Disclaimer: I am not Tamora Pierce as you can clearly tell from my
writings. I don't own any of the characters so far, the plot is mine but I
suspect that some things that will be written here may appear in some of
TP's future books.
NOTE! I haven't read Shatterglass, the finale to the Circle Opens quartet. If something I write conflicts with this book please inform me politely. NOTE 2! I haven't read the Circle of Magic for like 6 months so I'm kind of iffy on how long it took the 4 to learn their meditation, and to keep their magic within themselves. I do believe it didn't take long.
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Briar woke late the next day and after he dressed he went to find Rosethorn who was looking through her work room. "Do we have to clean up in here today?" Rosethorn looked around at him and a grin spread across her face.
"Of course not boy. We just got back! We have weeding to do!" She laughed as Briar groaned. "Go on! Get something to eat and then go out into the garden! It's summer. You should have known." And with that she turned back to her cabinets and started putting some dried spices in a jar.
Briar turned around and went into the pantry. Evvy was in there making a sandwich with ingredients from the icebox. "Morning! Rosethorn told me to get something to eat and then to wake you. What am I to do today?"
"Practice your letters and go through your rocks again. I don't have anything new for you to do yet so you'll have to amuse yourself with that. I have lots to do today so don't interrupt with out a reason. Uhh weeding." He answered. Looking around he grabbed and apple, then headed to the back of the cottage and the garden. As it was almost midsummer and the only two plant mages allowed in discipline's garden had been away since the previous year the garden looked disastrous to Briar. "This is going to take days to fix up." He murmured, getting to work.
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Sitting in meditation, Sandry looked through her magic at Pasco. His magic was making him glow and she could see that none of it was escaping him again today. This was a definite improvement, and it was probably due to the harsh treatment that he received at Yazmin's school. Sandry smiled to herself and came out of her meditation calling to Pasco.
"Very good. You are in total control of your power. Very soon we can take off the warding and you can meditate whenever you want. Also you can dance." She said taking up the string that she used to ward them. "You can dance for fun now as long as you don't forget your power. I'll take away the warding at Yazmin's on Firesday and then you can practice more complicate dances, pattern dances with more than one person, things like that." Sandry stood up. "Want to come to discipline with me? You can meet Briar, and Rosethorn, and Evvy!"
"All right, let me go and tell Yazmin that I'm going, I'll meet you at the stables." He ran off towards the studio and Sandry went to get her horse, and Pasco's. She was mounted when he returned and he clambered up onto his black mare. They set off at a gallop, Sandry excited on seeing Brair again. The previous night had been so strange that she wasn't sure that it was real.
They reached Discipline in no time at all and walked into the cottage to find the main room empty. Sandry walked into Lark's work room and found her weaving what looked like a blanket. She smiled when she saw Sandry. "Briar is out in the garden. Guess what he's doing?"
"Weeding of course. It's summer!" Sandry said giggling. "I brought Pasco, to introduce him. Come on Pasco let's go find Briar."
It took a while to locate him in the mess of the garden. He was kneeling, topless, pulling some rather large weeds out of a rosebush. "Hi." She said startling him.
"Hello." Brair returned standing up. He was tanned from the hot sun and sweating from the work. Pulling a rag out of his pocket he wiped his face and hands.
"Briar this is my student Pasco." Briar held out his hand for Pasco to shake.
"Ahh yes, the dance mage. From what Sandry has told me you did some fine work catching the murderers, although I can't say that I like your background. Family of harriers right?" Briar, being a street rat until the age of 10, didn't like harriers as he had been almost sentenced to the docks for getting caught thieving on three occasions.
"For generations." Pasco said, proud.
Sandry not wanting a fight to start, knowing that Briar would win easily, changed the subject. "So where is Evvy, Briar? She wasn't in the cottage."
"She's over there." He said pointing. "In the shade under that tree, working on her rocks." Briar looked down at the weeds. "I think it's time for a break, and some lunch. Lets get Evvy and get something to eat from Gorse. EVVY!" She came walking over holding a roll of cloth, which looked heavy.
"Hello Evvy," Sandry said. "Pasco this is Evvy, Briar's student. Evvy this is Pasco."
