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--/Chapter6: Water Witch/--
She awoke the next morning to the mirror shrieking. Waking up she stood up and yelled at the thing to 'Shut up!'.
"There, what do you want?" She asked crabbily. The mirror smiled sweetly.
"I'm going to help you get ready." It said sweetly.
"What?"
"You can't run around like you were yesterday. It's just not done." It said, surprised she hadn't thought of that.
"It might not have been done hundreds of years ago, but it's done now." She said pointedly.
"I know, there is a lamp in Legann that tells the clock in Pirates swoop who tells the Raven who tells us and he knows everything." She said smirking.
"Huh, I'll dress myself." She said turning around.
"Let me at least give you a few options!" It said. Naiya grimaced and turn around.
"How about I give you a few options and you pick one." She said.
"Perfect!" The mirror shrieked. Naiya shook her head, a talking mirror, what else was next?
Opening the dresser in her bathroom Naiya was bombarded with options for the day. She could wear pink, green, blue, white, and gray, red, orange. She could wear dresses, robes, or breeches.
"Ah, breeches." She decided out loud. Suddenly the wardrobe changed to only breeches shirts and tunics. Sighing she decided to wear white and gray. Pulling a white shirt embroidered in blue and a pair of loose. Baggy gray breeches and walked out the door.
Light shown through spelled windows in the hallway and library. Each having a large stain glass window in one wall. The kitchen was lit up with a soft yellow and pink light. On the table was a huge meal. Plates of eggs, bacon, sausage, pancakes, French toast and various fruits were set on raised platters. Two plate settings were set on either end of the long table. She gasped and ran to get Coven.
"Coven, Coven! Wake up!" She yelled pounding on his door. He opened it, shirt untucked and hair uncombed.
"What?" He asked peevishly.
"You've got to see this." She said grabbing his arm and dragging him to the kitchen.
His eye's lit up when he saw all the food. "Yes!" He cried. Naiya rolled her eyes. Boys. Her mind thought.
She sat down and put some fruit on her plate. She wasn't much of a breakfast eater. She watched as Coven shoveled food into his face. Somehow she lost what little appetite she'd had.
"What?" He asked through a mouthful of food. Naiya swallowed.
"Nothing, I'm going to the library. I'll see you later." She said getting up and leaving.
The library was full of books and scrolls. Each categorized by author. Previous residents of this cove wrote most. Some were written by other authors, but most of them were books on the study of the tides, or rain patterns. Naiya ignored those books, trying to find the ones on her type of water magic. One of the first things she had noticed was that there were different types of water magic. Some were more specific to fresh water or Ocean water, some was more specific to rain, or tides like Covens magic.
Five shelves later she found a section on ocean magic specifically. Or as they called it "Majic d'Oceanic.' pronounced 'Ma jic de Ocean ike'. Naiya liked the name; it made her magic sound unusual and important. Which it was.
She picked up a book titled A Beginners Guide to All things Oceanic and Magical. Long title, she thought and put it on a table. Another book was titled, The Magical Ocean, its Plants, and its Animals. Another book added to her pile. An hour later Naiya had a pile as tall as her and she still hadn't made a dent in the section of the library. Sighing she picked up an armful of books and walked to her room. Four trips later she had all of the books stacked on the table in her room. Picking up the one on top she began to read.
"Naiya?" Coven asked from behind her. Snapping her out of the information-absorbing trance she was in. She had finished three books and was almost done with a fourth.
"Yeah?"
"Wasn't Numair supposed to come today?" He asked uncertainly.
"Yeah, something must have come up. He is the nations most sought after mage." Naiya said with a smile.
"K." He said before leaving. Naiya tried to resume reading but it just wouldn't work. She needed something with a little more excitement.
Combing the bookshelf in her room she found several intresting titles but nothing that suited her mood. Then she saw it, a worn green and copper cover. Water Witch. She pulled on the cover. It wouldn't come. She pulled harder and the wall pulled open. At first she'd thought she'd broken it. In reality she'd opened a passageway. Gaping she walked through a narrow hall into a red room.
A table was set up in the center of the room. Several papers were set on the table in a neat fanned out pattern. Naiya walked towards the table. The papers were actually a letter, a very long letter. Smiling she picked up the first page
So you've found my private room. Nosey aren't you? Thought so. Hmm, well since you were smart enough to find this room I might as well tell you about it eh? You'd like that wouldn't you? Thought so. So should I tell you? I suppose that I should tell you, as you got in here.
So why the interest in Water Witch? Bored? Studying and your brain overloaded? Escaping the insanity of the tides? Other insane apprentice's? I know the feeling.
So, getting to the point. I built the room when I was fifteen and stayed until I was twenty-two. At the moment I am old, so old I am not going o tell you my exact age.
Well, lets start from the beginning shall we?
When I was fifteen I was told I was told I had water magic. At this time in history magic was considered odd and dangerous. For my own safety I was taken here. My bedroom was the room you entered my study from.
I spent the better part of my first year here trying to find a place to study. The libraries were to crowd with fifty students at one time. You may be shocked at such a high number but when water magic was first discovered it was common. Not anymore mind you. But, I couldn't study, and as you well know, we water mages study, not the glance at your books study, the brain melting hours of memorization study.
I decided I needed a place of my own. A separate room that I made and took care of. That way the maids wouldn't disturb me. I could go about my life without having to deal with horny teenage boys, and I say that in the nicest possible way, truly.
So I studied the art or magic and on the side a few books n carpentry. I finally figured out how to add a room to my room using water magic. My magic specifically delt with all things Oceanic. So I grew coral into a box shape, let it die and smoothed it over. You won't know it it's coral. I then smuggled bookcases out of the storage rooms and into my room. No mean feat. You can't just smuggle bookcases like you can smuggle food. Then I brought in furniture, firewood, and books.
That entire process took me two and a half years, until I was nineteen and a half. I later learned that some of the greatest water mages couldn't do what I did. That led to me being one of the strongest water mages there is.
I spent the next three years of my life preparing for the trials, this room became my life in that time, and I ate, studied and slept here. Memorizing all of the texts I had collected and was being given by my teachers.
After passing the tests I left, going around the world helping the ocean to purify itself, helping and teaching the animals how to recognize fishermen's nets. Now years later I returned to share with you this room. Since you discovered it I bade you use it. More than likely you have the same magic as I do use these texts to teach yourself. Do great things.
--Water WitchNaiya smiled as she finished the letter. This water witch was quite the character. So she had created this room using her magic that was quite the talent. And only two years after she began her studies. She must have been very powerful. Naiya jumped up and ran to the library.
The windows were dark and only a few torches burned but Naiya knew where to find what she was looking for. A text on all of the notable mages who had attended the school.
There, in another pile of books, Coven must have wanted it. She thought as she sank to the floor with it. Notable Students and Teachers of Water Cove.
"Water Cove, imaginative." She said aloud. Flipping to the end of the book. "She would be at the end, but not in the last fifty pages," she muttered. Flipping through the pages she was scanning for the phrase water witch. "Finally!" She exclaimed.
Annalia Fisher
Common blood
Stayed for seven years
Youngest to get credits
Oceanic Magic
Black Robe
"Thats it? What a load of bull." She said disgruntled. Sighing she went to bed. She would look more in the morning.
Okay, there it is, my slightly (overly) boring chappie. But review or Flame away!
~~Ana~~