Hello! I know that there is supposed to be a chapter about Avalon here, but De is busy and I already have this one ready to go up so I'm putting it up and I'll change it to chapter 5 instead of 4 when her chapter is done and typed out! :) Well, I should stall anymore! Happy reading
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Icewind looked out across the clearing in which she, Rainfall and their bond birds had been gated to. It was warm here, unlike the cold which was outside of the vale that she had just left.
'So this is Valdemar' she thought to herself while looking at the beautiful blooming flowers which were in bushes along the clearing. The grass was long, which meant that this area had not been in use by anyone in a long time. 'Maybe it had been used as a gating area before, the arch is quite worn away on the inner side, which is a sign that at least a couple gating experiences happened here.'
"It's so much nicer than in the pictures that I have seen." Rainfall said spinning in circles slowly while trying to take in everything at the same time. "I've seen a couple pictures, but most of them were drawn in black ink with no colour added. This is beautiful. Can we stay here for the night so that in the morning I would be able to study a bit before actually contacting any civilization?" Rainfall asked while pulling a sweet-smelling rose off of a bush off to the side of the clearing. He smelled it and then passed it on to her so that she too could smell its wonderful scent.
"It's fine by me. I just want to get some sleep. That gate made me awfully tired and I just want some rest in this quite sanctuary for a little while. I'm sure their towns, or whatever you called them, are busy since you said that they have big groups of people in one spot." Icewind said walking around and testing the softness in different parts of the grass. She finally found what she was looking for and laid her pack on the ground. The pack was heavy, but she wished that she had brought some more of her belongings with them on the trip. She thought about how many books Rainfall had, had to leave behind. She wished that, since they were his most favorite things, she could have carried some more of them since he pack was much lighter than his and she could have carried more.
Icewind concentrated on what ones he had left behind, and which of those he had especially loved. She remembered seeing him place down some books about the mage wars that he'd read about four times by now. She also remembered the one about mind speaking, the one about different spirits, and a couple about the Tayledras themselves. She imagined them somehow magically appearing in the clearing, right in front of her.
Rainfall was off looking at some of the tree that had been growing in the center of the clearing when she thought of this. She imagined seeing him jump with surprise as the books plopped onto the ground. Just as she started to smile about how absurd this idea was, she heard a couple of loud thumps which were slightly muffled by the soft over-grown grass.
Icewind opened her eyes to see that she was sitting on her think blanket right in front of the very same books she had just recalled. She just stared at them and wondered if she was just imagining them there. As she tried to prove herself wrong, she heard a surprised gasp from Rainfall and he briskly walked over to her and the pile of books.
"Where did these come from?" He asked picking up the one about the Mage Wars. "I left these in the vale, in my ekele! Icewind, did you bring them for me?" He asked while flipping through the pages.
"N-no, I didn't bring them in my pack. I-I was just remembering them in my head and imagined that they were here, and poof, they landed on the ground!" Icewind was a little shaky, but she stood anyway. Icewind looked down on the books and tried to remember exactly what she did.
"Icewind! Why didn't you tell me that you had the Fetching Gift?" He said. He was so happy that Icewind had brought his books, he paid no attention to the fact that she might not have even known that she could do such a thing.
"I have a w-what?" She stuttered.
"A Gift, you can use the Gift called Fetching, and you're really good at it. Not many people have this Gift and most can't use it to their advantage without extensive training." He explained to her. Then it dawned on him, she hadn't known that she had a Gift, and she hadn't had any training for it. It was a miracle that she hadn't had any problems with it before. He Gift was strong, if it wasn't, she would not have been able to bring something that large across that length of space.
"I-I didn't know that I had this Fetching ability. And, I've no training. Does that mean that something is wrong with me?" She was afraid of what she had done, especially sine Rainfall had said that most people could not do what she just did without having been trained for doing so.
"I said that most people have to get it trained, but I've read about some times where some people have had gifts, yours included, and they needed no such training. Most of them were very dangerous because when they first were able to use the Gift to their advantage, they thought that they had been blessed with a gift that no one else could or had, had. You are just lucky that I'm here with you and that I'm able to explain this whole thing to you." Rainfall thought for a minute, at least to Icewind, that was what he looked to be doing. "Did you have to leave anything behind in the vale that you want now?"
"Y-yes, I left a trinket that my father gave me when I had been little. I didn't bring it because I was mad at him at that point. I would really like it now. Why?" She looked at him with confusion.
"Well, we need to make sure that you know how to use this Gift so that you don't happen to bring another thing to you without really wanting it. I know you wanted my books here, but that wouldn't have come handy if we had been gated to a place where it would not have been a good time to have them show up. Do what you just did with my books, accept this time think about your trinket instead of my books. While you are doing that, hold you hand out and lastly think of it being in your hand and not on the ground." He wanted to see if she would be able to do this with something small, then with something large.
