Ysa: (bounces around) Shadow-Lurker gave me caffeine!!!!!!!! NOT A GOOD IDEA!!!!! Anyway, this is supposed to be a disclaimer, so neither Shadows nor I owns anything. Errrr...besides like...my characters or Queen's Own's characters or plotlines. Mercedes Lackey  (Praise her name!) owns the world, etc.

LIS: WHY did I give her penguin mints???? WHY????? Anyway, story time! Cause Ysa won't stop buggin me until I write this!! I'd really rather be lazy and blame writers block, but...certain muses glares at Ysa won't let me. It's ok though. I love her anyway. Now, watch Alyx bug Meriya and Meriya be thoroughly confused and disturbed! (points to chapter name) I didn't call it that for nothing you know!

Y: (bounces around some more)

"Wow!!! Meriya!!! Your hair's on fire!!!!!!

Meriya threw herself onto her bed, Why can't I get his voice out of my head????? What is wrong with me?? I hate him, he annoys me so I know that, he's so annoying, and yet...gods, he looked so beautiful, that moment he stopped bouncing around...

Ye gods, I'm falling completely for the person in the Collegium that will bug me the most... And that's saying a lot.

She felt Lyan giggle in the back of her mind, and sent a mental slap to him. :Out of my head, you evil, annoying, nosey, idiot HORSE!!!!:

Lyan withdrew quickly.

Meriya had finally managed to get-Doss's new Chosen-off her mind a minute ago, when she was rudely awakened to the passage of time by the dinner bell. Gods-be-damned, how'd it get so late????

Forget how it got so late, it is this late, and I'm hungry. Best be going before all the food's gone.

However, when she managed to get herself off her bed and out of her room (She was hit by an overwhelming wave of the thing we call "laziness" that not even hunger could overcome!), she saw the ONE person she did not want to be reminded of. Oh...gods...Alyx... Oh gods, why? For a while, her mind was blank, except for that one thought...

As if the gods were slightly sorry, Lyan did not make any snide comments. This managed to shake her out of her shock long enough to realize that Alyx was asking something of her.

"...And so Doss said I could find you here, and I could ask you any questions I had, and stuff!" he was bouncing again, so she gave him another one of her favored glares before wondering, What in the gods' names did he just ask me????

:Lyan?: she Mindcalled then, on a hunch.

:In the back of your mind, as always.:

:Don't test my patience. So, you were listening?:

Lyan sent her a shocked look. :Of COURSE I was listening!!! What else would I be doing?:

She glared mentally, and said, :Just tell me what he said, damnit!:

:Ask nicely or I won't.: he teased, much to her extreme annoyance.

:Just tell me what he said, you idiot horse!:

:Ask nicely.: came the cloyingly sweet reply.

:Fine. Will you please tell me what in hells he just said???: Her Mindvoice was tinged not exactly subtly with sarcasm.

:He wants to know what that bell was for.:

She sent a reluctant feeling of thanks, and turned her attention to the now not bouncing boy. I like those glares even more than I did before... "That was the dinner bell. C'mon, I'll show you where the common room is.

Alyx was bouncing again. "We get to eat now? Wonderful!! I love food!!!!! Do you like to eat? I like to eat.

Meriya simply sighed.

Ok, so now evil Ysa has given caffeine to all the rest of my muses, so now I got hundreds of too-hyper creatures bouncing around in my head and giving me a headache! Feel sorry for me and review!!!!

Ysa: (bounces around) Aww, she just wants reviews. Not that I'm complaining...you know what, forget I just said that, kay? Go ahead and feel sorry for Shadows and review. Thanks muchly! Oh, and next chap is Queen's Own, so blame HER if it doesn't come out for a while.