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Kel's hazel eyes scanned the trees surrounding the clearing. She fingered the throwing star attached to her belt.
"Kel." Tya said her blue eyes looking around. "Let's just head back." When Kel hesitated she added. "Before they come in here looking for us and we have to explain everything."
"Ok." Kel said and headed out of the clearing toward their horses and the guys. When they approached the guys stopped talking. "Hey. Where to now?"
"Lets go shopping!" Tya exclaimed jumping onto her horse's back gracefully.
"As long as it's not for dresses." she muttered with a scowl. She climbed into the saddle and they set off.
The group rode through the city visiting various shops. About an hour later a messanger was set out to bring Roald back to the palace. After that they spent an hour at weaponries.
"Let's go." Tya said boredly studying her nails.
"The shang use weapons." Cleon said examining a sword.
"Yes but I prefer hand to hand combat." Tya said looking at him with mild disgust. She sighed and looked over the shop for Neal. "Where is Neal?"
"He went with Kel to look over the Yamani weapons in the shop next door." Merric said bent over a display of chain mail. Tya scowled and leaned back against the wall.
"I can't believe you actually fight with these. I'd cut off a limb." Neal muttered looking at a rack of glaives with Kel.
"I trained with the best." Kel replied touching the weapon gingerly. She straightened up and wandered away.
"I saw you practicing. Could you teach me?" Neal asked curiously. Kel paused and turned around to look at him. "You'd get the perfect cover up when you kill me. It was a glaive accident." he said with a smile.
Kel shrugged. "Sure. You won't start off with a glaive. If you do you probably would cut off a limb." she grinned. "So how are you handling Tya?"
Neal smiled. "She's great." he said with a grin. "She mentioned once that she owes her life to you but wouldn't explain."
Kel sighed. "It's a long story." She gazed at a display on a wall of two crossed glaives.
"There seems to be a lot of those lately." he muttered darkly. He watched her as she studied everything around her. Now she was touching a throwing star like it was the most valuable thing she'd ever seen.
"Hey! Come on guys it's getting late!" Cleon called into the store. He waved for them. "Come on we want to be back before dinner!"
"Coming." Kel replied stepping back from a display. "Come on Nealan."
"Coming Lady Keladry." Neal retorted with a snort.
Kel entered her rooms and changed from her mud splotched clothes. She smiled to herself thinking about teaching Neal how to use a glaive. She headed down to the mess.
"So did you have fun with Neal?" Tya asked scathingly, meeting her at the mess door.
"Um. I guess we were just looking at Yamani weapons." Kel replied shrugging. Tya's blue eyes were icey and glared at her.
"He's mine." Tya snapped grabbing a tray and getting in line.
"I know." Kel muttered. "What's wrong?"
"Nothing." Tya murmered. "I just didn't know you guys went off on your own today that's all."
"We went to look at weapons." Kel said as they headed toward the table with the guys. "Hello." She took an empty seat next to Cleon as Tya plopped down next to Neal.
"You start training tomorrow?" Cleon asked stabbing a vegtable and shoving it in his mouth.
"Yes." Kel replied taking a drink of her fruit juice.
"After dinner can you teach me how to throw?" Faleron asked suddenly with a smile.
Kel shrugged. "Sure." she glanced over and Neal was pushing his food around his plate. "Neal eat your vegetables". He looked up at her and glared.
"I don't need to be mothered!" he replied indignantly. Tya spooned vegetables onto his plate.
"Eat." she replied and Neal scowled at her.
The guys grinned at him as Neal muttered. "They are trying to kill me."
"I'm done. I'll meet you guys in the practice courts when you're all done." she got up and left.
Kel headed back to her rooms to change into better clothes to train in. She collected a mass of throwing stars and her glaive and spear. She headed down to the practice courts. No one was there yet. Kel tossed the leather bag of stars onto the floor and rested the glaive and spear against the wall. She glanced around before taking a go at a practice dummy. She kept going until she heard someone whisper "Whoa."
While she'd been training she'd gained an audience. Standing a few yards from her was Neal, Faleron, Merric, and Owen. Owen stared at her his mouth open.
"Catching flies?" Neal drawled at him. Owen snapped his mouth shut but not for long.
