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Chapter Six –Plans

"The Goddess sent you here?" Thom asked as everyone took in Alanna's words. "For us?"

"That's what I said, isn't it?" Alanna said, and regretted being short with them. She was sure she'd be acting the same way if she were in their place.

"Why?" George added.

"Because, you will affect the future of Tortall or something." Alanna said, unsure of the details because the goddess hadn't told her any specific information.

"So you are here to stop us from avenging your death?" Jon verified.

Alanna stopped to think. She wanted revenge as much as they did, probably more because she was the one killed. But she wasn't willing to endanger her friends for those results.

"What was your plan?" Alanna asked, curiously.

"It was quite simple." George replied after they had sat there in silence for a minute. "Jon was going to make up with Roger, or at least pretend to."

"And then, after a few months when he trusted me completely I was going to take him to the marketplace with me, just the two of us." Jon continued.

"And then, he somehow manages to end up in an alleyway with me and a knife." George finished grinning evilly.

"What!" Thom exclaimed, and Alanna remembered that he hadn't heard 'the plan' before either. "That is so stupid. Roger has magic, he wont just die at the end of a knife. You need to disarm his main weapon first."

"Oh yeah?" George said, menacingly and Thom shrunk back a little. "And what might that be, hm?"

"His intelligence and magic." Thom said, obviously.

"And how do we do that?" Gary asked.

"You find out how he thinks. See inside his mind, that will reveal his weaknesses." Thom explained.

"Yeah." George repeated. "And how the hell do we do that? We aint bloody mind readers."

"We have to watch him when he thinks no one is watching." Thom said, and Alanna was actually impressed by his plan.

"How?" Jon asked, and he too seemed keen on this plan.

"Faithful." Thom replied.

"That's a good idea." Alanna added. "Faithful is small, inconspicuous and no one would suspect that a cat would be listening for information. The perfect spy."

Alanna speaking made all the men focus their attention on her again and all of them smiled in a way that made Alanna feel nervous.

"Do you all know how long Alanna was in here before we realized?" Jon asked.

"She could have heard anything before we realized." George added.

"And she thinks Faithful would be the perfect spy." Thom grinned.

"What!" Alanna exclaimed, knowing what they were thinking. "You want ME to spy on HIM!"

"You can be invisible and inaudible." Jon pointed out.

"But..." Alanna protested.

"We could always go back to the alleyway and knife." George offered. "I liked that idea better anyway."

Alanna sighed. "Fine, I'll do it."

"Good girl." Thom said and laughed when Alanna glared. She knew they were only doing this to her because she couldn't hurt them.

'Damn being a ghost sucks. I can't even kick someone.' Alanna thought miserably, then thinking back to Roger she thought, 'the things I do for my friends...'

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