Disclaimer; anything you recognise belongs to Tamora Peirce, the rest, me.
First she was in a forest clearing, then she was on a small cove and finally she was on a small island in the middle of a lake surrounded by mountains.
Everything was brighter the usual, the grass was electric green and the water was an ever-changing colour, first green, the turquoise then blue.
Before her was a women who was more beautiful then any mortal women and when she spoke she sounded like a pack of hounds screaming at once.
She said "Now my daughter, you have achieved everything you wanted. Have you not? You brought the jewel to Tortall, finally defeated Duke Roger and accepted love but are you happy?"
"No Great mother, I'm not"
"What ails you, child?"
"I feel there's something I should be doing, someone I should be helping and I've been having strange dreams"
"What happens in these dreams?"
"I'm standing on a big plain and across from me there's a women whose there but at the same time she's not"
"What does this women look like"
"She's tall with long, nearly colourless hair with green, oval shaped eyes and tanned skin"
"What would you say if I said that you could help this women?"
"I'd say, yes please"
"Very well then, this is what you must do"
The women then told her what she needed to do.
"Now go home Allana" and gave her a light but irristable push.
Alanna the found herself back in her own bed.
First she was in a forest clearing, then she was on a small cove and finally she was on a small island in the middle of a lake surrounded by mountains.
Everything was brighter the usual, the grass was electric green and the water was an ever-changing colour, first green, the turquoise then blue.
Before her was a women who was more beautiful then any mortal women and when she spoke she sounded like a pack of hounds screaming at once.
She said "Now my daughter, you have achieved everything you wanted. Have you not? You brought the jewel to Tortall, finally defeated Duke Roger and accepted love but are you happy?"
"No Great mother, I'm not"
"What ails you, child?"
"I feel there's something I should be doing, someone I should be helping and I've been having strange dreams"
"What happens in these dreams?"
"I'm standing on a big plain and across from me there's a women whose there but at the same time she's not"
"What does this women look like"
"She's tall with long, nearly colourless hair with green, oval shaped eyes and tanned skin"
"What would you say if I said that you could help this women?"
"I'd say, yes please"
"Very well then, this is what you must do"
The women then told her what she needed to do.
"Now go home Allana" and gave her a light but irristable push.
Alanna the found herself back in her own bed.