Disclaimer: Tamora Peirce owns everything except what I invented myself.
This is at the time of Wild Magic.
"Mom, I'm home!" Adriana yelled, slamming the door. "If you need me I'm in my room." Adriana was not an average girl when it came to looks. Her eyes were the color of the sky on a rainy day. Her lips were naturally reddish and full. Perfect ski slope nose made her face seen delicate, even though she had a strong jaw bone, high cheekbones, and a chin that made her look very stubborn. Her porcelain skin without flaws made every girl envious, but the long, straight black hair added to the rest of her features made her face look inhumanly beautiful.
She grunted under the weight of her backpack, which was filled with school books, and got a wild desire to throw them in the garbage can. She wasn't exactly a straight A student. Far from that. More like Cs and Ds. She was only good at sword fighting. People didn't normally use real swords and daggers, but Adriana's parents wanted her to do a sport, and it was the only one she was willing to do. The dagger and sword were with her ALWAYS. Never did she go outside or anywhere without at least 1 dagger. It was one of her safety precautions. She was the type of girl who would stand up for all her friends, even though she was a little insecure about herself. Most people thought her to be snooty or stuck-up because of her looks and money. The one thing you did not want to do was make her loose her temper, which she rarely did, but if she did, you had better watch out. Her eyes turned the color of ice, and she'd practically freeze you on the spot. No, people tried to steer clear of her famous temper. She had a type of aura around her that proved her dominant over everybody. She went into her room and threw her backpack on the floor of her room. Sighing she picked up the book they had to finish reading in class tonight. Wild Magic was an interesting book, she would have admitted that, but she wouldn't have exactly spent the whole day reading in if she had a choice.
She opened it to some random page and started reading, but she just wasn't into it. She sighed again and got up to go swimming. Her family owned a big pool, so she changed out of her clothes into a bikini, put on shorts and a strapless shirt, her sword and all her daggers and went outside. When she got to the pool, her huge German shepherd came running at her full speed. She got knocked into the water, and everything became black.
All of a sudden, she felt the sun shining on her and wakes up to find the face of a girl looking at her.
"Who are you? Where am I? What am I doing here?"
"I'm Daine Sarrasri, and who are you?"
"I'm Adriana Moure, but call me Adrie. Where am I?"
"You're in Tortall, in the royal forest!" she exclaimed.
"Tortall?" Realization dawned on her. "No. No, no, no, no, no. this can't be Tortall! Tortall isn't real. You're kidding right?"
"No, Tortall is real, and you're in it," Daine said, clearly confused. "Why wouldn't it be real? If it wasn't real, you wouldn't be in it right now." The girl was laughing, and helping Adrie up. They started walking back to the camp, and Adrie was looking at all the trees there were, and flowers. Suddenly, she started swatting at mosquitoes that were getting really close to her.
"You might want to get some breeches if you don't want to be swollen with mosquito bites by the end of this day. By the way, where are you from?"
"I'm from California, but I doubt you know were it is."
"You're right, I don't know were it is, even though I've studied the globe with Numair, my teacher. I'll introduce you when we get there."
"How old are you?" asked Adrie, seeing that Daine was about 13 or 14, her age.
"I'm 14. How old are you?
"I'm 14 too! That's really cool. I've made of a friend on my very first day here! Unless, you don't want to be friends do you?" Adrie's eyes were wide and she was looking at Daine worriedly.
"Of course I want to be friends! Why wouldn't I?"
"I don't know, because you don't know me? Hey, do you do any sports, or do you have any practice fields were I can practice sword fighting? I really enjoy that sport." Adrie said, eyes dancing.
"Yea, we do. You could even challenge some of our squires or pages if you are good. If you're not, I advise you not to try. They'll have you on your rump in no time." Adrie laughed openly about that.
"I probably won't get thrown on my rump if I have anything to do with it. I'm not bragging, but I was the best in my class in sword wielding and dagger throwing."
"If you don't mind, can I see your sword? It looks really nice. Is it from the Raven armory?"
"No, it's not from the Raven Armory, but it's the same kind of quality. Here." She unsheathed her sword and daggers, who where strapped to her waist and bathing suit. "Choose the one you want to see. These are all I have. I was wearing it and my dog came running at me full speed. He knocked me down into the water and I ended up here. Seeing as this is a place with knights and sword fights and thieves like Alanna the Lionesses husband George, I guess they came in pretty handy." She said while smiling. Daine picked up the sword and held it.
"Wow. I don't specialize in swords, but this is a really good one, maybe even as good as the Lioness' sword. Speaking of the Lioness, how did you know about her? You said you've never been here."
