A/N: I'd like to thank everyone who reviewed! I LOVE YOU GUYS (well not really.......) And here we go.... the next installment. AND PLEASE REVIEW!

Disclaimer: None of these characters belong to me. They all belong to the goddess, and genius, Tamora Pierce. All I own at this point it the plot.



Kel kept running until she felt like her legs would fall off. She stopped by quite a large lake. It's surface was as smooth as glass and the gorgeous sunset in deep purples and bright pinks reflected into the lake in a most attractive way.

Kel dropped on the hard-packed soil and did the first thing that came to mind "Dolt." She hit her head against the ground, "Dolt, Dolt, DOLT!" Why did I have to run off like that? Now they're all going to think I'm crazy or possessed or something. She thought. It was these times she wished most that she had stayed in Yamani training.

She gazed deeply at the surface of the lake, her eyelashes fluttering. Who could ever love me she asked no one in particular but herself. A well built cow, the boy with breasts. She plunged her head in the icy cold water and shivered.

At least that brought her back into reailty. Well....at least a little bit. Kel turned over on her back letting her hair fall into the deadly freezing water. And stared vacantly up at the sky. If anyone knew what she was going through. She thought about what she was going to tell her friends when she got back, or worse, Lord Wyldon.

When Kel heard a gentle stirring in the bushes she sat bolt upright. "Who is it?" she asked, alarmed.

A/N: Like I said above and the Review box is calling you.....you know you want too.......Until Later,



Oke