"Hello." They said in unison. Sandry and Briar started walking back to the cottage.
Lark had already been to the kitchens so there was plenty of food to eat. Rosethorn came to join them and she was introduced to Pasco.
"So Lark what is this project that Crane wants you to work on?" Sandry asked.
"Oh its nothing special. He just wants me to make him some strings for his plants with health spells imprinted on them. But it's good because it gives me a way to teach Comas how to actually use his magic with the strings. With you it was a lot easier because of the blue pox mainly but the earthquake, and pirates helped also, plus you had to spin apart all of your magics. Comas doesn't have your skill, I don't know if anyone does. You four were and are remarkable students."
"Yes but isn't most of it due to Sandry spinning out magics together?" Briar put in.
"Well that certainly made you stronger but you were all very talented when you came to us." Lark answered. "Look how long it took you to do your meditation, while keeping all of your magic inside you. Most people take months, but with you it was more like a few weeks."
There was a creak and everyone turned around to see a talk dark skinned girl with a long wooden staff standing near the door. Sandry and Briar shot out of their seats. "DAJA!!!" Sandry called, greeting her foster sister. She ran over to embrace her warmly. Briar followed.
"Long time no see Sandry. And you Kaq." Daja Kisubo said referring to Briar.
Sandry was flushed. "Two surprises in two days. What could be better?"
"I have a few more unwelcome surprises for you. Jorality, Niamara come in here." Two Namronese twins appeared behind Daja. "Meet Briar moss, and Lady Sandriline Fa Toren."
"Deary me!" Sandry Exclaimed. "It looks like everyone has brought someone new. Students are they Daj'?"
"They are. Jory, a chef-mage, Nia a carpentry-mage." Briar grinned.
"Chef are we? I think you and I will get along great!" Briar said, everyone laughed, including Lark and Rosethorn who had come over, and Frostpine who had entered the cabin carrying Daja, Jory, and Nia's bags. "Here let me take something." Briar offered taking a couple of bags and placing them in Daja's room. When he got back everyone was seated around the dinning room table, extra chairs having been brought out. Sandry served tea to everyone and introductions were made between students. Before they had finished their second cup of tea, and were half way through Jorality and Niamara's story, Sandry heard familiar barking coming from the front of the cabin.
"It can't be." She said but they all knew it was. Getting to their feet, Sandry, Briar Daja, and their teachers got up and raced to the door. The five new students (including Comas who had come out at Lark's command for introductions) looked around nervously.
Sandry who had reached the door first greeted a very large white dog whom was named Little Bear. Briar patted him and looked farther down the path to see a girl with wiry red curls waddling up the path, followed by her teacher Nikarlen Goldeye, and a man the others had never seen before. "It is!" Briar said excited, as he Daja, and Sandry ran to meet their fourth and final foster sibling. "Coppercurls! Long time no see!" Trisana Chandler was smiling the biggest smile that Briar had seen on her face in good weather. Sandry had burst into tears on Tris' shoulder. The events of the last two days had become to much for her. She stood up and put a handkerchief to her face.
Daja held out her hand to the new comer who grabbed it laughing and pulled her into a hug. "It's good to see you Daja. And you, Briar." She said turning to him. "Sandry cut it out!" Tris said but small tears of happiness had begun to leek from her eyes. Sandry put the kerchief away and turned to the balding man standing close behind Tris.
"Niko!" She wrapped her arms around another of her teachers.
"Hello Sandry. Where is everyone?" Niko released Sandry and walked up the path to the house, wanting to see his fellow mages after such a long time.
"Come on you have to meet everyone! There are so many new faces at discipline, I don't know where everyone will sleep! And it looks like you have brought another into out midst. We can do introductions inside." Sandry said pulling Tris by the arm up the path and home, for what she thought would be the last set of introductions.
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A/N: Well so basically the beginning is over. I'm going to start the plot in the following chapter, but I couldn't do that before the reunion. I had another page to put onto this chapter but I decided that it should be the beginning of the next. I know most people aren't in character but hey I'm not Tamora Pierce and I cannot write like her.
~Oh and for those of you that may not understand the title of the chapter, there are two types of copper, one being Tris' hair and the other being a metal that Daja works with a lot. I did that because I didn't want to give away what happens in the chapter!
