"Pssst!" Xlelon looked around for the noise, and jumped as she found it. It was Kalee. "Kalee? Why are you whispering? What's going on?" Kalee stepped out of the shadows caused by the late fall sun. It seemed that she had hidden in a place that she knew Xlelon would be. Billy frog's back yard. Kalee put a finger to her lips, and Xlelon noticed that she was covered in blood and scratches. "Goddess Kalee, what happened? Is everything allright?" Kalee took a deep breath, and let it out. "I came to tell you to take a message to Myles of Olau." "What is it?" "The rouge is going through a revolution. The former king of the theives, Harold, just got kicked off the throne, you know how that happens, correct?" "Yes, a rouge challenges the king to a knife match, the best man wins." Kalee smiled, "Almost perfect, cept the king gets to pick the weapons. Anyway, Harold was killed but the attacker was also killed." Xlelon winced. "Oh dear. I see the problem." Kalee smirked. "Just tell him that most of us are fine and not to expect any information for awhile." She nodded, then got back to work as Kalee slipped away. The snow would be coming soon, and she was all the happier for it. Though, the few pages that she had made fun of weren't. She really did feel sorry for them, they had been talking about how when the snow came, they would finally get a break. She knew better. Wydlon would never let them off for the weather. Corus' weather was a lot like where she had come from. Both extremes were prominate. She had celebrated her sweet sixteen in a wool cloak, while today she washed the rooms with nothing but the essentials on. She smiled at the thought of her birthday. She had been so happy that her birthday was on the first day of fall, it meant that she could keep track of it easily. Most people couldn't do that. Linda had announced that it was her birthday, and the bar had immediately been filled with orders for drinks. The smart ones had one, and toasted her. The dumb ones had one for every year that she had been alive, and then one to celebrate her birthday, and then another two to toast her mother and father, and then one more for the heck of it. She was glad that Linda had watered down the beer for business reasons. These people will use any excuse to drink, she had told her after revealing that it was her birthday, so I'm gonna water it down for today. She believed her, the amount of drink orders that she had served that day was enough to fill a lake, and that had only been the one's she served. After that night, she had decided to work at Billy frog's through at least the winter. She had told Jerry this, and he accepted gladly. Now it was the middle of November by her reckoning, because there had been two full moons. Her lessons were going fine, except for the fact that she and Numair had not been able to figure out what all the silver strands through her magic did. It kept randomly showing up, and she hated it. Once, she had been singing and had made rocks light up like kitten did. She had stared, then sang the line over again. Again, it had happened. Kitten was nowhere near her; Daine had gone to Dunlath with the pages, as had Numair. So she had gone to Tkaa. They had proceeded to attempt to figure out exactly what was going on, and why. She could now sing the song without it happening, it had been the first thing she had done. Making things light up when you had wild magic was not often looked upon generously. When Numair had returned, it was the first thing he heard about. She looked at the sky and sighed, large fluffy clouds loomed on the horizon, giving signs of a major storm. Well, she thought, I guess everyone that's here is here for at least the winter. The people who were coming didn't even occur to her. She turned to go inside and change for the night shift. ~^~ HIHI!!!! I BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACK!!! MUAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA Fun fun. Well, I caught a cold on the way home from europe, cant taste or smell worth a penny, the planes were torture for me, because as a result of me getting sick, I could feel every single movement of the plane and hear every small noise. I was up for 26 hours and needless to say, I was practically hysterical. Am very glad I don't have to get on a plane for another month.