AN: Sorry it's been so long. I don't remember when I last updated but I do know it was a long time ago. It's been rather busy round here, I actually wrote the first part of this chapter after I posted the last chapter, but then I hit writer's block and I didn't have time to try to get rid of it. I want to thank TheWackedOne for being the first, and only person so far to review. So thank you TheWackedOne!

Sighing, Lanna looked out over the blue ocean and blue sky. She was bored. And a bored Lanna was never good; her brother had already taken shelter in the small cabin he was given when they had boarded the ship. It would take three days to get to Tortall but only one and a half had passed. Lanna had already cleaned all of her weapons…twice. She paced from the starboard side of the boat to the port side. The sailors watched her carefully, they learned after the first hour to stay away from her. The annoyed girl started muttering to herself, "Day and a half left! I'm going to die of boredom. There's nothing to do!"

"Oh I don't know about that Little One," a man said as he leaned on the railing closet to where Lanna was pacing.

She jumped, "Who are you?"

"Me? I'm the captain of the ship, Kito at your service." Kito said, and then pushed himself off of the railing, "And you could help the sailors, I can teach you what you need to do to sail a ship."

Lanna thought about it for a minute, "That sounds like fun. It wouldn't hinder you or the other sailors?"

And so the rest of the trip Lanna helped sail the ship. It kept her entertained and out of trouble. A bonus in everyone's books.


"Lanna! Hold still!" Peter called from the doorway of Lanna's cabin on the ship where Lanna was currently jumping up and down on the balls of her feet. Peter walked into the room and placed his hands on his sister's shoulders trying to hold her down.

She ducked out of her brother's hold and skipped out of the room, "Never!" She yelled, "We're almost there! I can't wait!" The man up in the crow nest had spotted land two hours ago and Lanna hadn't been able to sit still since.

The girl raced through the ship's interior, and burst through the door onto the deck. The sailors openly laughed as Lanna slid to a stop just before the railing of the ship at the front. She brushed her straight, black hair out of her face and look into the horizon, trying to see the sliver of land that she knew was there. "Hello Kito," she said without looking behind her.

The captain looked puzzled, "How did you know it was me?"

Lanna glanced back, "Your foot steps. Everyone's are different." She grinned then, "I can tell everyone on this ship apart by their steps, now if you'll excuse me," the nine year old sidled past, "I have to pack."


An hour after the two had talked the ship entered the harbor at Port Caynn. Lanna stood up from the crouch she was in, and flipped the two daggers in her hands into their sheaths at her wrists. The sailor she was sparing with took advantage of her distraction and lunged at the girl's side. Lanna spun, knocking the man's wrist out of the way so that he didn't stab her beneath her ribs, though everyone knew that he would have stopped just short of breaking skin. "Well that was rude," Lanna said, then added, "but smart, I would have done the same." The group of sailors surrounding the two laughed, and then quickly got to work readying the boat to anchor. Lanna ran to the stern of the ship (I think the means the front, I'm not good with ships), she looked out over the harbor and grinned when she saw the ropes being thrown from the ship to the docks. She raced to the few stalls in the barrel of the ship, grabbed her horse's halter, and stepped into the stall, "Hey Girl."

'Girl' snorted, "Are we finally getting off this death trap?"

"Yes," Lanna said, then added, "Hold still, I have to get you tacked up." Lanna slipped the halter onto her horse, Cinta. She led the black mare out of the stall and wrapped the lead rope around a post. Lanna grabbed the box with brushes in it; she picked a rubber curry comb out of it and started the work of grooming Cinta. When her horse was all brushed Lanna pulled over the wagon with her trunks in it, she placed the harness just behind Cinta's shoulders, wrapped the girth around her stomach, and cinched it tight. Lanna pulled the shoulder straps around Cinta's front legs, and secured them to the girth.

