Nivenna didn't like this one bit; she could feel that something wasn't right and it wasn't because she thought that she was stuck in some kind of M'arrillian illusion.
It was the little things that bothered her like how she noticed that some books that were in her bookshelf were not there and that some old books that she got rid of were there or the fact that Takinom's old vase was not missing from its place ( Nivenna broke it one day and hid it along with any proof of her crime).
She thought this trap would have made the Twisted Palace the same as when she last was there, but there were those little things and more that were wrong. But the odd part is that those wrong things had at one time in her life, been right.
Nivenna hurried to get dressed and ran back down stairs. Takinom was waiting at the front door when Nivenna came down and they left without saying another word to each other.
"Where are we going again?" Nivenna asked. She could tell that Takinom was still angry about being lied to, but she knew Takinom (or at least the real Takinom) would wait until they got there to begin her punishment for lying.
"Near Fear Valley at where we have been training at in the past few weeks." answered Takinom. That narrowed it down some, but not enough for Nivenna to know exactly where this training location would be at.
In the past few weeks, I was in the Overworld fighting the M'arrillians. Nivenna thought.
They got there within an hour, though they could have gotten there in only a few minutes if they had ran (Nivenna would have done the running, while Takinom would have flied). Nivenna knew this place all too well. She and Takinom use to train here all the time, but they stopped going here, because Nivenna decided that she hated the place.
This just proved to Nivenna that this Takinom couldn't be the real Takinom, because the real Takinom knows better than to bring her here of all places.
Takinom turned towards Nivenna while wearing an amused smile like she was going to have way too much fun. Nivenna hates that look for good and painful reasons.
"Now, I've been thinking on what would be the best training for you and also the best punishment to teach you not to lie to me." Takinom began to say. "And then I had the best idea as what your training should be today." Takinom's smile grow wider and Nivenna was getting more scared by every word coming out of Takinom.
"And what training would that be?" Nivenna asked, afraid to know.
Takinom waited a second, enjoying every moment of the tension she was creating. " Tramo exercises." Takinom was awarded with Nivenna's filching, her whole body language screaming of how she, at that moment, just wanted to be anywhere but there.
Tramo exercises were like what the humans called extreme yoga. Nivenna hated it, just plane hated the exercise. Even with all her years of going there the stretching exercises, she still had some difficulties performing them. If Nivenna hadn't started when she an infant, she thinks she wouldn't be able to do any of the tramo poses.
"Well, what are you waiting for? Get to it, you should know the routine by heart." Takinom commanded.
With no say in the matter, Nivenna begin with the more simple steps first while Takinom watched her like a hawk. If Nivenna misses one step or does a pose wrong by just an inch, Takinom would scold her for such a mistake. Though, Nivenna has done this routine so many times that she didn't have to think of what she was doing. She just focused on her breathing and tried not to injury herself while binding in such unnatural poses.
While she was doing that, she also kept an eye on the fake Takinom. So far, (beside the tortuous punishment) this Takinom hasn't done anything to harm her, but Nivenna wasn't going to let herself fall into a false believe of how she might not be in danger.
Half and hour passes by and not much has happened. Nivenna was still doing the tortuous tramo exercises and now her whole body felt like a wet noddle. Her body was so limber, Nivenna thought she could fit into a small metal box like the ones she's seen those Underworld street performers shove themselves into. There was now a shine on her skin thanks to the coating of sweat on her body.
"That's enough," Takinom said, giving Nivenna the okay to quit. Though Nivenna may not have to do the tramo exercises, she knew she was far from done. When she trains with Takinom, they train for hours and she hasn't even made it through one, yet. "Don't just set there! Go run a hundred laps starting here and make your way around the gorge that's close by." she ordered.
Nivenna, really, really wanted to sigh or voice her irritation in some way, but she doesn't. She just gets up and runs, because she knows right now, Takinom is still mad at her for hiding something. Complain will only make her punishment worse.
Sweet Coathic, why does the gorge have to be over twenty miles wide?
At the moment, Nivenna kind of wishes that the M'arillian would die a horrible death for making her go through this.
Notes: This chapter didn't have that much in it, but I just wanted to update the story, so I cut off the last bit and I'll just show it in the next chapter. The next chapter will also have Aivenna showing up! So, I'm happy about that, but I'm still not sure how that will go down.
Please review and until next time, Later!
