This chapter is dedicated to KallianaCorus, who wrote her first ever review just for me!

Also, I did get a review from someone who didn't want Sarra to end up with Jakob so I'm starting a poll, on whether or not she should, so please vote!

Rikash slumped down against a tree. "I don't think I can fly anymore today, Sarra." He said, his voice hoarse. Sarralyn stepped out from behind the tree she had been changing at the rear of to look at him.

"Are you certain. Not even a mile, or two?" She asked. She wanted to get home as soon as possible. Rikash shook his head. Alright, you set up the bedrolls, I'll start a fire." She gathered sticks and tufts of dry grass in the surrounding area.

"Sarra." Rikash called.

"What?" She wasn't in the best of moods, Rikash wasn't great at conserving his power and it slowed them down.

"Did you hear it?" He asked.

"No, hear what Rikash, there's nothing around here to—" but then she heard it as well. Hoofbeats, of perhaps five to ten horses, not many, but probably enough to overtake them. "Rikash, come over here!" She yelled to him. Once he was at her side, she sent up a shield, like a soap bubble around them. Then a masking spell to hide them. She watched as a horse with a large rider hit the bubble, whinnied, and bucked the man off.

"Whoa, what's here?" The man asked, getting up off of the ground. "Emmit, come over here, there's some sort of spell." A man, most likely a mage, came to the larger man's side." Sarra could feel his magic testing her shields. She was exhausted already, and did not have the energy to keep the spells up for more than a minute or two. She blinked several times to clear her vision. When she stopped, the world was black around the edges, and her circle of vision was getting smaller.

Dom watched Emmit test the invisible magic in front of him, then, just as suddenly as he had run into them, they disappeared, revealing a scared, young teenage boy and a slightly older girl, whose head hit the ground as he watched in a dead faint. "Dom, wait!" It was meathead. He always had something to say. Did he honestly think that Dom was going to kill two children. "Look at the girl. Doesn't she look familiar?" Dom squinted at her. About fifteen or sixteen, she had black curly hair and a lanky figure. The boy, perhaps a younger brother, was blonde, with familiar eyes, but he still couldn't place it. "I remember now!" Neal exclaimed. Why did he always have to figure it out first. "They're Daine and Numair's kids, ummm, Rikash, right?" he asked the boy, who stared at them with eyes like saucers

"And that would be Sarra." Dom said, remembering their encounter with her twelve years ago. "What happened to them?"

"I don't know, Domitan, why don't you ask them." Neal replied shortly.

"Fine, Meathead." He called to him, then helped Rikash to his feet. "Well?" He asked, bending down to help Neal lift Sarralyn.

"Sarra got kiddnaped by Dijourdians and I went to rescue her but we could only get to Tyra, so then we're travelling by flying from there, and we were setting up camp when we heard you, so then she put up protection spells but he-" he glared accusingly at Emmit "had to test them so she fainted." Rikashed blurted in one, long sentence.

"Where exactly are you two going to?" Dom asked, handing the boy his skin of water.

"Fort Saffron, that's where Sarra was when she was taken."

"Right. Here, you can use my tent for the night and we'll start off to the fort tomorrow morning. It's only about two days ride from here."

Ok, so you're probably wondering why Emmit is in this chapter. You see, at first Neal wasn't going to be there at all, and Emmit would be the healer, but then Neal fit in really well with the figuring out who they are sequence. And Emmit, by the way, isn't mentioned on the TP wiki, so I had to get out my copy of squire, go the the general area of the scene I remembered b/c Dom was holding Kel's hand (page 298, just in case you're wondering) and find his name. ON the bright side, I found $20 in my book! Score for emma!

Review, as always, - em