Sorry about the lack of up-dates. My computer is crapping out on me. Now with out further ado I give you: CHAPTER 4!
Chapter 4:
"Logain, do you think you could hold off succumbing to gentling for a while longer? I mean come on, you're a newlywed! Aren't you people always hopping in bushes every chance you get?" Faith mocked as she tried to spur Logain into a form of life. Logain didn't respond. Jamie had had no better luck rousing her husband. He didn't respond to anything. The road and gentling seemed to catch up with him. "Toby, do something!" Toby shook his head.
The eight rode on. Their number attracted some attention but not much. Jolyen and Faith were passed off as sister ladies and the other six were their body guards and ladies in waiting. Jamie hated every minute. She complained and fought and complained some more. They reached the town of Salidar after only a slight mishap involving a burnt barn and a lord given an oath.
They were in the city for five minutes and Siuan was already trying to play Amyriln to the exiles. This did not bode well for the rest of their stay. Only when lord Gareth showed up demanding they fill their oaths did they realize the severity of their situation.
"Rand you had better god damned be sure their still in the tower! I've got this feeling that something's wrong." David yelled forgetting the thin tent walls. The maidens were not pleased. They entered the tent fully intent on removing David. Only a gesture from Rand stopped them. They returned to their posts outside the door.
"David, I'm sure their still in the tower and safe. Nothing can break Tar Valon save her own people. And I highly doubt a riot." Rand said calmingly.
"Easy for you to say! The woman you love and are fully intending on spending your life with isn't alone in a tower with only her friends for protection! I know Toby, Jamie and Faith! They can't fight worth anything and Jolyen would never lift a hand in defense of herself! Rand I need to go back! I feel it!" David began pacing the confined space like a caged tiger. "I need to find Jolyen! I keep having this dream about this town called Salidar or something like that. I have a feeling that's where she is. I miss her. It's almost like I know what she's thinking and what she's feeling." David began mumbling.
"You are nearly bound to her David; those are her feelings coming through the weak bind." Lan answered the unspoken question as he entered the tent. "Rand, Moraine would like a word with you." He turned and left the tent with Rand trailing behind.
David paced in the nighttime chill. He couldn't shake the feeling that something was very wrong with the others. He looked to the mountains again. He clenched his fist and walked to where the horses slept with a determined step. Nothing not even the bloody Dragon Reborn was going to stop him from checking up on his friends. Now if only he could find this Salidar place. He readied his horse, Arthur Pendragon, and turned toward the spine of the world. He was going to Salidar, as soon as he figured out where it was.
"SIUAN SANCHE! You are no longer the Amyriln seat! You have been SITILLED! You're not even Aes Sedai anymore! How dare you try to order us about!" Screamed a newly raised yellow sister. "You are not of any use to us; tell me why should we even keep you here?"
Before Siuan could retort Jamie jumped in. "Damn you all to hell! If I didn't need you to make sure my husband lives I'd..."
"You'd what? Kill me? Girl you can't even channel let alone harm me..."
"ENOUGH!" Jolyen roared. "We have a job to do and you three are squabbling like cats in a bag! Well I have news for you; retract your claws and look around. We have to make sure this village survives the winter, not kill each other. Jamie, get your husband and bring him here, Siuan, go take care of Lord Gareth with Min and as for the rest of you don't you have something important to do?" She received glares on all sides but her orders were obeyed. "That's better; now tell me about these crops we're not getting in."
The days went on in much the same pattern. Lord Gareth prepared the army of Salidar and the Aes Sedai within planed and plotted and worried over their own survival. They sunk into a sort of routine that was disrupted only when Elayne and Nynaeve bust through the underbrush with four other women, two children, a thief catcher, Thom Merrilan and a small army of Shienarans. They were immediately taken into custody and questioned for all they knew. The artifacts they brought with them were examined and the broken seal to the dark one's prison was given no more mind then the stone ring that allowed entrance to the world of dreams.
When their questioning was finished Elayne, Nynaeve and their charges were handed over to Jolyen for training and care. Somehow Jolyen had become the resident baby-sitter. It became her job to see the new comers fed and housed. She had given up her own home for the more then twenty people now in her care. Jolyen had moved in with Jamie and Logain, Faith and Toby,
In seeing the couples all around her and living with two of the happiest she became more lonely then ever. She cried herself to sleep at night to the sounds of her friends in the rooms on either side of her. Her existence went on only because her charges needed her and she would not die until she knew if David was indeed dead. Only when she was no longer needed and completely without David would she lie down and accept death without a fight. Until that day she went on with no true reason to live except the hope her love was alive. If he died the Dark One himself would fear her fury.
