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As they descended down the last stair, they noticed a familiar face across the tavern."Jae!" Jenny cried and ran across the tavern with her sisters passing her very quickly. "Darn these short legs."
"I don't know why you're happy to see me. I never trained you, in fact I teased you the whole time," Jae told Jenny over Heather and Hayley's heads.
"You're right. I don't know why either," Jenny stopped.
"Shut up, Jenny," Heather told her annoying sis from beside Jae.
"When did you get in?" Hayley asked.
Jae smiled as she saw her students in their total differences, "Hayley, always the polite one. I got in an hour ago. Heather, didn't I tell you to use other words."
Heather's face brightened," Of course how could I forget." She turned to her sister, " Shut the hell up."
Jae turned to Jenny, " And Jenny...The Ferret."
"Is that all you're going to say?" Jenny asked.
"Of course not."
"What else?"
Jae turned to the twins, " She really is a blonde isn't she?"
They nodded solemnly.
"Umm," came a voice from behind Heather.
"Who's this?" asked George.
Heather threw up her hands and tried to act like her sister Hayley,"Oh my manners, where have they gone?"
Hayley looked at Heather expecting her to introduce Jae.
Heather looked back at Hayley.
Jae broke the silence, "I am Jaelawyn Noble. A black robe mage from the Yamani Islands. I taught these girls all they know in the magical arts, well except for Jenny. And look how she turned out."
"Yeah, " piped in Jenny," Look how I turned out!"
Everyone looked at her, " Uhhhhh."
Jenny looked around, "That was a compliment, right?"
Heather looked at Jenny, " No comment."
"Humph."
Hayley gestured toward Jenny, "There's the word again."
Alanna was confused, "Wait. You're from the Yamani Islands. Where's your kimono?"
Jae moved her robes aside to reveal a dark blue kimono.
"Well since Heather's not going to do it.. " Hayley shot her sister a look.
Heather started waving her hands around, " Okay okay. That's Alan of Trebond. George Cooper. And the guy over by the bar, behind the bar, I don't know. The dude on the bar stool, I'll get back to you, and-"
"Heather shut up," Jae interrupted.
Heather turned towards Jae, " Ewwww nice words."
" Oh. Heather shut the hell up," Jenny said.
"Jenny, don't use that sort of language," Hayley scolded.
"Oh so Heather can use it but I can't."
Silence.
"It's because I'm younger, isn't it?"
More silence.
"This is prejudice!"
George trying to stop the craziness said, " The pets?"
"Oh yeah," Heather agreed, " Let's go outside."
Hayley turned to Jae, " Jae, you wanna go and meet our pets again?"
"Of course. I have nothing else to do, besides I need to see if Jenny's taken care of those animals like I've told her," Jae agreed and followed.
You know Jae if you want me to like you you probably should be nicer to me and treat me the same as everyone else, Jenny said.
As they turned around a little kid walked them screaming, " Ma, Ma! I can walk."
Heather turned to Jenny, "What is walking?"
Jenny turned to her with a solemn look on her face, "I don't know."
Heather returned the look, " Neither do I, but it looks easy enough."
"Yes, one foot in front of the other."
"But would it be hard to do with one foot?"
"Let's try."
And they lifted one foot up and started walking/ hopping.
Thump.
Thump.
One right after the other.
They looked up to see four people looking down at them.
"Don't worry. Just give them some time to themselves, and they'll be fine, " Hayley advised. The others nodded and walked on.
"It's hard," Jenny confirmed.
"So is the ground."
They burst into laughs.
"We should get up,"
"What is getting up?"
"No."
"Okay we can get up."
They got up and walked to where their pets were.
Heather immediately ran to her white tiger, " And how is mommy's little baby?"
Jenny turned to Alanna, "She's only nice to Edana ."
"I have friends who are that way, too," Alanna said.
Hayley turned to her horse, Amos, and her owl, Leora . "Amos, when are you going to learn that you eat hay and not people's hair."
George looked behind him and felt his hair to find a big black horse leaning over him. "I'm taking it you're Amos."
The horse snorted.
"Same to you."
Jenny felt a pair of claws claw at her ankle, " Hesper!" She turned around and picked up a little ferret. "Where's Hoa?" A thing scuttling up her leg answered that question. "Excuse me, " she told the other people and bent down to grab the ferret. "Hoa don't do that."
Jae laughed, " Where's Forky?"
"Right here," and Jenny walked over to a stable next to her and grabbed a leather bag that had a lot of holes and two harnesses out of the top attached to a leather vest.
"A bag is Forky?" Alanna asked.
"Yes," Heather said and moved on," Celeste, come here."
"Who's Celeste?" George asked.
