Disclaimer- Tamora Pierce owns the characters and the books.

A/N In this story Duke Roger of Conté is still alive, to stay in the castle, supervised, he had to swear a blood oath that he will never kill anyone except in self-defence.

Chapter One- Leaving the Castle

Roald's POV

The first bell of the day just rang, who would come this early. No matter how early I must answer the door. The door that is so far away, I pulled the door open to find one of the place messengers standing at the door with a letter. I thank the man for bringing me the letter and close the door before I open it.

Dear Roald,

Please come to my chambers before breakfast. I found the book

you were looking for. I have some special instruction on it for you. Kel

will be coming as well please meet her before coming in.

Duke Roger of Conté

As much as I want to miss the meeting I can't. I'd better leave early if I want to make it to breakfast on time. Pulling out my page uniform I realized that this is my last year as a page. Last full year in the castle, next year I will have a knight master and shall travel around Tortall. I shall see the land as a knight or squire as the case maybe rather than as the crowned prince.

Kel's POV

I woke up before the first bell as usual. I started to practice with my glaive, starting off with an easy pattern dance to warm up and continued to move fast in more complicated dances as time past. There was a knock at the door. It was to early for it to be Gower to be bringing the water for the morning. I opened the door to see a palace messenger standing out side with a note in his hand. I took the note fro the man, thanked him, and shut the door. I flipped over the envelope. It had one of the official stamps but it had been smudged so I couldn't tell who it belonged to. I opened the note quickly.

Dear Kel,

Please come to my chambers before breakfast. I found the book

on female knights, I was told by one of the librarians that you were

looking for. There copy is missing at the moment but you can borrow

mine. Roald is coming as well please meet him in the hallway.

Duke Roger of Conté

I was finished my glaive practice then so that I could get ready and hopefully meet Roald and Duke Roger before breakfast. I don't want extra work because I was late again. I mean last time wasn't even my fault. I couldn't walk that quickly Peachblossom killed my foot when stepped on it. At least I know that this time it was an accident after Daine fixed my problem with him.

I was ready within a few minutes. Stepping out into the hallway I looked around. Roald was just leaving his rooms. I walked up to Roald who seemed to be having trouble straightening his tunic. I fixed the tunic for him even before I said hi. Roald looked at my, "Thanks, going to Roger's room as well."

"Ya, he has a book that I couldn't find in the library and he offered to lend it to me."

"Really, he is loaning me a book as well."

We continued to walk down to Duke Roger's each in our own thoughts. Since when is Duke roger being nice enough to lend out books to pages, especially The Girl. Why is he being so nice all of a sudden? I may have never met the guy but all the stories I've heard leads me to believe otherwise. Could he be trying to make up for all the evil that he has done? If that is true, would that mean that he is helping me out to make up for almost killing Alana? No her killing him the first time made up for that. But what about the last time he almost killed her? No, he was still punished for that. There is a reason behind this I know there is. We had arrived at Duke Roger's room and I still have yet to come up with a reason for his being so nice and offering out his books. There are other pages that were looking for books that he would love to borrow them from him.Why did he just choose Roald and I borrow them. Roald stopped in front of the door and began to knock.

Duke Roger's POV

There, the knock I've been waiting for. I checked to make sure the books were on the table. The spells were set. I let them both in.I had needed them to arrive together so that I could make sure they left together. I had a magnificent plan to clear the way to the throne.Send Roald to the other side of the world. To make it less suspicious Kel shall go as well. It would also get rid of the Girl. I walked over to the table and picked up the books and handed them over.With a bit of magic I could make the spells work. Using my magic I added the last part of the spell and watched as the two pages disappeared. I saw a glimmer of what looked like lime green magic. Kel must have some the Gift. Right after that I saw a glimmer of silver magic. Or maybe both, but neither of the pages have been in a class for the Gifted, and all pages are tested to see if they have the Gift. Could it have something with where they went? Looking even harder at the spell I realized their magic changed the spells. It was no longer made so that they went to the other side of the world, but somewhere else. Where I do not know, and am not planning to find out.

Roald's POV

I saw Roger's room disappear, all I know is that we are no longer in Tortall. Kel was beside me hand on her sword ready for anything that came. I put my hand on my own sword. I would never forgive myself if anything happened to Kel. I heard a bell ring, about five seconds later the hallway we were in began to fill up with people. They were all dressed in the same clothes, reminding me of the pages uniform. The only part is that the clothes looked different from anything you would see in Tortall. The main different from the pages was the large amount of people and there were many girls along with boys. The only girl among the pages was Kel. An adult dressed differently than everyone else, walked up to us. I gripped my sword harder as she came closer. "Are you new here?" she asked in perfect Tortallian.

I looked up at her. They speak Tortallian here. So where are we?

A/N- I know its short but I couldn't decide on what to happen next. There are three ideas:

1) Neal and Merric bump into Dom who goes to see if there in Duke Rogers room and gets sent to earth.

2) Neal and Merric get sent to earth when they ask Duke Roger where Kel and Roald is.

Or

3) Nothing happens and Neal and Merric tell Lord Wyldon that Kel and Roald are missing; they aren't in their rooms or in Duke Roger's room, where the note said for them to meet him.

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