"Wow!"
Kel shifted her weight from one foot to another fighting down embarassment. "I expected to see Neal, Faleron, and Cleon but uh you two?"
"We want to learn how to throw." Owen said cheerfully. "Cleon had to go work a bit with his knight master Inness. Tya said she didn't want to come and it was boring."
"She was angry when Neal said he was coming." Merric added with a grin and sideglance at Neal.
"Ok." she shrugged. Tya had been acting strance. She picked up the bag of stars. "Neal stand back. You aren't here for this. Line up." Kel ordered. She walked along the line of the three boys. She placed a star in each of their hands. Merric dropped it and blushed. "Heavier then it looks." she murmered. She took a spot standing at the end of their row. "Ok we'll start with throwing it at the ground." she showed them how to do it with flick of their wrists. Kel left them to practice.
"Neal." she addressed and he pushed himself off the wall. "I got a spear for you to use. I was going to get a broom but figured you could handle at least a spear" she handed him the spear and picked up her glaive.
"How is this fair?" Neal exclaimed. "I'm going to fight someone with a glaive and I only have a spear."
"We aren't fighting sir Nealan." Kel replied. "I'm going to show you a pattern dance."
"Dance?" Neal asked stareing at her.
Kel sighed. "Yes. Dance. It's a training thing."
She proceeded to show him a beginners pattern dance until he got it. Then went on to show him another only stopping everyone once in a while to show the others a new way to throw. After two hours they departed for their rooms.
Kel sighed when she plopped down on her bed. She'd cleaned her weapons and put them away. She lay in bed a few moments before drifting off into an exhausted sleep.
The next morning after practice and a bath she headed to the mess hall. After getting her food and taking an empty spot on the bench between Cleon and Neal and began she began to eat.
"So Kel can we practice again tonight?" Faleron asked from across the table.
Kel shrugged. "I don't see why not."
"Great." Merric said taking his seat.
"Maybe I can join you tonight." Cleon replied. "If Inness doesn't put me to work."
"Maybe I'll ask him if he can give you tonight off." Kel replied.
"What?" Cleon asked and froze. "Mindelan." he muttered. Kel looked at him with amusement. "He's your brother."
"Yea." Kel replied with a grin.
"Would he really do that?" Cleon asked with a grin.
"I doubt it." Kel replied taking a sip of her juice.
When they separated off Kel went back to her room. She had to find something to do before meeting the wildcat. She looked around and noticed Lathander's dagger sticking from her desk. She'd put it in a drawer.
Kel approached the desk and saw the dagger pining a note down. She ripped the note off the desk.
Keladry,
I see you got my gift.
-Lathander-
"Just like him to sneak into my rooms." she muttered and ripped the dagger from the desk studying it once more. A dragon wrapped around the hilt. When you held it your fingers fit nicely into the coils of the scales which here tinted blue. Emeralds were set for the dragon's eyes. She shoved it back into one of the drawers and left the note on the desk.
She sat in her room a while before deciding to go for a walk. She left her room and headed down the hall. She ran smack into someone. She looked up into a pair of sparkling green eyes. She jumped back.
"Keladry." Lathander's smooth voice addressed. A smile played across his lips.
Kel slid her mask into place. "Lathander."
"So I noticed you got my gift." he said still smiling. He leaned against the wall studying her.
"I noticed you still make it a habit of going into peoples room uninvited." she shot back.
"Ouch!" Lathander said his grin widening. "I was hoping you would go to lunch with me. We could catch up."
"No.' Kel replied bluntly. She went to walk around his but her grabbed her wrist. In one quick fluid motion she had him on his back. Despite this Lathander was grinning up at her. "As quick as ever I see."
"As slow as ever I see." Kel shot back. She stepped away from him and walked away.
As she left Lathander got off the ground smiling. "Just wait Kel. You'll see just how much I've learned."
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Kel's hazel eyes scanned the trees surrounding the clearing. She fingered the throwing star attached to her belt.
"Kel." Tya said her blue eyes looking around. "Let's just head back." When Kel hesitated she added. "Before they come in here looking for us and we have to explain everything."
"Ok." Kel said and headed out of the clearing toward their horses and the guys. When they approached the guys stopped talking. "Hey. Where to now?"
