So this is going to be a pretty short chp, it's really more part of the first one, but don't worry I have a very long one coming up. Please RxR, any kind of words would be nice.
I do not own GW or Anne Bishop's Dark Jewel Trilogy (great books you should read them, very dark though).
There the jewel rested in my hand glistening back at me, in a strange way a part of me and just below the surface a reservoir of power for me. I could still feel what I had taken into myself while within the wondrous place. In fact all my senses seemed heightened and I felt a two presences that felt familiar approaching my door. Ridiculous Relena, you can't feel someone who isn't even in the same room.
KNOCK! KNOCK!
The honey blond visibly jumped and painfully clutched her hand around the jewel. "Miss Relena your vehicle is here and has been waiting for a while. You have a meeting, as it is you are already going to be late. Oh and your bodyguard is now standing outside you door, not patiently I might add."
"Pagen, you scared a few years off me. I'm running a bit behind today, would you mind calling ahead for me, please."
"Of course Miss Relena, just please hurry."
The woman unconsciously fastened the intricate necklaces that her jewel was set into around her neck before starting to get ready at super sonic speed.
She arrived in time for the meeting, barely. The meeting was important and something that she had been preparing for, yet she had to keep forcefully drawling her attention back. Her mind felt fuzzy and stray thoughts kept intruding on her attention. Thoughts that didn't even seem like her own….
By the end of the meeting the headache had turned into pain in her whole body. Relena was sure these were not her thoughts, which could only mean she was hearing thoughts of others or had finally broken under the pressure. Each possibility was equally likely, she though, either way she was throwing in the towel and going home early.
Once again in her only sanctuary Relena sat on her bed and took her thoughts into her Jewel. Underneath the layer of comfort she had first felt in the dark place was knowledge. Knowledge that she dived into trying to understand what this Jewel of hers meant and what it was doing to her. In this time Relena was confronted with some very hard truths about herself and painful lessons. But one lesson she had already known and fully understood, everything has a price.