Into the Wrong Hands: Chapter 7

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Theo woke up that morning with no clue what-so-ever where she was. For one she was lying on a cold stone floor alone, and when she opened her eyes she only saw darkness. The past day or so's memories suddenly hit her and she sat up groggily. She wondered for a moment where on earth Justin was, and a small, sarcastic part of her mind told her that she wasn't on earth anymore, so he wasn't couldn't be either. Shut up, another part of her mind told the sarcastic part. "Great," she said aloud to herself, "now I'm going nuts as well as crazy."

"Well," said a voice to the right of Theo, and she started. "I don't think your nuts or crazy." Justin clapped his hands loudly and lights blazed from the ceiling of the small room. She could now see him almost clearly in the dim light. She blushed, remembering the night before and what had happened between them. Justin hugged her next to him again, and they sat there, leaning on each other for a few moments.

The silence was broken by Justin asking, "What are we gonna do for breakfast?" Theo giggled and elbowed him lightly.

"Is that all you ever think about is food?!" She asked him teasingly. "That's what got us here in the first place." She added as an after thought.

"What do you mean by that?" he asked her, sounding a little miffed.

"All I meant was that you went to get nachos and we somehow landed here." She explained soothingly. "I was only joking ya know."

"I know," he murmured to her, but Theo could tell that he had stiffened defensively when she had mentioned it and now he was relaxed next to her. She sighed inwardly, and wondered if she had hurt his feelings with her teasing. She forgot about for now and leaned against him, comforted for a moment, as she always was in his arms. She closed her eyes, and breathed in his smell. `Actually,' Theo thought, `with a day or two of `roughing it' he smells pretty bad...' she giggled at that thought, and wondered how she must smell, and look for that matter. As the seconds went on, she emptied her head of all of her thoughts, and was completely relaxed for a few moments.

The silence was broken a few minuets later when the two heard voices coming from the other side of the wall they were leaned against, and they were speaking in English, or common.

"They have no idea how or why they got here," a male voice whispered.

"Well," said another, deeper male voice, "we need to find out how they got here before we can even begin to develop a counter-spell."

"It doesn't matter now," snapped a female voice quietly. "They don't know anything and they need to get somewhere safe. We can question them all we want there."

Theo and Justin looked at each other for a moment as the voices got closer, and then they both sprang from the ground next to the wall and back up a few paces. They looked at the door just visible in the dim light apprehensively. There was a series of small clicks and then the door swung open to reveal three people. Two were familiar; Theo recognized them as Daine and Kaddar. The other was a man, at least two heads taller than Daine and Kaddar. He had raven black hair, and deep brown eyes. His tan skin looked like he spent days at the beach. `He is FINE!' someone in Theo's thoughts yelled out. She mentally slapped herself across the face. `He is Daine's man.' She thought furiously, `She just don't know it yet.' Theo smiled at this thought, and then walked towards the three.

"Numair Salamin, I presume?" she asked him, as polite as possible.

Numair looked at her quizzically before answering hastily, "Yes. I am Numair, but lets not talk now. We need to get to the university first, so lets get to work." At the last comment, he slapped his hands together and rubbed them like a gleeful child about to receive a bag of sweets. Theo wondered about his for a moment, but put the thought away for now. Numair closed his eyes and put his palms out in front of him, muttering words that no one understood under his breath. Theo watched intently, as she saw a spread of black magic swirled with white flow from his fingers towards herself and Justin to surround them. Theo also noted that it surrounded Numair as well, and then remembered that he was restricted to the palace while he was here. When the black light cleared Justin, Theo and Numair had auras of light black fire surrounding them. When Theo looked to Daine and Kaddar the two were looking through the other three.

"Is the black fire the stuff that makes us invisible, or the power from the fire?" Theo asked Numair,

Numair looked sharply at her, while Daine and Kaddar gave each other strange looks.

"What black fire Theo?" Justin asked from behind them.

Theo looked wildly from Numair to Justin and back to Numair, who was currently giving her a strange look. "You can't see the black fire that's surrounding us?" she asked Justin. He shook his head at her, and gave her a what's-going-on look. Theo shrugged, to tell him she didn't know, and turned back to Numair. "How come I can see your gift?" she tried to control her voice, but a tremor went through her voice.

Numair looked at her a moment longer before answering. "I do not know of anyone that can `see' others gifts, but you seemed to be able to. I think I am beginning to put the puzzle pieces together." He looked thoughtful for a moment, before saying aloud, "we need to leave now, before more guards start searching, and our route to the university is blocked." Kaddar nodded to his command, even if he couldn't see the mage. Theo was thinking about what Numair had said, and wondered what he had meant by `puzzle pieces'. She thought all the while as they walked outside into the courtyard, and Kaddar and Daine mounted horses. She wondered for a moment how they were going to keep up with them, but then realized that they would not be galloping, but walking slowly in this city traffic. There were tons of people crowding the streets that Theo could see, and she was excited for a moment. They were going to the university, to get some answers to why they were here, and be safe at last.
Justin cam up behind her, and took her hand in his, and they walked beside the horses, invisible to all of Carthak and its people for the moment.

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