REVIEW!!!! I want to know what you think!
NOTE! I haven't read Shatterglass, the finale to the Circle Opens quartet. If something I write conflicts with this book please inform me politely. NOTE 2! I haven't read the Circle of Magic for like 6 months so I'm kind of iffy on how long it took the 4 to learn their meditation, and to keep their magic within themselves. I do believe it didn't take long.
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Briar woke late the next day and after he dressed he went to find Rosethorn who was looking through her work room. "Do we have to clean up in here today?" Rosethorn looked around at him and a grin spread across her face.
"Of course not boy. We just got back! We have weeding to do!" She laughed as Briar groaned. "Go on! Get something to eat and then go out into the garden! It's summer. You should have known." And with that she turned back to her cabinets and started putting some dried spices in a jar.
Briar turned around and went into the pantry. Evvy was in there making a sandwich with ingredients from the icebox. "Morning! Rosethorn told me to get something to eat and then to wake you. What am I to do today?"
"Practice your letters and go through your rocks again. I don't have anything new for you to do yet so you'll have to amuse yourself with that. I have lots to do today so don't interrupt with out a reason. Uhh weeding." He answered. Looking around he grabbed and apple, then headed to the back of the cottage and the garden. As it was almost midsummer and the only two plant mages allowed in discipline's garden had been away since the previous year the garden looked disastrous to Briar. "This is going to take days to fix up." He murmured, getting to work.
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Sitting in meditation, Sandry looked through her magic at Pasco. His magic was making him glow and she could see that none of it was escaping him again today. This was a definite improvement, and it was probably due to the harsh treatment that he received at Yazmin's school. Sandry smiled to herself and came out of her meditation calling to Pasco.
"Very good. You are in total control of your power. Very soon we can take off the warding and you can meditate whenever you want. Also you can dance." She said taking up the string that she used to ward them. "You can dance for fun now as long as you don't forget your power. I'll take away the warding at Yazmin's on Firesday and then you can practice more complicate dances, pattern dances with more than one person, things like that." Sandry stood up. "Want to come to discipline with me? You can meet Briar, and Rosethorn, and Evvy!"
"All right, let me go and tell Yazmin that I'm going, I'll meet you at the stables." He ran off towards the studio and Sandry went to get her horse, and Pasco's. She was mounted when he returned and he clambered up onto his black mare. They set off at a gallop, Sandry excited on seeing Brair again. The previous night had been so strange that she wasn't sure that it was real.
They reached Discipline in no time at all and walked into the cottage to find the main room empty. Sandry walked into Lark's work room and found her weaving what looked like a blanket. She smiled when she saw Sandry. "Briar is out in the garden. Guess what he's doing?"
"Weeding of course. It's summer!" Sandry said giggling. "I brought Pasco, to introduce him. Come on Pasco let's go find Briar."
It took a while to locate him in the mess of the garden. He was kneeling, topless, pulling some rather large weeds out of a rosebush. "Hi." She said startling him.
"Hello." Brair returned standing up. He was tanned from the hot sun and sweating from the work. Pulling a rag out of his pocket he wiped his face and hands.
"Briar this is my student Pasco." Briar held out his hand for Pasco to shake.
"Ahh yes, the dance mage. From what Sandry has told me you did some fine work catching the murderers, although I can't say that I like your background. Family of harriers right?" Briar, being a street rat until the age of 10, didn't like harriers as he had been almost sentenced to the docks for getting caught thieving on three occasions.
"For generations." Pasco said, proud.
Sandry not wanting a fight to start, knowing that Briar would win easily, changed the subject. "So where is Evvy, Briar? She wasn't in the cottage."
"She's over there." He said pointing. "In the shade under that tree, working on her rocks." Briar looked down at the weeds. "I think it's time for a break, and some lunch. Lets get Evvy and get something to eat from Gorse. EVVY!" She came walking over holding a roll of cloth, which looked heavy.
"Hello Evvy," Sandry said. "Pasco this is Evvy, Briar's student. Evvy this is Pasco."
"Hello." They said in unison. Sandry and Briar started walking back to the cottage.
