title: Blood and Eggs: Evil Legend Revealed
author: Patty Fischer
description: I have been writing consistently short stories, editorials, and longer pieces of fiction for the last fifteen years. Most of my writing leans toward Mystery/Thriller. I have a vast knowledge of Midwestern life and its unique surroundings. I possess an uncanny knack in bringing the reader to a continual process of suspense and intrigue. Living in the Midwest most of my life, and bringing up my three sons, I have recorded on paper and by osmosis of living here in Central Indiana. Indiana is rich in family ties, homespun storytelling, and possesses a plethora of memorable characters. As all writers, I read continually, and take in places I have visited and lived. Writing anything, I have the ability to relive experiences, and people I have come across in my travels, then weave these tools into the bulk of whatever I am working on. My love of words, painting places, and characters into a story is the rod that keeps me fired up to continue the most lengthy and sedentary activity writing proves to be.
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  # **Chapter 12**  
   **Father and Daughters**  
  
  Morning sunlight slanted through the broad, south-facing window, back-lighting
  three persons eating breakfast. Eldred Youngblood speared another chop and cut
  it into large, but for him bite-size chunks. Wide of frame and wide of mouth,
  he weighed considerably more than his seventeen-year-old daughters combined.
  
  Elvi tucked a small fragment of poached duck egg into her mouth and chewed
  daintily. Though she'd made herself daddy's girl, it was her late mother from
  whom she'd learned table manners. Her father wolfed down duck eggs in two
  bites.
  
  "I've been examining the tax accounts of the duchies," she said, "and do not
  like what I've found."
  
  His Majesty turned his eyes to her. She'd long tried to be manly. When she'd
  been younger, she'd wanted to be a man-at-arms, so he'd had a helmet and
  hauberk made for her, a small saber forged, child-sized spear 