Hello! I should have been doing chem just now but after 5 min I decided I couldn't be bothered and I finished this chapter up! I'm pretty sure I know how I'm going to write the next chapter but if any of you guys have ideas please review and tell me (well... please review any way, reviews always make my day)!

Maua sighed peacefully. She was sitting in shade of a large tree by a small river reading. She had enjoyed filling in the hours by reading some of the children books from the house's library. Though she missed Elphaba, her friend's absence had given her time to fully think some things over. Maua remembered Elphaba mention that deserts surrounded all of Oz. The whole of Oz was in fact a giant oasis. Few ever set out in the desert and none had returned. It was widely believed that desert was all that was out there and no other land had water in it. This worried Maua greatly. She was obviously very far from home and a suicidal trek across a possibly endless desert didn't really appeal to her, especially since she wouldn't know which direction to go in. It seemed teliportation was the only way home. This was also a rather disturbing idea. Maua had only done it by accident once when she had first come to Oz. She didn't have much of an idea on how to do it on purpose.

Suddenly she heard the branches of the tree rustle. She looked up in time to see Elphaba's broom zoom over. Maua quickly climbed the tree and poked her head through the branches. She gasped in horror as she saw the broom had no rider. She half scrambled, half threw herself off the tree and the second her feet hit the ground she was sprinting towards the house on all fours.

When she arrived at the house the broom was in Elphaba's room, hovering. Elphaba's bag was hung on it and Maua quickly grabbed it and emptied its contents on the floor, in hope to find some clue to her friend's disappearance. Out fell a large and old looking book and several maps and pieces of paper. Maua spread them on the floor and started to read at a painfully slow pace. Though she knew the alphabet, she hadn't yet gotten used to reading the new language and she was an unfortunately slow reader. The content of the notes and the maps left little to the imagination, this was a raid or a break in of some kind. What for however, was unclear.

Maua turned her attention to the book. Opening it to a random page, Maua soon saw this was no ordinary book. It was in a different language and alphabet than the one Elphaba had taught her. Maua gasped as she realised that that was not the only strange thing about the book. As she moved her eyes along the page the words would change. The letters ans symbols would remain the same only when they Maua's eyes were on them, but, once her eyes moved to a different part of the page they would twist and turn themselves into different phrases and words.

Maua was unsure about what to do. She felt something poke her back and realised it was the broom. As soon as she stood up the broom attempted to scoop her up. Maua kept loosing her balance and falling off.

"Stop it you stupid flying thing! Stop sweeping me of my feet and let me get a grip on you!"

Much to her surprise the broom obediently stopped and hovered next to her, waiting. 'Elphaba must have sent it to get me' thought Maua. But then why would she have sent the book back with the broom? Maybe she wanted to leave it at the house...

Maua looked back at the book. There was something very strange about it. She knew a lot about magic. She had grown up with it. But she had never heard of anything like this book. Maua kneeled down next to it and put her hands above it.

"Come on, you can do this. Are you a manipulator or aren't you?" she quietly willed herself on. She needed to get this spell right. Her hands began to glow gently and the book began to shrink slowly. Maua kept the spell going until the book was the size of thumb nail. Maua picked it up and tucked it into a small pocked hidden in the inside of her shirt. She put the papers back into the bag and climbed onto the broom. It flew out the open window and soared high into the sky.

Hope you guys like the chapter :)

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