Street Magic 2
By Ashurasempai
Summary: Follow Briar and his student Evvy on their adventures home to Winding Circle. Sort of a "sequel" to The Circle Opens: Street Magic.
Disclaimer: I do not own any of the characters..yadda..yadda..
A/N: This will be sort of like a "sequel" to The Circle Opens: Street Magic. If the first paragraph or so of this fanfic seems to be very similar to the book, I just wanted to sort of connect the end of the book and the beginning of this fanfic together in some way. The characters might be slightly out of character. I apologize deeply if they are. Enjoy! xD
ON HIATUS!
Street Magic 2 - Chapter 1
Evvy rode on a camel enumerating the various uses of quartz, while Briar rode beside her, listening to her recite. However, he snapped out of his stupor after a little voice in his head prodded him that he should probably teach Evvy about the letter R.
"Hey, Evvy, maybe we should move on to another letter," said Briar.
"Hm? Oh, yeah. So what's next?" she asked, glancing at her stone alphabet, and then looking at Briar for instructions.
"Well...take out the next piece of stone in your alphabet and I'll write the letter on your slate."
After taking the slate from her, Briar wrote both the big R and the little r on it.
"This is the letter R, and the stone that you have in your hand is ruby," said Briar. Reading from his notes, Briar noted, "It can be used to amplify positive energies, stimulate visualization and motivation, cleanse and stimulate the heart, relieve fatigue..."
"What's fatigue?" Evvy's question stopped Briar in the middle of his lecture.
"It means exhaustion, tiredness," Briar said. "Ruby can also bring anger and negativity to the surface, so be careful with it. Now, write both forms of the letter R on the slate and recite the uses of ruby."
As Evvy recited, Briar once again slipped into the swirling mass that was his thoughts. He wondered what Sandry, Tris, and Daja were doing, and whether they had encountered adventures and interesting people, as he had. Briar recalled the idiotic fat lump Jooba-hooba, and how the holier-than-thou mage had attempted to take Evvy in as his student after witnessing her magic ability, but failed after Evvy refused. He also recalled that Rosethorn had mentioned that mages had been sent to lecture Jooba-hooba upon the importance of the vows he took. Briar contemplated whether the bulbous-full-of-fat head would listen, and he snorted at the very idea. Jooba-hooba wasn't one who would listen to those whom he believed to be of lower rank than he. A cheery voice broke into his thoughts, and he turned toward the source of the voice.
"Pahan, which letter is next?" Evvy asked, bouncing up and down on her camel with unrestrained excitement. Her camel suddenly stopped, and Evvy looked questioningly at Briar. "What's wrong with him?"
Briar glanced at Evvy's camel, and saw no problem. However, a strange smell soon reached his nose, and he grinned.
"I suppose it's answering some sort of calling," Briar answered her, with well hidden amusement.
"What sort of calling?" Evvy asked, puzzled.
"The smelly sort, I suppose," Briar said. He urged his horse onward, so as to escape from the imminent fumes that would soon diffuse through the normally fresh mountain air.
"Augh! Do camels have to do that?" whined Evvy, covering her nose with her hand in disgust.
Briar sighed, and said, "Every living thing has to get rid of its waste somehow, and stop complaining. You were the one who wanted to ride on the camel."
"I guess," Evvy said. "But do camels really have to do something this smelly?"
Briar threw his hands up in the air. "Should I perfume the smell with one of my potions?"
Evvy thought for a second, and then smiled impishly. "Actually, I think this smells better than any of your potions."
Briar grinned at Evvy's comment, knowing that she disliked most, perhaps all of his magical potions' smells. As he turned his head around to view the bountiful mountain shrubbery, he noticed that Rosethorn had dismounted and was carefully examining something on the roadside. Frowning, he dismounted as well, and went over to Rosethorn to see what had intrigued her.
A/N: Hope you liked the fic. Please review!
Much thankies to:
My beta, Miharu-san..xD!
EarthBow - The website from which I got the information about rubies.