Facing Fears
A brown eyed girl with fiery red hair sat, looking out of the window, apparently staring at nothing.
"The sweeping is not going to get done while you are sitting there doing absolutely nothing." The speaker was a boy just a bit older than the girl he was talking to.
The girl sent a glare in Briar's direction and Briar new at once to back away. He knew from experience that it was not good to get in Trisandra Chandler's way when she was in a bad mood.
"I'm waiting for someone," Tris replied eventually. She got up, picked up the broom and started sweeping the floor.
"Let me guess, you're waiting for Niko?"
"Just leave me alone!" And with that she shot a tiny spout of water in the direction of Briar. He dodged and the water missed and ended up all over the floor. Briar decided it was probably for the best that he went away now.
Meanwhile, upstairs, Sandry, a noble, and Daja, a Trader sat discussing the possibility of a trip to Sandry's hometown.
"I don't want to go!" Said Sandry
"I'm sure you will be fine! It was a long time ago now that your parents died now and besides we're not going to go anywhere near your home!"
Deep down inside, Sandry new that she would never be able to face her fears, that was the place where both here parents had died in the smallpox epidemic but worst of all that was the place where she herself had been locked in that pitch black room with no light, except the thread she managed to keep glowing with the light from the burnt out candle.
Suddenly, Briar burst into the room
"Can I join in?
Back downstairs, the person that Tris had been waiting so long for had finally turned up
"Where have you been?" demanded Tris. Her hair was dancing with tiny lightning bolts. "I have been waiting ages for you!"
"I'm sorry I got held up." Replied Niko, a tall man with jet black hair.
"Again," Tris muttered under her breath, unfortunately not quite quiet enough for Niko not to hear.
"Maybe some day when you are as wise and old a mage as me, you may have important business to attend to and may occasionally late.
Tris scowled
"Well I'm glad that we have that settled then!"
Just then Rosethorn called Tris, Briar, Sandry and Daja into lunch.