Sorry it has been so long. College and being sick takes up a lot of time. If anybody can answer the question of how four professor's can assign four papers due at almost the exact same time it would be apperiaceted. So I finally have the papers done and hopefully have more time to write period. But thank you all for your patients and listening to me rant. Here is two chapters of "Lady Ghost".
Three weeks had passed since Talia's night in the opera house cellar and it still haunted her mind. She walked from the bookstore she often visited past a wine shop and had a thought. With a check of the scarf she walked into the store.
The owner was surprised to see a woman dressed in men's riding garb walk in but could tell from the clothes she was a person of money. "May I help you mademoiselle?"
"Yes what is the best wine you have?"
"I have Chatue Lablue 1707, but it is a very expensive wine madam." He told her .
"And how has it been stored?" Talia asked knowing it would be a perfect wine but not if it had not been taken care of.
"I have a proper wine cellar cool and dark below the shop. My great-great-great-grandfather built it and he was a master wine maker."
"Fine." Talia said interrupting his story. "I'll take it."
The man seemed very surprised. "It is very expensive."
"I don't care." Talia said getting a little angry.
The man then went to get her the wine. A few minutes later he came back with a very dark green bottle. "That is a hundred francs."
Talia paid him with little indifference to the man's mumbling. She then took the wrapped bottle and left. She walked to Alexander and put the books and the bottle into the saddlebag. With a quick movement she mounted the horse and went to the Paris Opera De popular.
Alexander watched carefully looking for the man they had met before when they walked into the stable. Talia got down and tied Alexander's reins to a post. She got a piece of paper from a tablet in the saddlebag and found her fountain pen and quickly scratched out a note. She then put it inside the wrapping around the bottle and left the bottle near the secret door to the hidden stable.
She then got back on Alexander and sent him on a quick trot back towards the Chagny manor.
Erik moved silently from his room past the organ and to the library. Still sitting on the table next to the chasse lounge was the book Talia had been reading. He opened it and found that she had used a short bracelet to mark her place. On it was a charm that was the crest of the Chagny family. He firmly closed the book but still she was on his mind.
Nadir let out a cough to let Erik know he was there. Somehow the person who could hear a pin drop in a busy room had not heard him coming. "Someone left you a gift." He said holding a wrapped package.
Erik moved quickly and took it from Nadir's hands. Undoing the wrappings he found a note.
I wanted to repay you for your kindness for weeks now. It wasn't until today that I figure out a way to. Again thank you for your help.
Lady Natalia Arana De Chagny
Talia
"Lady Natalia Arana De Chagny." Erik told Nadir.
"What?" He asked not understanding.
"Lady Natalia Arana De Chagny set this bottle of wine."
"Who is she?"
"The viscount's Raoul De Chagny's sister." Erik said with a devilish grin.
