Me: Chapter 2 let's-a Go!
Fang: Okay. Mario.
Me: Someone do the disclaimer. Also sorry it took so long, my new editor was feeling lazy (Rebecca if you're reading this I love you and jk, no stop put down that hammer)
Lief: Annfazukimi doesn't own Deltora Quest or Maximum Ride.
Me: I do however own Yuma and the Knight of Drosselmeyer, whose name I'm still working on. Also sorry it took so long, my new editor was feeling lazy (Rebecca if you're reading this I love you and jk, no stop put down that hammer)
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I wake to find that I'm being stared at from all sides by men in red robes. I also notice that all of my gear is gone. I stand up and notice my friends in similar conditions. They stand up and notice their gear is gone.
Lief speaks up first: "Where we are and where is our gear?"
The guy in the middle of the red robes speaks up: "You are in Noradz and your gear is getting cleaned. Tell me who you are and how you came to be unconscious outside of the city."
Barda speaks up and says: "We were traveling when our muddlets lost control and we were knocked off and unconscious."
Red then says: "There were no animals nearby. Again I ask where you are headed."
I hear Jasmine whisper: "Kree must have been hiding." Before Barda or Lief can explain where we're going, I say:
"We are traveling to a town not far from the Broad River."
After some explanations, we find ourselves washing our hands before a meal. Jasmine points out how stupid this is and I agree with her.
Barda says: "I know this seems stupid but we are in their care and at their mercy." Then for the billionth time today I hear:
"Clean Noradz here." everyone in the room, including Barda and Lief but excluding myself and Jasmine, repeat after Reece (He introduced himself as the head Ra-Kacharz, or the the Leaders of the City). Then we go to eat, but before we can get into the dinning room our hands are inspected and the Ra-Kacharz ask:
"Are these hands clean?" The Ra-Kacharz in charge of inspection says:
"These hands are clean."
After we get to the table, Jasmine asks me in a whisper: "What made you only say we were going to the Broad River?"
I whisper back: "The Ra-Kacharz can't be trusted. Reece would definitely have said something about my forehead if he could have seen the Mark of Yuma." How do I know this? That mysterious guy back at Tom's shop reacted to it.
Jasmine asks: "How do you know he even would have said something?"
I answer: "A mark on someone's forehead is unusual by itself. If he could have seen it he would have at least asked why I had a mark on my forehead in the first place." She nods and the food is served.
'All finger food' I think to myself and notice that this food is all something that wouldn't make a great big mess. Barda enjoys some chocolate while Lief complains that the tall table makes him feel like a kid again. I just think that this is what normal people have to deal with. Then out of the blue a young girl falls and drops some food on the ground. Having been on the run most of my life, this didn't strike me as something Taboo; I probably would have eaten the food anyhow.
The other people garbed in black look on in horror as Reece calls to her: "Tira, come forth." Tira walks to him, on the verge of tears.
Reece then says: "Because this is a minor offense, your punishment shall be ten lashes by my whip." And just then -with the odds all against it- Philly decides to create a stir and freaks everyone out. Long story short, we're standing in a ring of fire with our fate being decided by a stupid cup. We all decide that I should be the one who draws a card. As I go to reach in, I catch a glimpse of Tira. She shakes her head as I pull a card. The Card of Darkness. I look up to see her mouth:
"Both are dark." Thinking quickly, I trip and drop the card into the ring of fire, watch it burn. "Forgive me for my clumsiness." He then pulls out the other dark card, saying: "We will merely imprison you." and then we find ourselves in jail. At least it's not a dog crate.
Me: Well onto the next chapter see you later.
Next time: it's of to Tom's once more after a daring escape.
