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| Date: | 6/5/01 10:36:11 AM Central Daylight Time |
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" Now, Stacey we need to give Alloy her room. She has a long story to tell," her father glared at her.
"I am not going to Tortall," she told him. Rad walked up to her, and put his hand on her shoulder. She was afraid to look up. In fact during the whole trip, she hadn't looked at him. She had been afraid to, what if he hated her. She knew he hadn't been afraid to look at her. She could feel his eyes boring into her the whole ride. Now his hand on her shoulder made her relax a little, he didn't hate her.
"Alloy, you're mother and I have been worried sick. How can we trust you to go anywhere else but Tortall where they'll keep a royal eye on you!" her father yelled. His wild hand gestures that he made didn't make Alloy smile like they used to.
"Dad, I don't want to be watched over. I want someone to be friends with. If I go to Tortall no one will want to be friends with me if I'm watched over, or if they know my situation- that my own parents don't even want me!" she threw herself on the couch that was a yard away. Somehow she made it.
As she got comfortable her mother walked over to her with Rad following. Her dad just stood where he was, fuming. Alloy could almost see the smoke coming out of his ears.
"Alloy, we never meant to hurt you, or make you so mad that you'd run away," her mother's calming voice rolled over her, " We just want you to be safe. About the friend thing I really don't know what to do, but I'm sure we can come up with something." Her mother smiled at her.
"Um-Excuse me but I may have an idea," Rad interrupted.
"You-you- the man who was trying to take my daughter out of Carthak. You- the man who was kidnapping my daughter want me and my wife to listen to one of your ideas," her father taunted, " Well I don't think so. We are some of the smartest scientists. Your hair color probably came from one of the hair dyes that we made for the Emperor to cover his gray hair that he like so much that he wanted us to put it on the market so other people could use it. So I think we'll mange without your help. Thank you very much."
Rad looked offended, like no one had ever refused his help, "Well I'm sorry, sir about all that, but I thought she was an orphan or something. She looked old enough to be an adult who was a vagabond. And without me, sir, she might have been taken advantage of. I know she knows a few moves to get out of handholds, but those guys were more experienced , and could have handled her. So I would like it if you would listen to my idea." Done, he took a breath.
Alloy's mother, the peacemaker of the family, was on Rad's side, " Nick, I think we should listen to the man. He could help."
"Fine, talk, but you're just lucky that my wife is very good at convincing me of things," Alloy's dad told Rad. "Being given ideas by a street rat, how low have I gone," her dad mumbling.
"Thank you. I thought that I could watch over Kry-Alloy in Tortall. I watched over her in the inn she stayed at, and I think Alloy would prefer it. I'd stay at a close distance, but far enough where people wouldn't think I was gaurding her. And I don't look like a gaurd, so people wouldn't be nervous."
Alloy like this plan, " Please Mom, I'd trust Rad with my life."
" I don't know. I guess it would work. I mean as long as Rad stays with you at all times. I believe that he didn't know that you were a runaway, and he kept you out of trouble. So I guess- yeah I agree. Now Nick, what do you think," her mother gave her father a you-better-agree-with-me look.
Her father noticed, " Oh all right, but you owe me."
Alloy couldn't tell whether he was talking to her or to her mother, but she didn't care. She ran over to Rad. "Thank you," she whispered in his ear.
" I'm just happy to get to go to Tortall, I'll get to see my friend." She could feel Rad smiling.
"Now if you two don't mind, Alloy's mother and I must go to bed," but Alloy could tell by the twinkle in his eye and the conversation that just happened that they weren't going to go to bed immediately.
Her mother walked over to Alloy and kissed her, " We'll talk in the morning. You can tell me about your adventure and Rad." The she walked to their bedroom.
" And Tak, Qet make sure this man gets a room- seperate from my daughter," her father ordered as he looked at Alloy in Rad's arms. Tak covered his grin and Alloy yelled "Dad!" as she went out of Rad's hold. To that her father left.
"I can't believe he said that! To think-my own father would-" Alloy fumed.
" I'm sure he meant nothing by it Alloy, " Tak tried to comfort her. Qet kept looking at Rad in a strange way.
"But still-" Alloy protested.
"Alloy we'll find him a room. Don't worry."
Rad looked uncomfortable, but still tried to act normal. "It's okay, I'm not offended, so you shouldn't be either. Besides think about it this way- you'll be leaving soon to go to Tortall. You'll be away from him."
" I guess you're right," Alloy grumbled.
To this Rad grinned, "You even grumble like your dad." And he left following Tak and Qet.
Alloy went to her room expecting to find it the way she'd left it- a wreck. But no her mother had straightened it up. Grumbling about the neatness of it all, she changed and climbed into bed.
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When she woke up, her mother was downstairs cooking breakfast.
"Mom, what are you doing up so early?" she asked while rubbing her eyes.
"Alloy you shouldn't be walking around in your night clothes. Go change," her mother ordered.
Alloy came back dressed in breeches and a shirt. Her mother sent her back to change into a dress.
"That's better," her mother said as she examined her. "Now let me braid your hair."
" I really don't see why I have to wear a dress," Alloy told her.
" Because you're leaving for Tortall today, and I want you to look nice for Sir Alanna and her squire Neal. He's your age you know."
"Mom you better not be setting up marriage prospects for me. Wait did you say SIR Alanna?"
"Yes I did, she's a Lady Knight."
Appalled and excited Alloy didn't say anything. A Lady Knight? This was the one people had talked about. They said she had a temper and sometimes even acted like a guy. But then this was a woman warrior, something she wanted to be and yet was afraid to become.
"Mom, I can't be stuck with a Lady Knight in a boat."
"Oh come on, she doesn't like boats so she'll most likely be up on deck vomiting or something. Now let's talk about this Rad fellow."
Alloy didn't get what her mother's fascination with Rad was. "What's to tell? He's a guy I met at the hotel I was staying at. We talked, I got to know him better, and now we're really good friends. Nothing else, Mom," she added as she saw the questioning look in her mother's eyes.
"Well then tell me about what happened," her mother encouraged.
"What happened where?"
"What happened when you ran away."
Slowly Alloy recalled the events that happened and told her mom. She left out the part about stealing horses. Her mother was quite shocked.
"Well I guess my little girl has grown up." noticing Alloy's scowl she added, " My little teenage girl."
" Yeah that makes me feel better," Alloy told her. Her mother smiled.
" Am I interrupting something?" Rad walked in.
" No, but we're leaving today with Sir Alanna and her squire Neal," Alloy informed him.
" We're leaving with the Lioness? Wow. That's quite an honor."
" Yes it is. You try convincing her. But before you do, go pack, and then we'll have breakfast. Go!" Rad and Alloy hurried off.
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babes this better be enough! I wrote this on my sick day( i had no voice so i made them speak for me. Pretty smart huh?) newayz write review complain whatever. But if oscar's reading this," girl u stink!" sorry,but think shelby.