13 (and again, random decimals)% reveiws. Actually, there were only three reveiws but seeing as I posted that chapter like yesterday, I'll let it slide. Plus, that's about how many I get even after about a week. So, thank you to everyone who reveiwed. Oh, and just something I would like to say. Has anyone ever had someone favorite their story/ story alert it and then NOT REVEIW? Isn't that just the most infuriating thing ever? I know! But yet annoying people continue to do it. If you don't like the story and don't want to be mean, I can understand, but I mean, if you're reading up to chapter 26 here, you obviously like the story. That, or you have no life. Which is probably the majority of the fanfiction of community, people who don't have lives. Oh, well, on with the story.
Disclaimer: Seriously? Not even going to say it, you know what I'm thinking.
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Sarra's dark eyes were wide as she took in her surroundings. She had never been farther south than Pirate's Swoop. The weather had grown warmer as they rode farther. She and the Own, plus Lady Knight Keladry, who insisted that she be called Kel, had been on the road for a week now. A fortnight (that's two weeks) more and they would be at Fort Saffron. That was where Jakob and Alanna were, but her company needn't know that. When they stopped to rest the horses and for lunch, she dismounted, brushed Rain down quickly but thouroughly, and tied her to a nearby tree, mainly just so the other horses would not protest their imprisonment, and went to get food. She sat with Kel and Raoul, the most familiar people in the group, not that the Own was inhospitable. They talked and joked with her all the time. They treated her like anyone else, not a fragile wildmage girl with the Gift. She liked that.
"Kel, who is that man, the tan one with the fair hair?" She asked as she set down her fork, full.
"That's Leonard, Leo. Why, d'you fancy him?" Kel asked jokingly.
"I'm moving." Raoul said, standing up, afraid of where this conversation may go.
"No, it's not that so Raoul you can stay. Here, I'll show you." She said and stood up. "Excuse me," She said, tapping Leo on the shoulder. "Mr. Leonard."
"It's Leo, just Leo." He said, grinning up at her, as he was sitting down.
"Leo. Your horse, Bosco, is not properly groomed. Go fix it." She said, turning on her heel to walk back to her seat. There were jeers from the men as Leo flushed red and went to tend to Bosco. Kel and Raoul grinned up at her as she sat down.
"That was cruel." Raoul said, still smiling. "Cruel, but hilarious."
"I especially like how he was trying to flirt with you and you just ordered him around." Kel said as she laughed.
"He was not trying to flirt with me." Sarra protested.
"Oh, he so was." Kel said. Raoul nodded in agreement.
"Fine, be annoying. I'm going to go talk to the animals, they don't lie."
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Sarra came out of the woods just a few minutes later with her white-copper magic crackling with anger in her hands. The own parted as she walked, now quite frightened by the youth.
"What on earth happened?" Kel asked, keeping a safe distance from Sarralyn.
"I change my mind. Animals are liars, too." She said, closing her fists, the magic disappearing.
"What did they say?" Kel asked. She was answered by silence. "Was it about Leo?" She asked quietly, so the men wouldn't hear.
"Some of it."
"Well what was the rest of it about?" Again, slience. "It was about him, wasn't it. The one you were talking about, that day at the practice courts. Who is it?" She asked, again, in a hushed tone.
"You wouldn't know him."
"All the more reason to tell me, I can't tell him, so why does it matter?" Kel asked.
It dawned on Sarra that Kel probably would know Alanna's squire. "I change my mind. You do know him."
"You can still tell me."
"No."
I know, it's short, but I don't want to put their arrival in this chapter. And it's a really soon update. You have no idea how many times I had to go check things in my story or find names online. This took forever. Anyway, please reveiw!