June Vagsto, heir of the throne of Rotharam. She understands that all the prophecies were referring to her, and because of that, there will be a war, which is coming soon.

The four kings of the neighbor kingdoms are called to Rotharam with their armies: Queen Deliobe the Beautiful of Zerba, Queen Fira of Bambadox, King Sofar of Nergöroh, and King Bevei of Woroll. When they are forming the troops, they surround to Count Therador: paturs by the South, the people of Lauria, Nergöroh and Bambadox by the North, Rotharam, Woroll and Zerba by the side, and paturs and gardhels by the other. The Company of the Black Arrow (Therador’s army) starts singing the song-prophecy, and the war it talks about, as said in the song, never begins. They capture Therador as his army vows and promises loyalty to June. Therador is sent to the Mountain of the Penitent, and the different nations that went to help Rotharam return home. June does so, but returns to the valley of Lore with Faruh and names Suroma prince of Rotharam, leaving Yhio, her dog, with Suroma. Her ferret Wezo had returned to the wild in the way to Rotharam. Haklos is named King of the Great Plain, to replace Therador.

When they arrive to Lore, they find the mill restablished. Vitero had rebuilt it, after Haklos burned it, with help of his –now dead- partners. They go to live to June’s house at the Valley. But she keeps the name of June.