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Chapter 2

Remembering

"You know it's a good thing that Reya and the twins decided to make their Offerings a while back. Other wise a few of us would have had to wait another year to make the Offering." Eri told the two other occupants of the carriage that they were traveling in.

Neither of the two girls sitting across from him looked at him. Both ignored him, each for different reasons. He glanced at the girl that was sitting next to him. She also didn't seem to be paying attention to him. In a carriage filled with pretty ladies and none of them will even look at me, Eri thought sadly.

Selari, Lizzy and himself were all going to make the Offering. Reya had taken hers the year that she had turned 17. She had gone from being a Purple Dusk witch to being a Sapphire one. The twins had escorted her when she had gone to make her Offering. A year after that the twins, along with Eri and Selari had turned 17.

The twins were going to make the Offering, and they had all wanted Selari to go with them to do the same. But she had refused, point blank. And no amount of arguing could persuade her to go. So Reya went with the twins instead along with the twins younger sister Quinn. Eri might have gone, but he had decided to wait until Selari had gone through with hers.

Now they were twenty and finally they were going to make the Offering. Along with Lizzy who had turned 17 just a short while ago. Hannah was also with them, but she was too young to make the Offering only being twelve. Though when she does make the Offering, she could be very strong. For she like Eri had came away with a Green Jewel at her Birthright ceremony. She had just come along to see what the Keep was like. She had never been there, and was desperately interest in what the Keep held within its vast chambers.

"So is anybody going to talk to me during this trip?" he asked them all.

"No," they all said at the same time, then they burst into laughter. Great he thought, now they were laughing at me. Maybe the ignoring me was better then this.

"Fine then, I didn't want to speak with a bunch of immature girls any ways." He muttered. That made them all stop laughing and they glared at him.

"We are not immature!" Lizzy stated.

"Ya, were just as mature as you are." Hannah added indignantly.

"You're the immature one," Selari told him.

"This is unfair, it's three against one," Eri whined.

"It is very fair, Eri. You are the only male, and we females must stick together and band against you." Hannah said giggling.

"Can't we not band against me and just all be on the same side?" Eri asked hopefully.

"I'm 'fraid not." Lizzy said shaking her head slightly as though it was such a sad affair.

Eri sighed in frustration as the girls once again started to ignore his presence.

"Lucivar are you positive that there was a disturbance in the shield or ward or whatever?" Daemon asked for what seemed like the thousandth time.

"Yes, now will sit you shut up your pissing me off." Lucivar growled, quite annoyed with Daemon at the moment.

"We can't let what happened the last two times happen this time." Daemon said angrily.

Lucivar knew that he was right, but that didn't mean that he would tell him so. The last two times that there had been a disturbance with the Shieon shield had been disastrous at best. The first time, everybody had thought that it had been let down, and had tried to get in. Multiple injuries had resulted in that. And so everyone had thought that it was just a fluke and that somebody had just messed up. So when it happened again about two days later, everyone thought that it was being fixed or something and nobody wanted to test if it was down this time.

Well after that they had heard from their father, Saetan who was still working and residing in the Keep, about some strange people who had come in. Now of course Saetan hadn't told them until two weeks after the fact.

Said that three people had come in. One human female, that he thought they called Reeda or Reya or Rina, something like that. Then there had been two identical twin males that were half human half Hayllen. Saetan wasn't sure what they were called for they were usually called rather rude names by the female. The female had made her Offering and had come away with a Sapphire Jewel. They had left shortly after that.

What had caught Saetan's attention was the fact that they were dressed in the strangest clothing. It looked nothing like clothing that he had ever seen before, not in any sort of culture. Then they kept talking about strange things that he had never heard of. Then they seemed to be arguing about some person and they had instantly quieted the instant that they had noticed him standing close by.

Of course the second time there had been a disturbance had been about a year later. Now this time Lucivar and Daemon had taken it a bit more seriously. The first thing they had down was to go down to the Keep. They had both come to the conclusion that this was going to be just like last time. That people would come here to the Keep and they would make the Offering. Course Lucivar and Daemon had every intention of corning them and getting down to business. It didn't go as planned.

