AN: thank you everyone 4 the reviews so far. I did us spell cheek and their was only red wiggles under the names and Mildred's talking an maybe a few other words that i wasn't sure how to spell but the options in the spell cheek i didn't think was the rite one so their isn;t any mistakes I'm not a idiot i no what the red wiggles are. Hopefully this chap is beta i spent extra time rereading it to try to remove the mistakes and i said 2 pretend the gun and phone wasn't in it.

Chapter 10: Storm and Kohl

The next morning Sorella wok early and from her position on the rug in front of the fir she looked up at Aakil still a sleep in his chairs. Aakil had stayed the night at Mildred's too, Sorella guised it was to make sure she didn't run off on her own, but she was glade that he had stayed or she probably would have made a run for it. Sorella watched Aakil sleep for a bit as the sun slowly rose and pepped threw the window until light streamed across Aakil's face making his skin turn bronze and his dirty blond hair turn into a gold halo until the light got too bright and Aakil woken. He stretched and looked down at Sorella "your still heir" he yawned.

"yea, I am, but we won't be for long, Right? We will be able to get going early?"

"mmHmm, first we must have some breakfast" he smiled as he slid from the chair onto the rug next to Sorella and started pocking the fire to make porridge.

After breakfast Aakil straddled his horse and Mildred gave them a bag of food for lunch "take care m'dear" she said to Sorella as she gave her a breath hug "yerd better tak care o her" she glared at Aakil "I've got quit attached ta this one" and she gave Sorella a last smile before Aaril turned the horse and they started to ride threw the forest.

Once they were out of the forest Aakil turned his head to talk to Sorella while they rode.

"First we'll go to my fathers house to get some supplies, including a map for you to look at and I'll leave a note for my mother and father and then we can travel to Catranta and then further north to the last place you remember Being".

"sounds good" Sorella said

"and we'll get a hoarse for you, I think I know a hoarse that will suit you well" he added "you can ride can't you?"

Sorella laughed "of course I can"

They were silent for the rest of the ride until they passed the barn/. Sorella was amazed by how far away from Mildreds house the barn was, she couldn't believe she had managed to walk that far in the stat she was in. Further up a dirt road from the barn was Aakil's family's home, it was a large old house with a carefully landscaped garden surrounding it and a number of outer buildings. First Aakil and Sorella rod up 2 the main house, Sorella chose to stay outside while Aakil dealt with his family and got some supplies. They then went to the stables were Aakil introduced Sorella to large grey speckled mare hoarse.

"She's lovely" Sorella said to the hoarse

"She is. She's a good strong hoarse that is easily capable of travelling all day with only resting at night. Her names Storm"

"And what is your black hoarse called?" Sorella asked

"Kohl" he said "here's the map if you want to look at it while I saddle the hoarse"

"Thanks" Sorella said as she took the map and sat on a bench, Aakil walked off to get the saddle and other hoarse supply's. Sorella opened the map and was immediately confused. The map had some bits that were wrong and some bits that were right. The upper part of the Dakard River lcoked similar to what she remembered but as she trussed the river southward it changed from what she remembered and the village she grew up in seemed to be completely absented and was replaced with more forest, she followed the river further down until her finger reached Catranta. The town was bigger than she expected and scrawled westward away from the river in a spider web of streets and houses until it finned into more farmland and then finally dessert before the edge of the map. Sorella remembered the dessert, her brother and father used to travel there regularly and she went with them a couple of times but not very far in. The dessert was a harsh unforgiving place that took lives without remorse but some very powerful magic took place in the dessert and the dragon riders did some of their training further in. Sorella remembered the first time her brother went into the dessert with his young dragon and their Father and his dragon. Sorella had seen that it had changed him but he wouldn't talk about what had happened and she knew she would never find out unless an egg choose her too. Sorella pulled her forts away from her brother and back to her present reality only to discover that tears were running down her cheeks and dripping onto the blue dress. She suddenly felt very alone, she didn't no where her family was or really were she herself was, the map was all wrong and she didn't understand why. Unless Aakil had given her a flak map, although her father had never mentioned him maybe he was friends with him and he was planning on returning her to her father and he was just being kind to trick her into feeling a security, he had after all ready made her agree to travel north to her home. But that had been her idea, or had he planted it, Sorella suddenly felt confused and paranoid. Especially since she had seen for Herself that the river and it's banks were different to what she remembered, something very strange must have happened to her in that forest with her father and the old chanting person.

"Whats wrong? Aakil asked her, he looked concerned as he retched down and touched her shoulder.

"I just...this map looks wrong. When was it made?"

"um, it should be fairly recent" Aakil said as he took the Map from her and turned it over "hair" he said as he pointed to a date on the bottom left corner "it was made early last year".

Sorellas Heart stopped, the year was 99 years later than it should have been. "That can't be right, that can't be the right year" she gaped.

"Well it is" Aakil said as he handed back the Map "what yea did you think it was?" a smirk played on his lips.

"the last I knew it was 99 years earlier than the date on that map"

Aakil laughed "what, that's not possible, you don't look like your over 100 years old"

"I know, it must have some thing to do with the magic my father and the old person were using" she said with tears erupting from her eyes as she realised that her brother and everyone else she new were probably dead by now if 100 years really had passed.

Aakil sat on the bench next to her and tried to comfort her "its all right" he said "we'll get to button of this. When we get to Catranta we can gather some information. Theirs a wise elf that works in the Library of Islingr, he's at least 200 years old nose more about the history of this area and any powerful dark magic in its past than anyone else"

Sorella nodded and whipped her eyes "thank you" she whispered Aakil stood and walked over to Storms stable and went in.