A Way
Chapter 1
Stranger in a not-so-strange place
Disclaimer- only one character's mine (hint) Joy!

Author's Note- Hey everybody this is my first fanfic so don't kill me I got friends to do that(saturn68, tasidia, and feirysong) r/r (please) *smiles hopefully*


"We're the best bandit hunters ever!" said Cleon as he took another drink.
"Only because Kel can keep her head calm," piped in Neal.
"You guys would do just as well as me. And don't get drunk now," said Kel while she kept her Yamani mask on.
" Too late," said Neal, Cleon, and Owen in unison. They all laughed at that.
Kel, Neal, Cleon, Faleron, and Owen are knights of Tortall, and have been fighting off bandits over the summer and are now on their way to choose their squires.
"Can I get you anything else?" asked the waitress at the Tavern.
"No these three have had enough to drink," said Faleron with a big grin.
"Fal, stop flirting," Kel instructed. Kel and the waitress broke out in laughter as Faleron and the other guys turned red.
All the laughter and talking stopped when the door of the Inn opened, because they couldn't talk over the sound of the wind. A girl had come in, she had long brown hair that had snowflakes in it( since it was winter in Tortall), and blue eyes. She walked to the owner of the Inn.
"Hello m'am what can I get you?" asked the owner.
"One room and a cup of ale."
"Okay, here's your key, and your drinhk's coming." A worker came and took her bags to her room.
"Stop staring you guys," said Kel
"Do you know who she is?" asked Cleon.
"No," said Neal, Faleron, and Owen."Ow!" the guys yelled as Kel hit them in the a back of the head.
" Hey, why did you do that?" asked Owen.
"So you guys would stop staring."
"I"m going to get a drink," said Nel as he got up.
"Oh no you don't, no more for you," said Kel.
"Hey that not fair," whined Neal" So what do you want?"
"Same as before," said Kel with a smirk.
Neal walked over to where the girl stood."Neal,you're back again?" joked the owner as he got the girl's drink.
" Yeah." He turned towards the girl, " Hello, I'm Neal of Queenscove." He told out his hand.
" She smiled and said," I'm Joy." She shook his hand.
" I haven't seen you around here," said Neal in a calm, soft voice.
"Well you shouldn't of since I'm not from around here."
"Neal, will you hurry up with my drink!" yelled Kel from their table.
" And we want to meet her, too!" piped in Owen as the others laughed.
" Would you like to join me and my friends,Joy?" asked Neal with his most flirtacious smile yet.
" Love to. I need for a few good laughs," Joy said with a laugh as she thought " you do, and he's cute." Then another stranger thought came, "don't get to close."
"This is Joy every one," said Neal as Faleron got a chair for her and set it by Kel.
" I"m Faleron, or Fal," said faleron with a grin and a nod.
"Owen," said Own who hesitated at her blue, blue eyes, and not thinking bad about the rest.
"Cleon, the funnest one," said Cleon with a flashy grin. "Ow."
" I'm Keladry, but call me Kel," said Kel as she took her elbow out of Cleon's side. Joy sat down with a grin.
"Do you always have to keep them in line?" asked Joy as the guys started to argue over the same thing.
" Oh, they'ere even worse when a pretty girl's not around."
" So where are you guys heading?"
" We're going back to Corus to choose squires."
"What is it?" Owen asked Joy because her face had changed.
" Oh nothing. It's just I'm going there, too."
" Oh great now you can go with us," said Faleron.
So Joy now has some companions for traveling, but is that what she wanted? They all talked late into the night, and then stumbled to bed.
Once Joy was in bed her mind yelled at her, " How could you do that? You're too close! What will happen if they get hurt?" Joy rolled over in bed and fell asleep for now.

Author's note (again) r/r and u better saturn(don't comment on FUNNEST i KNOW it isn't a word) bye bye ttfn(ta ta for now)