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The Royal Crowns of Scotland
By Elizabeth Von Fange

Dedication
I would like to dedicate this book to three extremely important people. Firstly I would like to dedicate it to my brother Daniel. Secondly I would like to dedicate this book to Nancealia, the heroine. Last but not least I would like to dedicate it to the person whose great intelligence, amazing sense of humor, and sparkling wit inspired me to write this story, Elizabeth Von Fange. And I believe that it is entirely possible to dedicate a book to yourself.

Preramble

One evening, I thought I would write an adventure. Of course, if you want to write an adventure you need to have some one to be the main character of the adventure. And I happened to have a very long suffering friend named Nancealia, who had often been the Heroine of my adventures. As I was thinking about choosing her she showed up. As usual she had dark brown eyes, long dark brown hair that was wavy and extremely beautiful. Of course she was very beautiful and looked exactly like what I would like to look like if I could choose. She walked to where I was, sat down, and proceeded to start the conversation.
“So, I suppose you want me to be the heroine of another series of mad and impossible adventures with unlikely and unnatural ends?”
“Yes, I want you to be the heroine but I hope that in this story things will be better.”
“They had better be,” said Nancealia, “Because I might go on strike if they aren’t. After all not everybody wants to go though sword fights, battles, and conversations, twenty times over until you get it right. I hope that you will get me a stunt double soon or else I really will go on strike.”
“Well, this time it is going to be different, because I am actually writing this and not merely making it up in my head and leaving it at that.”
“Really, writing it! You’ll have to write very fast then to keep up with the flow of the story.”
“Fortunately I type fast, though not as fast as you would if you were writing this. I wonder what would happen if you did write this story?”
“It would be done in a day and would be a best seller with tremendous profits before two weeks went by…”
“Yes, it would! Because that is how you do things in my imagination. It’s too bad you exist only in my imagination and can’t actually do things like that. But I suppose I’ll just write it myself.”
“I suppose you will, but this will be a very interesting book none the less. Where is it to take place?”
“I think I will have it take place in an actual place. Scotland, back in the mystical times of dragons and beautiful dresses etc. would be good setting.”
“Sounds neat! Am I going to be a princess or a knight’s daughter who goes off and has adventures and fights dragons and falls in love with princes ect.?”
“I think I will have you be the daughter of a knight, though your father will be dead and you will be roving around Scotland. Also I am going to do something really unusual and give you a side kick!.”
“Really! What did I do to deserve such an honor?”
“Nothing but I have been reading, and have found that it is very useful to have a sidekick to discuss plans with and to help in executing them etc. Besides it will let me have some one with red hair for a main character and in a story about Scotland there should be somebody with red hair.”
“That’s surprising, you usually don’t have red haired characters in your stories unless they are villains.
“This one won’t be. I think her name will be Celticia.”
“Celticia, sounds interesting, I don’t think you’ve used it before.”
“No, it’s close to Celtic and I don’t feel very unique at present. ”
“And you aren’t typing too well either, you are going to have a quite a mess to edit when you are done.”
“Yes, but it will be edited and fixed later, and when people read this they will have no idea of the typographical errors you were referring to.”
“Will this conversation really be in the book?
“Probably, it will be slightly edited of course. In fact, it will be greatly edited. But it will be here.”
“Well, back to the discussion of the story, will it end happily?”
“It should for most of the characters. But it depends on how the story goes. I think there will be a hero though because I want practice writing proposals.”
“Well, let’s get going, I want to meet Celticia and see how this adventure will begin. You can add to this conversation when you edit it if you want it any longer.”
“All right Nancealia, get ready to step back in time to Scotland, many many years ago. Also remember, this is not Bethjoy.com, this is an adventure story so do not expect a very funny ramble.”