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Entry 35

Another day since I last wrote. I am writing this in my bedroom in Kaptio, having just finished introducing Nessarose to my father and uncle.

But before I get to that, I have fantastic news; in just one day, the medicines I got from Marius cured almost all the people who have come down with the disease! I have not scene Sika so happy in a long time. The look of joy on her face was almost worth all the trouble with the Wizard and old Morrible! Sika has been a mother and a father to me over the last eight years, so I hate to see her upset or angry.

Now that the disease seams to be gone, almost everyone is going to move back into their homes. So are refusing, for fear that the disease is not gone for good, but that is there choice. My father can't force those to come who don't want to come back into Kaptio's walls. Okay, that was way to technical.

Anyway, back to the situation with Nessarose; Father and Uncle Mejnun had requested that Lene, Belkis, Nessarose and I all join them for breakfast this morning, so pretty much as soon as the sun was over the horizon, I was waking-up with my sisters. All the while I was getting ready, I felt like bitting my nails. I was so nervous about introducing Nessarose to them.

Never before have I spent so much time prepping myself for a breakfast with my family. Usually it is just throw on whatever clean clothes I can find.

I was making a bigger fuss over what I was wearing than Lene and Belkis were! And that is embracing. An almost eighteen-year-old boy is more concerned with his looks than his thirteen and eight-year-old sisters! Ugh! Belkis was in a long red kemis with a large pink knotted sweater top. Lene had dressed herself in a purple kemis with long sleeves made of a see-through material that had purple flowers printed on the fabric. Me, I dressed myself in a white cotton shirt, a pair of dark brown leather pants, and I fixed a light brown leather vest over my shirt, and I actually spent a good time on combing my messy dark brown hair.

Someone had actually given Nessarose a wheelchair, so once we were on Kaptio streets, Nessa wheeled herself to the palace. Tau offered to, but his father had work for him to do. Nessa had gotten another kemis from a girl in the camp. This one light green muslin with a purple sash. Underneath the skirt, those beautiful jeweled pumps glittered.

Once we had all arrived at the palace, we went up a ramp so Nessa could follow us. The whole journey I began worrying about one thing after another. Did I look alright? Would I present Nessa in a way that was good? Would there be foods on the table that Nessa would be able to eat?

When we reached the entry way of the palace, we made our way to the dinning hall. The palace it's self looked about the way it had the last time I had been home in the winter. Reaching the dinning hall, I saw my father seated at the round table on a large sitting cushion. Uncle Mejnun was in back of Father, pacing back and forth.

"Father!" Belkis cried out. Father looked up and smiled at Belkis, who ran towards him and jumped into his arms. Father moaned as Belkis hit his crippled leg.

"Shall we all sit and introduce our visitor like civilize people do." My uncle's voice suddenly spoke. His eyes were fixed on Nessarose. I wheeled Nessa to an open spot at the table next to my place. Luckily breakfast was not all alien food to Nessa. While there were foods like fresh white injera and bananas and a breakfast wat, there was also some wild corn and apples, so Nessa could have some foods that reminded her of home, and she quickly ate a purple jaam fruit with sweet honey. Most of the meal was spent in silence, but towards the end, Father started the conversation.

"Now Fiyero, while I am most happy to have my son back home for good, I have just as many questions over what has happened over the past year. Questions over what I know you have not been telling me."

There was my chance. My chance to tell other people everything that had been going on at Shiz. I took a deep breath.

"I know what you want to know Father, I know what you want me to tell you, but it...it's hard to put into words."

"Well..." Uncle Mejnun spoke. "...I believe your father and I have plenty of time."

"Nessarose listen..." I turned to her. "...some of this stuff will deal with you and your sister." Nessa gently nodded, and I faced my father and uncle, and began the truth. I started off with Glinda and the OzDust Ballroom (but I kept that Elphaba looks so much like Mother to myself) and how I saw the soon-to-be Wicked Witch of the West. I told them all about the Lion Cub incident (although I kept the fact that I was falling in love with Elphaba to myself as well, I made it seam that I was just good friends with her) and how Elphaba was invited to see the Wonderful Wizard of Oz. I skipped the train station and I was just about to get to me finding out the truth when Father interrupted me.

"So this young women is really green-skined?" I glanced over at Nessa, who was clearly getting uncomfortable.

"Yes Father, she is, but please let me finish. You need to know the whole story."

I started again, picking up at the newspaper articles and such. Then I told about how I got Glinda to tell me the truth about what had happened with the Wizard and who the Wizard really was, and that Elphaba did nothing wrong by her own will, that the Wizard and Madam Morrible tricked her into doing wrong. How Elphaba flew off on an enchanted broom and how Glinda was deemed a hero in exchange for lying about Elphaba.

"So...so...so...my...sis...sis...sister...is...not...ev...evil?" Nessarose had a look of shock on her face.

"What a little blonde brat that other girl is!" Proclaimed Lene. "How were you even attracted to her Fiyero?"

"She must be really, really, really beautiful!" Belkis piped up. I rolled my eyes. The really hard part to tell was coming. I did not want to tell what had happened in Morrible office that one night.

"Father, is it possible that I tell you the rest in private." Everyone stared at me oddly for a moment. "Please." I did not want to plead with anyone, much less my father, but I would of rather told it to him than to everyone in the room.

"Of course Fiyero." Father then pulled himself out of the chair and then walked like he always does to his bedroom. I followed, gathering up my courage as I walked.

Once we were in his room with the door locked I him told about how I had been in the poppy grove when the guards had kidnaped me and taken me to Morrible, who then offered me a job as Captain of the Guard if I remained quiet. I also told him that Morrible had threatened to sell me to the Scrow if I did not agree. Then I went on to tell him about Marius and the trip to Gillikin with Glinda. I closed off my story with Nessarose's father's death and how someone attempted to kill her.

At first, Father seamed dumbstruck. He did not seam to know what to say. What felt like an hour passed before he spoke again.

"So, had the Vinkus not succeeded from Oz, you would still be under contract to serve the Wizard?"

"Yes Father." I hung my head.

"Were you ever going to tell me about this little trap you had been put in?" His brown eyes were watching me closely.

"Uh...uh...yes." I managed to choke out.

"Well, I guess it does not matter anymore, not a lot that is. We are going to want to keep an eye out for strangers coming here to kidnap you."

So that's that I guess. Father has perfectly accepted Nessarose now. Uncle Mejnun, I don't know if her is willingly accepting her, but my father is the ruler, not him.

Got to go. Someone is looking for me. I'll finish later.

Fiyero

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