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Chapter 3: Where are we…
Az was drifting peacefully, her eyes were tightly closed and her sleep was dreamless. Heaven…
The bliss of her rest was interrupted by a brusque hand shaking her, whispering at her to get up. She groaned and rolled over, swatting at the hand that had now resorted to poking her, and landing on her left shoulder, sitting bolt upright as a spark of pain flashed and then subsided almost instantly. But it was too late now, she was up and everything was rushing back in a confusing torrent.
The escape through the wyldwood flashed through her mind, then Sage and Bane, sadness hinting their eyes. Then she remembered two beautiful boys, one with wheat blonde hair and emerald eyes and the other with maroon hair and pleading, cerulean eyes. Finally, she remembered the portal closing and the faint feeling of falling and being caught before darkness enveloped her.
She shook those thoughts from her head and turned, aching, with pins and needles in her neck, to face… darkness? Huh? She thought.
Then came the same voice that had been whispering at her to get up, "Hey, right here sleepy head!" Oh, it was only Fi…
"Lemme alone! I wanna sleep!" she muttered before flopping back onto the comfy pillows.
Wait a second… Pillows?!
She shot up again, turning to face the direction Fi's voice had come from, switching her vision to Spirit-sight so that she could make her friend out in the darkness. Normally darkness wasn't a problem for her, but though she felt more rejuvenated and certainly more powerful after having slept, she didn't want to waste her energy manipulating it. She didn't like using Spirit-sight either, as although it was useful in many situations, it meant that though she was able to see perfectly well, every goddam living thing was surrounded by a silvery glow, which varied in brightness depending on the organisms life force. This could be quite confusing sometimes…
She looked around the room she was in, taking in the expensively decorated walls, the lush carpet, and the bed. The bed she was sat on was seriously soft, and the blankets and covers were made of a smooth, thick wool, with a warm silk throw over the top. Windows lined the entire top half of the wall to the left, giving the room an airy feel, but they were covered by at least three layers of curtains. Someone doesn't like sleeping with any excess light…
Or two someones.
She now realized that she and Fi were sat up, facing each other, on opposite sides of the luxurious king-sized bed. However, across the room, facing her and Fi was another king-size, which held the upright figures of Tal and Theia, who happened to be peering across in her and Fi's direction… ish.
"Hey, Fi!" said Theia, "Is she up yet? Because if she isn't them I'm going to come over there, lift her up and drop her from the ceiling!"
Az sighed and switched back to normal sight, the room going pitch black once more.
"Oi! Tal! Light up it up would ya?" she whispered across the room.
"Yup, she's up." came Tal's voice. A second later a ball of fire flickered into life, lighting Tal's face as she held it in her palm, away from the probably flammable bedspreads…
The ball of red light glowed and wavered, a sphere of twisting orange and red flames in a perfect, enclosed sphere.
The ball of flame hovered above Tal's palm for a moment before rising to float in the space between the two beds, illuminating the dark room so the friends could see each other.
Immediately, Tal and Theia got up, moving speedily and soundlessly over to Az and Fi's bed. They perched on the edge and Az and Fi crawled to meet them, flinching when of the bed springs creaked loudly.
"What do we do?" whispered Theia, getting straight to the point.
"Well first, I think Az should Ascend and find out if there is anyone around, and look out the window, and see if she can figure out where the hell we are!" exclaimed Fi, before quickly clapping a hand over her mouth in apology. It was quite obvious that she was worried…
Az reached over and wrapped her arms around her friend, her cloak swishing around her with the movement. She hugged Fi tightly and pulled away, keeping her hand on Fi's shoulder and looking her straight in the eye before saying, "We're going to be fine, darlin', just don't worry about it!" A smile touching her face.
Fi breathed deeply, shook out her cloak and smiled back, reassured. All four of them still had their hoods up, just in case someone happened to walk in, and Tal was poised to summon the fire back to her and leap back to the other bed with Theia at an instant's notice.
"Ok, well I agree with Fi that it's a good idea for you to Ascend and check the building out, maybe scout out an exit route." said Theia to Az.
"Will do," replied Az "I'll be right back…"
Az closed her eyes, getting that familiar falling feeling in her stomach as her body crossed dimensions. She opened one eye, seeing the others staring at her, or at least where they thought she was. She waved a hand in front of Theia's hooded face, just to check that she couldn't see her. The girl didn't even flinch. Az smiled to herself and rose from her sitting position, looking around to find the door over in the far left corner of the room, perpendicular to the windowed wall. She strolled over leisurely, pausing a moment just in front of the door, before leaning forward… and walking right through it. She emerged in a dimly lit corridor with a plush carpet, like the one in the room, lining the floor. The corridor was empty.
She started to creep to the right, as there was a windowed wall on her left, stepping with caution though she knew no-one could see, hear, or feel her when she had Ascended. She carried on down the corridor, the trade-mark luminescence of the astral plane. She was the only creature on Earth, at the moment, who could bodily cross between the real world and the astral plane, giving her quite a good advantage when it came to sneaking around. Plus, there was no unconscious body left behind while she was Ascended. Always a strategic bonus.
As she came to a corner she heard footsteps approaching and the same group of white-uniformed boys came into view.
They paused in the mouth of her corridor and the dark brunette asked the ginger and pretty-boy blonde to keep watch on the door.
Az watched them like a hawk, unmoving as they approached the door, relaxing when they leaned against the wall on either side of the entrance to the room. The blonde was complaining: "I don't see why they haveto use our room!" he grumbled.
Az grinned. Those two are harmless, she thought, before carrying on down the corridor behind the remaining three, hoping they would lead her to an exit.
Then they froze.
"There's someone here," muttered the dark haired boy, the one who had the air of a leader. "I can feel them…"
The other two looked around, startled, when something really strange happened.
They both looked her straight in the eye at exactly the same time. Her breath froze in her throat and her heart started to beat like a drum, so loud she could feel it. The maroon narrowed his eyes and nudged the wheat haired one.
"There." he muttered, pointing to exactly where she was standing, she could tell that the blonde could see exactly what his friend meant as well. Az couldn't understand it. This was impossible! Purely and plainly impossible! There was no way they could see her! Thoughts whizzed through her head, so she did the only thing that suited the situation.
She turned on her heel and ran. Sprinting down the corridor at tremendous speed, her breath too loud in her ears to hear what was happening behind her. She ran straight through the ginger stood outside their door, momentarily pausing to watch him shiver as she passed through him. She loved that. Then she ran straight into the room and collapsed onto the bed.