The wagon was hooked up to the harness by two wooden posts, and Lanna's eight (six full of clothes and two with weapons) trunks were placed in it, Peter's four (two with clothes and two with weapons) were in there too. Cinta's and Peter's horse's saddle boxes were put in there too. Cinta had three saddles; a jousting saddle, a sidesaddle, and a regular saddle. All of those boxes were full. Peter's horse had only two; a jousting saddle and a regular saddle; the regular saddle's box was currently empty as Peter was going to be riding. Lanna then secured the canvas over the trunks and pulled it tight with the cords that ran through the covering and round holes drilled into the wood of the wagon. A small seat was attached to the front of the wagon. When everything was ready Lanna replaced Cinta's halter with a bridle and slipped the halter underneath the seat. She jumped up onto the bench and picked up the reins. Cinta started walking up the ramp to the main deck. Peter met them on the deck with his horse, Keberanian, or Keb for short. Keb was a very strong war horse, Peter always said he needed a horse just for running but Keb wouldn't hear of it, it didn't really matter anyway because Keb could keep up with the horses bred for running. The siblings nodded at each other and walked the horses up to the ramp that was set up to the deck. Peter and Keb went down first then Lanna and Cinta headed down.

The two siblings and their horses set off to find a spy of their mother's. The spy had agreed to give them a place to stay for the night and to help them exchange their Kyprish money for Tortallan gold. Their grandparents didn't know the twins were coming. Well the grandparents knew that their grandchildren would come eventually, but they didn't know exactly when. It was one Aly's and Lanna's biggest successes, keeping the Whisper Man from learning the plans of his grandchildren. He kept an annoyingly close watch on the two, he always knew when they were travelling and always knew where they were in the Copper Isles. But when Lanna decided that their visit would be a surprise for Tortall plans were made so that George would think they were going to the Yamani Islands, again. The twins enjoyed going to the Islands, Lanna was taught how to use a glaive there and both siblings learned the Yamani bow. Lanna also learned how to use a shukusen, both as a deadly weapon and as a lady's fan.

Lanna had her hair half up half down, the part that was up was braided and fell down her back. Her hair was straight and hit her waist; in the braid was a leather strap with metal spikes. If she got in a fight and someone grabbed her hair he or she would be in for a nasty surprise. She wore black leggings with a black shirt and a sapphire tunic that hit her at mid-thigh. She also had a sapphire cloak on with its hood up; the girl didn't feel like having people sneer at her for wearing boy's clothes. Peter was similarly dressed but he didn't have on leggings, he had on long trousers, and his tunic and cloak was an emerald color. Both wore black leather shoes, Peter's hit just under his ankles while Lanna's hit mid-calf. They both also had on black fingerless leather gloves. One of Peter's swords sat at his hip and his bow was unstrung in the quiver that was specially made to fit both a bow and arrows in it, the bow's string was in a waterproof bag at his hip on the opposite side as his sword. Daggers sat on the wrists, ankles, thighs, and on the backs of the siblings. Lanna's sword sat next to her on the bench of the wagon, her bow and quiver were under the canvas, within easy reach of the girl though. A glaive was also within reach of the girl, though she did have to lean a little bit, and that annoyed her.

Lanna checked to make sure none of her hair was sticking out of her hood and followed her brother to the safe house. While they were in Port Caynn Lanna would act as Peter's servant. So therefore she had to masquerade as a boy, while Peter was a rich merchant boy. In Tortall rich families made sure that each child had their own servant, and because of that most ended up best friends because they had spent their lives together. Lanna made sure never to let her brother out of her sight, they may have been in a new country but that didn't give them permission to slack off. They were careful of everything, never letting their purses leave their sides and keeping a sharp eye out. Peter led the way to a safe house on the outskirts of the dock; the house was in the upper neighbor hood, safely away from the poorer parts of the city. It was painted white and had a well kept courtyard that had some beautiful flowers and trails that led to benches, swings, and one led to the dirt clearing that the two stopped at when they got there. Lanna got down from the wagon and walked up to the door, she knocked twice and said, "The Cunning One's twins are in Yamani."

Her mom's spy opened the slot in the door, "And yet here they stand," he replied. They both smiled at each other, "Take your horses to the stables, I'll meet you there." The slot slide close and Lanna heard foot steps leading away from the front door.

She walked over to her brother and Cinta, "Come on," Lanna grabbed Cinta's reins right below her chin strap and led her horse and brother into the stable. There both siblings started quickly untacking the sweat soaked horses. Peter undid all of the straps holding the saddle and packs onto Keb. The horse stood patiently as he waited for his friend to get the grooming supplies and start brushing him down. Cinta however was less patient. She pranced around until Lanna was forced to tie her to a hitching post, "Stop moving!" She snapped. When Lanna undid the straps holding the wagon onto Cinta, the two siblings pulled it to the side of the door. Lanna then got out the brushes, hoof pick, and mane combs. Lanna began the task of grooming Cinta till all the sweat was gone from her body.

