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Shona's return
Sonea
turned back to face Regin. The last bout of the battle was about
to
begin, when she heard something:
"I'm back at home!"
Automatically Sonea answered with her mind, "Shona!"
Only after that did she realise, that her friend shouldn't be able to contact her with her mind. Shocked silence followed both sides.
Then Sonea heard Shona ask hesitantly and unsure, "Sonea you heard me? You've never heard me before..."
In
the same moment Sonea started firing questions at Shona "Where
have you
been so long?", "how can you contact me like
this?!"
"I
don't know. I did call like this since I first left and came
back to Imardin, but
what 'bout you? Why can you suddenly hear
it?"
Sonea smiled, "Long story. I'll tell you when we meet"
"No!
It'll drive me crazy. I still have to sail into the harbour so you
have
plenty of time telling me your story"
Sonea
smiled it seemed as if Shona hadn't changed in the least. She
was
still as curious as ever. "Fine
this is what happened:"
Sonea showed her
the most important happenings since Shona had
left apart from the knowledge that the high lord uses dark
magic.
"Great shot with that stone; served him right" Shona observed.
Underneath her satisfaction Sonea could
also feel Shona's worry and shock that she was within the
magician's guild.
"What
are you doing now?"
Shona asked.
Sonea realised that she was standing in the
middle of the arena in a fight with Regin, and that she was
surrounded by all the magicians of the guild which very likely had
listened to her conversation with Shona.
With a slight sense of
panic she send a thought to Shona: If you don't
want the guild
to find you right now, go hide and don't contact me like
this,
they hear it too.
Sonea felt Shona's alarm. "Watch
after yourself, 'till we meet"
and with that
Shona's voice got silent and Sonea knew she had
hid her presence.