Well the people did arrive. There were four of them this time. The twin males were there a tall female and a small female child. Saetan confirmed that the three older ones were the same people that had been there last year, but the child was new. She was a smaller image of the twin males, probably a relative of some sort.

Of course they had all wasted no time in getting started. Well maybe a bit for the twins had started arguing about who was to go first. Finally they had decided and had went to make the Offering. It was then that Daemon, Lucivar and surprisingly enough Saetan had approached them.

It had gone all right at first; the female was flustered over having three very gorgeous men talking to her. At first they had all just talked about simple things and such. It had been their plan before hand to focus on her; she was the weakest link. They would have gone after the child, but she was sitting with the other twin and so they had decided it was best to leave the child alone.

Reya as they learned her name was very eager to talk to them. Though she didn't say anything about Shieon like they had wanted. No she talked about her family. About a couple of kids called Dari, Jess, Marty Ann, and Hannah. She went on and on about them.

Lucivar had gotten a bit impatient with her and asked…well sort of demanded where she was from. That was when everything had gone down hill. The male had become on alert and he had come over to join them, along with the child.

The child had instantly started asking insane questions, none of which he could recall what they were. But they were meant to keep them busy. And she did her job very well. For they were barely able to get in a word edge wise that wasn't a direct answer to whatever question that she had asked. And any time they had tried to talk to Reya again, while the child was occupied with another one of her questions, she would then break off mid-sentence and talk with the person that had been trying to ask Reya a question.

Needless to say it got annoying real fast. And neither Daemon nor Lucivar were able to keep their tempers held in check after awhile. Finally Daemon having enough of the child's talking at told her to shut the whole in her face or he would make her. Course the girl had instantly burst into tears. Reya had instantly taken the child in her arms and had left the room for a chamber that had been set up for them.

They of course had been left with the other twin. Daemon had had enough nonsense and had decided the best way to get the information that he sought was just to look into the males mind. Lucivar and Saetan had agreed with him at that point. Daemon wearing darker Jewels then the male before him could have done so without his knowledge, if there hadn't been a shield surrounding the man. He couldn't get past it to read into the man's mind.

When Daemon had tried to do so the man had just smiled at him, knowing what he was doing. It was at this time that Geoffrey had come to kick Lucivar and Daemon out of the Keep and not to return for some time. Saetan was of course left alone with the man for all of two seconds before Geoffrey had called him off on some pretence.

The people had left three days later, and they hadn't gotten anything out of them. So of course Daemon and Lucivar couldn't let this time go the same way as the last two. Who knew when the next time this would happen again, after all there had been a three year passing between the second time and this one.

"Should we set out then?" Jaenelle asked from the doorway. Both males turned to look at her neither having realized that she was standing there. It was actually two hours before they actually left. An hour had been used arguing with Jaenelle and another arguing with Marian, who had turned up in the middle of Jaenelle and Daemon arguing about her going with them. Marian hadn't known what was going on till after it was decided that Jaenelle was going. Then Marian wanted to go and it was Lucivar's turn to argue with his wife.

So with their wives in tow, Daemon and Lucivar headed towards the Keep.

AN: Ok this was a bit pointless and I guess I could have gone a completely different way, but I was a bit confused on a matter and so I put in a filler chapter, ain't it great.

Ok I was asked that about Selari's Virgin Night and didn't she need to have it before she made the Offering. When I was asked this I thought I didn't think they had to.

So now I shall point out some research that I did. In the second book the entire First Circle had made the Offering. Then in Dreams Made Flesh Lucivar was asked to help Karla with her Virgin Night. Now at that time hadn't she already made the Offering, yet hadn't had her Virgin Night? So that would of course mean that Selari didn't need to have her Virgin Night before she made her Offering.

So now my reviewers if you have know what I am talking about, and I have missed something that makes my previous assumption wrong please tell me.