Hey! I know that this is really sudden for me to be putting all these
chapters up all at once, but I just keep getting good ideas and De just
keeps writing the ones after mine... lol. I'll get some more up some other
time! :)
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Starbright flung himself out of his bed. This beaded and feathered hair hit him in the face as he landed on the floor. He had Felt the unforgettable Feel of a gate being opened. He knew that the other mages and magic sensitive Tayledras were probably also up and running.
His first instinct was that of an intruder, until he realized that the Feel of the magic being used.
This was the kind that was made when someone inside the vale was creating it. He raced to his window and flung open the shutter like covers to find something quite surprising.
Starbright looked towards the clearing where the nicely carved stone arch was and saw who exactly had created the gate. His own son, Moondance, was standing in front of the arch finishing the spell. He wondered why his son had created the gate, until he saw who was by his side that he was saying farewell to. His daughter, Icewind, had a pack flung onto her back, as well as her friends, Rainfall, who was directly beside her.
Starbright bolted down and out of the ekele towards the arch. His bed robes were blowing furiously behind him as he raced towards his departing child.
As Starbright entered the clearing, he saw the last of his Shin'a'in resembling daughter run through the gate holding tightly onto the hand of her best friend, or was it more than friendship? 'No time to think about that,' he thought as he reached Moondance and Nightsong. It was too late, just as he was about to stop Moondance, he closed the gate once and for all. Now the only way to get to his daughter was to try and get him to re- open the gate.
Starbright let out a cry as he realized that his daughter was officially gone, and that it was probably mostly his own fault for her sever actions. He though of how he had been so busy with the vale after her mother had died that he did not have much time for her. Also, just seeing her face, reminded him of his beloved wife. The sank to his knees as he remembered why he had pretty well ignored her through out her childhood.
"Moondance! How could you?" Rainfalls mother, Summerice screamed at him as she pounded on his chest. Starbright had not seen her or her husband, Winterrain, come up.
"How could you just open up a gate and let my only child waltz right into it and leave the vale? Why Moondance? Why?" She asked between sobs. Summerice was still pounding on Moondance with her strong fists, which were getting weaker by the second. Moondance said nothing but pushed her flailing hands aside. She turned and sobbed into Winterrain. Moondance knelt down beside Starbright who was still on his knees on the soft ground. "I am sorry father, but I cannot be the only one here blamed for Icewind's choices."
Starbright thought for a moment and then stood up, though he was still a bit shaky. "Moondance, I know now what I have done and what I should have done before. But, we will discuss this tomorrow, after all, now we all need rest and thinking time to ourselves. I will see you all in the morning in the conference room, including you and Nightsong." He glanced at his son. Starbright tried to address all the forth coming adepts with distinction and he knew he had somewhere inside of him, while still showing his slight disappointment in his son. "Good night to you all."
Starbright walked away towards his ekele and signaled for Moondance to follow in the same form. He also waved as if to tell the others that they should again retire for the night, though he knew that some would not even sleep a bit, like Summerice and Winterrain.
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Kayo woke with a jolt. He felt a kind of pulling on him that he had never experienced before. It was like something was pulling his mind towards a certain direction. My chosen! Was his first reaction to it since he had, had the same feeling described to him by another companion that had chosen a few years back. Kayo had been waiting for this day for almost seven years, and finally he would be able to start to feel like a normal companion.
Kayo had been a energetic colt when he was young and everyone used to tell him that he would find his chosen easily. He had hoped since he was three that this feeling would come soon, but it had not come until this very moment.
He realized that he should get someone to tack him up and get going so that he could find this person as soon as possible since he did not know if they were in trouble or just were finally ready for him to be called to them. He was about to rise and leave for the stable, since he was in Companion's Field, until he remembered that his twin sister, Kara, had her head rested on his withers.
Kayo was about to nudge her to wake her, when she too woke with a jolt. She stared into space for a moment before talking to him.
