Start on the Wrong Twirl:
I got to my room without any trouble; seeing as anyone who would comment on my situation backed off with the scowl I was wearing. A girl! Of all the familiars I could have summoned, I had to summon a human girl. Heck, it would have been awkward, but a male would have been of so much more use. At least he would have made a decent meat shield while I failed at being a mage, but never mind. Louise was here now and I had to take care of her.
As I came into my room; I placed her down on the bed, and decided to sit across from her in the chair. I didn't want to be creepy, but all there was to do was sit there and wait for her to wake up. While I was waiting, a knock came at the door.
"It's open." I called back.
"I can't actually open the door sir. My hands are a bit full." Siesta's voice came through the door. So I got up and opened the door, and she was right, she really did have her hands full dealing with that cot. I took it off her hands and laid it next to the bed. Apparently Siesta had anticipated that it would be used for me, because it was impractically big for Louise.
"How is the poor dear doing sir?" Siesta asked as she was still at the door.
"Her name's Louise, and she seems to be doing fine right now." I answered.
"Well, ok. If that's all sir, I'll be off to my chores."
"Wait Siesta, why don't you stay for a while to help me look after her. I really haven't looked after someone before. And please, call me Saito. Just Saito." I added, there had been far to many times when I asked for just my first name and people insisted on adding mister or sir.
"I would be honored to Mist- Saito." She caught herself, and came in. "So how is your familiar doing? She didn't seem to be all that well after the summoning. Have you even given her a name yet?"
"Actually, she told me her name before she collapsed, her name is Louise Vallière."
"Such a pretty name, but what should we do? She doesn't seem to be doing all that well." Siesta noted.
"And that is exactly why I asked you to stay. I have never cared for a person before, and I thought you might be able to help a little bit."
"Well, um, to start with, did she have a fever?"
"A what?" I asked, I had been studying Louise a bit closer, thus spacing out a bit.
"A hot head Saito."
"Ah, yes, yes she did."
"Well then, we need to cool her a bit. I'll go get a bowl and towel." Siesta said as she got up and left.
I didn't actually know if she still had her fever, so I got up to check on that. As I got over her to check, however, she started to wake up. I gently smiled, "Well good morning sleepy head, have a nice nap?"
I don't think she quite heard me though, because she immediately blushed and got off the bed away from me as fast as she possibly could. Then I noticed a problem. She started ranting at me in French. I had thought that language had died. We didn't even study it here anymore.
But Founder she was getting yappy. I might be a failure of a mage, but a simple silence spell shouldn't be any problem. I took out my wand and pointed it at her. She stopped talking and just looked at the wand. "Quies" was all I said, and lucky me, nothing blew up. Maybe I was getting better at this.
"And what exactly was that supposed to do?" Louise asked.
"It's supposed to make you be quiet until I figure out how to understand you, Louise."
"I think you might want to check on that."
"What are you talking abou…" I then realized I was having a straight conversation with Louise. But how did that work? I was sure I had casted the right symbol and said it correctly. I groaned and sat back down in the chair. I had gotten something else wrong, again. I was never going to hear the end of it from Katra.
Louise had at least become less scared of me enough to sit across from me on the bed. "So, what is this place that you've obviously kidnapped me to? I will have you know that my parent's will pay any amount of money to get me back."
"Well, I don't know where I summoned you from, but right now you're in the Tristain Magic Academy for Nobles. And it doesn't matter how much money your parent's have, there is no ransom to pay."
"Fine then, I'll just pay you enough for a ride home. I don't know what trick you used to knock me unconscious, but magic is just silly."
"Is it really? Did you understand me at all until I used my 'silence' spell? And like I said, you can't pay me to send you back. I summoned you here to be my familiar until one or both of us die."
She was obviously getting angry at this roundabout argument as I was, because she was turning a deep red. Luckily Siesta decided to come back with the water and cloth. Well, if I was going to have a strange girl, I might as well not have her be a stranger.
"Siesta, Louise is fine right now. Louise, this is Siesta, she's a maid who works here at the academy. She can also vouch that I did not kidnap you from anywhere on purpose." I explained/introduced.
"I highly doubt that, she can just be your personal maid being paid to do whatever you tell her to do." Louise humphed as she crossed her arms and looked away. I turned back to Siesta to apologize for my familiar's behavior, but she had already flushed a deep red in anger.
"I-I-I'll just be g-going then." Siesta said in a stutter and quickly made an exit. Weird enough though was that she didn't sound angry, but something else rather. I just couldn't place my finger on it.
I turned back to Louise, "Look, I can tell that you don't believe me, so here's the deal. I take you outside to prove to you that you aren't anywhere near where you think you are, and you don't act like a stuck up princess. Deal?"
"If it get's me out of this stuffy room, I guess I can't complain. Fine, 'convince' away."
"Great!" I was finally getting somewhere with her. "If you wouldn't mind following me, I'll show you around." I said, getting up to the door, I could feel Louise still sitting on the bed. "Well come on, I can't give you a tour while you're sitting there."
"Aren't you forgetting something?" She said as she held out her hand. Oh come on, she wasn't the princess; I didn't have to indulge her. But then a thought popped into my head. I walked back over to her and lightly pulled her to her feet.
"Thank you, you may continue now."
"Oh can I? Well, if you insist." And at that, I picked her right off of her feet and held her across my arms. She shrieked and started pounding me on the shoulder. "What in the world do you think you're doing?"
"Well, if you're going to act like such a princess, I might as well carry you like one as well."
"You idiot! I am perfectly capable of walking!"
"Are you sure? You seemed incapable of even standing not ten seconds ago."
"Ugh! You're intolerable."
"And so are you. Now, will you please act like a normal person?"
"I guess." She mumbled.
I did one twirl with her still in my arms; she gave another terrified shriek. "What was that? I didn't quite hear you."
"I said yes, now put me down!"
"As you wish, princess." Finally putting Louise down, I proceeded back to the door. "Are we ready this time?"
Her only answer was pushing past me.
