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Tris was in shock. How could Gary be here! He was tested for magic just like her and didn't have any, why-? She slapped herself. She'd been tested for magic too, but no one had found it in her,and her she was at Winding Circle. She was too stupid. But anyways he was too evil to be here. Winding Circle was for good, sweet,human people.

She looked at Lark, who was looking at Moonstream. Both were looking quite puzzled.

"How do you two know each other?" Moonstream wanted to know.

"Distant cousins," Gary replied very hotily.

"VERY distant," Tris agreed with the same hostility.

"Well we know they're related. They're both very stubborn." Lark tried to lighten the mood.

Gary and Tris were glaring at each other. Both wanted to know why the other was there. Tris was glad they couldn't mind talk like she could with the others because her influence around Briar and some of the other boys in Winding Circle had left her with a very wide vocabulary. She just wanted to leave and talk to one of her friends, they would help.

"Lark, can I go back to Discipline and cook dinner?" she asked.

Lark looked at her warmly, "No, Tris. No matter how good I know it would be, you need to stay here and help me get Gary's stuff so we can take it back home."

Tris stomped her foot.

"Boy am I glad she knows how to control her magic, I'd be afraid at what she'd be doing right now." Moonstream joked.

"I can take my own stuff to your grubby cottage, Trisana." Gary knew how much Tris hated to be called by her full name."Besides I'd be afraid this weather witch would put my stuff on fire."

"Don't tempt me!" she yelled. Not a bad idea, but she was thinking more along the lines of blowing it across the Pebbled Sea.

Always the peacemaker, Lark tried to help. "Tris, you take this bag, and I'll take this bag. Gary can take the other two."

"So girls are weaker than boys if you can only carry one." Gary mumbled under his breath.

Lark turned around, and the effect of being around Rosthorn finally showed. "Boy, if you're going to act like that while under my roof, I'll make sure you have no sheets on your bed, and your clothes unravel. Tris, I'll carry your bag."

Gary was shocked, only his dad had yelled at him like that. But he wasn't as shocked as Tris and Moonstream. They'd never seen Lark act like that. Their mouths' were wide open.

Tris handed over her bag to Lark, and on the way home Gary lagged behind them. Tris smiled all the way home because of three things. Gary had been showed up by Lark who was carrying two bags and going faster, she had nothing to carry,and she had a lot of things to tell Briar, Sandry, and Daja. This was going to be an interesting stay.


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