"Lets go shopping!" Tya exclaimed jumping onto her horse's back gracefully.
"As long as it's not for dresses." she muttered with a scowl. She climbed into the saddle and they set off.
The group rode through the city visiting various shops. About an hour later a messanger was set out to bring Roald back to the palace. After that they spent an hour at weaponries.
"Let's go." Tya said boredly studying her nails.
"The shang use weapons." Cleon said examining a sword.
"Yes but I prefer hand to hand combat." Tya said looking at him with mild disgust. She sighed and looked over the shop for Neal. "Where is Neal?"
"He went with Kel to look over the Yamani weapons in the shop next door." Merric said bent over a display of chain mail. Tya scowled and leaned back against the wall.
"I can't believe you actually fight with these. I'd cut off a limb." Neal muttered looking at a rack of glaives with Kel.
"I trained with the best." Kel replied touching the weapon gingerly. She straightened up and wandered away.
"I saw you practicing. Could you teach me?" Neal asked curiously. Kel paused and turned around to look at him. "You'd get the perfect cover up when you kill me. It was a glaive accident." he said with a smile.
Kel shrugged. "Sure. You won't start off with a glaive. If you do you probably would cut off a limb." she grinned. "So how are you handling Tya?"
Neal smiled. "She's great." he said with a grin. "She mentioned once that she owes her life to you but wouldn't explain."
Kel sighed. "It's a long story." She gazed at a display on a wall of two crossed glaives.
"There seems to be a lot of those lately." he muttered darkly. He watched her as she studied everything around her. Now she was touching a throwing star like it was the most valuable thing she'd ever seen.
"Hey! Come on guys it's getting late!" Cleon called into the store. He waved for them. "Come on we want to be back before dinner!"
"Coming." Kel replied stepping back from a display. "Come on Nealan."
"Coming Lady Keladry." Neal retorted with a snort.
Kel entered her rooms and changed from her mud splotched clothes. She smiled to herself thinking about teaching Neal how to use a glaive. She headed down to the mess.
"So did you have fun with Neal?" Tya asked scathingly, meeting her at the mess door.
"Um. I guess we were just looking at Yamani weapons." Kel replied shrugging. Tya's blue eyes were icey and glared at her.
"He's mine." Tya snapped grabbing a tray and getting in line.
"I know." Kel muttered. "What's wrong?"
"Nothing." Tya murmered. "I just didn't know you guys went off on your own today that's all."
"We went to look at weapons." Kel said as they headed toward the table with the guys. "Hello." She took an empty seat next to Cleon as Tya plopped down next to Neal.
"You start training tomorrow?" Cleon asked stabbing a vegtable and shoving it in his mouth.
"Yes." Kel replied taking a drink of her fruit juice.
"After dinner can you teach me how to throw?" Faleron asked suddenly with a smile.
Kel shrugged. "Sure." she glanced over and Neal was pushing his food around his plate. "Neal eat your vegetables". He looked up at her and glared.
"I don't need to be mothered!" he replied indignantly. Tya spooned vegetables onto his plate.
"Eat." she replied and Neal scowled at her.
The guys grinned at him as Neal muttered. "They are trying to kill me."
"I'm done. I'll meet you guys in the practice courts when you're all done." she got up and left.
Kel headed back to her rooms to change into better clothes to train in. She collected a mass of throwing stars and her glaive and spear. She headed down to the practice courts. No one was there yet. Kel tossed the leather bag of stars onto the floor and rested the glaive and spear against the wall. She glanced around before taking a go at a practice dummy. She kept going until she heard someone whisper "Whoa."
While she'd been training she'd gained an audience. Standing a few yards from her was Neal, Faleron, Merric, and Owen. Owen stared at her his mouth open.
"Catching flies?" Neal drawled at him. Owen snapped his mouth shut but not for long.
"Wow!"
Kel shifted her weight from one foot to another fighting down embarassment. "I expected to see Neal, Faleron, and Cleon but uh you two?"
"We want to learn how to throw." Owen said cheerfully. "Cleon had to go work a bit with his knight master Inness. Tya said she didn't want to come and it was boring."
"She was angry when Neal said he was coming." Merric added with a grin and sideglance at Neal.
