palace. Raecla went to go meet the librarians, Luisa trained with
the Wildcat,
Marco learned some basic defensive moves, and Rob became Tkaa's
new
best friend.
among the pages and squires. They filled their trays with food
and went to a
table to sit down. Roald and Marco had quickly become best
friends, and
Luisa and Faleron often joked and trained together. When they
weren't busy,
Neal and Raecla would head to a library to look at books or study
Italian, all
in all, everybody was content.
debate about some topic that no one else knew or cared about. The
four
friends and Neal pushed aside all the healthy food on their trays
and quickly
went for the dessert. When Kel started to scold them, Raecla
quickly
answered, Come on, this could end any second! Think of all
the women on
the Titanic who skipped chocolate dessert!
Raecla started to explain, then decided not
to. Then she'd have to
explain ocean liners and geography and who knows what else.
Uh, just live
life to the fullest.
their vegetables. As Raecla was leaving the hall, a servant
caught her arm
and asked her to come with him, Master Numair wanted to see her.
They
walked through many corridors, going this way and that. It really
was an
infernal rabbit warren.
on the walls and an impressive looking desk to one side. Numair
was sitting
behind the desk, books and scrolls piled all around him. She
began to get
nervous, but seeing the smile on his face, she decided it wasn't
worth it.
things about world breaching that might interest you.
would be interesting. It's kind of a weird experience
finding yourself in a
different world all of a sudden. She paused, But then,
you probably have
some idea of what I'm talking about, when you and Daine went
to the realms
of the gods.
to ask you, How do you manage to know so much about Tortall?
to just go ahead and tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing
but the truth.
To a certain extent anyway. There's a lady in my world
that writes fantasy
novels about Tortall. There's been four each about Alanna,
Daine and Kel,
except Kel's aren't finished yet.
breaching, the head of the Royal University and I...
mission to Carthak with you guys. Then when she saw the
perplexed look
on his face, Oh, sorry.
scrying. Usually people are brought between worlds because the
land is in
trouble, somehow needs them."
Tortall that would ruin the land if you weren't there to
stop it, so the magic of
the land itself would pull you through... Numair trailed
off for a second.
But in this case, we have reason to believe it is different.