That was when their host walked through the back stable doors, "I see your horses are taken care of. You can put them in the two stalls there. Your wagon can stay there but you might want to pick out clothes for tomorrow." He said in perfect Kyprish.

Peter smirked at him, "Thank you kindly."

"We'll be in in a second." Lanna added, "I have to pick what to wear. Tomorrow till we exit the city I will be a noble girl heading to Corus, when we are about ten miles away I will change clothes to a young boy."

Peter looked at his sister before heading over to the box with his Tortallan styled clothes, "I will be her escort to the city, and then after she changes I will be her twin brother, heading to Corus to become servants in the palace."

Lanna glanced at her brother when she grabbed her trunk with Tortallan dresses and men's clothes. She picked up a white under dress, and a royal blue dress that had sliver embroidery. It had a high cut neck line, a tight fitting bodice; the skirt widened out but didn't flare. The sleeves were tight to her elbows then widened so that the sleeves could completely cover her hands. The embroidery made delicate vines, flowers, and leaves around the neck line, end of the sleeves, the bottom of the bodice, and the bottom of the skirt. She decided to wear the same boots as she had on today so she also grabbed a cleaning cloth from the trunk. Lanna then opened a different trunk and replaced her sword, glaive, bow and quiver into their correct boxes and into the opened trunk. She then picked out a different trunk and took out a box that contained brushes, make-up, and bathing things.

Peter picked out a white undershirt, royal blue tunic, and short trousers. The tunic and trousers had sliver bears embroidered into it. The tunic had the same neck cut as Lanna's dress. Peter grabbed white socks and a cleaning cloth thinking the same thing as his sister; he would also wear the same shoes. He also grabbed a box containing bathing things, though he kept out his weapons.

Then they headed into the house with their things for the next day, they didn't go through the front door, instead they used the secret passage that was in the storage room that led to a broom closet in the back of the first floor. They immediately headed up to the third floor where their rooms for the night were located. Aly's spy was leaning against a wall there; he pointed to two doors and then went back downstairs. Lanna opened the door to the room on the right side of the hallway while Peter opened the door on the left. They had identical rooms; a full size bed, a desk and chair, a book shelf that had a variety of trinkets on, a table, a lounge chair, and a door that led to a bathroom. The bathroom had a chamber pot, a bath, and a warming rod. Hung on the rods were hand towels, drying towels, and both had wash towels. Lanna hung her dress on the closet rod in that back of the bathroom. Peter simply tossed his clothes for the next day on his table before heading over to his sister's room. He found her sleeping on her bed, it was late and she hadn't slept well on the ship, Alanna the Younger had inherited Alanna the Older's sea sickness. Peter smiled softly at his sister's face, she looked so innocent, so soft, all of her guards where down and Peter could see the girl she would be if she hadn't chose to become a spy and a warrior. He gently smoother her hair, he glanced at her braid and realized that she had left the leather strip in it. He frowned and undid the braid, taking the strap out and placing it on the bedside table. He got up and found her hair brush in her bath box, he ran the brush through her hair, and then pulled all of her hair into a low braid, securing it with a short, skinny leather tie. He then carefully pick up his twin in one arm and pulled the covers down the bed, when he replaced her onto the bed he saw that she still had her boots on, he untied them and put them on the floor near the door. He walked back to the bed and covered his little sister with a sheet; it was nearing the middle of summer and was hot out.

The male twin left his sister's room and walked down to the sitting room. The host was there, waiting for him. "Lanna fell asleep," Peter said simply. "Were we followed?"

The spy replied, "No, you weren't. I made sure of it."


