Hey you guys, sorry I took so long to update, I promised it would buy Friday and I'm making myself do it today despite the ever-increasing load of homework for exams.  So appreciate it…here's the last chapter of my story…. It makes me both happy and sad at the same time for it to finally be over… I have a surprise for you guys, but I don't think I'll tell you until the end of the chapter.  So you can read the chapter first…yes, it's a long chapter…nearly six pages of Microsoft Word, but that seems to fit considering is the last.  You guys might not really understand what the plot turned out to be, but I hope at least some of you got it… I've really loved doing this…. And I'm amazed I got so many reviews… thanks for everything you guys did….  I have nearly 183!  You're probably dying to see how I'm going to end it…  And you also probably be unhappy that it's over…I know I am… But once again read to the end of the chapter and it might not be so bad.  Thank you to all if you very much, I know I'm not putting individual reviewer comments on this chapter, so please don't hate me for it I'm gonna make you next chapter my acknowledgments… Since it's the last one of the actual story in that I'm going to make overall comments and answer the questions of all you guys for the overall story.  I just didn't think that I should do it twice, considering that this the last time, and I can just do one to cover all of it.  That way I think I get more comments in.  Then you don't have to scroll through all this junk, that I normally put the beginning…but if you read my last chapter, which I'm sure you're dying to read, you'll thank me for it… So without any further do (and you know, that's really not like me) Go ahead and read my last chapter… hope you enjoy it:

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Far and Away

Three months passed by, as Amanda and her friends plowed through the immense workload of Amherst College. Amanda got over her temporary depression. Though she couldn't help but remember how real the tickle of lightning and Numair's kisses had felt. She was always a little sad, and wished that it all could have been real. Amanda had told her friends about it, though she kept back the fact that she still half believed it to be true. They had shook their heads, and said that she had quite an imagination, but to put it to better use.

One day, Amanda was returning from class, for a brief lunch break. She sat down in her favorite chair, and picked up her book. She had just picked up The Realms of the Gods, when she noticed something odd about her wrists. There was a thin white line along each of them that had never been there before. The same scars had begun to appear when she took off her bandages, the scars from the chaos poisoning, as Alanna had said there would be. Amanda's heart began to beat very fast, and excitement filled her body.

It had been real, not just a dream, or a fantasy, she had really gone to Tortall, Numair was not just fictitious, she had really met him. She had returned here, and this was the proof. The scars were a mark of her other self, and her destiny. Then, suddenly, it hit her, the realization of what she had done. By leaving her old home behind, by leaving Numair…

She had faced her greatest fear.

To loose Numair was her greatest fear, not as she had ever lost him before, not even when he had died, when she would see him again when she died too. Her dream had told her that only she could change her destiny. Then Amanda remembered something else that she had been told, this time by Daine. That it matters not how you are born, but who you grow to be, Amanda had not given it a second thought at the time, but now, at last, she found she understood. She need not worry about what her destiny was, she could decide for her self. Still in this dazed state, Amanda walked into her room.

"Interesting place you have here," said a familiar voice behind her. She whirled around to see a very tall man lounging in her chair, reading her old seventh grade book, One million digits of Pi, with interest. She gasped.

"Numair…."she said weakly. "How…when…you are here…" he got up, and came over to her, and before he could answer her, she had her arms around his waist, his lips on hers. They kissed sweetly for what seemed like forever, and when they finally stopped, they looked into each other's eyes, each simply content to hold the other.

"I've missed you so, magelet."he whispered

"I missed you too. How did you get here?" she asked him finally.

"You left your necklace back home, and I used it to come here this morning. I'm sorry I came, I knew you wished to go back, but it had been three months, and I realized how much I needed you."

"It's okay," she said earnestly " I realized that my home is where I want it and that my destiny is what I make of it. It's something someone told me once, not all those who wander are lost."

            Amanda took Numair's hand in hers, and they walked to the main room. Maeve, Emily, and Caroline were there, along with Livie, who had come over for lunch. Maeve was busy telling Livie about how she was going to visit her younger sister during break, at Bryn Mawr, and perhaps stop by for her science class. Amanda took a deep breath.

