1 Wish you were Here prt2 (re-written)
******One week later, at the palace********
"Kel! Hurry up!" shouted Neal to the door, "We're gonna be late for breakfast! Would you open up already! Listen, I know I was a jerk in the library but that was a week ago!!! And….."
Lalasa opened the door, revealing bare walls and floor.
"What do you want?" asked an exasperated Lalasa, "I'm busy cleaning up."
"Where's Kel?" asked Neal, pushing past Lalasa to enter the room. He ran his fingers over the white walls, as if expecting her stuff to reappear by magic.
"Oh, you forgot that fast?" Lalasa asked, clearly uncomfortable with Neals ignorence.
Neal gazed at her stupidly, his mouth practically hanging open. "Forgot what?"
Lalasa raised an eyebrow, before rushing over to where Crown was demanding to be let inside. "Lady Kel has been away with her knight master for a week, sir." She replied, as she struggled to push the window open. Neal went over and the two of them grunted before the shutters flew open.
Neal, clearly offended at her sudden departure, just pouted. "So who's her knight master?" he asked at last. "Was it Lord Raoul? I bet it was, he was always watching her in the practice courts…"
Lalasa shook her head sadly, "If only it was. Some Stone Mountain boy, I believe. Brother of the nasty blonde boy?"
Neal's face paled visibly, "You don't mean Timinoe of Stone Mountain, do you?" When Lalasa nodded he gulped and fled from the room, in the direction of the library.
Lalasa cast a worried look at Neals retreating back, before picking up the broom to finish sweeping.
**********Back with Kel***********
"Wonderful!" Timinoe threw up his hands in exasperation. "Kel are we by any chance lost? Because I swear, I've seen that tree three times now!" Joren nodded agreement.
Kel shook her head, before muttering to Peg, who had managed to tag along, "How can they tell? All the trees look the same!" To Timinoe, however, she simply nodded. "You have the map, my lord."
Timinoe simply shrugged, "Yes, but isn't it your duty to direct us?"
Kel shook her head, "I have no knowledge of this land, my lord. Mindelin is far from here."
Timinoe looked confused, "But Joren said that you were an expert at mapping and guiding…"
Joren, as if sensing the danger he was being brought into, stuttered a quick excuse before saying, "Still, I feel it would be better if she were duely punished."
Timinoe raised a blonde eyebrow, but only shrugged. "We're on the main road, we can't get too lost." Then, before anyone could make another comment on the matter, he spurred his horse and trotted forward. To Kel's dismay, Joren and Vinson did not follow suit.
"So, Kel…" Joren began "That wasn't very nice of you to get us lost like that. Hardly appropriate after all we did for you…"
Kel nearly choked on the piece of dried meat she was knawing on. "Excuse me?" she spat. "In case your little peanut of a brain forgot, I cook your meals, clean Timinoes equipment, take care of your animals, make your fire, and set up your camp! Like any proper squire."
Vinson grinned eviley, and repeated, "Like any proper squire."
For some odd reason, both of the men thought this was hilarious. Jorens face turned pink and Vinsen dropped his water flask. "Oh, come off it, Lump! You didn't honestly think someone would pick you as their squire did you?"
Kel stiffened visably, "Your brother did."
Once again the two boys burst into laughter. "Jorens brother is witless," coughed out Vinsen. "A little here here and there, and he dropped you right into our laps" he smiled suggestivly. "where you belong."
It took a moment to digest this, as Joren and Vinsen howled with laughter and rode off. So she was chosen out of pity by her worst enemies brother. As if she couldn't snag her own knight! Timinoe was nice enough, sarcastic and more than a bit dim, but sweet when it suited him.
Pulling the hood of her cape up to hide her disappointed face, she nudged Peachblossem into a trot.
*********A few hours later********
"Here we are, in town at last, no thanks to you Kel," sneered Joren, who dismounted his horse, a thouroughbred every bit as pale as its rider.
"Don't blame her Joren, it's not her fault cows like her can't read maps worth anything," said Vinson, and started to untack his mare.
'I didn't even have the map!' thought Kel for the millionth time that hour. But instead of repeating her comment, she smiled sweetly back at Joren. "And I suppose you think its all MY fault that you look like a goat?"
"Yes, that's your fault as well," snapped Joren, before he realized what he had said. His face turned beet red, and in contrast to his white hair, he began to look rather like a radish. "I mean…"
Kel just laughed and moved up to take care of Timinoes horse, Lightning.
Lightning was a pure black horse, the fastest horse in the kingdom, and also was of the meanest. As Kel approached him he pawed the ground, looking ready to charge at any moment. Kel glared at him. "I don't suggest you do anything mean," she told him, "or I might tell Peachblossem how bad you behave." Peachblossem was a bullying horse, and all the horses that knew him were afraid of him. Lightning continued to glare, but didn't try anything.
**********Back with Neal and co***********
"Hey guys, did you ever notice that Kel has been missing for a week?" asked Neal, picking absently at his vegetables.
"No duh" said Merric, snatching the roll from Owens plate "and you didn't?"
"Well no, but…" Neal began, turning scarlett.
