Chapter 2.

Disclaimer: this belongs to Tamora pierce, except for what I made up

Numair walked swiftly over to the barracks to talk to Onua about the strange new girl. The first thing that he noticed was that she wasn't there. Sighing, he went out to the field, where all the riders, including Onua, were.

"Onua!" He called loudly. "Come here!" Onua came, grumbling.

"Just in case you haven't noticed, some of us work here! What do you want? It better be important," she said, eyebrows furrowed.

"I have a new student mage, do you think you could give her a job and a place to sleep while she's here? I was thinking somewhere near Daine, since that's the first person she met. They seem to have gone off quite nicely. So, could you?"

"I don't know." She sighed. "A place to sleep near Daine wouldn't be trouble, we have an empty barrack. And a job, okay I'll give her a job, except she has to be with Daine, like her apprentice, or something. Daine should teach her all the basic rules, and how we do things around here, ok?"

"Yes, I'll talk to Daine and Adriana about it." He answered, glad that his new student could stay.

"Is that her name, Adriana? That's nice."

"Yes, her nickname is Adrie though. So you'll take her in?"

"Yea, I'll take her. Now I have to go back to work, and you should be getting back to your tower, doing whatever it is that you do." She told him crossly. Numair sighed and went back to doing his spells.

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"Come on!" yelled Daine, as they hurried through the busy marketplace toward the tailor shop. "We have to get you new clothes if you want to look normal by the end of today." Daine wasn't kidding. Adrie had mosquito bites all over her legs, and it was barely 4 o'clock. She just realized that she's been in Tortall for about an hour and a half.

"We're almost there!" Daine yelled, because she was barely heard through the crowd. "Look, were already here," she said. They walked inside.

"Hi, can we get breeches and a shirt for Adrie? She's new here." The tailor beckoned her over with a wave of her hand, and took her measurements. She took out 2 brown breeches, and 2 brown shirts.

"That'll be 1 silver noble." She said. Daine took out the money that Numair gave her and gave it to the tailor.

"Thanks!" Both of them said.

"Ok, we got you clothes, now you need proper shoes." So they bought shoes and returned to the tower to Numair, where he was yet again at one of his spells.

"Numair!" shouted Daine loudly. Numair jumped about three inches out of his chair.



"Mythros! You have to scare me like that every time you come in from that door?" He replied, just a little irritated.

"Yes, I do have to do that," Daine replied with a big grin on her face, "It keeps you sharp, because what can I do with a dull teacher?"

"Ah, magelet. You will be the death of me one day. I see you got Adrie some clothes, good. We shall begin our lessons. Adrie, I take it you know how to meditate?" He asked gently. Adrie blushed and answered quietly.

"Yes, I had to learn from my sword teacher. It was required so we knew how to center ourselves." She answered.

"That's good. It means that we can skip this and go straight to your magic. Now, both of you sit on the floor and meditate. I will look into Adrie and help her locate her magic, like I helped you, Daine." Numair walked over to Adrie and gently put his fingers on her temples.

"Now, look deep inside you. I will just help you concentrate." He started guiding her down. When he saw that she could see her magic he let go gently. He heard her gasp slightly.

"You see, you have a lot of magic. But until you gain full control of it, any little thing will not be very easy." He explained. "Your magic is probably as powerful as mine. You were brimming in it when I first saw you. It's amazing." His eyes showed wonderment. Daine opened one eye and looked first at Adrie then Numair.

"Is she really as powerful as you say she is? That's good. We need more powerful mages. Although it's really sad that I'm still the only wildmage." She sighed and got up.

"Daine, if its ok with you and Numair, may I go out to the practice fields and try my hand at a duel with a squire? Maybe I'll get lucky!" She looked at Numair.

"Can we?" She asked.

"May we, and yes you may." Numair automatically corrected her grammar. Daine grinned and whispered "You better get used to it. He always does that."

"Well girls, you better go. I'm going to try another spell. So shoo, go on, I'll be busy. Oh, I almost forgot, we have a ball coming up, and I would like to introduce you to King Jonathan and Queen Thayet."

"Ok Numair, bye!" both girls yelled already out the door.

Sorry it was short . The next chapter will be better.