"Thanks for the tip about the sword, and as for Alanna… Okay, you probably won't believe me, but there is a book written about Alanna, you, and Keladry of Mindelan who will be a knight soon. I know everything that will happen to
you and Alanna and Kel too. I know it's really weird." They stopped because Daine was staring at her intently.
"There is a book written about us, and Tortall?"
"Yep. I know everything that will happen." She replied.
"That's really strange. You'll have to talk to Numair about that. He's the smart one. By the way, do you know if you have wild magic or the gift? I recently discovered I have wild magic. I didn't know till a year ago."
I don't know, but I hope I do. From where I come from, people don't have wild magic OR the gift. We'll see." They were so deep in conversation that they didn't notice that they already reached palace grounds. As soon as they stepped inside the gates, Daine was attacked by a herd of all kinds of animals. Squirrels, dogs, cats, and birds were climbing all over Daine. She greeted all of them cheerfully and introduced Adrie.
"Adrie, I think its time we go visit Numair. I really want to know if you have wild magic or the gift. Preferably wild magic, because I'm the only wild mage, and I'm not even fully trained yet. It would be fun training together wouldn't it?"
"I think it definitely would, because I love animals, and it would be a pleasure to talk to them, shift into them, and be able to go inside there bodies." Daine's eyes were large.
"I can do all that?" she whispered.
"You will be later. Until the time is right, don't do anything. Got it?"
"Yes. Okay, let's go to Numair." They trudged up the pathway to Numair's tower, where they saw all kinds of bright lights coming from there. Daine climbed up the steps and opened the door, while Larisa followed. Numair was doing some kind of spells and didn't notice that Daine and Adrie came in. Daine said, "Numair." He jumped up in his seat before churning toward Daine and her friend. Adrie's first impression of Numair was a tall, graceful man who was about 29. He had raven black hair and a long nose. His eyes looked really tired.
"Sorry to have interrupted you. I was just wondering if you'd check Adrie for wild magic or the gift. She and I don't know if she has it. We were wondering of you'd tell us. Will you?" Daine begged. Numair sighed.
"Fine, if you really want me to. It's nice to meet you, Adrie." He was about to tell Adrie to meditate, when he saw she was already in that position.
"How did she know?" He whispered.
"I don't know. She just did, I guess." Numair came over with a chair and sat down.
"Empty your mind now." He noticed that she already did. Strange little creature he thought. He looked deep inside her and saw that she was filled to the brim with pale blue magic. The brim was about to spill over and she could go mad in just a minute. He did the same thing to her that he did to Daine, to keep her magic within her and stop her from going crazy. He got her out of the trance.
"Mythros!" He exclaimed. "She was just about to go mad with all that gift inside her! It's amazing how she didn't! I will be her trainer. She will train with you Daine, and then come to me for private lessons after she is done working. You do have a job right?" He asked.
"Not really," Adrie told him that, and her entire story of how she came to be there. Daine and Adrie noticed that Numair was looking a little sheepish, when Daine asked him what he did in an exasperated tone.
"You coming to be here probably has something to do with him. People from other realms don't usually pop up here without his help." She explained to a confused Adrie.
"You brought me here? Can you take me back, though I would like to stay here a little longer and get lessons from you, Master Numair." She said hastily.
"Please, enough with the 'Master'. Numair is plain and fine. Do you have any clothes, because you are dressed pretty scantily for Tortall. I don't know about your world but we wear clothes in this one."Adrie blushed a deep red."It's ok, I'm just teasing." He said smiling gently.
"Sorry, I was about to go swimming when you brought me here, so I didn't have any clothes except my shorts, shirt, bathing suit and daggers and sword." She explained.
"Do you have any money for clothes?" Numair asked. Adrie blushed yet again.
"No, no money. The kind of money I have back home would be of no use here since you use gold and copper and we use paper." Adrie told him quietly.
"Oh, well that's not a problem. Since you're my student, it's my duty to provide for you. I will talk to Onua about you getting a job at the barracks and a place to sleep with Daine. Right know, Daine will take you to get new clothes at the tailor's place. Do you were breeches or dresses?" He asked lightly.
"Oh! No girls ever wear dresses from where I come from. Its only breeches that everybody wear, girls and boys alike." She said.
"That's good, because you were going to be wearing breeches anyway. Now shoo, I have to talk to Onua." Both of the girls scurried away as Numair got up. He likes that friend of Daine's. She's smart, and the perfect thing to work with. He smiled to himself and got to work.