:Kayo, I must leave. I have heard and felt my call to find my chosen. I'm sorry that I have gotten mine sooner than you have gotten yours, I know how much you wanted yours.: Kara said staring at him with her sapphire blue eyes. He could see that she was truly sorry. Kara had always known how much he just wanted to be like the others and get his chosen. She had always believed in him while still hoping for her time as well.
:Kara, I too have received my call to find my chosen, we can go with each other until we Feel it pull us in a different direction if you want.: Kayo wanted her to come with him since they had done everything the same and together since they were born, after all, they were twins.
Kara lurched to a standing position and looked down on him. Her gaze was surprise and sympathy all in one emotion. :I would love that! I'm nervous about this whole thing.: She turned her head in the direction of the stable. :We should go to the stable. I think the stable boys are ready for this occasion at almost any time.:
Kayo bobbed his head up and down in agreement. He liked the idea of traveling together and he too agreed that this experience was nerve- racking. Just as he started to step forward, he heard the familiar crack of thunder in the distance. :I think if we don't hurry, we'll end up finding our chosens soaking wet and freezing cold, and I'm not really fond of the idea of taking a blanket with me!:
With that, Kayo and Kara trotted off to the barn and waited as the sleepy-eyed stable boys grabbed their tack, hauled it over and quickly saddled them up. They only gave each other a glance before taking off at a slow canter towards one of Haven's many exits.
:I can tell that no one will be out tonight seeing how heavy the air smells of rain.: Kayo mindspoke to his twin who was directly on his tail. She was as anxious as he to get to the special people they had both been waiting so long for.
:You never know, humans don't seem to be as scent prone as the other creatures that walk these places!: Kara said dodging a cart that had been left out after the darkness had fallen. Their night vision was superb and they could make out every out of place shape that came in their way.
The two streaks of white raced through the tunnel at the end of the city and felt a wave of exhilaration as their silver hooves hit the hard dirt.
They traveled for nearly a candlemark when Kayo noticed something different about the Feel in his head. It was stronger now that it had been the whole time and wondered if he was getting closer to his him, or her, whatever they were. 'Her' he thought while finding new information about his chosen. He could Feel a steady trickle of information leaking into his mind. She was different than most people, from a different land, at least. He could sense that she was confused and scared by being gated to a place she knew nothing about. He wanted to find her fast before she became terrified.
:Kayo, should we have split apart by now? We are slowing down and I can Feel the pull getting stronger. Are you sure you are heading in the right direction?: His sister mindsent. He could tell she was confused about this. He was just as confused.
'Can one person be chosen by two companions? It's never happened before.' He thought about the possibility until he saw why this all was so completely different about what he had been told about. There were two people standing in the clearing to the right of them and the Pull on him was stronger than ever. He and his sister had either been bonded to a pair of siblings, or a pair of friends.
:Kayo, do you see what I see?: Kara sounded surprised.
:If you are talking about two people standing in a clearing to our right, then yes I do see what you see.:
:No, look closer. Look towards their shoulders and their clothes.:
In the slight moonlight, and between distant flashes of lightning, he realized where this pair of humans had come from. They were wearing clothing unlike any he had seen before, accept in books that his old friend, Savil, had shown him. The pair also had the advanced Tayledras bond birds perched on their worried shoulders. These were no normal humans, they were a pair of legendary Tayledras!
:Kara, I am now very glad that we took those lessons with Savil that one summer a few years ago! That language that she taught us will come in handy really soon!: Kayo tried to remember all the other hints and tips she had shared about these mystical people, and their strange language. 'Will I be able to remember how to speak it all? Will I mess up completely?' There was only one thing that he and his sister could do at this point in time, and that was just try it out, while at the same time, try not to mess up!
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What do you think? Three chapters in only a couple of days! Must be a record time for me! lol! I'll try to get the fourth chapter up, but no one can rush the art of writing! (though many have tried!)