Icewind concentrated on having her small trinket in her hand. The trinket had been placed in a small carved box that looked like a deer. There were books on top of the box, but she just wanted the trinket, and the box it was in since both had been given to her by her father when she was about four or five years old. As she thought of the item, she thought about seeing it in her hand. She thought as hard as she could, and she was rewarded by feeling something land in her hand. Icewind opened her eyes and looked down. The little carved box that she had been given was sitting in her palm
"Icewind! That's amazing! I can't believe that your gift has not yet been active. Your Gift is strong, at least, stronger than most people's Gifts!" He was smiling. He cocked his head slightly to the left as if listening to something that was coming. "Pedri says that there are two spooked horses cantering down the road. Ah, yes, I hear them now."
Icewind strained her ears to here their hooves beating on the dirt road. "Should we try to stop them? Or should were assume that their riders or owners will be following them to retrieve them?"
Rainfall had no time to answer her question, because just as he made up his mind, the two white horses slowed to a walk right in front of the clearing and stared at them.
'Wait one minute, those are not horses! Those are spirits!" She could see the aura of white light surrounding both of them. Icewind was confused, as was Rainfall about why these two beings would stumble upon them at this odd moment.
The larger of the two walked slowly up to her while the smaller one followed behind him, accept she went to facing Rainfall instead of her.
:Icewind, I am the companion Kayo. I choose you.: He mindspoke to her. She felt something inside of her attach it's self to this, companion, as he called himself. It was the same feeling as when she had bonded to her snowy owl, Jana. :I am sure that you have no clue what I mean by those three words I just spoke to you, do you?: He asked her after sensing her confusion.
:No, I do not know what you mean by those words that you spoke, but I'm sure that my friend Rainfall would.: She glanced at him. He looked dumbstruck and so amazed that she could swear that he felt as if he had died and gone to heaven.
"Rainfall, are you still there?" she asked him while shaking his shoulder slightly. He made a slight squeak-like sound which was to tell her that he was still listening to her.
"What does 'I choose you' mean?" She whispered into his ear.
He quickly snapped out of his trance and showed her a secret that she knew nothing of. He was able to mindspeak to anyone he wished. :I feel as if I say this aloud, they will be insulted, but that phrase you just repeated means that your companion has chosen you to help Valdemar. You have been allowed to become a Herald of Valdemar. Almost any child in Valdemar would kill to be in our shoes!:
She was confused. She had asked him about what Kayo had said to her, but did Kayo also say that to Rainfall? Was this, companion bonded to him as well as her? Then it dawned on her, there was another companion in this field other than Kayo, the female in front of Rainfall. She must be the one who said that to him.
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What'd you think about it? I like it since this is the chapter where my character acctually finds out that she has something about her that her father might have liked. Also, this is where she gets chosen, so it's also cool with that, anyway, the following chapters will be up when they are written, and I'm also starting two new fics which I will only tell you that they are called Eternity and Ultimate Power, and that they will hopefully be up soon. :)
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Icewind looked out across the clearing in which she, Rainfall and their bond birds had been gated to. It was warm here, unlike the cold which was outside of the vale that she had just left.
'So this is Valdemar' she thought to herself while looking at the beautiful blooming flowers which were in bushes along the clearing. The grass was long, which meant that this area had not been in use by anyone in a long time. 'Maybe it had been used as a gating area before, the arch is quite worn away on the inner side, which is a sign that at least a couple gating experiences happened here.'
"It's so much nicer than in the pictures that I have seen." Rainfall said spinning in circles slowly while trying to take in everything at the same time. "I've seen a couple pictures, but most of them were drawn in black ink with no colour added. This is beautiful. Can we stay here for the night so that in the morning I would be able to study a bit before actually contacting any civilization?" Rainfall asked while pulling a sweet-smelling rose off of a bush off to the side of the clearing. He smelled it and then passed it on to her so that she too could smell its wonderful scent.
"It's fine by me. I just want to get some sleep. That gate made me awfully tired and I just want some rest in this quite sanctuary for a little while. I'm sure their towns, or whatever you called them, are busy since you said that they have big groups of people in one spot." Icewind said walking around and testing the softness in different parts of the grass. She finally found what she was looking for and laid her pack on the ground. The pack was heavy, but she wished that she had brought some more of her belongings with them on the trip. She thought about how many books Rainfall had, had to leave behind. She wished that, since they were his most favorite things, she could have carried some more of them since he pack was much lighter than his and she could have carried more.
Icewind concentrated on what ones he had left behind, and which of those he had especially loved. She remembered seeing him place down some books about the mage wars that he'd read about four times by now. She also remembered the one about mind speaking, the one about different spirits, and a couple about the Tayledras themselves. She imagined them somehow magically appearing in the clearing, right in front of her.
Rainfall was off looking at some of the tree that had been growing in the center of the clearing when she thought of this. She imagined seeing him jump with surprise as the books plopped onto the ground. Just as she started to smile about how absurd this idea was, she heard a couple of loud thumps which were slightly muffled by the soft over-grown grass.
Icewind opened her eyes to see that she was sitting on her think blanket right in front of the very same books she had just recalled. She just stared at them and wondered if she was just imagining them there. As she tried to prove herself wrong, she heard a surprised gasp from Rainfall and he briskly walked over to her and the pile of books.
"Where did these come from?" He asked picking up the one about the Mage Wars. "I left these in the vale, in my ekele! Icewind, did you bring them for me?" He asked while flipping through the pages.
