Chapter 6

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~Adoracia

They passed the few days watching the pages train and exploring the
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.

A week later, they filed into the Dining Hall, looking perfectly at home
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.

Raecla and Neal sat down next to one another, continuing with a
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!

The Tortallans started looking at one another and somebody asked,
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.

They finished their dinner, and after urging from Kel, even ate some of
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.

Finally, the servant led her into a richly decorated room, with hangings
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.

Come in, sit down, Numair said eagerly, I think I've found out some
things about world breaching that might interest you.

Raecla sat down with a smile and said, Anything you could find out
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.

He colored slightly pink, That's another thing that I've been meaning
to ask you, How do you manage to know so much about Tortall?

She stalled for a moment, unsure of what to say, then decided
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.

Oh, I see. He said, not seeming to understand at all, About world
breaching, the head of the Royal University and I...

She cut him off, Oh yeah! Haralit of Ali! He was on the diplomatic
mission to Carthak with you guys. Then when she saw the perplexed look
on his face, Oh, sorry.

As I was saying, Haralit and I have been doing some research and
scrying. Usually people are brought between worlds because the land is in
trouble, somehow needs them."

For example, he continued, If there was a great plague or war in
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.

She was confused now, Different as in how? she asked

Tortall doesn't need you, you need Tortall