Also, this fic has received it's first flame, thanks to "t". Though really, I don't see why you would read both chapters if you knew you weren't going to like it.
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Beautiful Things
Chapter 3 - Confusion
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Confusion. It was the first thing he saw on Ti's face when he re-entered the room. The boy was sitting on the bed, still in only a blanket. /Not that he has any other clothes to wear yet, so it would be... rude to comment about what another would say if they came into the room to see him on my bed like that./ His thoughts were stopped however, when he saw the troubled expression on Ti's face.
"Are you feeling alright?"
Ti looked up, blinking. He seemed to be coming out of some deep, troubled thought. "Ah, yeah. I'm fine. I think. I fell asleep for a minute or two and just had a strange dream." Seeing the other man was going to question him about this dream, he quickly continued. "But it's okay, it was nothing important. It was just a dream, right?"
"Yes, I suppose." If the boy didn't want to tell him about it, it was not his place to ask questions. Changing the subject to lighter things, the Maester held up the clothes he had found for Ti.
"What are those?"
"Your new clothes. They were left in one of the other rooms, and I think that they will be the right size for you."
Ti stood up and clutched the blanket a bit tighter around him. Walking towards Maester Seymour slowly, he took the offered clothes. He took a quick look at them before walking to the bathing room again to change, locking the door behind him.
Standing in the middle of the empty bathing room, he quickly put the outfit on before looking at himself in the mirror.
/I swear there wasn't a mirror in this room last time I was in here. Huh. Maybe someone put it here while I was asleep?/ Deciding that must be it, he took his first real look at this new outfit. The shirt was a nice shade of green, and hung to about mid-thigh. The waist was very loose, and it was then that he noticed there was a tie at the back to make the shirt fit better. The pieces of material were very long though, so he had to tie it in a bow. /That makes this look a bit girly. Oh well. At least I have something clean and dry to wear now./ The sleeves were also really long, and covered his hands so you could just see his finger-tips. There was a blue zig-zag pattern around the wrist, and the end of the sleeve was an almost-petal shape in a dark purple. There was a yellow hood attached to the shirt, and a few strings zig-zagged across the front of the shirt to keep it shut at the top. The outfit had shorts to wear with the shirt. They were also in a blue zig-zag pattern, with a line of yellow at the bottom. Ti was happy with how the outfit looked on him, except for the fact that it was a bit girly, and the shirt was so long (and the shorts so short) that the shorts were barely seen under the shirt. (1)
Ti turned around and put on the dark blue boots that had been in his arms with the outfit, and when he turned around, the mirror was gone. He quickly looked around the room, but there was no one else there. A bit freaked out, Ti quickly unlocked and opened the door again, stepping back into the bedroom, before quickly exclaiming, "there was a mirror, and then I turned around and it wasn't there!"
Seymour smiled at the slightly panicked look on Ti's face, answering "it is just the house. She likes to play her tricks sometimes."
Frowning in confusion, Ti stepped forward to ask more about this statement, and found himself tripping over a pillow he must have knocked on the floor earlier. Ti tried to get his balance back, but this just made him fall backwards instead of forwards. Fortunately, instead of finding himself landing on the ground with a thump, he was caught in a pair of warm arms (2).
Once he fully realized that he wasn't lying on the floor in pain, he pulled away from the Maester with a quiet apology and a pink face.
"You should watch where you walk more carefully. You might hurt yourself, and that would not be good." Seymour turned back towards the door with a slight smirk on his face. "Come, we can get you something to eat downstairs."
Ti quickly followed after Maester Seymour, tugging at the bottom of his shorts at the same time. The things really were too short.
They left the room, and found themselves at the top of a set of staircases. Both went down around the sides of the large room, and there were pictures along the walls beside the stairs. Ti stopped to look at one of them on the way down, but when he looked up again Seymour was already at the bottom of the stairs and heading towards one of the doors on the ground floor. /If I loose him, I'll be alone. And then I might run into Green-Hair.../ Ti shivered at the thought of the older man that he had seen earlier fighting with the Maester. It was better to not risk meeting him again. Rushing down the stairs, Ti jogged across the main floor and opened the door he had seen Maester Seymour go into.
Inside the room there was a small table with two chairs set up. Seymour sat himself down in one of the chairs, and gestured for Ti to take the other. The minute he did, another person entered the room and walked towards them, carrying a tray. She quietly set it down in the center of the table, and then turned towards the Maester.
"Is there anything else you will be needing, Maester Seymour?"
"No, thank you Jade." (3)
The girl nodded her head, and gave Ti a small smile as she turned and left the room.
Ti watched her go, and then turned towards the tray of food she had left. It looked like small sandwiches and pieces of fruit. What if they were poisoned? What if Seymour was really planning on just killing him? It wasn't like he actually knew this Maester Seymour. But... Why would he want to kill him?
The Maester picked up one of the small green-filled sandwiches and ate it. Well, if he was eating it, there couldn't be anything wrong with it, could there? Deciding he was being paranoid, Ti picked up one of the pieces of orange-coloured fruit, and quickly put ate it. Waiting a second, he was relieved to find he was still alive and healthy. The fruit had been really good, too. He picked up another piece of the same fruit and ate it, but slower this time.
Maester Seymour watched all this in amusement.
They sat there for what must have been hours, just talking. Seymour explained about Sin and what exactly a Maester was, and all the other things Ti didn't know about what was going on. They tried to figure out what exactly had happened to Ti, but whenever he thought about it too much, Ti would start to get a very painful headache and they would leave the subject. Ti tried to bring what had happened to the mirror, but the Maester would just chuckle and shake his head.
Eventually though, Green-Hair came into the room. Ti glared at him slightly, even though he didn't really know why he disliked the man so much. Seymour stood up to meet him.
"Maester Seymour, Lady Dona and her guardian are here to speak with you."
"Thank you, Tromell." Seymour turned to Ti, "I apologize, but I must go. I will not be back until late, so you may use my room to sleep in. I shall see you tomorrow." He nodded his head, and then turned and left the room with Tromell.
Ti watched them leave, and then pulled at his clothes a bit as he though. Seymour had seemed friendly while they were talking, if not a little stuck-up. The question was should he trust him? If he thought it wasn't safe to stay here, he could try to sneak away while the Maester was busy. Somehow though, he felt safe here. Maybe it was because the only thing he remembered was waking up and seeing Seymour. Since he was the only thing he knew about right now, it made staying with him safer than going out and getting eaten by something he didn't know about. Right.
He shook his head a bit, and decided he was to tired to think about it too much. It had been a long day, even if he had slept for a few minutes at one point. Hopefully he wouldn't have strange dreams tonight like he had earlier today.
Getting up from the table, Ti started walking towards the door out of the room. Hopefully he wouldn't somehow get lost on the way back to the room.
[to be continued]
No, he doesn't get lost. He gets to the room, and goes to sleep. Just incase you're wondering. And sorry about any mistakes. I didn't have time to read this over.
(1) There's a pic of Ti in this outfit up at my site. He looks uber-uke in the pic, but the things just there so you can get an idea of what he'll be wearing for most of the rest of this fic. ^__^ Thanks to Blank for offering *cough* to draw it. And the colouring is a bit rushed, but I wanted to get this out for you guys.
(2) Who didn't see that coming?
(3) I know, I know. OC's are bad. But she only shows up in a few points in the story, she's not major. I was originally going to ask the reviewers who wanted to be in the story, but in the end one of my friends in RL helped me out with a plot problem and so I used her. So yeah. If you care, that's the story of who Jade is.
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