P.S. The fifth chapter will probably be written and ready to go before the fourth one gets typed out! So count on two more chapters coming one right after the other some time soon!
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Starbright flung himself out of his bed. This beaded and feathered hair hit him in the face as he landed on the floor. He had Felt the unforgettable Feel of a gate being opened. He knew that the other mages and magic sensitive Tayledras were probably also up and running.
His first instinct was that of an intruder, until he realized that the Feel of the magic being used.
This was the kind that was made when someone inside the vale was creating it. He raced to his window and flung open the shutter like covers to find something quite surprising.
Starbright looked towards the clearing where the nicely carved stone arch was and saw who exactly had created the gate. His own son, Moondance, was standing in front of the arch finishing the spell. He wondered why his son had created the gate, until he saw who was by his side that he was saying farewell to. His daughter, Icewind, had a pack flung onto her back, as well as her friends, Rainfall, who was directly beside her.
Starbright bolted down and out of the ekele towards the arch. His bed robes were blowing furiously behind him as he raced towards his departing child.
As Starbright entered the clearing, he saw the last of his Shin'a'in resembling daughter run through the gate holding tightly onto the hand of her best friend, or was it more than friendship? 'No time to think about that,' he thought as he reached Moondance and Nightsong. It was too late, just as he was about to stop Moondance, he closed the gate once and for all. Now the only way to get to his daughter was to try and get him to re- open the gate.
Starbright let out a cry as he realized that his daughter was officially gone, and that it was probably mostly his own fault for her sever actions. He though of how he had been so busy with the vale after her mother had died that he did not have much time for her. Also, just seeing her face, reminded him of his beloved wife. The sank to his knees as he remembered why he had pretty well ignored her through out her childhood.
"Moondance! How could you?" Rainfalls mother, Summerice screamed at him as she pounded on his chest. Starbright had not seen her or her husband, Winterrain, come up.
"How could you just open up a gate and let my only child waltz right into it and leave the vale? Why Moondance? Why?" She asked between sobs. Summerice was still pounding on Moondance with her strong fists, which were getting weaker by the second. Moondance said nothing but pushed her flailing hands aside. She turned and sobbed into Winterrain. Moondance knelt down beside Starbright who was still on his knees on the soft ground. "I am sorry father, but I cannot be the only one here blamed for Icewind's choices."
Starbright thought for a moment and then stood up, though he was still a bit shaky. "Moondance, I know now what I have done and what I should have done before. But, we will discuss this tomorrow, after all, now we all need rest and thinking time to ourselves. I will see you all in the morning in the conference room, including you and Nightsong." He glanced at his son. Starbright tried to address all the forth coming adepts with distinction and he knew he had somewhere inside of him, while still showing his slight disappointment in his son. "Good night to you all."
Starbright walked away towards his ekele and signaled for Moondance to follow in the same form. He also waved as if to tell the others that they should again retire for the night, though he knew that some would not even sleep a bit, like Summerice and Winterrain.
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Kayo woke with a jolt. He felt a kind of pulling on him that he had never experienced before. It was like something was pulling his mind towards a certain direction. My chosen! Was his first reaction to it since he had, had the same feeling described to him by another companion that had chosen a few years back. Kayo had been waiting for this day for almost seven years, and finally he would be able to start to feel like a normal companion.
Kayo had been a energetic colt when he was young and everyone used to tell him that he would find his chosen easily. He had hoped since he was three that this feeling would come soon, but it had not come until this very moment.
He realized that he should get someone to tack him up and get going so that he could find this person as soon as possible since he did not know if they were in trouble or just were finally ready for him to be called to them. He was about to rise and leave for the stable, since he was in Companion's Field, until he remembered that his twin sister, Kara, had her head rested on his withers.
Kayo was about to nudge her to wake her, when she too woke with a jolt. She stared into space for a moment before talking to him.