"DAMN YOU PEOPLE!! What the hell do you mean Salidar isn't a real place? I was told by everyone else this damn town was in your borders! Now where the hell is it?!" David yelled to the poor guard he asked directions from. The guard shook his head and David turned around frustrated.
"You, boy, you want to get to Salidar? Tell me who you work for and I'll help you. What are the yellow passwords? Or the blue? Or even the Green?" He glared at David trying to see if he was guessing or had any clue what he was talking about.
"Sorry sir but the bruise on my arm is turning YELLOW I don't HEAL very well. I hope they turn the fellow who did this to me black and BLUE, this town needs JUSTICE. Then again the fellow was looking GREEN from the BATTLE." David looked at him and he nodded. He motioned for David to follow him down the street.
"It's a three hour ride from here. I won't tell you my name because if you don't have a name you can rightfully tell people you haven't seen me." They approached David's horse and the strange man walked off to return with a fine mare that he clearly had stolen. He set a pace toward the woods and David followed with hope in his heart for the first time in weeks.
"Jo you need to get outside. Come on, Logain's finally up and about again and he needs someone to watch him. Please Jo, you look like you're dieing and that doesn't look good on you trust me." Jamie pleaded.
"Oh screw it, Jolyen Sedai of the Green Ajah, get your ass outside and get in the sunlight!" Faith yelled as she walked in and physically dragged Jolyen outside into the village square. "Now you can come inside in four hours and no sooner! I'm putting an air barrier across the doors and windows, you WILL stay outside!" Jolyen sighed and sat on the small rocking chair in the dirt outside the house. She began to sing, the song didn't even have words really it was just nonsense syllables she put together in the form of lyrics.
"You sure we're almost there?" David asked. The guide nodded and pointed to a break in the trees.
"That is Salidar." David rode forward as the guide turned and rode back to the city. He dismounted and walked his horse to the warders, who recognized him and let him though. He heard Jolyen's voice before he saw her. She was sitting on the other side of town staring out into the trees. He grinned and walked up behind her and put his arms around her.
"I told you I'd come back Jo Dee." She leapt up and threw her arms around him, her lips locked with his and he carried her over to her house only to be stopped by the barrier of Air across the doorway.
"Faith I hate you! David's back let the barrier down now!" She saw the flows reversing and the weave disappearing she grinned at David. "Now we can go in love. Where were we?"
Sorry for the short chapter but I have serious writers block. Review with any ideas you might have for me. Remember the more reviews and ideas the faster I update!
Chapter 4:
"Logain, do you think you could hold off succumbing to gentling for a while longer? I mean come on, you're a newlywed! Aren't you people always hopping in bushes every chance you get?" Faith mocked as she tried to spur Logain into a form of life. Logain didn't respond. Jamie had had no better luck rousing her husband. He didn't respond to anything. The road and gentling seemed to catch up with him. "Toby, do something!" Toby shook his head.
The eight rode on. Their number attracted some attention but not much. Jolyen and Faith were passed off as sister ladies and the other six were their body guards and ladies in waiting. Jamie hated every minute. She complained and fought and complained some more. They reached the town of Salidar after only a slight mishap involving a burnt barn and a lord given an oath.
They were in the city for five minutes and Siuan was already trying to play Amyriln to the exiles. This did not bode well for the rest of their stay. Only when lord Gareth showed up demanding they fill their oaths did they realize the severity of their situation.
"Rand you had better god damned be sure their still in the tower! I've got this feeling that something's wrong." David yelled forgetting the thin tent walls. The maidens were not pleased. They entered the tent fully intent on removing David. Only a gesture from Rand stopped them. They returned to their posts outside the door.
"David, I'm sure their still in the tower and safe. Nothing can break Tar Valon save her own people. And I highly doubt a riot." Rand said calmingly.
"Easy for you to say! The woman you love and are fully intending on spending your life with isn't alone in a tower with only her friends for protection! I know Toby, Jamie and Faith! They can't fight worth anything and Jolyen would never lift a hand in defense of herself! Rand I need to go back! I feel it!" David began pacing the confined space like a caged tiger. "I need to find Jolyen! I keep having this dream about this town called Salidar or something like that. I have a feeling that's where she is. I miss her. It's almost like I know what she's thinking and what she's feeling." David began mumbling.
"You are nearly bound to her David; those are her feelings coming through the weak bind." Lan answered the unspoken question as he entered the tent. "Rand, Moraine would like a word with you." He turned and left the tent with Rand trailing behind.
David paced in the nighttime chill. He couldn't shake the feeling that something was very wrong with the others. He looked to the mountains again. He clenched his fist and walked to where the horses slept with a determined step. Nothing not even the bloody Dragon Reborn was going to stop him from checking up on his friends. Now if only he could find this Salidar place. He readied his horse, Arthur Pendragon, and turned toward the spine of the world. He was going to Salidar, as soon as he figured out where it was.
