Hello, everybody! First of all, I'd like to thank Daine, Sparrow, Siryn, Mina, Mage Melery, Eling, dreamica - moonaglow, peaches, child of shadows and ninamazing, and everyone else who have reviewed at least one of my chapters so far, and suffered through my crazed keyboard, which I finally got fixed( all right!!), and so go review their stories. Anyway, hmmmmm, lets see, what can I bore everyone with before I start chapter 3???? Oh, yes, and in response to Mina's question, I am sorry to all runaway-rogue fans, that only the run away part is true. Aurelia's not gonna be a rogue, though I must say, I love all of the rogues stories myself! Anyway, thanks everyone!!! I'll start on with chapter 3 now. Drum roll, please............................................ :^)
~*Chapter 3*~
The crowd was too fast, and they quickly grabbed me. Tying me up, they shoved me up on the plat form with the blonde girl. I stared at her. Good goddess, I certainly I hadn't expected her to be wearing breaches! Noticing me staring, the girl introduced herself. Saying some garbeled words that sounded familiar but didn't quite register yet. She stared at me, and laughed, switching to Tyran. " I'm Aleuttea. Call me Aleut." I could see why this girl was being hanged. She was stark raving mad. About to die, she was introducing herself. Suddenly, a man ran up. " I have spotted Spidrens, sir." said a young man to the lord of the village. " Feed the demons to the spidrens! It will keep us from harm, and do away with the Ri-shes! We will hit two birds with one stone!" shouted another. " what in the goddesses name is a Ree she?" asked Aleut, mostly to herself. " our word for witch." " a Ri-Shi.... it is a , a witch you tortallians would say." I said, struggling to speak English. " Hey, you speak English! Finally, someone in this place that can speak a civilized language. Do you mind telling me why in the heck We're about to be hanged?" I exploded. " You Tortallians are so full of yourselves! The Tyran empire has been around for centuries more then Tortall, so do not call us uncivilized! And you, Ki-len, are bee-ing hanged for the practicing of magica, and and a spy for the emperor, and a (authors note- switches languages here)Shokum fali de...." I began rambling the rest of my insults at her in Tyran. When I finished, she raised an eye brow. " When we get out of here, we have GOT to work on your English." I glared at her. Aleutse, or what ever her name was looked at me with sparkling purple eyes. I stared back at her with cold green ones. "Geez, what's your problem?" she asked. I ignored her, and the some village men came and grabbed us. " They will make fine sacrifices for the spidrens." Said one man, and shoved us out on the edge of the woods. " Maybe we can reason with them." I muttered in English. " I don't think so. Spidrens aren't usually reasoning. Don't really care much for bribes either." Suddenly, I was splashed by a thick, red, sticky liquid. Monkey blood. Humiliated, even as I die. Nice, these people are.
" hold still." said the villager as he tied me to the tree, deep in the forest. " We will come back tomorrow to collect your remains." "Oh thanks. How comforting. YOU WILL NOT GET AWAY WITH THIS! " The man shrugged, and turned back toward the village. I heard Lute, or what ever that girls name was calling out into the woods. " Call some animals, dummy! Goddess, you've almost been killed for using wild magic, and now you refuse to use it! How did I ever get stuck with you?" " Because you are an annoying, yellowed haired horse that likes to dress up as a man! You tortallians!" "Could you please quit saying that." " Quit talking to me then." I switched to calling Night Starr. Already a couple of foxes had come, and were nibbling on my ropes. Night Starr came . ~ My, my, looks like were in a tangle here.~ ^indeed they are.^ said one fox, breaking my ropes. Another horse was beside Night Starr. " Who's that?" asked Aleut, shaking free of the remains of her rope. ~ I am Night Star.~ ^ I'm moon beam.^ " That's nice for you. In the mean time,- LOOK OUT!" A spidren was scurrying toward us, fast. It hadn't taken them long to sniff out the monkey blood. " Use this. I have a sword." Aleut tossed be a bow and to me. " You don't know how to use it, do you. Well, try and figure it out." The spidren, luckily, attacked her first. I loaded the bow, and aimed carefully. I closed my eyes and shot. The creature screamed in pain. ~Whoah. Lets see you do that again.~ I took another arrow, and shot the creature with my bow, killing it completely Both arrows had gone directly to its heart. Aleut looked slightly annoyed, and pride pushed away amazement. " Pretty good, for a beginner. Anyway, lets head out before more spidrens come." I raised an eyebrow. "We, lutea, or what ever your name is?" " Goddess, No hard feelings. And the name is Aleut, not lutea. How about it? I can get you to tortall." " Who said I was ever going to Tortall?" " I'm assuming, that's all. I need your help to get back to my country, and you need help getting into Tortall. I don't speak your little language, so I can't get out of this country without you, but you will never get along well by yourself in Tortall. So how about it?" " You have said how about it at least for the thousandth time." " Yeah, and your answer is....." I sighed. " I suppose."
Aleut wasted no time getting us out of the forest. She was confident that we could reach the coast line in just a few days. I pointed out that we had no boat, no money, and nothing to trade. She shrugged her shoulders, and said it would all work out. That's something you should know about Aleut. But finally, we were almost there, 1 day from the coast line. We were camping out in the woods.
" Are you sure this is the best place to camp out?" she asked me. " OF course I am. I saw no spidrens at all, not even a trace of one. Hurroks aren't in this part of Tyra, and stormwings we'll just have to take our chances. Anyway, last night you made camp in a ant pile." " that was a pure accident!" " Tell my feet that. IF you didn't have Hickini magic, I think I would kill you. I have ant bites that would of left scars if not for your magic!" " What exactly is Hickini magic?" "I think you call it.... healer? NO, healing! Yes, that's it. You tortallians!" " Stop saying that." " Saying what?" "You tortallians." " speaking of Tortall, I've been meaning to ask you. Why are you dressing up as a boy? Is it part of your disguise?" Aleut laughed out loud. " Listen, 'Relia, This isn't a disguise. This is what any woman who wants to wear something comfortable wears. It's normal." Aleut said. I looked at her skeptically. " Seriously, their comfortable. Here, I have an extra pair. You wouldn't have to side saddle all the time, and we could move a lot faster." " And lose my dignity, and my respect, along with my life? Just to look like a stormwing in a pair of pants? Frankly, that's okay. You can keep your extra pair." " Goddess, Aurelia, what kind of life do you have? You can't practice magic, you can't wear breeches, your killed for doing anything fun. what can you do?" " Nothing. Unless you really like sewing." " Good Goddess, I can see why you want to get out of this country! It's a living nightmare! My mother, I tell you, would have a living fit, and turn this whole country upside down!" " why would she want to come here in the first place? We're on the brink of a civil war." " No surprise. Hey, what's that?" I looked out into the woods. " I see nothing. You're imagination is probably running back again, I mean off." Just the same, I scanned the woods. ~ I don't like this.~ said Night Starr. " No, really, I love being scared to death." I said sarcastically. Suddenly hard, cold metal was pressed against my neck. " Freeze."
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To be continued........ so, have I destroyed my plot yet? Hopefully not. Anyway, I will probably get to chapter 4 later this weekend. Have I left everyone hanging? And, as always, PLEASE REVIEW!!! :)