"Don't tell me it's another bag," Alanna muttered.
A horse padded up to Heather.
"How'd you know she'd come to you?" Alanna asked.
"Easy," Heather answered, "She never stays in her stall." She reached up and petted her horse who she'd had for a year.
"I don't know how you keep her so clean," Jenny commented, " She's absolutely white and yet she stays so clean."
Hayley giggled. She knew the reason. Celeste gave herself baths.
"Celeste is a good horse, aren't you," Heather cooed.
"What has she done?" Alanna asked.
"She's warned me of intruders when the boys at Shang would terrorize me because I was so much better."
You wish, Jenny snorted.
"Leora, come here," Hayley called and her owl flew and perched on her shoulder. Hayley stroked her white feather's. Leora nibbled on Hayley's finger that she held in front of the bird.
"Livana," Jenny walked over the stall in which her tan and blond haired horse was kept. " You good little horse. Yes you are, yes you are."
Alanna sighed, "You have good pets, all I have is Faithful." She glared at her cat who had just walked in.
I don't see what's so great about ferrets. Faithful said. But I'll stay away from the tiger. I think I'll talk to Leora.
"Did you hear that?" Jae asked. " Was that the cat?"
"No it was this post I'm leaning on," Heather drawled, "Hello Mr. Post. I know, how dare she think you were a cat."
Jae rolled her eyes.
"Why is a cat talking?" Jenny turned to Jae, " Did you bewitch Alan's cat?" She didn't wait for an answer. " How dare you do that!? It's wrong, imm-"
"Jenny, quit it. I think Alan's cat just talked naturally. Well not naturally, but she must be Alan's familiar," Hayley said.
I'm a male.
"I'm sorry, " Hayley apologized.
Alanna nodded in agreement, "Yup that was Faithful who talked, and trust me he never shuts up." She glared at her cat.
"I sympathize," Hayley agreed, "I too suffer from a person who never shuts up." She and Heather both glared at Jenny.
"What?" Jenny said defensively.
"Umm- I hate to say this, but I have to get to the Palace," Jae interrupted.
"So do we," Hayley said.
Jenny started jumping up and down, "We're going to court, we're going to court!"
"Yeah we'll see nobles."
"Warriors," Heather suggested
"And hot knights," finished the boy-crazy-jumping-up-and-down-person.
Heather turned to Jenny and started jumping, "We'll see hot knights!"
"Well then let's hurry and get there," Hayley said bored.
"Wait- I got to get my bags," Jenny remembered.
"We need to go and get our bags," Hayley critiqued.
"I need to get my bags as well," Jae commented.
"Well since I'm the only one who doesn't need to get their bags, I'll wait outside and we can meet outside the Dancing Dove, " Alanna planned.
They all nodded, and left.
George waited behind while the other girls left to get their bags, "Alanna, how do ye like 'em?"
"They're fine. I think they're fine girls, a little crazy but fine. I really like Hayley," Alanna told him.
"I like Heather. She has spunk-like you."
"I do not have sp-"
"Lass, you're not supposed to lie."
"I have to walk up to the front."
"Well then I'll follow ye. You never know who would be followin' you about. It could be our smiling friend. Or a wrestler."
Alanna laughed, "Okay come on."
They reached the Inn quickly, comparing stories of Duke Roger, until George looked at Alanna with that look that Alanna had come to fear. "George, no."
"Why not, lass. You know we're meant to be."
"I know of no such thing."
"What are you doing?" Jenny asked as she lugged her five bags.
"Talking about the Prince," Alanna told her, turning away from George.
"You know the Prince?" Jenny said her eyes widening.
"Yes I do. He's my knight-master."
"Will you introduce us. I want to meet Royalty seeing as I never have before," Hayley asked.
"Of course, I think he'd like to meet you."
"Why do I have meet a Prince? You have to follow all those rules, and as you know I can't curtsy well," Heather whined.
"We know. Mithros knows we spent weeks trying to teach you," Hayley said, "Can we go now?"
"Yeah we can go now," Jae said entering. "I'm here."
Where are our horses?" Hayley asked.
" George told me he would have someone bring them around, saddled and all," Alanna told them.
The three girls exchanged looks.
"Here ye are, lasses. I think you're saddles are missing a few necessary items," a hostler came by.
" No they're perfectly fine, but thank you for caring," Hayley assured him and tipped him.
"No, Hayley I think he was correct. You're missing your stirrups and reins," Alanna commented.
"No, they're fine that's how I designed them." Heather told her, "well, let's go to the palace and meet some cute knights!"
Jenny, on her horse started to run off, and the other's followed suit, jumping onto their horses quickly and riding after.
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