"Guys," she said, and they looked up "I'd like you to meet a friend of mine. This is Numair Salmalín." Maeve's jaw dropped, Emily just stared, Caroline dropped the sandwich she was making, and Livie whispered, 

"Amanda, have you gone mad? You've found some college guy, and called him Numair. We should've known you'd finally crack."

Numair held up his hand, and black fire gathered around his fingertips. "Could a college guy do this?" he asked, grinning good-naturedly. Caroline and Emily stepped back, Livie stood dumbstruck, and Maeve strode over to Amanda, and put an arm around her. A look of dawning comprehension was coming onto her face.

"It was your dream, wasn't it? The one you told us about in September. You were telling the truth."

Amanda nodded, unsure "You believe me then?"  she asked timidly.

Maeve nodded, and Amanda burst into tears. Caroline and Emily walked over, and put their arms around her too. Numair stepped back looking awkward in the midst of all these girls, and handed Amanda his handkerchief.  Livie began to bombard him with questions about magic in relationship to physics, which fascinated Numair. 

"We believe you too," said Caroline and Emily nodded "There is no need to cry."

Amanda wiped her eyes, and managed a watery smile. "It's not that," she said, "It's just that I have the best friends in the whole world."

"All these years," said Emily "we thought you were nuts, but you knew he was real all along" her voice dropped to a whisper, so that Numair could not hear. "He's not that bad looking either." Amanda giggled.

"Of course he's not."  said Maeve with the air of one who knows everything, and turned to Numair, "Do you know who you look like?" she asked him, and Amanda kicked her.

"Does this mean you have to go back?" asked Caroline quietly, and Amanda nodded, though Numair shook his head.

"You don't have to just for me, I just came to make sure you were alright, you don't have to go…" he trailed off, lost for words.

Amanda shook her head. "I belong back with you, I love all of my friends, that world is where I found myself, and I'll never let that go."

She moved forward, and hugged each of them in turn, ignoring Maeve's protests about the 'touching thing'. She said good-bye, and stepped back. "I'll miss you guys," She said in a slightly shaky voice "I'll come and visit you sometimes, and you can come back with me, and see my home."

"We'll miss you man," they said, and Maeve mentioned something about how Amanda could come and visit for her wedding. Amanda rolled her eyes in spite of herself, and said she would miss them too. Numair took the necklace, put it around both of their necks. Amanda waved goodbye to her friends, their faces bright with held back tears. Together she and Numair held hands, closed their eyes, and wished to go home.

Amanda opened her eyes, and found she was in a forest.  she and Numair stepped out of the trees to the edge of the cliff, and breathed in the cool, salt air. Amanda looked out onto the glittering sea, then back onto her tower, and finally up into the face of her young love. She grinned at Numair.

"It's good to be back."  she said.

The End?

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Well did you guys like that way of me finishing it…?  If you go back to the song at the beginning and read closely, you can tell that I'm trying to say that it doesn't really matter what world you think you belong or if you feel like you don't, and that maybe you belong somewhere else.  Far away from here, or longtime from now.  I'm trying to broaden my perspective to a larger world and not just make it one of those normal fics. Not that there's anything wrong with those…  Perhaps I just have too much of an ideal look at writing…it's just that basically everything I've ever written has at other meeting…that's just the kind of person I am… sorry for giving you the whole self-analysis talk year.  I will make all the comments I need to when I post the next chapter (which probably won't have a chance to post until Monday.  The don't worry, I will get a chance too)

I won't keep you in suspense any longer…so here's my surprise: I have written a sequel to Far and Away, it's called The Seen and Unforeseen and I should be posting the first chapter by Friday but to give you a quick preview…. It starts off for and half years after far and away finishes…  I'm not getting give it to too much away, but I'm going to tell you that the story starts off with Numair and Amanda getting married, (along with an odd appearance with her three best friends)…and for a while they are happy.... then one night Amanda wakes up to an empty bed and Numair gone with only a note from him saying that this is a result of a sequence of events that came into play while he was still at the university, involving a prophecy that only five people know in the world, and all centrally weaved around the kingship of Tyra, the dictator who wants to rule, and the rightful air that seems strangely familiar…the plot weaves thought the swampy lands of southern Tortall, all the way to the capital city of Tyra, and the battlegrounds at the harbor of Pearlmouth…and that's just the beginning…the plot I would say is a bit more complex and Far and Away.,  Not to mention the story being longer I've already typed a lot up… I think you'll definitely like it…  I'm and oppose the first chapter on Friday.  If you want me to tell me in your review hide you like this vet, whether you want me to write post the.

