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Kel walked into the large room she shared with Sara and Curt and placed Aly on her bed. She would need to have another put in here for her, but that could wait until later.

"Aly," she said gently shaking the girl, "Wake up, Aly."

"Wh-where am I?' questioned the young girl.

"Tusiane. You're at one of their training facilities for assassins."

"Oh. You seem rather familiar, but I can't quite place you. Who are you?"

"It's me Kel, I here posing as a Yamani assassin by the name of Earo, call name, The Star."

"But wait, Are you really The Star?" Aly questioned sitting up, "Because if you are that means you killed…"

"Yes Aly I killed Joren, but we can get into that later. I need to know why you're here."

"It's quite simple, Henrik got a letter from someone named The Stormwing, threatening to kill you. When Neal found out about it and the fact that no one was going to rescue you, he decided to do so himself. I wanted to prove myself to my parents, so I decided to go with him and keep him out of trouble and maybe do a little spying on the side."

"Well you should have listened to Henrik in the first place. Anyways now that you're here well have to deal with it. You'll have to pretend to be a boy since that's what they think you are. They also think you are a messenger so you'll have to keep that front up as well. I assuming you don't have a message so we'll need to make one up. Do you have an name you'd like to go by?"

"Ben Smith, that way I'll have a familiarity with weapons. As for the message I could just be taking the grain report to the palace, but it got lost, so I'm unsure of any numbers. Does that work?"

"Yes, yes that'll work. I'll need to get you some clothes. Oh and before I forget this is Curt and Sara, they're Dom's nephew and niece."


Later that night...

Neal waited until he was sure Henrik was asleep before getting out of his bedroll. He whispered a spell placing a deep sleep on Henrik from which he would awake when the sun was high in the sky. He rolled up his bedroll, saddled Aly's horse and set off toward Tusiane. He knew Aly would be safe, since her mother and father were searching for her, but he still needed to help Kel.

He was stifling a yawn as he rounded a corner and almost fell off the horse in surprise when he saw Henrik sitting on his horse obviously waiting for him.

"You just won't give up on it will you boy?" Henrik asked, "You leave me no choice, but I guess I'm going to have to use the magic shakles."

"B-but, I put a spell on…" protested Neal.

"Yes, you did, but that wasn't really me. I had a feeling that you would try something like this so I made you think I was there and came to wait for you."

"When you'd do the change?"

"When I went to water some trees."

"Oh," Neal replied as Henrik place the shackles on his wrists.

"Well then I quess we had better be on our way."

Note: I know the chapter is short, but it is necessary since the next events will take place in several days, but I make you all a deal, after I get six reviews instead of the normal ten (which I didn't get last chapter), I'll update. 1 review for every hundred words. I will also be including facts that no one except the reviewers will find out in my replies. So to find out these little known facts join The Reviewers Club!

A/N: One last thing, anyone who reviews can ask me any question they wish about the story and I will answer it. It can be anything such as what Kel was wearing or whether or not Neal's been eating his vegetables. I just caution you to think about what you ask before you do so, because if you ask something critical to the story line you might not want to find out about it yet.