If Wishes Came True

Piratewench5309

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Chapter 6: Near misses

December 13, 438 H. E.

Gray Palace, Rajmuat, Copper Isles

Senna sat amiably next to the queen on a raised dais in the beautifully attired throne room. Everything was prepared for the mage conference that was to commence its opening ceremonies in about two hours. The warm golden light of late afternoon bounced off freshly fallen snow and gently into the great hall of the Gray Palace. At sunset, Queen Dovasary would give a small speech to start the proceedings of the Mage Conference and then all would sit down to a grand dinner. Senna had been greatly honored this morning, not only by an invitation to become one of the Queen's ladies-in-waiting, but also by an invitation to sit at the head table at tonight's meal. Although Senna wouldn't be sitting right next to the queen, this honor was reserved for high-ranking foreign ambassadors and such, she would be rather close.

Senna knew clandestinely that Taybur was assigned to watch her, so she was having fun doing little things to annoy him like moving just out of his site, or getting up as if she had to go to the bathroom, but changing her mind and sitting back down. She could see this was infuriating Taybur by the look on his face. He had spent several hours watching her today and his generally sunny disposition had frozen solid. She deemed his attitude right now must be slightly colder than the snow outside.

Suddenly as a streak of black flashed from the corner of her eye, Senna was struck with a magnificent idea to continue her relentless teasing. She leaned her head on her shoulder and began to fan herself, so as to cover her face and she started whispering. To the uneducated eye she seemed to be whispering to herself but in actuality she was whispering to the little blackish green blob twined around her neck. She imperceptibly whispered through Emerald to Taybur's darking who whispered to him. Taybur who was unprepared for this began to look wildly around the room, searching for the disembodied voice. Finally Taybur was forced to burst out "Who is that?!?!"

Everyone in the hall turned to look at him as he quickly grew as red as a tomato. At the same time that the Queen verbally chastised him for making such an exclamation, the darking on his shoulder explained the whole situation. Taybur apologized and people went back about there business. As soon as all of the eyes were off of him, Taybur turned to Senna and glared. Senna gave a very innocent puppy dog look as if to say who, me? Although Taybur knew better this slightly softened his disposition. He huffed and turned away from her in his anger.

This gave Senna her long awaited chance. Quietly making excuses to the Queen she stole away, promising to be back in time to receive guests with her. When Taybur turned back towards the dais, she was gone.

….

Taybur was furious with himself, not only had he let that silly girl get to him, she had given him the slip. Even worse, he may have to report this to Aly later who had predicted this. Basically it sucked all around. Taybur looked around the hall full of busy commotion and snuck off to go find her. He headed down the hall way he had first met her in and to her room. He paused before the door, poised to knock but he thought better of it. If he knocked she would know he was coming, better to catch her off guard. He grasped the handle and thrust open the door. At first nothing was forthcoming. It seemed as if she was not there. However, in a few moments Senna came out of her attached bathroom, soaking wet and wearing a long silk bathroom. There was a strange contraption attached to her head. It consisted of a single length of what looked like a skinny black rope that split into two and had entwined itself in her ears. The opposite end of the rope curled and twisted and ended in her palm in a strange white box.

Taybur in his panic at seeing this strange thing assumed she was in trouble and that this thing was trying to attack her head. He reached forward and grasped the cord in his hands, yanking it towards him and Senna along with it. She lurched forward and yelped as the thing jumped out of her ears. Having freed her of the monster, Taybur let go and the vile thing flew to the ground and smashed itself into a million tiny pieces. In this fury, Taybur had fallen backwards and Senna with him until the two lie in a disheveled mass on the floor.

Senna, seeing the broken gadget, felt tears begin to well up in her eyes, four hundred dollars of hard earned cash, down the drain in about 10 tumultuous seconds. She began to cry a little more heavily and as Taybur looked up at her, he misinterpreted the source of her tears.

He sat up and held her in his arms "Don't cry my lady, it's all over now. I don't know what that monster was but it's no threat to anyone now." Senna turned her head towards him and wiped away her tears.

"Indeed," she replied, or of any use either she mentally added.

Now that things had had a chance to calm down a bit, Taybur had a chance to take in his surroundings. He looked around at all of Senna's things something was strange about them but he couldn't quite place his finger on it. He looked at the girl who was still perched on his lap with her head in her hands. The pink silk bath robe she had been wearing was more than a little wet and had been undone in the struggle with "the monster". The robe was now wide open and he could see her lace and silk dressing gown of a pearly white fabric. The gown was held up by a pair of razor thin straps on her shoulders and included a low lacey bodice, an empire waist and a long flowy skirt with lace at the hem. All the wet that had been just in her hair had now spread all over everything and made her skin glisten and shimmer in the light. Taybur reached his hand out to her chin and lifted it to look at him. Her eyes glistened and shined with the tears that had not yet stopped flowing and her lips were large and pouty. Taybur realized that this girl was indeed very beautiful. She looked at him with a question in her eyes and he began to gently pull her face closer to his.

It was exactly at this point in time when a mental alarm went off in Taybur's head. This was folly! She was the enemy. This could not be happening. Taybur, flustered and red in the face abruptly stood, unceremoniously dumping Senna off of his lap and spoke.

"The Queen will be expecting you in the great hall when you are dressed. She wished me to tell you that the guests will be arriving momentarily." With this he turned and left the room.

Senna was flabbergasted. What had she done? With a sigh and a huff, she stood and bent to pick up the shards of "the monster".

AN: I am dreadfully sorry this update took so terribly long, but here it is. I enjoyed this chapter before I knew what hit me. It was lots of fun to write I hope you enjoyed it as much as I did.

queenofdakitty: I certainly hope so!

Luna y sol: oh we're not really gonna break it, he's a strong guy, he'll cope. I'm glad you liked the chapter. Darkings are great.

Amaya: thanks! That's a great complement! I hope you enjoy this chapter.

Anonymous: thanks! I love when people are specific about what they like and dislike, it helps me hone my writing skills.