"Your hopeless," stated Owen, stealing Merrics pudding in retaliation. "Which girl was it this time?"
Neal buried his face in his hands to hide his ever increasing blush, "the beautiful, and talented Lady Anfriteas Deilub. She's gorgous and….."
"I think I'm gonna hurl." said Owen, and the others nodded agreement. Roald took a large, black book from underneath his chair. Thick dust coated its pages, suggesting nonuse for quite some time.
"I got it from dads personal library," he admitted, looking quite ashamed. "I don't think he'll notice it's gone, but we better hurry anyway."
While Neal started a heated argument with himself whether of not Deilub rimed with delight, the others poured over the kings book. Looking desperatly for a certain Timinoe of Stone Mountain.
************Six months later*************
"Listen guys, I'm gonna go to the bar, you go catch some food, we don't have enough money to buy dinner." said Timinoe. Kel rolled her eyes. In the past months she had learned one thing: Never leave Timinoe alone with money. He tended to spend it all on liquor.
"You heard him Lump, go get dinner," snarled Vinson who began to brush off his mare. Joren snickered.
"Actually, I need all three of you to go," Timinoe said, blushing. Kel expected it had something to do with a certain raven haired local beauty he was to meet that night. "We leave again in the morning, so we need to restock."
"But Kel can do it!" argued Joren, who also seemed to have plans for later.
"No buts about it you guys, now go!" Timinoe hurried them off as a dark haired girl started walking toward him.
**********Later*********
"We've been here for an hour and we haven't caught anything yet!" complained Joren, who threw yet another rock at yet another rabbit, scaring it off. His bow and arrows lay a few yards back momentarily forgotten.
"If you would stop scaring all the game away…" Kel started, before interrupting herself. "Hey what's that?"
She pointed to a half-buried glowing necklace. It was covered in strange markings, and decorated ornamentally in assorted animals.
"I don't know but it could be worth a fortune!" said Vinson, who ran up to it. Then he hugged Joren, "it looks like its made from solid gold!!!! We're rich!"
Joren, however, seemed to have other ideas. "Rachele will love it!" he said, naming a girl Kel had seen him with at the local pub.
Joren reached to pick it up, Vinson attached to his arm, trembling with excitement. Kel raced toward them. "Stop! Let's think about this…it's glowing and in the middle of no where, now why do you think that is? No don't TOUCH it!!!" Kel grabbed Jorens arm, just as his fingers closed around it.
The ground rumbled, and suddenly cracked underneath them. Kel had time to see a tree fall headfirst into the crevice before she lost her footing and slipped down with it, dragging Joren and Vinson with her.
******One week later, at the palace********
"Kel! Hurry up!" shouted Neal to the door, "We're gonna be late for breakfast! Would you open up already! Listen, I know I was a jerk in the library but that was a week ago!!! And….."
Lalasa opened the door, revealing bare walls and floor.
"What do you want?" asked an exasperated Lalasa, "I'm busy cleaning up."
"Where's Kel?" asked Neal, pushing past Lalasa to enter the room. He ran his fingers over the white walls, as if expecting her stuff to reappear by magic.
"Oh, you forgot that fast?" Lalasa asked, clearly uncomfortable with Neals ignorence.
Neal gazed at her stupidly, his mouth practically hanging open. "Forgot what?"
Lalasa raised an eyebrow, before rushing over to where Crown was demanding to be let inside. "Lady Kel has been away with her knight master for a week, sir." She replied, as she struggled to push the window open. Neal went over and the two of them grunted before the shutters flew open.
Neal, clearly offended at her sudden departure, just pouted. "So who's her knight master?" he asked at last. "Was it Lord Raoul? I bet it was, he was always watching her in the practice courts…"
Lalasa shook her head sadly, "If only it was. Some Stone Mountain boy, I believe. Brother of the nasty blonde boy?"
Neal's face paled visibly, "You don't mean Timinoe of Stone Mountain, do you?" When Lalasa nodded he gulped and fled from the room, in the direction of the library.
Lalasa cast a worried look at Neals retreating back, before picking up the broom to finish sweeping.
**********Back with Kel***********
"Wonderful!" Timinoe threw up his hands in exasperation. "Kel are we by any chance lost? Because I swear, I've seen that tree three times now!" Joren nodded agreement.
Kel shook her head, before muttering to Peg, who had managed to tag along, "How can they tell? All the trees look the same!" To Timinoe, however, she simply nodded. "You have the map, my lord."
Timinoe simply shrugged, "Yes, but isn't it your duty to direct us?"
Kel shook her head, "I have no knowledge of this land, my lord. Mindelin is far from here."
Timinoe looked confused, "But Joren said that you were an expert at mapping and guiding…"
Joren, as if sensing the danger he was being brought into, stuttered a quick excuse before saying, "Still, I feel it would be better if she were duely punished."
Timinoe raised a blonde eyebrow, but only shrugged. "We're on the main road, we can't get too lost." Then, before anyone could make another comment on the matter, he spurred his horse and trotted forward. To Kel's dismay, Joren and Vinson did not follow suit.
