Chapter 3 The City ofTriet

"We're finally in Triet!" Lloyd exclaimed, Noishe seeming to whine in agreement. They had just entered the city after two days of walking through the desert.

"You're such a child," Sothim pointed out, quickening his pace to walk ahead of Lloyd and his sister.

"Aren't you younger than me…?" Lloyd wondered out loud, forgetting Letran was there.

"He's around your age, actually," Letran said. "Well, I'm guessing at your age but… you look around sixteen…"

"I'm seventeen, actually." Lloyd pointed out.

"Well, I was close!"

"Thanks again for the help in that desian base. I'd better be going, hopefully we'll meet again someday!" Lloyd ran off, Noishe following behind, and waving to Letran.

"Yes! I'll be sure to say hi if I ever see you!" She shouted back. Then she realized she didn't know where her brother had gone. "I'd better find my brother before he gets himself killed…"

Lloyd wondered around, asking a few people if the chosen had been through the city. Most of them replied saying that they had only heard rumors. Lloyd had started to walk alone after he was told he couldn't have Noishe with him, and dropped off his dog in the stables beside the inn.

He reached a dead end, with a tent, and a sign with 'Fortune Teller' written on it. He walked in, curious to see.

"Hello, what is it that you seek from me today?" A young woman sitting behind desk asked.

"Well, I was just looking around-"

"For theChosen, correct?" The woman asked, "Yes, she passed by. She first left for the Triet ruins, then she returned and left again… headed towards Izoold"

"How do you know?" Lloyd asked, creeped out by the mysterious woman.

"I overheard from the man in their group, and from the innkeeper, who comes here regularly. I also overheard you talking outside."

"…" Lloyd sighed.

"Since this is your first visit, I'll give you your fortune for free, if you'd like."

"Uhh… Sure, why not?" Lloyd shrugged.

"Show me your hand." Lloyd passed the woman his hand, who took a hold of it. "Your past is strangely twisted with your future, along with the lives of people you believe to no longer be alive. You aren't sure to trust two new companions either, although they are quite trustworthy… There is also someone far away, worrying over your health and well-being…"

"Whoa…" Lloyd said, staring in surprise at the woman.

"And you are suffering from a strange sickness recently, due to something that has happened to you in the past… or is it the future…?" The woman finished, letting Lloyd's hand drop. "There you go, hope you come again!"

Lloyd had awoken happily- glad that he hadn't gotten another one of the strange dreams. Of course all his happiness went down the drain when he walked outside to see a couple of desians putting up a wanted poster of him. Lloyd knew that desians killed his mother because they wanted the exphere- but he hadn't let anyone know about it- unless they discovered it when he was at that desian base… Lloyd watched the two desians leave, then walked quickly over to where Noishe was being kept so he could leave the city.

"Hey you!"

Lloyd cursed under his breath, turning to face the desian who'd called him and his companion. "Have you seen this guy?" One of them asked, holding up one of the wanted posters. Lloyd hadn't gotten a good glance earlier, but now he could tell that it didn't look anything like him- they had even listed the wrong height. "He should be traveling with a young half-elf."

"Sorry, haven't seen him!" Lloyd said quickly, hoping to get away without a fight.

"Hmph, guess we shouldn't have expected more then that." The two desians walked off, leaving Lloyd to breath a sigh of relief before continuing on his way to retrieve Noishe and leave the city.

Then he realized that something was off with what the desian said. "But I don't know any half-elves…"

Raine was awoken by the shouts coming from Colette in the room next to her. She ran over, bursting into Colette's room, only to see that the girl was tangled in her blankets on the floor.

"Colette, are you alright?" Raine asked.

Colette began to get free of the blankets and stand up, smiling. "It was a bad dream. Sorry Professor."

"I see. What was it about-?"

"I dreamt… that Lloyd hadn't been sick, and he came on the journey… but he was going to get hurt… because of me…"

Edit 25/06/11 - Reposted due to mixing up the chapters. Fixed some mistakes and the linebreaks.