When the morning came Lanna was the first one up. She rang for hot water so she could take a bath, a few minutes later two maids walked in, each carrying two pitchers of steaming water. Lanna smiled at them and they followed her into the bathroom. "Thank you," she said simply, the maids nodded and smiled at the young girl who seemed so older than she was. Lanna stripped off her trousers and shirt that she had slept in, and undid her braid too. Her loincloths were also discarded at the side of the tube. She stepped into the tube and ducked her head underneath the water, soaking her hair before opening the corked tube of shampoo and pouring some onto her head, and scrubbing her head vigorously. She then rinsed all of it out, and grabbed the wash cloth and then scrubbing her lavender scented body soap into it. She then stood up and washed her whole body, before lifting one leg and setting her foot on the edge of the tub, and soaping it up. She then grabbed her shaver and shaved her leg, and her other one after that. Her underarms came after that. She rinsed her body and the cloth before hanging the cloth up and getting out of the tub and standing on the wooden floor, and grabbing the d body towel to dry herself off with. She wrapped herself in the towel, grabbed her dress, under dress, loincloths, and her stockings.

Lanna walked into her bedroom and placed all her clothes onto the bed. She unwrapped the towel and got dressed as quickly as possible in her clothes and stockings. She then walked over to the desk in the room; she grabbed her make-up kit and sat in the chair. There was a mirror hung over the desk that she used to put on natural looking make-up, using it to make her look older, and less tan, as it was the style in Tortall. The noble teen girls were not seen outside much and when they were they were covered with a parsol. Lanna used a pale colored powder on her whole face and neck; she didn't bother with her hands because of her dress sleeves. She then took a darker pink, light pink, and shimmer white to her eyes, putting the dark color the closest to her purple eyes, the light pink above the crease, and the shimmer all over her eye lids. Lanna put a pale blush over the apples of her cheeks and put on a clear lip gloss. She then grabbed a black kohl pencil and lined the bottom of her eyes with a skinny line. She also put a thin line over the top too.

The girl looked at herself in the mirror and sighed, her purple eyes were too recognizable. Lanna dug in her wooden box and found her eye dye potions. A single drop in each eye of the one of the different colored potions would change her irises to the color of the potion. She picked up the hazel colored one and placed one drop in her right eye then a drop in her left. She then found a few black leather hair ties, she pulled her hair into a low rolled ponytail, braiding the ponytail with the leather and metal strap, she then took the few pieces she had left out at the front of her hair she wrapped small blue leather strips around them, making to loops in her hair when she attached the ends to the bottom ponytail (like Katara's hair in the last airbender cartoon). Deciding that she was ready for the day she packed up all of her stuff, and put on her black boots. She grabbed her bathroom box and the clothes she had worn the day before, walked out to the stairs, down them, and then out the secret passage way. She repacked all of her stuff and headed back inside after giving Cinta and Keb an apple each. When she reached the kitchen she found the cooks working on breakfast and Peter sitting at the table with a cup of what appeared to be tea. When a cook saw that Lanna had entered the cook poured her a cup too. Lanna sat down across from her older brother, "Thank you for looking after me last night."

Peter looked at his baby sister with kind eyes, "That's my job, Little One. I promised Mother I would look after you."

"I can take care of myself," Lanna said scowling. "I don't need a babysitter."

Peter chuckled, "I know you don't, however, sometimes you forget to look after yourself and I need to do it for you, or remind you. I didn't want to wake you up last night so I took care of you."


After breakfast the twins went out to the stable. Today Keb would be the one pulling the wagon and Cinta would have a side saddle on till they changed ten miles out of the port city. While Lanna tacked up Cinta in the saddle Peter had to figure out the wagon harness. For five minutes Lanna laughed at her twin before Peter growled at her to help. Lanna quickly fixed all the straps then ordered Peter to pull the wagon over behind Keb, the girl then quickly attached the wagon to the harness. Peter glared at his sister before helping her into the side saddle on Cinta's back. He then opened the barn doors and hopped onto the wagon bench.


Two hours later the twins were finally far enough outside Port Caynn. Lanna jumped off of Cinta while both horses and Peter laughed, Lanna glared at them, and grabbed the clothes from the bags where she had stashed them earlier.


AN: I know this wasn't the best chapter, but I wrote it today and I just got my wisdom teeth pulled, so I've been on painkillers all day. So I've been a little loopy, sorry if it doesn't make sense, just review me if you see something terribly wrong. This chapter was longer than the other two put together, I'm hoping to make the rest of the chapters this long, or longer if I can without rambiling.