"So, Kel…" Joren began "That wasn't very nice of you to get us lost like that. Hardly appropriate after all we did for you…"
Kel nearly choked on the piece of dried meat she was knawing on. "Excuse me?" she spat. "In case your little peanut of a brain forgot, I cook your meals, clean Timinoes equipment, take care of your animals, make your fire, and set up your camp! Like any proper squire."
Vinson grinned eviley, and repeated, "Like any proper squire."
For some odd reason, both of the men thought this was hilarious. Jorens face turned pink and Vinsen dropped his water flask. "Oh, come off it, Lump! You didn't honestly think someone would pick you as their squire did you?"
Kel stiffened visably, "Your brother did."
Once again the two boys burst into laughter. "Jorens brother is witless," coughed out Vinsen. "A little here here and there, and he dropped you right into our laps" he smiled suggestivly. "where you belong."
It took a moment to digest this, as Joren and Vinsen howled with laughter and rode off. So she was chosen out of pity by her worst enemies brother. As if she couldn't snag her own knight! Timinoe was nice enough, sarcastic and more than a bit dim, but sweet when it suited him.
Pulling the hood of her cape up to hide her disappointed face, she nudged Peachblossem into a trot.
*********A few hours later********
"Here we are, in town at last, no thanks to you Kel," sneered Joren, who dismounted his horse, a thouroughbred every bit as pale as its rider.
"Don't blame her Joren, it's not her fault cows like her can't read maps worth anything," said Vinson, and started to untack his mare.
'I didn't even have the map!' thought Kel for the millionth time that hour. But instead of repeating her comment, she smiled sweetly back at Joren. "And I suppose you think its all MY fault that you look like a goat?"
"Yes, that's your fault as well," snapped Joren, before he realized what he had said. His face turned beet red, and in contrast to his white hair, he began to look rather like a radish. "I mean…"
Kel just laughed and moved up to take care of Timinoes horse, Lightning.
Lightning was a pure black horse, the fastest horse in the kingdom, and also was of the meanest. As Kel approached him he pawed the ground, looking ready to charge at any moment. Kel glared at him. "I don't suggest you do anything mean," she told him, "or I might tell Peachblossem how bad you behave." Peachblossem was a bullying horse, and all the horses that knew him were afraid of him. Lightning continued to glare, but didn't try anything.
**********Back with Neal and co***********
"Hey guys, did you ever notice that Kel has been missing for a week?" asked Neal, picking absently at his vegetables.
"No duh" said Merric, snatching the roll from Owens plate "and you didn't?"
"Well no, but…" Neal began, turning scarlett.
"Your hopeless," stated Owen, stealing Merrics pudding in retaliation. "Which girl was it this time?"
Neal buried his face in his hands to hide his ever increasing blush, "the beautiful, and talented Lady Anfriteas Deilub. She's gorgous and….."
"I think I'm gonna hurl." said Owen, and the others nodded agreement. Roald took a large, black book from underneath his chair. Thick dust coated its pages, suggesting nonuse for quite some time.
"I got it from dads personal library," he admitted, looking quite ashamed. "I don't think he'll notice it's gone, but we better hurry anyway."
While Neal started a heated argument with himself whether of not Deilub rimed with delight, the others poured over the kings book. Looking desperatly for a certain Timinoe of Stone Mountain.
************Six months later*************
"Listen guys, I'm gonna go to the bar, you go catch some food, we don't have enough money to buy dinner." said Timinoe. Kel rolled her eyes. In the past months she had learned one thing: Never leave Timinoe alone with money. He tended to spend it all on liquor.
"You heard him Lump, go get dinner," snarled Vinson who began to brush off his mare. Joren snickered.
"Actually, I need all three of you to go," Timinoe said, blushing. Kel expected it had something to do with a certain raven haired local beauty he was to meet that night. "We leave again in the morning, so we need to restock."
"But Kel can do it!" argued Joren, who also seemed to have plans for later.
"No buts about it you guys, now go!" Timinoe hurried them off as a dark haired girl started walking toward him.
**********Later*********
"We've been here for an hour and we haven't caught anything yet!" complained Joren, who threw yet another rock at yet another rabbit, scaring it off. His bow and arrows lay a few yards back momentarily forgotten.
"If you would stop scaring all the game away…" Kel started, before interrupting herself. "Hey what's that?"
She pointed to a half-buried glowing necklace. It was covered in strange markings, and decorated ornamentally in assorted animals.
"I don't know but it could be worth a fortune!" said Vinson, who ran up to it. Then he hugged Joren, "it looks like its made from solid gold!!!! We're rich!"
Joren, however, seemed to have other ideas. "Rachele will love it!" he said, naming a girl Kel had seen him with at the local pub.
Joren reached to pick it up, Vinson attached to his arm, trembling with excitement. Kel raced toward them. "Stop! Let's think about this…it's glowing and in the middle of no where, now why do you think that is? No don't TOUCH it!!!" Kel grabbed Jorens arm, just as his fingers closed around it.
The ground rumbled, and suddenly cracked underneath them. Kel had time to see a tree fall headfirst into the crevice before she lost her footing and slipped down with it, dragging Joren and Vinson with her.