Chapter 1: The Trial

She now looks up her eyes scope the room. The first face she sees is his… her Numair his long black hair is tide up in a tidy fashion and his brown hazel eyes are filled with hurt. She sees unshed tears in his eyes and he looks moor rugged and unkempt than she can ever recall him being. Beside him is a small women with dark copper hair. Her purple eyes have not left the chained up woman that she had once considered a little sister. Daine now stares at the others before her eyes meet the last person she expected to be there… the persons eyes are asking why as they hold up there left arm in a sling.

'Thayet' her mind yells….

Flashback

Thayet is sitting playing with a few of the puppies as she approaches. With a smile she sits down next to the Queen, the smile does not meet her eyes though and a sigh escapes her. Now the Queen looks at her in worry, 'Whets wrong Daine' escaped Thayet before she could stop herself. 'I am sorry' Daine whispers as she palls out a dagger and begins to plunge it towards the Queen. Suddenly her arm stops inches after hitting into the Queen , the black flames grip around her as she struggles and the blackness takes her with only one word echoing in her mind 'Why'

End Flashback

'You must answer the question or we will be forced to take your silence as guilty' Gary says in a warning tone as if she didn't already know that. 'Please Daine' he finally asks as he looks at her. Daine notices that Gary to looked warn and tired his eyes have darken in the last few weeks since she had seen him last, since before it happened, and yet she refused to talk, she deserves to be done for treason she had nearly killed Thayet and yet…it hadn't truly been her fault. She would allow them to have there punishment so long as she did not die. Mayhap the Snowsdale people where correct when they called her mad, but she trusted the others enough to hope that she would only be thrown in the dungeons for the rest of her natural life.

'Daine' Gary says in a warning voice and although she can't say she is guilty for that would be saying she had wanted Thayet dead she could not say not guilty as she had tried to kill the queen. Her mouth opens as she beguines to talk,

'Why do you ask me, you saw what you saw and nothing I can say will change that, I leave my sentence in the hands of yourself and the royal court for the crimes I have been accused of acting against' she says in a calm voice as Gary sigh's.

'We are asking you to explain why you did what you did' Gary says.

'Then you know what you must do if you believe I committed the crime as you yourself have just said you believe me to have done' Daine says hoping she has confused him a little.

'Then Veralidaine Sarrasri, Wildmage of Tortall you are sentenced to exile from are boarders, note that the only reason we are exiling you and not sentencing you to death is because of your deeds of killing Ozone and your other deeds to the country, should you ever step foot on Tortillian soil again you will be killed. You will now be escorted to any border of your choice where you will be left' Gary says in a commanding voiced and she can not help but cry inwardly Exiled from two homes and she was only twenty one. 'do you accept these terms' he asks and all she can do is nod, she refuses to look up or to meet the eyes of those she had once called a family. 'I'm Sorry' she whispers again.

Wow first chapter done…. I was thinking of making her escape but my sister told me that she would probably be exiled so I did just that, but don't worry Daine's Tortall life will not fully be over yet. She still has a big part to play in Tortall's future and we need to know why she tried to kill Thayet. However she has to first be ready for the future…. Part of a series may have moor than two 'Books' although this has a slight DN it will be in book two that I truly get are favourite mages together.