^^^^^ **Sigh** I've got so much for this story jumbling around in my head and Ive got NO idea how to bring it from one to the next. AH!^^^^^

Three.

Kisandria Heartsworn and her horse, Raistlin, trod softly on the path to the tower. Eyes shifting to and fro, they were worried about the things that haunted the Shoikan Grove. Not scared or frightened, just worried.

"This place is weird," she whispered, "I don't know what everyone talks about, it's not that bad."

The horse shook his head, 'yes it is' he thought, but his master would never know that.

At their slow walking pace it was taking them forever and a day to actually emerge at the gate.

"Wanna run?" she asked jumping into the saddle.

They were off like lightning. Their gallop only took them a few more minutes to see the gate ahead of them. They were finally out of the Grove, both heaving a sigh of relief.

Being right underneath it the tower looked bigger then it had on the otherside of the Grove. Kisandria let out a great, long whistle. She dismounted and strode her way to the gate, reaching out her hand in amazement. It was cold, she could feel that without even touching it, and when she did the breath was pulled from her lungs. It was as though she were placing her hand upon a glacier in the frozen Antarctic. As quickly as the gate would allow she pushed it open, just enough for her and her horse to get through, and just as quickly she closed it. She approached the door into the tower, marveling at the runes carved into its surface.

"It seems so tiny compared to the rest of the tower," she breathed to no one.

It took her a few minutes to gather her courage, but she finally banged on the door with a closed fist. It only took half as long for the door to open antagonizeingly slow. When it was finally open and she saw who came to greet her she let out a gasp of shock.

"YOU!" She yelled pointing at Dalamar, "You were in the market yesterday."

"Indeed." was his simple reply.

"You scared off the kid looking after my horse and now I know why."

"Why are you here?" He asked her, his eyes boring into her's as if he could read it from her mind.

"Easy. I'm here to see you and your shalafi." her grin crinkled the corners of her eyes and seemed to cover half her face.

Dalamar contemplated this fact for a moment before speaking, "Very well."

"What should I do with him?" She pointed a thumb over her shoulder at her horse.

"Bring him in. We have no stables. He should be fine in one of the lower rooms."

She turned to her animal, "Behave."

That said, before she could blink Dalamar spoke the words of magic and they were suddenly in a large room on the first story of the tower. Horse-Raistlin exhaled in shock, pulling at his reins slightly.

"Easy, Raist," she whispered, turning to run a calming hand on his nose.

Her comment did not go unheard by Dalamar.

"What is his name?" His voice held disbelief and amusement.

"Uhm, Raistlin?"

He chuckled, "Interesting."

Kisandria raised an eyebrow at him, "Tell the real Raistlin and I'll kill you."

"No, no. You're going to be the one to tell him."

"Like hell I am," she screeched, turning to unsaddle the Horse-Raistlin.

Dalamar chuckled again and patiently waited for her to unsaddle and brush her horse.

"Done!" She said triumphantly, raising her arms in the air.

"Finally." Dalamar breathed and went back to the spell that would take them to just outside Raistlin's study.

"I don't think I'm ever going to get tired of that." Raistlin heard a giggling voice outside his study exclaim.

Then a knock came to the door, his apprentice's voice floating in after it, "Shalafi?"

The master of the tower beckoned them into his study. Dalamar opened the door and waited for Kisandria to enter. 'Here we go,' she thought, holding her breath.

She saw him as she entered. Just as she had expected. The pained lines on his face, the cold calculating eyes, even the bony hands that gripped his staff as he stood. 'Although the books don't do him much justice,' she thought stopping in the middle of the room.

"Who is this?" Raistlin demanded upon seeing the hooded figure walk into his study ahead of Dalamar.

Dalamar opened his mouth to speak but the girl got there before him.

"My name is Kisandria Heartsworn," she said boldly walking up to him. Only the desk between them.

Her excitement was bubbling over. Dalamar the Dark, Argent, Nightson, whatever you wanted to call him and Raistlin Majere, the Master of Past and Present, both in the same room with her. The cool, collected calm she had called to her since discovering where she was, was starting to break away.

"This is the girl I told you about earlier, the one attempting to enter the forest."

Raistlin looked at the girl, almost in shock, "How did you make it past the Grove?"

She shrugged, "I'm not entirely sure. I've heard the stories, of the creatures in there making anyone who walked its path without invitation making the person one of them. I'm surprised nothing happened."

"Did you not feel the fear the Grove emanates?"

"No. I was scared, just worried."

Raistlin looked at the girl, trying to see all of her face but most of it was hidden in the shadows from the fire. He only caught pieces at a time.

"Lower your hood girl, " he commanded, no one was going to hid their face from him in HIS tower.

Kisandria hesitated a few moments and lowered her hood.

Even though Dalamar had seen her the day before he was still impressed with her beauty, although he didn't show it. Raistlin on the other hand did not conceal his reaction with the expertness he usually contained. His jaw dropped slightly as he saw her beauty. Even with his accursed sight he did not see her body wither and decay. He marveled at the blue of her eyes as they darted from him to Dalamar.

"What are you?" he asked her, not looking away.

"Okay," she said, "staring is rude. Both of you. And, what? I'm human just like you, Raistlin. A bit less magical and terrifying but human."

"I'm terrifying to you?" he asked slightly amused, a smirk crawling to his lips, "You pass the Grove with as little as a shudder and you find me terrifying?"

"Not really you. More the things I know you can do."

She stood up straighter, as if challenging him to question her resolve, but he merely smirked and continued his questioning.

"Where do you come from? Kisandria, was it?"

"Yes. Uhm."

She hadn't thought this through. The last thing she wanted or needed was the greatest Archmage ever of Kryyn to know she was from another world.

"Haven."

"Really?" He was intrigued more and more every second by this girl, "I've been to Haven many a time and I never once heard talk of the family Heartsworn."

She hated how his eyes seemed to read her mind and see through her lies, "my family kept to themselves. Very protective of each other. Especially of me, being their only child."

"How do you come to be here now, if they are so protective? You're a long way from Haven."

"I ran off. Cut off from the family when I was 16. I would have rather traveled than be married off."

"I see." He wasn't finished questioning her, "You came through the Grove fairly quick. It takes longer for someone usually even if they have my blessing."

"I rode on horseback."

Dalamar smirked, "Ask he horse's name, Shalafi."

Raistlin looked to the girl waiting but her attention was on Dalamar. Eyes wide with anger.

"I'll kill you, elf!" she hissed at the chuckling apprentice.

"Tell me." Raistlin said quietly.

"Myhorse'snameisRaistlin." she said quickly.

"If I didn't know any better, I'd say you're part gnome." Dalamar mused.

"You take great pleasure in my amusement," she said before turning back to Raistlin, "My horse's name is Raistlin."

Raistlin's eyebrows shot up, "Is it now?"

"Yup." Kisandria squinted her eyes closed in embarrassment.

"Well," he said thinking of the time he's been away from his books, "Dalamar. Take her to a room. She intrigues me. I'll keep her here for a while."

The last thing she saw before the dark elf lead her from the study was Raistlin's smirking face.

A smirk she'd never thought she'd see.

^^^^^There you go. uhm. yeah. This is one of those. I have stuff in my mind but i don't know how to get there from where I'm at and I'm just blowing smoke out my butt on this chap. But I actually like how it turned out. I'm not usually this active and outputty on a story but I'm eager to get through it. Ive had DL stories in my head before and Ive just never gotten them out. :3 Who else saw that he'd be able to see her as everyone else would?

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