I want to make sure everyone knows that this is a dream, once again I want to give you a better understanding of Lena's background so you will maybe come to like her, once again read and review.

Lena stirred in her sleep She was in the the town square of Redmont for what seemed to be the 1000th time; it was night, hair fair brown hair, knotted and dirty from neglect whistled across her face from the wind that haunted the night.

She had just left the local pub, the bird in hand, and had just had made her earnings for the night. Though, It wasn't because she worked there. She was a street urchin, making a living any way she could, she hated being seen by anyone, so instinctively, she had learnt how blend in with her surroundings, making little noise, and making herself an uninteresting person to look at in crowds, that's why the pub is a profitable place, in the dingy lit rooms of the bird in hand she was able to pick pocket many around her, they were all mostly drunk, and wouldn't notice as she took small amounts of money from there purses. She was ethical about it, she only took what she needed, and only little bits of what she needed from each person, a silver royal here, a silver royal there, no one would notice, as she ate from the bird in hand, the staff were in on it. The man, Rufus, would take kindly to her stealing little bits of change from his customers, but only once a week, it was really his money anyway, it would've become drink money for his customers.

Seen by no one, loved by no one, cared for her by no one. Except by her horse, Florence. She was by accident, able to find the paddocks of the horses ridden by the infamous ranger corps. As part of their training, their horses would be taught their code word for the ability to use there horse, but only once they were needed by a ranger, the paddock, after all, was suppose to be hidden anyway.

Florence was told that she could graze in a paddock outside the village while Lena went and found herself some money.

Lena now found herself walking down a short and narrow alleyway, coincidently; she had been in these exact spot thousands of times before. It was dark, and smelt of mold. Lena walked down the alleyway, finding it to be a dead end, she sighed, turning back when three men appeared at the end of the alleyway, blocking her path. She looked at the three; they were obviously there to do something, something bad.

"Hello gorgeous, what are you doing here?" said the man on the left of Lena; his words slurred carrying the stench of alcohol on his words. The man in the center walked towards her, with a slight stumble, he also smelled of alcohol he got close to Lena, breathing heavily "I think you should come with us" he said, baring a smile with teeth that showed the symptoms' of teeth that were not well cared for, one being a victim to a lifetime of decay.

Lena drew her dagger; quickly knocking the first man out with the hilt of his dagger, the man, shocked, fell on the ground. She twirled the dagger experimentally, it wasn't well balanced, but she could manage. She threw the dagger at the men two meters from her on the left. It hit him in his shoulder at the start of the pectoral muscle, he screamed, falling over nursing his wound. The other man, however, wasn't drunk, and he was quick to react, grabbing his own dagger and putting it to Lena's throat, without meaning to, she backed up against the wall, his hand resting on the wall behind her

The man spoke after a few moments of small struggles from Lena "now look here-" hiss-thump, an arrow appeared in his hand that was on the wall, making himself pinned to the wall, after a small gasp of pain, he looked back to see a hooded figure merging in an out of the darkness, the hooded figure spoke "let go of the girl, or you may find your self pinned to that wall for a lot longer then you would like". Lena took no time hesitating, kicking the man in the shin, causing him to bend over in agony, therefor causing more pain to his hand.

The hooded figure was a ranger, Lena knew, and that didn't stand well for her, as she was a petty criminal, she decided she needed to get out of there. "Not so fast, Lena" the ranger said quietly. Lena stopped midstride and looked at the ranger, shocked "how do you know my name?" she asked.

"Do you know what a rangers job is?" the ranger said, taking the cowl off his cloak, the removal of it revealed a ranger with brown eyes, and a fresh young face, not what she was expecting. "It's to collect information, Lena, that's what we do. We go around without being seen, finding information for the king. Rather like what you can do, except we have different intentions" the man said, one eyebrow rising.

"What's your name, ranger?" She said, rather uncertainly, not knowing how he would react. The man smiled " my names will, will treaty. "So, will treaty, how does one, if they wanted to, become a ranger?" she said, more uncertain again.

She woke up from having the dream she always did, the night roughly two years ago that changed her life entirely. Breathing heavily, she noticed the time using a trick Will showed her, it was around 2 o'clock. She was startled, will was there. "How long were you there, will?" Lena asked, the drowsiness of sleep still holding her. "But the question is, what would you have done, if I wasn't will?" he said then answering in a friendly tone: "for about twelve minutes, you doing the thing you always did, were you having the dream again?" she looked down, a slightly crestfallen face making another appearance on her face. He sat himself down on the chair near her bed, "your old life is behind you Lena, I know that you think that if you fail, there won't be a future for you, but you must know that your doing well, all most mediocre in fact" he said, with a slight smile remembering halts highest praise to him when he was an apprentice. "Anyway," will said, knowing it was best for her to get her mind off things "you need to pack your saddles, we need to be off just before sunrise." Her mind was racing "where will we be going? Is it dangerous? Where's Alyss? Is she coming?" Will smiled, reminded of him of himself at her age. " if you asked one question at a time, maybe you might get an answer" he replied mimicking the drawling voice of his former teacher. "That's why where leaving soon, I because I don't want Alyss to think that she has any chance of coming" he continued" now get packed, we 're going to castle Araluen." And off they went.

Ok, that's done:) now we're going to get to the good stuff, I hope. Any suggestions to the story would be great. If you want to know more about Lena (trust me I've got more on her) reviewing will get me to focus on more things in the story, and make writing it a priority