:Kayo, I must leave. I have heard and felt my call to find my chosen. I'm sorry that I have gotten mine sooner than you have gotten yours, I know how much you wanted yours.: Kara said staring at him with her sapphire blue eyes. He could see that she was truly sorry. Kara had always known how much he just wanted to be like the others and get his chosen. She had always believed in him while still hoping for her time as well.
:Kara, I too have received my call to find my chosen, we can go with each other until we Feel it pull us in a different direction if you want.: Kayo wanted her to come with him since they had done everything the same and together since they were born, after all, they were twins.
Kara lurched to a standing position and looked down on him. Her gaze was surprise and sympathy all in one emotion. :I would love that! I'm nervous about this whole thing.: She turned her head in the direction of the stable. :We should go to the stable. I think the stable boys are ready for this occasion at almost any time.:
Kayo bobbed his head up and down in agreement. He liked the idea of traveling together and he too agreed that this experience was nerve- racking. Just as he started to step forward, he heard the familiar crack of thunder in the distance. :I think if we don't hurry, we'll end up finding our chosens soaking wet and freezing cold, and I'm not really fond of the idea of taking a blanket with me!:
With that, Kayo and Kara trotted off to the barn and waited as the sleepy-eyed stable boys grabbed their tack, hauled it over and quickly saddled them up. They only gave each other a glance before taking off at a slow canter towards one of Haven's many exits.
:I can tell that no one will be out tonight seeing how heavy the air smells of rain.: Kayo mindspoke to his twin who was directly on his tail. She was as anxious as he to get to the special people they had both been waiting so long for.
:You never know, humans don't seem to be as scent prone as the other creatures that walk these places!: Kara said dodging a cart that had been left out after the darkness had fallen. Their night vision was superb and they could make out every out of place shape that came in their way.
The two streaks of white raced through the tunnel at the end of the city and felt a wave of exhilaration as their silver hooves hit the hard dirt.
They traveled for nearly a candlemark when Kayo noticed something different about the Feel in his head. It was stronger now that it had been the whole time and wondered if he was getting closer to his him, or her, whatever they were. 'Her' he thought while finding new information about his chosen. He could Feel a steady trickle of information leaking into his mind. She was different than most people, from a different land, at least. He could sense that she was confused and scared by being gated to a place she knew nothing about. He wanted to find her fast before she became terrified.
:Kayo, should we have split apart by now? We are slowing down and I can Feel the pull getting stronger. Are you sure you are heading in the right direction?: His sister mindsent. He could tell she was confused about this. He was just as confused.
'Can one person be chosen by two companions? It's never happened before.' He thought about the possibility until he saw why this all was so completely different about what he had been told about. There were two people standing in the clearing to the right of them and the Pull on him was stronger than ever. He and his sister had either been bonded to a pair of siblings, or a pair of friends.
:Kayo, do you see what I see?: Kara sounded surprised.
:If you are talking about two people standing in a clearing to our right, then yes I do see what you see.:
:No, look closer. Look towards their shoulders and their clothes.:
In the slight moonlight, and between distant flashes of lightning, he realized where this pair of humans had come from. They were wearing clothing unlike any he had seen before, accept in books that his old friend, Savil, had shown him. The pair also had the advanced Tayledras bond birds perched on their worried shoulders. These were no normal humans, they were a pair of legendary Tayledras!
:Kara, I am now very glad that we took those lessons with Savil that one summer a few years ago! That language that she taught us will come in handy really soon!: Kayo tried to remember all the other hints and tips she had shared about these mystical people, and their strange language. 'Will I be able to remember how to speak it all? Will I mess up completely?' There was only one thing that he and his sister could do at this point in time, and that was just try it out, while at the same time, try not to mess up!
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What do you think? Three chapters in only a couple of days! Must be a record time for me! lol! I'll try to get the fourth chapter up, but no one can rush the art of writing! (though many have tried!)
P.S. The fifth chapter will probably be written and ready to go before the fourth one gets typed out! So count on two more chapters coming one right after the other some time soon!