"Ok." she shrugged. Tya had been acting strance. She picked up the bag of stars. "Neal stand back. You aren't here for this. Line up." Kel ordered. She walked along the line of the three boys. She placed a star in each of their hands. Merric dropped it and blushed. "Heavier then it looks." she murmered. She took a spot standing at the end of their row. "Ok we'll start with throwing it at the ground." she showed them how to do it with flick of their wrists. Kel left them to practice.
"Neal." she addressed and he pushed himself off the wall. "I got a spear for you to use. I was going to get a broom but figured you could handle at least a spear" she handed him the spear and picked up her glaive.
"How is this fair?" Neal exclaimed. "I'm going to fight someone with a glaive and I only have a spear."
"We aren't fighting sir Nealan." Kel replied. "I'm going to show you a pattern dance."
"Dance?" Neal asked stareing at her.
Kel sighed. "Yes. Dance. It's a training thing."
She proceeded to show him a beginners pattern dance until he got it. Then went on to show him another only stopping everyone once in a while to show the others a new way to throw. After two hours they departed for their rooms.
Kel sighed when she plopped down on her bed. She'd cleaned her weapons and put them away. She lay in bed a few moments before drifting off into an exhausted sleep.
The next morning after practice and a bath she headed to the mess hall. After getting her food and taking an empty spot on the bench between Cleon and Neal and began she began to eat.
"So Kel can we practice again tonight?" Faleron asked from across the table.
Kel shrugged. "I don't see why not."
"Great." Merric said taking his seat.
"Maybe I can join you tonight." Cleon replied. "If Inness doesn't put me to work."
"Maybe I'll ask him if he can give you tonight off." Kel replied.
"What?" Cleon asked and froze. "Mindelan." he muttered. Kel looked at him with amusement. "He's your brother."
"Yea." Kel replied with a grin.
"Would he really do that?" Cleon asked with a grin.
"I doubt it." Kel replied taking a sip of her juice.
When they separated off Kel went back to her room. She had to find something to do before meeting the wildcat. She looked around and noticed Lathander's dagger sticking from her desk. She'd put it in a drawer.
Kel approached the desk and saw the dagger pining a note down. She ripped the note off the desk.
Keladry,
I see you got my gift.
-Lathander-
"Just like him to sneak into my rooms." she muttered and ripped the dagger from the desk studying it once more. A dragon wrapped around the hilt. When you held it your fingers fit nicely into the coils of the scales which here tinted blue. Emeralds were set for the dragon's eyes. She shoved it back into one of the drawers and left the note on the desk.
She sat in her room a while before deciding to go for a walk. She left her room and headed down the hall. She ran smack into someone. She looked up into a pair of sparkling green eyes. She jumped back.
"Keladry." Lathander's smooth voice addressed. A smile played across his lips.
Kel slid her mask into place. "Lathander."
"So I noticed you got my gift." he said still smiling. He leaned against the wall studying her.
"I noticed you still make it a habit of going into peoples room uninvited." she shot back.
"Ouch!" Lathander said his grin widening. "I was hoping you would go to lunch with me. We could catch up."
"No.' Kel replied bluntly. She went to walk around his but her grabbed her wrist. In one quick fluid motion she had him on his back. Despite this Lathander was grinning up at her. "As quick as ever I see."
"As slow as ever I see." Kel shot back. She stepped away from him and walked away.
As she left Lathander got off the ground smiling. "Just wait Kel. You'll see just how much I've learned."
Not very interesting I know but look I updated! More soon…hopefully.
Thank you:
Wake-Robin: Thank you! You'll have to wait and see!!!!!
Dracorium: Haha. Now everytime I write about him I think of that!
Lady Kayla: Ah yes thank you!
Ossini: Good! He's supposed to be a bit seductive.
Makai-Tenshi: Thank you!!!! Right now it's going to be Kel/Neal but that's going really slowly
PsychoLioness13: Thank you!
Sw33t T3mptations: Thank you!
Allimba: Glad you like it!
Mango Sam: You'll find out about Lathander soon enough...I think I'm glad you like the story
Muslima: Thanks
Thank you everyone! blush glad you like it! Your reviews are so nice!