[ WP ] `` Take your dragon-repellent with you , they get more common around this time of year . ''

`` Maom'' Allie groaned, `` I know you do n't have to baby me.'' The tween flipped her head down and gathered her multicolored hair into a messy bun on top of her head. She then secured it with a hair tie. Following the hair fixing, she rearranged her tunic and pulled on a pair of jeans over her tights. She finished the look off with a pair of boots that stopped somewhat below her knees. 
 
 
 Sam watched her sister prim disinterestedly. Allie was years younger than she was, but far more interested in attending to her social life and personal appearance. Sam secretly suspected that Allie wanted to get captured by a dragon so a bunch of hunky knights had to come rescue her. 
 
 With a sigh, Sam started gathering her own things for the trip to their father's home. Where her sister was flashy and colorful, Sam was plain to the point of camoflaug. Her hair was cropped just under her ears and hung in a flat, lank helmet around her head. She wore a simple button down shirt with long sleeves rolled to the elbow and denim jeans over good hiking boots. 
 
 The trip to their father's house was an annual summer pilgramage. Both girls secretly looked forward to and dreaded the visits with their father. Royal divorce was a ne concept and they did n't care for being the princesses of two separate rhelms. 
 
 In the winters they were royal ladies in their mother's native land, known for refinement and education, they had the finest tutors and were taught maths, reading, composition, dancing, conversation and manners. 
 
 In summers they returned to their father's land. Known to be the home of fearsome warriors and powerful mages, the girls were trained in the arts of hand to hand combat, spycraft, spellwork and cryptography. 
 
 As the girls grew, it was becoming increasingly clear that Sam's nature favored her father's lands and ways while Allies' favored the mother's. Now Sam was 15 and had gained her majority. She would be expected to choose which kingdom to stay in, continue her training in and one day become ruler of. Allie would get the other. 
 
 
 Now, watching Allie primp instead of seriously prepare for the trip. Sam knew she'd choose to stay with her father.
