Helloooooo!!! Again!!!! Thank you to all my reviewers. Yes I have had this story up before but no one reviewed except Googlepuss (thank you sooo much) and myself oh and someone who I can't remember the name of. Anyway just so u know, Anissa has only stayed at the palace for a few weeks and so Jon, Thayet etc were near by cos' they were all going to have breakfast together. Onua's idea so they could get to know one another. Does that make sense? (Didn't I put that in the last a/n in the last chappie? I swear I did, I might have forgotten…. Anyway, just thought I should clear that up…) any way I should be reviewing a lot more quickly now, but it depends on if I can get on the pc cos my dad uses it a lot. Ill try to post a.s.a.p but no promises…I can only do my best k?? Right if you're all ready ill begin with chapter three J
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Chapter three
Trembling, Anissa hurried to get dressed. Her fingers fumbled about with the buttons on her shirt. She cursed at herself for her clumsiness. "What am I going to tell them?" she pondered. "I can't tell them about him… but what do they know?" She gave a sigh and after checking her appearance in a mirror, went along to meeting room.
A quiet
knock sounded upon the heavy oak door, just as Jon was going to his seat at the
table. "I'll get it since I'm up " he said. He opened the door to Anissa, who
stood with her face a translucent white, looking at the ground. "Come in" he
told the girl.
Anissa walked slowly into the meeting room. "Why am I doing this?" she questioned herself quietly. "They're only going to make me tell them everything and I don't think I could really cope with that, perhaps it was stupid to come here, I should never of agreed to have breakfast with Onua". "Anissa" the sound of her voice bought Anissa back to reality. It was Alanna's voice.
"Do you think that you can tell us what happened this morning, if it's not difficult" her voice was surprisingly gentle and kind, "I… I don't think I can, I don't think I can tell anyone? Anissa's head hung down, she refused to meet anyone's eye in case she started to cry. With this Alanna got asked about her involvement with the new trainees and so turned away.
Jonathon kept quiet and took the opportunity to study Anissa. She was young, about twelve, and extremely thin. Her clothes hung off her, and the belt that was fastened round her waist had two extra notches cut into it. She had dark reddish brown hair that trailed in a long winding plait down her back to her waist. Her face had delicate features, her lips were a soft reddish colour, her eyes seemingly changed colour to suit her mood. At the moment, they were grey with flecks of blue. It meant that she was scared. Her face was still deathly white but her cheeks were rosy from the heat of the fire that was lit in one end of the room. "I wonder what she's so scared about?" he muttered to himself, before joining in the conversation.
"Anissa, let me introduce myself properly, I am Jonathon, and I hope we can become friends".
"Hello your highness, my name is Anissa Goldenhand, sir, I would like to be friends sir but that isn't possible since our status in life are so different."
"Now, dear, I'm going to tell you this once, I am friends with many people like yourself and status means nothing to me, you are who you are and nothing I going to change that." Anissa's eyes widened with doubt. At this point Anissa seemed to take into account that there were other people in the room besides Onua, the king and herself. At one end of the table sat Daine and Numair talking quietly to themselves, opposite her sat Buri and Sarge talking about the new trainees, and next to them also talking about the new recruits were Alanna, Thayet and Onua.
"Anissa, I know you don't want to talk about it, but I need to know if the thing that happened this morning was magical", this of course came from Numair. "Well it is but I can't tell you what happened because, well because I cant, if I do, then bad things will happen, very bad things" and with this she jumped up from her seat and ran from the room.