AGAIN, sorry this has taken so long to update. Well considering the 2 weeks wait, this one isn't quite as bad. Well, I hope you enjoyed the last chapter. This one is short also..but I think the next one will be longer!! SORRY to those who want longer chapters. If you DO want them, I'll tell you right now, just tell me in your reviews, but I warn you, it'll take longer to update. However, I wouldn't mind you telling me 'bout ur opinions..
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Lasku sighed deeply.
He had a lot on his mind. He was tired and somewhat annoyed at his incident with the wild mage. The fact that at the sight of him those three giggling girls burst out laughing!
But although all of these things annoyed him what angered him the most was the fact that the wildmage looked as she did.
She was very pretty but she was very young and that was what bothered him. He had heard many stories about her but all of them had failed to tell him how young she was.
She was just a girl!
Just a dumb giggling girl who found it funny to change from horse to human without warning! She was to be kidnapped and possibly tortured! She was to be taken a way from family and friends and forced to work for Tusaine.
And then there was her companion, Numair Salmalin.
Lasku was so used to powerful mages like him to be conceited and arrogant like Aeejah but as he had gone to get his lunch he had seen him smiling and happy, not bragging about his accomplishments and powers, joking around and having a good time even with the children. That was a man he could respect and possibly be friends with and he was plotting against him!
Lasku sighed again and banged his head against the wall of the stall he was sitting in.
"Life was getting more and more complicated." he thought as he ran his fingers through his long blond hair.
He was interrupted from his tormented thoughts by a knocking on the stall door way.
Lasku looked up into the eyes of Numair. He was even taller to the spy since he was sitting down.
Lasku jumped up and quickly brushed of his pants which were covered in hay.
"Hello," said Numair, "I was looking for my student, Daine." I don't seem to remember your name."
Lasku bowed,
"I'm Lasku the hostler. I'm sorry M-"
"Please, none of this Master stuff it makes me uncomfortable. Just Numair will be fine." the mage interrupted.
Lasku smiled.
He was beginning to like the lanky man more every minute.
"Sorry, I haven't seen her since she, I mean before lunch," He answered blushing slightly.
Numair chuckled,
"Yes, I heard all about that."
Lasku blushed even more, So that was what he was laughing at lunch! the spy thought becoming a little annoyed.
"Don't worry, I feel your pain. Early yesterday morning I suppose I wasn't allowed to sleep in since she turned into a rooster and crowed in my ear."
Lasku looked surprised, "Yes she even torments me." said the mage looking at the other man's face, "For such a nice girl she has quite a wicked streak!" after that he waved and left scanning the ground and the sky.
"Which I suppose," thought Lasku, "makes sense since she can turn into a bird.
A few moments after Numair left Aeejah entered the stables. He flicked some magic to the openings to stop eavesdroppers. He looked down at Lasku who had sat back down again.
"Get up," the mage sneered.
Lasku smiled but stayed sitting.
"Commander Imposter, I don't recall standing and sitting whenever you command part of this mission,"
Aeejah glared and said, "Fine! Then don't get up," and flicked a handful of magic at Lasku.
The spy was surrounded by a sphere of grey magic which soon turned invisible.
Lasku could move around but not from that spot. He shouted indignantly but no sound came through the bubble of magic.
Aeejah laughed. A loud and booming laugh.
It was one of those unique times when the mage showed all of his true emotions.
Lasku got pretty angry and shouted louder.
His cries sounded like someone yelling with a pillow pushed over his mouth.
Lasku may have been able to break the bubble. He had no magic and no sight for the matter but he had a quality that not many others had and that was the power to shatter certain magics of all but the most powerful mages.
Aeejah may have been a very powerful mage but this bubble keeping the spy locked to one place was not a thought out spell.
It was stupid to use a lot of your magic on something like this when your goal was only to make the other person angry. (To bad for Lasku that Aeejah was succeeding)
Unfortunately, Aeejah was not stupid. A bit ambitious and arrogant, perhaps, but not an idiot.
Lasku did not want the mage to be aware of all that he could do. The spy touched the bubble and received a shock.
Eventually, after the imposter finished laughing he allowed Lasku to speak. Lasku tried to lunge toward the mage but found he was still stuck to the ground.
Aeejah wiped tears of mirth from his eyes,
"That was the most entertaining thing I have seen in years!" he said, "Now has anything happened today?"
"Well I met the Wild mage,"
"Yes I heard about that," said the mage smiling again,
"Yes and I met Numair to." Lasku was silent for a moment then burst out,
"How could you do what you are planning to do to a girl like Daine?!" He shouted some more, "She is so young! Not even an adult! I bet she has never harmed any one in her life and you are planning to torture her!!!"
"Now, now then that isn't true. That girl has killed many people fighting in the Immortal's War." He said soothingly yet mockingly.
"You know that's not what I meant!" retorted the other man struggling to unstick himself from the floor.
"Hmmm, yes well, if she has any brains at all we shall not have to harm a hair on her head. As for her teacher, I shall harm every hair on his head whether he agrees to betray Tortall or not,"
Suddenly Lasku shouted, "Lord Henry is an imposter and is plotting against Tortall!!" He gave a defiant glare up at the mage, "The horses will tell her you know," he said.
"Yes they would," Aeejah answered, "If they could hear us. You see, we are in a protective shield of magic that allows no one but us to hear out conversations."
The mage turned to go.
He stopped and stepped back toward Lasku.
"I must ask you something. If you were in charge would you guilty about what we are planning to do?"
The mage left and didn't unstick Lasku for a few hours.
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