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Ch.2

Daine headed towards Thayet's chambers. That was where they were all going to meet. When she reached the large oak wood door, she had no idea of the surprise that lay behind it.

Before she could even knock, Daine was greeted at the door by an etrememly illuminated Alanna.

"Daine! You will never guess what Thayet had gone and done!" Onua exclaimed from inside the room.

Daine was extremely confused. All around her was fabrics of all color, shoes of all sizes, and jewelry she could never imagine.

"What is going on in here? What is all of this for?"

Thayet walked up to Daine. "I'm treating my three dearest friends to three beautiful hand made gowns for the banquet."

Daine was shocked. First a guest of honor and now this!

"I couldn't possibly accept this kind of – "Daine was cut off by Thayet.

"Now you listen to me my dear Wild Mage. You three have saved us all on numerous occasions and from numerous creatures. Jonathan and I feel it was time we repaid you for your loyalty, kindness and friendship. And we wont take no for an answer on this!"

Daine knew she couldn't argue with her. So she just laughed and smiled and agreed. And before she knew it she was pushed behind a screen and told to strip down to her under garments.

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By this time, Numair was already in the middle of his lecture. They were discussing the means of how the barrier between the Realms was broken.

Only for Numair, this topic held little interest in the area of magic because of what he had experienced while the war was raging. Whenever he thought of the war, he thought of his love for Daine. He could still remember the very moment that he realized just how much she had meant to him. He would never forget the exact moment when Daine returned the love that he felt for her. He knew that she was the one. His one. And he would never destroy what they had.

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Daine stood on a platform while a seamstress worked on her gown. What a site she was. The gown was in pieces, and there was fabric thrown all over the floor. They had decided that Daine go first because it would be her first banquet in Tortall andwith Numair at her side. Daine hadn't had the time to talk to her close friends about her relationship with Numair and she knew that they wanted to ask questions.

"Wait till Numair see's me in this dress. He is so used to me in breeches and a shirt." Daine said thinking of her mage.

"He wont be able to say a word. He will be so overwhelmed by your beauty." Thayet said putting her hand on her young friends cheek as she blushed at the compliment.

"Yes Daine. None of us have had the chance to talk to you about your relationship with our Black Mage." Onua said grinning.

"Well....what is there to talk about?" Daine asked a bit worried about what they were going to say.

"Do you hear this girl!?" Alanna shrieked. "What is there to talk about?! It's what we are here for my friend. We may seem like just a Knight and a Queen and a Horse Trainer but we are still girls at heart! It is what us girls are supposed to do. Talk about men!"

Daine, Thayet and Onua both started cracking up. Alanna was right on the dot, but she sounded like she was making a speech. "Well now that you have made that...grandiloquent speech, I must talk about it, must I!" Daine said giggling.

Alanna blushed from amusement with herself.

"Well what do you want to know?" Daine asked.

"What happened that you two finally realized what the rest of us already knew?" Alanna swatted Daine playfully on the arm.

"Well do you remember how I told you about how we needed to get to the Dragons so we could get back home? Well, on our way there we were attacked by this.....rock being. Numair was picked up by the back of his robe and the thing ended up pushing me over a cliff." Daine winced as she remembered the pain of the tree branches striking her. "I landed in a spidren web. I couldn't get out. When the spidrens came to eat me I got nervous and began to shape shift. First I turned into a swan, which did me absolutely no good at all. Then I tried a snake but the web just shrank with my size." Daine paused. She remembered thinking how she would never return home, or see any of her friends again.

A silent tear rolled down her cheek, and Onua came to her assistant and gave her a hug. "No worries my girl, you are here and safe with us." She said and kissed her on the forehead and sat back down, still holding Daine's hand in her own.

"Before I could realize what was happening, the spidrens exploded, one by one. When I saw Numair he was clutching his staff, hunched over one of the dead spidrens. I said his name, but he didn't hear me. So I called him again, and that time I was afraid that he had been hurt. When he turned towards me, his eyes were wide with tears. He thought I was dead. He ran towards me and picked me up in a tight embrace. I don't know what it was. We had hugged plenty of times before, but this time was different. I felt it in my heart that it was different. I pulled away to get a good look and him, and before I could see his lips were on mine and it was the most wondrous feeling." Daine stopped talking, remembering that first kiss. It was like a dream. She still had trouble believing that this was really her life.

"What happened?" Thayet asked in a barely audible whisper.

"He carried me to a cave where we spent the night. In the morning, I woke up to him cooking breakfast, and the rest is going to have to stay between him and I." Daine said blushing. She didn't want to tell them of the conversation Numair and she had had about what she thought he wanted from her.

When Daine looked up she saw all three of her friends with tears in their eyes and on their cheeks.

"What?! What's wrong?" Daine asked concerned.

"Oh! Daine, i-it's like a fairy tale!" Thayet said entranced by the young girls story.

"You two are so lucky!" Onua commented.

"You mean all I have to do to get George to act like that is to fall off a cliff?! Geeze!" Alanna said right before she was smacked in the head with a pillow.

"Hey! Those are royal pillows you're throwing young lady!" Alanna shrieked.

Daine almost knocked down the seamstress that was still working on her dress as she jumped off the platform to avoid the pillow fight that she and the Champion were about to engage in.

"Hey!" Onua giggled. "Don't ruin that dress you two!"

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Ok end of this chapter........tried to make it longer than the others......I'm trying to develop a good friendship between Daine and her friends.

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