Lark had already been to the kitchens so there was plenty of food to eat. Rosethorn came to join them and she was introduced to Pasco.
"So Lark what is this project that Crane wants you to work on?" Sandry asked.
"Oh its nothing special. He just wants me to make him some strings for his plants with health spells imprinted on them. But it's good because it gives me a way to teach Comas how to actually use his magic with the strings. With you it was a lot easier because of the blue pox mainly but the earthquake, and pirates helped also, plus you had to spin apart all of your magics. Comas doesn't have your skill, I don't know if anyone does. You four were and are remarkable students."
"Yes but isn't most of it due to Sandry spinning out magics together?" Briar put in.
"Well that certainly made you stronger but you were all very talented when you came to us." Lark answered. "Look how long it took you to do your meditation, while keeping all of your magic inside you. Most people take months, but with you it was more like a few weeks."
There was a creak and everyone turned around to see a talk dark skinned girl with a long wooden staff standing near the door. Sandry and Briar shot out of their seats. "DAJA!!!" Sandry called, greeting her foster sister. She ran over to embrace her warmly. Briar followed.
"Long time no see Sandry. And you Kaq." Daja Kisubo said referring to Briar.
Sandry was flushed. "Two surprises in two days. What could be better?"
"I have a few more unwelcome surprises for you. Jorality, Niamara come in here." Two Namronese twins appeared behind Daja. "Meet Briar moss, and Lady Sandriline Fa Toren."
"Deary me!" Sandry Exclaimed. "It looks like everyone has brought someone new. Students are they Daj'?"
"They are. Jory, a chef-mage, Nia a carpentry-mage." Briar grinned.
"Chef are we? I think you and I will get along great!" Briar said, everyone laughed, including Lark and Rosethorn who had come over, and Frostpine who had entered the cabin carrying Daja, Jory, and Nia's bags. "Here let me take something." Briar offered taking a couple of bags and placing them in Daja's room. When he got back everyone was seated around the dinning room table, extra chairs having been brought out. Sandry served tea to everyone and introductions were made between students. Before they had finished their second cup of tea, and were half way through Jorality and Niamara's story, Sandry heard familiar barking coming from the front of the cabin.
"It can't be." She said but they all knew it was. Getting to their feet, Sandry, Briar Daja, and their teachers got up and raced to the door. The five new students (including Comas who had come out at Lark's command for introductions) looked around nervously.
Sandry who had reached the door first greeted a very large white dog whom was named Little Bear. Briar patted him and looked farther down the path to see a girl with wiry red curls waddling up the path, followed by her teacher Nikarlen Goldeye, and a man the others had never seen before. "It is!" Briar said excited, as he Daja, and Sandry ran to meet their fourth and final foster sibling. "Coppercurls! Long time no see!" Trisana Chandler was smiling the biggest smile that Briar had seen on her face in good weather. Sandry had burst into tears on Tris' shoulder. The events of the last two days had become to much for her. She stood up and put a handkerchief to her face.
Daja held out her hand to the new comer who grabbed it laughing and pulled her into a hug. "It's good to see you Daja. And you, Briar." She said turning to him. "Sandry cut it out!" Tris said but small tears of happiness had begun to leek from her eyes. Sandry put the kerchief away and turned to the balding man standing close behind Tris.
"Niko!" She wrapped her arms around another of her teachers.
"Hello Sandry. Where is everyone?" Niko released Sandry and walked up the path to the house, wanting to see his fellow mages after such a long time.
"Come on you have to meet everyone! There are so many new faces at discipline, I don't know where everyone will sleep! And it looks like you have brought another into out midst. We can do introductions inside." Sandry said pulling Tris by the arm up the path and home, for what she thought would be the last set of introductions.
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A/N: Well so basically the beginning is over. I'm going to start the plot in the following chapter, but I couldn't do that before the reunion. I had another page to put onto this chapter but I decided that it should be the beginning of the next. I know most people aren't in character but hey I'm not Tamora Pierce and I cannot write like her.
~Oh and for those of you that may not understand the title of the chapter, there are two types of copper, one being Tris' hair and the other being a metal that Daja works with a lot. I did that because I didn't want to give away what happens in the chapter!
REVIEW!!!! I want to know what you think!