Chapter Three: Trapped...And A Fight
My Linking Book! I had completely forgotten it! I was so ecstatic about visiting my friends and family back here, I had totally forgot about it! Stupid! I smacked my forehead with the flat of palm. Aeriel and Tab'r just looked on, confusion clearly written across their faces.
"What's wrong, Catherine?" Aeriel inquired, "You look like you've just been sentenced to the Wahrk Gallows."
"My book," I whispered.
"What about it?" Tab'r asked.
"I forgot it! It must still be back in D'Ni!" I shrieked. Aeriel and Tab'r drew back quickly. I was never one to yell. I suppose I was always the calm one in my family. My sister did the yelling.
"Sorry," I said, "I just panicked. Now I'm stuck here. Here! Of all places!"
"What's wrong with being stuck here? We are!" Tab'r snarled, "Is there something wrong with the way we live or are we--" Tab'r suddenly stopped as Aeriel glared at him.
"Well, if you don't come back won't Atrus come looking for you?" Aeriel asked.
"Or will he let you stay here and rot as he almost did back on Riven? He thinks that he's so great just because he the last of an advanced bloodline! He's a fool and you're a fool to love him! In fact, you're any even bigger fool for choosing him when I had loved you all my life!"
Tab'r was surprising me. His face was contorted with anger and his voice was full of poisonous hatred and, to my surprise, jealousy. For the first time, I realized that Tab'r didn't like Atrus. Suddenly, his anger was contagious.
"HOW DARE YOU! HOW DARE YOU!" I yelled. I was shaking with anger. Normally, I don't yell when I get mad, but there's a first time fore everything.
"Atrus had no choice! He was a prisoner on his own world also! He couldn't come and get me! The fault does not lie with him but Sirrus and Achenar! All because of our sons!"
"Why were they so corrupted, Catherine? No Rivenese is so evil to trap their own parents! 'Tis the D'Ni blood that made them what they are! The D'Ni were and forever shall be a race of egotistical lowlifes who care nothing for any other species!" With that, Tab'r stormed out of Aeriel's house making sure to slam the door hard.
That's when I realized I had lost one of my oldest friends.
"I'm going to bed," I said to Aeriel, "Do you have an extra room?"
Aeriel supplied me with blankets and pillows and directed me down a hall. It wasn't until I was almost asleep when I realized that I still hadn't figured out what they were hiding from me...