Ch. 7
"No one is mad at you." Skydancer sat next to me on the bench; as a result I sat sandwiched in between two gorgeous men. Not that I was complaining, but I was seriously asking myself how it happened when back at home I didn't even have a boyfriend.
"But they've got to be asking themselves how it is possible that I'm from another world." I pointed out.
"A little upset at the circumstances, but not at you." Skydancer agreed.
"All right. So how are we going to decide what I'm supposed to be doing?"
"Interestingly enough, I think there might be something you should check out." Keys shrugged when Skydancer looked over at him. We'd told him what I just told the council, and he'd just smiled at me.
"What do you mean?"
"I was at Lord Breon's keep, and I met a young man there who told me he was from the Kingdom Earth."
"Earth is a planet, not a Kingdom." I corrected.
"Yes, but he seemed very sure of himself and his importance. Lord Breon had agreed to let him stay under refugee status."
"Why didn't Breon say anything?"
"You really didn't give him a chance darling." Skydancer soothed my ruffled feathers, he was right. I ran right out of the meeting without any rebuttal. I blushed and let Skydancer help me to my feet. "We should get back and let him explain this newcomer of his own."
"Have fun. Let me know how things turn out." Keys turned back to his piano and set his fingers down.
As we walked back to the meeting I could have sworn the tune he played was familiar in some way, but I couldn't quite place it.
"He named himself Lord Akron, he allows us to call him Dale." Lord Breon smiled gently at me, as if he were aware of how unnerved I was just being in the same room with him.
"Akron is a city near Kent, where I live. Actually they're both college towns." I shrugged, "he's probably just a frat boy from Akron, if he's pushy enough to convince you he's a Lord." I'd met frat boys who could've convinced any freshman they were Princes, it wasn't a stretch of my imagination at all.
"What is a "frat boy"?" Skydancer wanted to know.
"This may just be my own prejudice showing, but a frat boy is a guy who lives in a house with a bunch of other guys so they have someone to drink with. Most of them are pretty intelligent, but they don't act it most of the time. I can't tell you how many times I've had to throw things at these guys to get them to shut the hell up during finals week." I blew my hair out of my face and tried to think of a less judgmental way of putting it.
"They do not sound pleasant." Breon leaned back in his seat.
"They're not all like that," I admitted, "its just that all of my encounters with them have been unpleasant. On the other hand, if he knows enough about your world to convince you all he's really a Lord, then he's read enough and is probably intelligent enough to realize that he'd better have a plan. I bet he's been ransacking your library."
"Yes, he sits there all day."
I had discovered that the one good thing about fraternities is that they seem to keep guys who know their way around a library. Good grades are essential after all, to keep mommy and daddy supplying a bank roll.
"He's trying to find any information on how to get home, I bet he's not having any luck at all."
"He does not seem disappointed."
"Maybe he's a geek?" I mused to myself. Just thinking about the library Lord Breon must keep… my mouth started watering. Maybe this Dale guy was the same way.
"Geek?"
"Its someone who likes books and learning new information, in its positive connotation." I included under my breath. "I'd like to meet him, maybe we could figure out something between the two of us, I could let you know if he's really from my world."
Skydancer's fingers tightened on mine. I squeezed right back and smiled reassuringly.
"If he really is, then maybe I didn't have to die to get here." I let out a breath and chuckled, "it would be reallynice to find out for sure."
He nodded, "I will accompany you."
"I'd appreciate it, I'd like someone there just in case he's an angry frat boy… though…" suddenly my mind snapped back to the tune I'd been searching for in the back of my head- the one Keys was tapping away. I started laughing. "If he taught Keys the theme to Katamari Damacy, then he's definitely a geek!"
Katamari Damacy- a japanese video game in which the only objective is roll around this "katamari ball" and pick up random things, like cows and people... basically making your ball bigger until you can pick up buildings and sperm whales. its a mind trip and the music is so addictive that you find yourself humming it at all hours of the day. whether you want to or not.
R&R pwease?