"SIUAN SANCHE! You are no longer the Amyriln seat! You have been SITILLED! You're not even Aes Sedai anymore! How dare you try to order us about!" Screamed a newly raised yellow sister. "You are not of any use to us; tell me why should we even keep you here?"
Before Siuan could retort Jamie jumped in. "Damn you all to hell! If I didn't need you to make sure my husband lives I'd..."
"You'd what? Kill me? Girl you can't even channel let alone harm me..."
"ENOUGH!" Jolyen roared. "We have a job to do and you three are squabbling like cats in a bag! Well I have news for you; retract your claws and look around. We have to make sure this village survives the winter, not kill each other. Jamie, get your husband and bring him here, Siuan, go take care of Lord Gareth with Min and as for the rest of you don't you have something important to do?" She received glares on all sides but her orders were obeyed. "That's better; now tell me about these crops we're not getting in."
The days went on in much the same pattern. Lord Gareth prepared the army of Salidar and the Aes Sedai within planed and plotted and worried over their own survival. They sunk into a sort of routine that was disrupted only when Elayne and Nynaeve bust through the underbrush with four other women, two children, a thief catcher, Thom Merrilan and a small army of Shienarans. They were immediately taken into custody and questioned for all they knew. The artifacts they brought with them were examined and the broken seal to the dark one's prison was given no more mind then the stone ring that allowed entrance to the world of dreams.
When their questioning was finished Elayne, Nynaeve and their charges were handed over to Jolyen for training and care. Somehow Jolyen had become the resident baby-sitter. It became her job to see the new comers fed and housed. She had given up her own home for the more then twenty people now in her care. Jolyen had moved in with Jamie and Logain, Faith and Toby,
In seeing the couples all around her and living with two of the happiest she became more lonely then ever. She cried herself to sleep at night to the sounds of her friends in the rooms on either side of her. Her existence went on only because her charges needed her and she would not die until she knew if David was indeed dead. Only when she was no longer needed and completely without David would she lie down and accept death without a fight. Until that day she went on with no true reason to live except the hope her love was alive. If he died the Dark One himself would fear her fury.
"DAMN YOU PEOPLE!! What the hell do you mean Salidar isn't a real place? I was told by everyone else this damn town was in your borders! Now where the hell is it?!" David yelled to the poor guard he asked directions from. The guard shook his head and David turned around frustrated.
"You, boy, you want to get to Salidar? Tell me who you work for and I'll help you. What are the yellow passwords? Or the blue? Or even the Green?" He glared at David trying to see if he was guessing or had any clue what he was talking about.
"Sorry sir but the bruise on my arm is turning YELLOW I don't HEAL very well. I hope they turn the fellow who did this to me black and BLUE, this town needs JUSTICE. Then again the fellow was looking GREEN from the BATTLE." David looked at him and he nodded. He motioned for David to follow him down the street.
"It's a three hour ride from here. I won't tell you my name because if you don't have a name you can rightfully tell people you haven't seen me." They approached David's horse and the strange man walked off to return with a fine mare that he clearly had stolen. He set a pace toward the woods and David followed with hope in his heart for the first time in weeks.
"Jo you need to get outside. Come on, Logain's finally up and about again and he needs someone to watch him. Please Jo, you look like you're dieing and that doesn't look good on you trust me." Jamie pleaded.
"Oh screw it, Jolyen Sedai of the Green Ajah, get your ass outside and get in the sunlight!" Faith yelled as she walked in and physically dragged Jolyen outside into the village square. "Now you can come inside in four hours and no sooner! I'm putting an air barrier across the doors and windows, you WILL stay outside!" Jolyen sighed and sat on the small rocking chair in the dirt outside the house. She began to sing, the song didn't even have words really it was just nonsense syllables she put together in the form of lyrics.
"You sure we're almost there?" David asked. The guide nodded and pointed to a break in the trees.
"That is Salidar." David rode forward as the guide turned and rode back to the city. He dismounted and walked his horse to the warders, who recognized him and let him though. He heard Jolyen's voice before he saw her. She was sitting on the other side of town staring out into the trees. He grinned and walked up behind her and put his arms around her.
"I told you I'd come back Jo Dee." She leapt up and threw her arms around him, her lips locked with his and he carried her over to her house only to be stopped by the barrier of Air across the doorway.
"Faith I hate you! David's back let the barrier down now!" She saw the flows reversing and the weave disappearing she grinned at David. "Now we can go in love. Where were we?"
Sorry for the short chapter but I have serious writers block. Review with any ideas you might have for me. Remember the more reviews and ideas the faster I update!