Title: The Seer By: Mizu-chan a.k.a Vannila_Fox

Disclaimer: The Song Of The Lioness, all trademark and related indicia are property of Tamora Pierce. (The Immortals included.)

Last Chapter: ===Cage 3=== Chris looked up at Lirael's cage. There was totally no movement. He smiled at the thoughts of rescue by the Wildmage. It was smart of Jamille to think of such a thing. Maybe the Wildmage would come and rescue them. With that thought, he leant back and fell into slumber. ~~~~

Lirael looked around her, but there was nothing. Literally. Nothing. Everything was darkness. There wasn't any light, even. There wasn't ground, and sky, and any shadow. There was nothing. At first, she thought she was blind, but she could see herself. "What... is this?" she said, or at least she thought she said, as the sounds disappeared as soon as they left her mouth. "I suppose there isn't anything here... including sound." She looked around, and took a cautious step forward. Nothing loked different- nothing changed. She was walking, and didn't seem to be going anywhere. "Why is there... nothing?" She looked around. Totally... nothing. "What the hell do I do?" She scanned the place, and not finding anything, she sat down, and thought.

She thought of what happened, what she wanted to happen. What happened earlier came back to her. 'You must learn to use your gifts.' Shakith had told her. "But what gifts?" She thought back to before that. The feeling of a cage opening inside her, letting everything free. Then the stopping of time, and what Shakith told her afterwards. 'You control time.' She sighed. "But HOW do I do what I DID?" She thought back. It seemed, because of the need she felt, the need to stop time, to save Chris. She sighed, and looked at her hand. She snapped her fingers. Nothing. "As if I thought that THAT would work." She closed her eyes, and looked inside her. Looked for a cage, looked for an opened door.

Jamille watched as the Gallan soldiers looked at the three now opened cages, and at the Tortallan hostages. They were in a large walled courtyard, with archers on them, ready to shoot any rebels. She looked at the raised platform in the middle. The single, small cage was there, with a still unconscious Lirael inside. She was worried, since Lirael hadn't woken up since the time she went off to fight. Amidst the crowd, Kel and Raoul found her. "Squire Jamille!" She looked at the two high- ranked knights, and bowed. "Sir- Lady," she began, but was cut off, by Kel. "What happened to Lirael? How come she isn't waking up yet?"

Jamille shook her head. "I don't know... did you hear what Chris said... what happened in the battlefield?" Kel shook her head back. "Lirael- she stopped time, it was in a radius of one mile, I think, from what information I've gleaned, but it could be less. It was to save him from an arrow that was going to kill him. Everything just stopped. Somehow, he could move as well, but he was too stunned to do anything. He was saying something about a-"

"Pillar of red light. But it wasn't just any pillar. Shakith was there. THE Shakith, Goddess of all seers."