The eight year old girl stared in shock at the bandits, who were charging at her mother and herself. Her mother quickly reached into her pocket, and pulled out a bright blue stone, no bigger than her eye, and a medallion, formed like a staring eye. She thrust these two things into the young girls hands. "Hurry, Dear, run like the wind, and get away from here. Show no one the stone, and use the medallion to hide yourself, you can change yourself completely. Get away from here, let no one get the stone," she kissed the girl on the forehead, and gently shoved her through a secret passage way. The girls mother blocked the passage way, fighting the bandits. The little girl, called Chi, stared to run, while tears ran, from her light blue eyes, down her cheeks. She was almost al the way out, when she heard her mothers death cry, and almost ran back to save her, but knew it was too late. She ran and ran, away from it all. Her midnight black hair flowed behind her, her red lips trembling, and her peach skin wet with tears.

Keladry of Mindelan stepped onto the ship that was going to take her back to Tortall, from the Yamani Islands, when a frightened cry made her turn around. There, followed by ten ugly armed men, was a young boy, running from them. She ran toward them, swiftly picking up the boy, and drawing her sword. "Back off, he's mine now," she hissed in Yamani, to the enemy bandits. They laughed, and advanced on her. Suddenly two of them went down, arrows in their chests. Soon five others went down, killed by the hit by Dom, Tobe, Neal, and Yuki. "Tobe, take the boy, and get him away, on the ship, tell the captain to get ready," she said quickly, and twelve year old Tobe obeyed. The last bandits tried to run, but Kel got them. "Come on, hurry," she said to her friends, and they rant back to the ship. On the ship: "Who do you think he is?" Neal asked, fixing the boys wounds. "I don't know, but he's noble, look at his clothes," Kel watched the sleeping boy. He was quite slim, with dirty blonde hair, and, if she guessed right, mud brown eyes. "Look at this wound on his shoulder," Yuki said, removing the boys shirt. Blood covered the shoulder, but Kel spotted a deep red rift, it would become a scare. "We better take him back home, and find out more about him," Dom said, looking at his lover, Kel. "Well, he's noble, and if he really is in as much trouble as it looked, he'll have to live with me," Kel said, stroking the boy's hair. "He can live with us too, when your out, Kel. Right Neal," Yuki asked her husband. Neal nodded, smiling, "I'm sure the twins will love to have a new friend," he was talking about his and Yuki's children, Nathaniel, or Nat, and Gwen. Kel smiled, and they all retired, leaving the boy in Tobe's care. "We'll be friends, too, right?" Tobe asked, smiling. He tucked the boy in, and went to sleep.

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