Hello! This is my first story on fanfic. I am not the best speller, but I do try my best. I'd like to say this is all mine, but it's not. The land of Tortall and everything in it belongs to Tamora Pierce.


Master Xio rode up on a dark dug stallion. Behind him two young apprentices. The boy was a tall Yamani with some Carthaki in him. He had dark tanned skin and a hard face for a 12-year-old boy. He rode his white mare with pride. Next to him, was a girl of the same age. Her light blond-coppery hair sat in a loose braid down her back sitting to the base of her shoulder blades. Her eyes were such a light grey it looked like she was looking into your soul. Her face harder than the boy's, because of a scar staring at the top of the right cheek bone to the side of her chin. Her large light brown pinto mare flicked her tail at the black stallion they were leading. "Master Xio! What are you doing here?" Asked the Wildcat, Eda Bell, as she ran up. "Hello Wildcat, I see you have made a home here. The last time we talk you were thinking of coming here and tha was almost three years ago!" By this time all three riders were on foot and the girl was talking to her horse, "If you don't go with them I won't give you oats for a week!" With that her jumpy black stallion went with the grooms. "who are these young ones, Master?" Said the Cat as she looked the boy and girl over.