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Wanna know something my evil computer did? Deleted a good chunk of this story, the end chunk, I was so mad. Now I' having trouble re-writing what I wrote. Don't worry, I have the next few chappies already written.
This chapter is in first person of both Coven And Naiya. It begins in Coven's point of view and switches in the middle. Don't worry, I tell you where the switch is. OH, and I kinda got bored with waiting for my beta to check over this chapter so I updated without her checking it. So please forgive any errors on my part.
--/Chapter 4/--
She was just looking at me. You know the look people give you when they know something you don't. This girl drove me insane; I'd met girls before. But not girls like this. Naiya was, Naiya was confusing. She knew things. Not the things laugh at you and walk away. Not that I mind that she doesn't wear skirts, which would be annoying, trying to work laugh at you and walk away. Not that I mind that she doesn't wear skirts, that would be annoying, trying to work with a gal wearing skirts and petticoats and other what not.
Naiya knew about, names, tides, storms, and she could tell what mood you were in, and sometimes what you were thinking. And I think that when you're looking right into her eyes she's peeking at your soul. I mean it's in her very name. Naiya, water nymph. Ya don't ness with nymphs, they know. If you make 'em mad they'll broadcast your secrets to the world. I've met up with a couple of nymphs in my time; I've never had trouble with them. Boss got into a, well, we won't go into that right now, but it was interesting I'll give you that.
But anyway, we're sitting up here and she's looking at me. I've gotta say something or I'll falloff the mast I swear.
"Look there," I say pointing out at a small Light in the distance. "Pirate's Swoop." I say. Boss sent one of his messenger birds to them telling them we were coming so they would Light up the point.
"Oh wow." She says looking at it. "Why are the lights on?" She asks, like she doesn't know. My mind says cynically.
"So Boss can see the rocks, normally we wouldn't care but we've got to be careful, boat as beat up as it is." She nods her understanding. "How'd ya get up here anyway?" I ask, worried she might have hurt her ribs.
"I climbed." She says and I groan.
"Ya shouldn't have done that." I say, I worry about this idiot girl more than I'll admit out loud. I think Boss knows but I won't ask.
"C'mon, back to bed for you." I say grabbing the nearest rope heading down.
"Yeah, I gotta check in with the captain." She says reaching for a rope as well. I grin.
"Ya didn't hear? Boss is captain. Old one flew outta the window, couldn't fine the body." I tried to sound remorseful but Naiya's grinning like an idiot anyway so I smile too.
"Bummer." She say's before sliding down the rope. And that is why I like this girl, except I didn't say that.
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We reached Pirate's swoop early this morning and Boss woke us up and told us to unload anything broken and make a list of stuff we'll need. Then he hauled Naiya up the hill to Lady Alanna, he say's she needs a healin'. I don't mind much; it wasn't like I wanted to take her or anything.
"Coven, " Dreg yells at me, I don't much like Dreg. He was the ol' captains right hand man, and he looks at Naiya weird, I don't think she's noticed though so I'm not going to tell her.
"Yeah?" I yell back.
"Go get some paper so we can make a list of stuff we need." He yells back. I nod and run off wondering why in the world I'm doing this for him.
I've spent all morning working my arse off for him, ripping off rotten wood and such nonsense. The other sailors were laughing at us rip our ship apart and now I'm playing errand boy. What's gotten into me?
--/Naiya: 1st person/--
As soon as we docked boss gave the crew orders and we where walking up the hill. He said I needed to see a healer but I don't think so. I'll heal, I've never seen a healer before and I was in worse shape then than I am now. There was one time we fell off a waterfall, the boat rolled and all the masts snapped and I was fine. I don't think that I could die in the water, I just don't. The water is like a life force to me. We're entering this huge castle now. Why we didn't go to the city healer I don't know. People are smiling and waving at boss now. Like he's a big celebrity, or a favored noble. I don't understand anything.
They open the doors to a large library and a servant grins and say's she'll be with us. She? Eh? I never knew Boss had a lady friend. I want to make a comment about it but keep my mouth shut. Good thing I do because a rather short woman with fire orange hair and glittering purple eye's walks in.
"Boss!" She cries gleefully as the two embrace. "How are you? George and I haven't seen you in ages!" she says.
"Oh, I'm good lady. Just took over a boat. Gotta make loads o' repairs though." He says smiling. Who's George?
"Do ya' need money?" She asks like it's an everyday question.
"No lady!" He says, as if shocked by the offer. "I just wan' ye to take a look at this girl we picked up in Legann." He says. Then she turns her glittering eyes on me. I squirm under her gaze. She holds my gaze for several long minutes. I can't break away. She finally looks at Boss.
"I don't know what to tell you," she says slowly. "She has a few cracked ribs and such, but the magic Numair will have to look at. He's only a few hours away. Come back for dinner."
"Ya think she's got magic?" he says. "Cuz if she do I'll wager I've got another with it too." He says. I can't take it anymore.
"What has magic got to do with anything?" I ask enraged. "I just want to get to Corus okay? I've worked all the way here, so lets just fix the damn boat and get there. You can come back and talk about people when they aren't actually in the room with ye alright?" I say, a little too loudly if you asked someone else. They both looked stunned. I gulped. I'd obviously made a mistake but my pride kept me from apologizing. The lady finally spoke up.
"And why is it important to get to Corus?" She asked. I sighed, it was a valid question.
"I need to look at royal records, from the census." Both of them looked surprised.
"Why?" She asked in that same toneless voice. Nobles. A cynical part of my mind groaned.
"I need to see who my parents are." I said quietly. The lady sighed and looked at the ceiling before flopping in a chair.
"You don't know?" She asked tiredly.
"No, else wise I would've never got off the Nerissa." The woman groaned again and looked at me.
"Look, you have a form of magic I've never encountered before. One of the easiest, well the only easy way to find out is to know who the parents were, trace back the genealogy. If you don't know that means that we test your magic, get it to levels that tell us what tendencies it has. From there we can figure out what it is. I don't have a clue what you magic is or does so I'm having one of my friends come in and take a look. He'll probably have some clue. Oh, and one more thing, when humans encounter magic's they've never heard about it's most likely the child is god-born." She said finishing off her rather long-winded speech. I just gaped at her. God-born, can't be. Seeing I was unable to comment she looked at Boss. "You mentioned you had another?" She asked and he nodded. "Go get them, I'll heal this one and get her some clean clothes." She said he nodded and left. I gaped at the door he'd left through. He'd left me with this woman. I looked at the door and then the woman.
"We'll come here, we haven't got all day." She said motioning for me to come closer. I just looked at her. She just groaned and walked behind me.
Suddenly purple fire swirled through me. I could feel my bruises healing at an unusual rate. My ribs moved and clicked back together. The gash on my forehead disappeared leaving a thin white scar. I turned to look at the woman.
"Who are you?" I asked. She just smirked.
"Sir Alanna of Pirates swoop." She said, my jaw dropped.
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