The servant knocked quietly on the door, calling
"MiLady, I have your dinner here!"
When there was no answer, the servant shrugged and turned, deciding that the girl had fallen asleep.
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Neal sat up, awake, with a barely suppresed scream. He could not remember his dream, it was just a bloodcurdling scream and whiteness. Shivering, he lay back asleep, not wishing to wake his knight master and wife in the next room.
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Screeeech!
Daine bolted awake at Kittens sudden outburst. Numair, Beside her, did the same. Kitten was a shade of white that Daine had never seen on her.
"Kitten! What is it!?"
The dragonette was rocking back and forth with her nose buried in her wings, scared half to death.
"Kit?"
A knock on the door made Daine sigh and get up. It was Tkaa.
"What happened?"
Daine smiled, glad to have someone that could talk to her charge here.
"I don't know, she just screeched and began this! She was fine earlier!"
Tkaa gave the equivalent of a frown and knelt beside the dragon. There was silence for a moment, and then the immortal rose.
"The silver of the people, she is dying. That is all she will…can say."
Numair rubbed his head.
"The silver of the people? The animal people? Silver? Have I mentioned that I hate omens?"
Daine paled.
"The silver…" she looked at Numair. "Didn't you say that Xlelon's magic was Silver!?"
Numair gasped and bolted out of the room, Daine not far behind him.
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As they pushed open the door, they found pandimonium. A flurry of birds were trying to chase off a…thing that was kneeling over Xlelon. It was about to touch its fingers to her temple, but disitergrated instantly when Numair yelled. He then slumped onto the door frame, gray, while Daine rushed to her friend's aid. To the sparrows that were now fluttering on the floor, she said,
"Get Duke Baird, quick. Numair, what was it?"
Numair shook his head, trying to clear it.
"I've no notion. It was something mixed with Dreamrose, and it was made for her."
Tkaa helped him up.
"Obviously, since it did not effect you, but what was that that you banished, it was a banishing spell correct?"
Numair nodded shakily and stumbled beside Daine. She was checking Xlelon's pulse, which was fast and shallow.
"It scared her."
Numair made the sign against evil, followed by Daine.
"It scared *me*, I haven't the faintest clue what it was."
Daine nodded, ripping a strip of cloth from the sheets to begin bandaging the girl's many wounds, they were many, mostly shallow, but there were two that ran down the inside of her arms, making her shudder; they were abnormally straight.
Duke Baird hurried in and knelt quickly beside Daine, the sparrows that had brought him now flying out the window. He checked her over, dark green magic glittering on her smaller wounds. He frowned.
"Hurry, we must get her to the infirmary, I know not what this was, but it has harmed her deeply."
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So. What'll happen? What was that? Another Cliffe, I'm eeeeeeeeeeevil.