 If you have any question, just ask them in your review, and tell me how my fic was overall, I'd love to know.  But one I get a chance, probably by Monday I definitely will post my acknowledgments. And I have to say thanks for everything… I've really loved doing this…. 

Thanks-

-Queen of Connaught

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Acknowledgments

            Hey you guys, well, here I am, finally, posting my final acknowledgments for this fic. I had to put this at the end of the last chapter, since ff.net took it off as it's own chapter… Sorry that it took me so long to update.  I just haven't gotten a chance to get to a computer and write my acknowledgments since I've had exams. But here I am…so this fic is finally over.  I don't know about you, but I had a great time writing it at and I am so happy about how many reviews I got.  I expected to get 20 at the most…but nearly 200 didn't even enter my wildest dreams…You guys are amazing…thanks…I don't have the time nor the typing skills make comments for every single person who ever reviewed this fic…and you guys would probably be bored by them anyway…to those of you who have questions I'll try to answer them, but otherwise, I just want to say who reviewed, and to give them credit (and of course thanks.)  I believe most of you guys a probably found my sequel "The Seen and Unforeseen", which I'm trying to update every week and is now up to two chapters and will be three by Friday.  I will sometimes update at slower rates, since I have not yet written it all…However, I'm near the end...I try first writing it down in my journal.  Then to edit it and perhaps re write some parts… than I type it up on the computer and format it into chapters before writing comments and finally updating…so please don't blame me for not updating exactly onc3e a week…. it takes awhile.  I have a lot typed out, but not as much as I had for far and away what had I completed before I updated…I should mention that though I love doing this and would never willingly abandon a fic (if I really had to, I'd just end it openly with a not so satisfactory ending) If, by chance my parents made me stopped writing on fanfiction.net or something just happened that I would have to stop for…I can't update in the summer, for one thing I'm away for almost entire month of the summer, and for another the place we live in in the summer has neither a television, nor a computer and much less Internet capability with which to update a fan fiction weekly.  So, I'll try to update.  Whenever I can, but I probably won't get a chance to very often at all.  Sorry, I know that's far in the future, I came to mind and I thought I'd tell you now, just in case I forget come May.  I've been looking through my reviews of previous chapters, and I can't find any immanent questions that you guys had that weren't answered by the end of the fic, or by me individually.  Except for Undeadgoat, to whom I'd like to say that since you told me not to answer every individual question, I won't.  But I just like to say that some of the changes are explainable, some have minor faults that I realized after I had finished writing.  Some parts of the story I realize are different and Tamora Pierce's books.  However, I am the one writing it and therefore have creative license to change a few minor fax.  So please, though I enjoy creative, constructive criticism, I'd really appreciate it if you took into account that nobody's perfect, and I've tried my best to make it as factually correct as possible.  So here's a list of everyone who reviewed my fic, and thank you again for giving me a reason to keep updating:

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Wow, that was a lot of reviewers, so once again, and for the last time, I'd like to say thank you for all your reviews and reading my story, and I have a great time writing sequel to all of you haven't read it yet.  You can probably find every week updated on the Tamora Pierce section of the web site.  Or you could go to my profile, and it should be there, along with my song fiction, and Far and Away, which of course you're already in if you're reading this… so thanks again, and I think I'll go work one writing comments for Chapter three of "The Seen and Unforeseen".  I just promised myself and you guys that I would give my acknowledgments… and I just want you to know that I had a great time doing this.  So thank you, and I can't wait to do it all over again.

Thanks-

-Queen of Connaught