Ok this is a Tallo becomes Moondance fic. It basically shows how Tallo met Starwind and became Moondance. This is only the first chapter though so we don't actually get to meet Starwind yet.
Characters are the property of Mercedes Lackey.
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He was changing, he knew it. He was beginning to want to be left alone for hours on end, needing only himself for company. His parents couldn't bring themselves to understand him, couldn't understand his need to be by himself. They of course had his life laid out for him, they thought they knew what was best, they wanted him to learn to live a life like theirs, to grow up properly and someday marry a proper young girl and have children. He didn't. None of those things appealed to him, especially not getting married. He's realised quite some time back that he had no love for the girls of his village, he knew that what he wanted was different. He wanted a young man. He knew it was wrong but he couldn't help himself. He knew that if his parents ever found out they would lose any love for him. So he kept to himself and went on with his life of lonlieness.
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"Yes Father?" he replied looking up from his book.
"I have a new book for you" answered the priest. "I thought you might find it interesting, knowing your love for all things different. It is about magic."
Tallo looked at him with interest showing clearly on his young face. "Really? Magic? I have heard of that yet it is new to me." he said. "It would be most interesting to read this book."
The priest laughed at Tallo's excitement upon receiving a book.
"Good, then I shall keep you waiting no longer."
Every day Tallo learnt more about magic, he was starting to believe that he had some and began to dream that one day a magician would come looking for him.
But by the time he was fifteen Tallo was beginning to lose hope that anything would come of his life. Then one day, a group of gleemen came to his village. With them was a young man called Jasen and Tallo learnt that this man had in common with him something important, he also felt those yearnings for those of the same sex, soon he and Tallo became lovers.
They had an unstable relationship though. Each relied on the other, and both lived in fear of anyone finding out. One day while they were sitting together under a tree Tallo they started to talk about what they would do once it was time for the gleeman to live.
"Jasen" said Tallo
"Mmm?"
"When you live, may I come with you? I have no love for this place but much for you."
"Tallo, of course you may, I could never leave you behind, I love you too much to do that. I couldn't stand to lose you." So saying Jasen reached up and kissed the boy. Only to have strong hands grab his back and pull him off again.
"You disgusting pervert!" the man shouted, it was Tallo's father. "How dare you touch him! And you Tallo! You are no longer any son of mine!" he began to beat the boy. "Leave this village and do not come back, we do not welcome those of your kind to this place!"
Tallo pulled away sharply, crying out in surprise. "Please father, I did not know"
"Do not call me father boy!" said his once gentle father "Now go or do I have to beat you sensless to get you to leave?"
Tallo and Jasen ran, leaving the village behind them. They knew that if they went back they would surely be killed. They reached a clearing and stopped gasping for breath.
"Jasen" said Tallo softly, reaching for the other boy. "I'm so sorry."
"No" yelled Jasen "Don't touch me, this is all your fault. If it hadn't been for you then none of this would have happened, I would be back there with all my friends, not out here in the middle of some godforsaken woods."
"Jasen, I didn't mean to, its not my fault." he cried
"If I'd never met you Tallo none of this would've happened."
"Jasen, do you think of no one but yourself?" Tallo snapped "Remember that I just lost my entire family and friends too will you!"
"Go away Tallo, don't ever come near me again." replied Jasen harshly.
Tallo became angry, he'd risked everything for Jasen and lost everything too only to be returned with hate, he'd show him, he'd call down lightnings to scare him, he knew he could do it, he'd read about in the priests magic books. He closed his eyes and called them down, only to open them a minute later to the sound of Jasen screaming his name in pain, he'd accidently set them on Jasen for real, he never ment to hurt him, he had heard Jasen's thoughts, heard them saying that the words that Jasen had said were untrue, he only meant to scare him. In a minute it was all over. Jasen whimpered his name one last time then died.
"Jasen, Jasen," Tallo cried "Jasen, please, no please, Jasen, Jasen." Tallo collapsed on the ground the ground and took his lovers knife.
"Goodbye Jasen, I'll be with you soon." so saying he took the knife and ran the point of it up his arm along the vein. He gasped at the pain but soon it went away and he collapsed on the ground, seeming to float off into a world of darkness.
Savil started in surprise what she'd just felt was amazing, a surge of untamed, but extremely powerful magic, and very close by.
:Kellen: she mindspoke urgently :Did you feel that?:
:Yes Chosen: came her Comapnions reply :Power, and very near. We'd better go check to see what it is:
Savil jumped up onto her Companions back and they set of at the breakneck speed that was only possible for a Companion.
:How close are we?: she sent
:We're almost there: repled the Companion. Savil was worried, that had been an extremley powereful and most imoportantly untamed gift, whoever it was could be hurt, or worse. It was vital that they got there before anything drastic happened.
A fraction of a candlemark later they arrived. She saw two bodies on the ground, one badly burnt, the other bleeding badly from a wound on his arm. She jumped down as Kellen came to a halt running over to inspect the bodies, the one that had been burnt was dead, but the other was still alive, though barely. Savil tore of some of her jacket and quickley wrapped it around the boys wrist to stop the bleeding. She tried to enter the boys mind but the deep emotional and physical pain that she found there was too much for her to bear. She did however find out that the boy's name was Tallo and that the other was Jasen, a gleeman who had been Tallo's lover. They had been kicked out of the village when it became known that they were shey'a'chern and Jasen had become angry at Tallo, Tallo had tried to make him see sense by calling the lightnings down but he did not have the knowledge and experience to do so safely so the whole thing had gone horribly wrong, ending in Jasen's death and Tallo's suicide attempt.
:Kellen: she mindspoke :What should I do with the boy? He needs teaching and time to get better but he also needs to be around people who will not care what he is. Most people regard those who are shay'a'chern as monsters:
:Well Chosen: came the reply :Why not try those who gave you that phrase shay'a'chern, you are Wingsib to them are you not?:
:Kellen, you're right, the Tayledras would be the perfect people to help him. I am sure Starwind will not mind have him there in k'Treva with him, especially seen how good looking he is: her mindvoice was tinted with dryness as she spoke the last sentence.
:You need not sound so surprised Chosen: replied Kellen :I do have good ideas you know:
Savil laughed :Yes of course my dear. Now we must go before his condition worsens:
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;) Next chapter will see the arrival of Starwind.