Me -this will be short, sorry *looks at the floor*
Kokoro- Thats your own fault
Me- I know *tears in eyes*
Kokoro- Oh, just great she's gonna cry
Mako (Kokoro's brother)- Kokoro you shouldn't yell at her
Kokoro- Fine, just give her a hug and get it over with
Mako- You rush things to much
Kokoro- *not caring* yeah yeah
Mako- *hugs me* you okay
Me- *cuddles* uh-huh
Kokoro- ewwww, nabiki doesn't own any tamora pierce books nor will she ever *curtsies*


"Please, let me go father" I whined, my dark brown hair moving in the wind restlessly.

"Kokoro, please, dont ask that, you are going to your grandmothers house to become a lady" my father said still looking through his scope and the sky. "Kokoro, what that constallation again"? He asked pointed at a few stars all making a picture.

"Isn't that , 'the little horse', the star used is Kitapha which is 'part of the horse', anything else"?

"No, thats all" he had written down all i had said. "Kokoro, would you please call your brother to me"?

"Yes, sir" I said and walked down the hillside. I reached the door to the house and sighed. I opened the door and called out "Brother, father wishes to speak with you"!

"I'm busy, could you tell him to wait"? He walked down the stair case to the right of the door, where I stood.

"I would, but father is very busy as well, and he requested you, I dont think it will take long, so please come" I said letting a bit of annoyence slip from my voice. "If you still do not wish to go with father, then I will need a excuse".

"Annoyed, are we"? He asked, he cocked his head, letting his light brown hair toss and toll "I'm practincing the sword as father instructed me to do". I saw the sweat on his hair and sighed.

"Fine, oh and brother". I said before he ran to his room again "would you please feed the animals, I havent had time to waist with so many things to do"?

"Yes, I will" I started to walk outside when he sang "the stars of the world"? It sounded like a question to me.

"Is the key to my heart" I said and giggled. I heard his soft chuckles from the house as I walked up the hill again.

"From, the lands East and West" said my father laying on the grass now.

"So, you heard"? I asked him.

"Every word" he said "I never told you the story behind that song, did I"? He asked staring at me now, his dark green eyes seeing my every movement. I shook my head staring at him his long hair spread around his perfeclty structured body. "Would you like me to"? he asked.

"I would, but whenever I see you say a line from the song, I see sadness that I wish i didn't see" I said and sighed.

"Yes, but it has sad parts and happy parts its like the way of life" he stated "I would like to tell you about it" I saw his face, his pleading face.

"As you wish, I am quite interested in the story" I looked at the sky feeling my hair, lift and fall in the wind, smelling the roses light smell. I loved roses more than anything in the world, and then animals and cats, that ran around in the town, I would have converstions with the rats and cats negotiating, I have a power that i do not tell my family (only my mother knew).