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Chapter 38

"Nawat!" a dark skinned girl waved from the back of a horse.

"Lady Sarai, have a fair ride," Nawat bowed his head slightly.

"Nawat, who are your new friends? And what is wrong with that boy?" Sarai questioned curiously.

"This is Jen and the unconscious one is Kyle. I do not know why he is this way, perhaps Jen may tell you," Nawat glanced mischievously at Jen.

"I apologize, Lady Sarai, but in all due respect, his unconsciousness is none of your concern. We are rather in a hurry, and the longer we stand here and chat… worse trouble will brew," Jen neither bowed, and rarely spared a glance at Jen.

"You are not Raka, but you clearly are not a slave!" Sarai huffed, and she pranced away on her horse.

"I wish we'd run into Lady Dove, she's more understanding," Jen mumbled. Both Nawat and Jen began to hike to the archery field.

"Ally should be near Lady Dove," Nawat smirked.

"Well, you could always say 'Look what the crow dragged in'…" Jen watched as Nawat's eyes sparkled with mischief unrenowned.

"I shall say that then!" Nawat smirked cleverly as he spied Ally and quickly made his way to her, "Look what the crow dragged in!"

"Nawat?" Ally turned, a bit surprised by his comment.

"Ally, this is Jen and the unconscious one is Kyle! They wished to speak with you!"

"We've recently arrived from Tortall, and I'm sorry to say, but your homeland is in danger and I need your help to get both Kyle and myself back there. Kyprioth needs me, and Mithros needs Kyle."

"MITHROS!" gasped in astonishment.

"Yes, two of our friends are there as well, and they don't know half as much as we do. I'm sure you've heard of the Black robed mage, Tristan from Ozorn's empire? Well, he's back."

Ally's eyes rolled back in her head and she fainted.

"Ally? Ally?!" Nawat let go of Kyle, and raced over to the girl that had captured his heart.

"ACK!" Jen fell over onto Kyle as he dragged her down to the solid earth.

"Beatrice, what's the matter?" Thom gave the girl a worried glance.

"Jen and Kyle are missing! Can you do a spell or something to help us locate them? Please! I just get the feeling that something really bad has happened to them and I only hope that I'm wrong!" Beatrice pleaded with the young mage.

"Well… I can try, but my mother and father said I wasn't to use magic for two weeks." At Beatrice's saddened face, Thom only could hold up his hand to stop her tears from coming, "However, I'm sure they'll understand that this is an emergency."

"Thank you, Thom!" Beatrice whispered as she threw her arms around the young mage and kissed his cheek and stepped away from him.

"Gee, I've got to do nice things for you more often!" Thom held a hand to his recently kissed cheek. Beatrice blushed a light pink, and slapped him lightly on the arm.

"Rik!" Bianca flagged her friend down as he was about to enter the kitchens.

"Anca, what's wrong?" Rik stopped and tried to comfort the flustered looking girl.

"Jen and Kyle… Pant my friends from where I'm from… Pant they've disappeared! Have you seen them?! Pant" Bianca was on her last limb and she was beginning to panic.

"Anca, calm down. I saw them but a half candle-mark ago. They were both walking in the hallway I passed, and they seemed to have bumped into someone they knew," Rik tried to reassure his new friend.

"Where were they?! Please take me to where you last saw them!" Bianca begged the poor soft-hearted boy.

"Of course," Rik quickly lead the way.

Sorry this took so long, but I had another round of finals to study for. I might have another chapter up this week, but I'm looking for a job at the moment, so... it may not happen.

Thanks to the following for reviewing!

harryptaxd204: glad you liked the chapter!

Mango Sam: Sorry for not updating sooner, I've been under a lot of pressure, but this story now is updated! Yea!

Tris the weatherwitch: You better not have tried to fry my brain! I needed it for my finals! (By the way, I'm only kidding.)

and

animeanel: By the way, animeanel, I find it really interesting that you have a friend named Kyle and know two people with 'B' names like Bianca and Beatrice. I hope you enjoy this chapter as much as you have the rest!

You four were the only people that kept me trying to get back to this fic and updating! Thanks again to my loyal reviewers!

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