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It was just another day in the life of Emma Carstairs. Not.
"Come on, Jules. He won't find out! Besides, today's our day off, and Arthur said we could do anything we wanted to! Unless you're scared…" Emma teased.
She was met with the haughty eyes of Julian Blackthorn, her best friend, and soon to be parabatai.
"I'm not scared, and I know what he said! But anything doesn't include goimg into the bloody forest!"
"Did you just say 'bloody'?" Emma snickered. "Arthur's rubbing off on you. Anyway, I'm going. It's only for an hour or so. Are you coming or not?"
"I'll come, but if we die I blame you!"
Emma laughed. "I can live with that."
"Emma, how far in are we going to go? We've been walking for ages! I thought you said we were going out for an hour! It's been… almost twice as long! Where are we going?"
Emma rolled her eyes. "Stop complaining, Julian. You said you wanted to come! And, well… I might be looking for something…"
"You couldn't have told me that before? Come on Emma, you could've trusted me a bit more!" Julian sighed. "Anyway, what are you looking for?"
Emma hesitated. "You know that lesson we had the other day?"
Julian gave Emma a pointed look. "Could you be a bit more specific? We have lessons almost everyday."
Emma rolled her eyes. "You know… the one about the Elementals?"
Julian looked incredulous. "Are you serious Emma? You think that the queen is really in this forest? You're joking, right? Uncle said they looked for her for years and never found her! How do you expect to find her?"
"There are also rumours to say that that entire book is faked! That it was just some of the queen's Shadowhunter friends trying to cover up for her. I wasn't completely stupid about this Julian! I did my research!"
"Oh, so you agree that this was slightly stupid to start with?" Julian fired back. "Well, if the book is faked, then how do you know she is even in this forest?"
Emma sighed. "Look, Jules, I found out all I could about it, okay? From what I've read, the only thing faked in that book was the time. Some say that the queen only went into hiding a few years ago. And if she was really only 17 at the time, that means that she would be about 20 now! And you and I both know that the only reason Arthur said that there had been multiple fruitless searches is because that's what he has been told, when really, those searches were only reported as having found nothing because they were only carried out by the same people: friends of the queen! Well, at least, that's what it says in the books."
Julian pulled at his hair irritably. " Well, even if your book is telling the truth, which I highly doubt, how do you know the queen even wants to be found? I think we should just go back…"
"Well, I'm going to stay and look. According to the book, we're really close…"
Julian sighed for what seemed like the twentieth time today. "Fine… but I'm going…"
He turned around, and jumped in shock.
"You?!" Julian's mind was blank. He stared at the man in front of him, and saw him start to speak.
But not before a flying blur of Emma flew past him and knocked the figure down.
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