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The 2 women looked at each other for a minute before Daine Broke the silence. "Um, what happened?"
"I'm not sure, one moment I was running from home..." tears clouded the girl's bright blue eyes and she shuddered. She took a deep breath and continued, "After a while, I saw like, a big, portal thing, I'm not sure what it was. And I just went to explore and suddenly I'm here." Annie sat down with an exasperated sigh. Pita, who had been watching the fiasco, went over to comfort the girl.
"Well, I guess I should introduce myself. I'm Daine."
"And I'm Annie".
: What's your name?: Daine asked the gelding.
:I'm Pita. You can talk to me?:
"What are you doing?" asked Annie.
"Just meeting your horse, he's very pretty."
"Thanks." Daine suddenly noticed that the girl's arms were very bruised up.
"Oh! Did you get hurt going through whatever that was? We should go to the palace, get you a healer and stuff."
"Oh, no, its from, from, I'm fine." Annie spoke softly. Daine couldn't help hearing the pain in the girl's voice.
"Well, We Best take you up to the palace any ways. Get you cleaned up, give you some food."
"What about my horse? He MUST go with me, he needs to be fed, oh, and he needs to be hosed off, he get hot easily." Daine smiled, she liked this girl. She was obviously more interested in the well being of her horse than her well being.
"Don't worry, I will personally take care of him. I help out at the stables with the riders. I have a knack with animals." The girl smiled, relieved and got to her feet. She led Pita to a tree stump and effortlessly mounted into the strange saddle. "I will have to ask her about her tack", thought Daine as she mounted Cloud and they headed to the palace.
A/N: ok, I know that chapter kind of stinks. I had to get them to the palace some how, and i'm trying to develop a bond between Daine and Annie. And about the tack, they didn't have English tack in Tortall, in case you don't remember, several times thy holy TP refers to saddle horns and cinches, which are western terms for tack, not English. Annie rides English style. And since in the books, there is nothing about there being 2 riding styles, English isn't going to exist in my book. Ok? Lol. Now, READ AND RESPOND! Lol. I want to see how you feel, and I am posting this the same day I posted the first chapter. Thanks all!
Emily