"N-no, I didn't bring them in my pack. I-I was just remembering them in my head and imagined that they were here, and poof, they landed on the ground!" Icewind was a little shaky, but she stood anyway. Icewind looked down on the books and tried to remember exactly what she did.
"Icewind! Why didn't you tell me that you had the Fetching Gift?" He said. He was so happy that Icewind had brought his books, he paid no attention to the fact that she might not have even known that she could do such a thing.
"I have a w-what?" She stuttered.
"A Gift, you can use the Gift called Fetching, and you're really good at it. Not many people have this Gift and most can't use it to their advantage without extensive training." He explained to her. Then it dawned on him, she hadn't known that she had a Gift, and she hadn't had any training for it. It was a miracle that she hadn't had any problems with it before. He Gift was strong, if it wasn't, she would not have been able to bring something that large across that length of space.
"I-I didn't know that I had this Fetching ability. And, I've no training. Does that mean that something is wrong with me?" She was afraid of what she had done, especially sine Rainfall had said that most people could not do what she just did without having been trained for doing so.
"I said that most people have to get it trained, but I've read about some times where some people have had gifts, yours included, and they needed no such training. Most of them were very dangerous because when they first were able to use the Gift to their advantage, they thought that they had been blessed with a gift that no one else could or had, had. You are just lucky that I'm here with you and that I'm able to explain this whole thing to you." Rainfall thought for a minute, at least to Icewind, that was what he looked to be doing. "Did you have to leave anything behind in the vale that you want now?"
"Y-yes, I left a trinket that my father gave me when I had been little. I didn't bring it because I was mad at him at that point. I would really like it now. Why?" She looked at him with confusion.
"Well, we need to make sure that you know how to use this Gift so that you don't happen to bring another thing to you without really wanting it. I know you wanted my books here, but that wouldn't have come handy if we had been gated to a place where it would not have been a good time to have them show up. Do what you just did with my books, accept this time think about your trinket instead of my books. While you are doing that, hold you hand out and lastly think of it being in your hand and not on the ground." He wanted to see if she would be able to do this with something small, then with something large.
Icewind concentrated on having her small trinket in her hand. The trinket had been placed in a small carved box that looked like a deer. There were books on top of the box, but she just wanted the trinket, and the box it was in since both had been given to her by her father when she was about four or five years old. As she thought of the item, she thought about seeing it in her hand. She thought as hard as she could, and she was rewarded by feeling something land in her hand. Icewind opened her eyes and looked down. The little carved box that she had been given was sitting in her palm
"Icewind! That's amazing! I can't believe that your gift has not yet been active. Your Gift is strong, at least, stronger than most people's Gifts!" He was smiling. He cocked his head slightly to the left as if listening to something that was coming. "Pedri says that there are two spooked horses cantering down the road. Ah, yes, I hear them now."
Icewind strained her ears to here their hooves beating on the dirt road. "Should we try to stop them? Or should were assume that their riders or owners will be following them to retrieve them?"
Rainfall had no time to answer her question, because just as he made up his mind, the two white horses slowed to a walk right in front of the clearing and stared at them.
'Wait one minute, those are not horses! Those are spirits!" She could see the aura of white light surrounding both of them. Icewind was confused, as was Rainfall about why these two beings would stumble upon them at this odd moment.
The larger of the two walked slowly up to her while the smaller one followed behind him, accept she went to facing Rainfall instead of her.
:Icewind, I am the companion Kayo. I choose you.: He mindspoke to her. She felt something inside of her attach it's self to this, companion, as he called himself. It was the same feeling as when she had bonded to her snowy owl, Jana. :I am sure that you have no clue what I mean by those three words I just spoke to you, do you?: He asked her after sensing her confusion.
:No, I do not know what you mean by those words that you spoke, but I'm sure that my friend Rainfall would.: She glanced at him. He looked dumbstruck and so amazed that she could swear that he felt as if he had died and gone to heaven.
"Rainfall, are you still there?" she asked him while shaking his shoulder slightly. He made a slight squeak-like sound which was to tell her that he was still listening to her.
"What does 'I choose you' mean?" She whispered into his ear.
He quickly snapped out of his trance and showed her a secret that she knew nothing of. He was able to mindspeak to anyone he wished. :I feel as if I say this aloud, they will be insulted, but that phrase you just repeated means that your companion has chosen you to help Valdemar. You have been allowed to become a Herald of Valdemar. Almost any child in Valdemar would kill to be in our shoes!:
She was confused. She had asked him about what Kayo had said to her, but did Kayo also say that to Rainfall? Was this, companion bonded to him as well as her? Then it dawned on her, there was another companion in this field other than Kayo, the female in front of Rainfall. She must be the one who said that to him.
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What'd you think about it? I like it since this is the chapter where my character acctually finds out that she has something about her that her father might have liked. Also, this is where she gets chosen, so it's also cool with that, anyway, the following chapters will be up when they are written, and I'm also starting two new fics which I will only tell you that they are called Eternity and Ultimate Power, and that they will hopefully be up soon. :)