:D chapter 3 is done! . but the thoughts of making the Mainstreams quest are kind of hard, but i'm going to get back on track by chapter 5 because I don't know how i'm doing them all

Still adore my two beta readers :3 because they can deal with me

"Are you okay?" calls out a warm voice.

I slowly opened my eyes to find myself staring into the sky. It was still night, but the sky was growing lighter so it must have been early morning.

"Ugh. Triona?" I call out but even my voice sounds weak and full of pain.

Someone came to my side but my eyes were apparently playing tricks on me still, because it was a blonde hair guy with green eyes and glasses. I would say that he looked like Tarlach, except his warm hand on my side proved that he was really there, so he couldn't have been. I closed my eyes and laid back onto…the stone?

"Take it easy. You're safe here."

"…Triona?" I asked, but I don't even bother hearing the answer as I fell back asleep.

~*~*~

It was now morning and it'd gotten warmer, somehow. Not daring to open my eyes, I simply move my arm to prove whether or not last night was real. Or if I was even really awake.

Yep. It was all real and I was wide awake.

My arm screamed in pain as I simply tried to lift it, but it was not as bad as last night. I leaned on the closest thing to me and stood up slowly, opening my eyes a crack.

I felt my remaining blood turn ice cold.

Currently, I was leaning against a very large brown bear. It was softly snoring to itself but I decided not to push my luck and made to escape as fast as I could.

I had only gone two steps before I fell down and screamed at the top of my voice.

Who the hell had put stairs!?

"Rawr."

Of course, my luck.

The bear was awake now and standing up, though he didn't move from his altar…for now at least, though one look at his jaws and I knew I had to get away.

I decided that if I ignored the pain hard enough, I could walk…hell, even RUN to town.

Instead, I put up with crawling patheticly.

The bear never chased me.

Coyotes tried attacking me but one summon of my wolf was enough to make them fear me.

I realized when I left the area, I had gone beyond Snowman Hill. I took a mental note to remember, so later on I could try to find the Tarlach look alike and thank him.

On the way, I ran into my old friend Zeiya who was hysterically crying over me. Though I had to tell him to be silent, or else I might pass out again.

Obedient little spirit.

~*~*~

I finally made it back to the outskirts of town, but heaven only knew how long it would take me to crawl all the way back to civilization. I was no longer rubbing against soft, powdery snow, but hard rough dirt. I decide to try to summon Ivory, which worked. The problem was trying to get on her.

She got as low as she could and, trying not to hurt her, I tugged gently on her mane and dragged my body on top of hers. Instantly, she was in a careful and slow walk. I knew was already past noon, and despite my current situation— nay, because of it, I was terribly irked.

Why the hell didn't someone send soilders to find me? Or at least gather some town people? Or something! I was gone for an entire night.

"Oh my god, Diya!"

Finally.

~*~*~

I woke up in Dilys' house all of a sudden.

Now I was feeling much better, I sat up carefully, but was greeted with virtually no pain. I slowly got out the bed and tried walking around it. Still there was no pain or aching to be felt.

I know Dilys is good, but was she really this good?

"Diya, get back into bed."

Dilys was just walking up the steps when she saw me. I smiled at her, so relieved to see a living thing who wasn't in my head. Or a horrible bear trying to eat me.

"Dilys!"

I threw my arms around the healer, hugging her tightly. She hugged me back softly and set me back down.

"We were worried last night when your kids came around here asking for you. We all went to Sidhe Sneachta and you weren't there. The kids said that your armor and sword were missing so they thought you went to Emain Macha again."

And not tell my kids?! What kind of mother do you take me for?

"I wouldn't leave them behind without a word."

"…Do you want to go back to Emain? For a full check over?"

Go back to Emain? So everyone can ask me what happened? As if.

"I'm fine. But there's something I have to tell you."

I told her about Triona and she promised to tell Duncan.

~*~*~

I slept in and out, and I saw all my children when they brought me gifts. People from the town visited me constantly, asking me how I was. I would say that I was fine, but Dily said that I was just being ignorant of my injuries.

Dreams of the Dark Knight, Ruairi, Tarlach and Triona. How much of it was real? How much was it was just a side affect of my blood loss?