If Wishes Came True

Piratewench5309

Disclaimer: I don't own em, and if I did, I'd sell em. Well all save Johnny that is.

Chapter 8: The Speech

December 13, 468 H.E.

Gray Palace, Rajmuat, Copper Isles

AN: The song used here is Norah Jones' "Come Away With Me" (which I also don't own) I suggest that if it is possible, you listen to the song while you are reading. It lends a lot to the atmosphere and will put the feeling into what are otherwise hollow (in this case and no offense to the wonderful Ms. Jones) sounding words.

Senna sat down at the bench of a nearby pianoforte plunking at a few notes to warm herself up in preparation to sing. She took the time to steel herself against the 250 people gathered around the crowded ballroom to watch her perform. Not only had Taybur coerced her into singing, but he had somehow managed to make sure that everyone in the palace knew it within five minutes of her decision. Every person in the palace that could feasibly get away from what they were doing was there. She allowed herself to grumble one last oath at Taybur before she stood, bowed towards the dais and announced her readiness. At this everyone in the room turned to look at her and the room was instantly silent. This was the part that Senna hated the most. The heavy, deafening engulfing silence settled ominously over the room threatening to animate itself and force its way down her throat, stealing away her voice before she had the chance to make so much as a squeak in protest. It was horrifying pure and simple. This feeling lasted all of two and a half seconds before Senna mentally clamped down on herself, swallowed once, opened up her mouth and crooned as sweetly as a bird.

"Come away with me

in the night.

Come away with me

and I will write

you a song."

The audience was amazed at the beauty of her voice. Not only was she a talented songstress but there seemed to be a sultry and enchanting quality to her voice that pulled everyone into the song making even the women in the room believe each and every word was not only true, but intended only and especially for them.

"Come away with me

oh just

come away

where they can't tempt

us

with their lies."

In fact the song was so convincing that even Senna herself started to be pulled into believing the truth in the song. She started to look around the room as she was singing, looking for something to validate the feelings that were beginning to stir in her as a result of the song. Her eyes lighted on Taybur. She was instantly swept up in a tumult of confusion. She was furious with him for forcing her to sing but something else was there, some feeling that she recognized from earlier. She realized that this feeling had also been present when she had encountered Taybur in her room earlier. She revisited the moment in her mind. She had been sitting there on his lap, lamenting her four hundred dollar iPod and he… Taybur thought he had saved her and then he was trying to consol her. It was almost as if he cared. She continued forward in her remembrance. Taybur had been looking at her oddly and she remembered thinking that something strange but welcome was about to happen. Taybur leaned in…

"And I wanna walk with you

on a cloudy day

in fields where the yellow grass grows knee high.

So won't you try

to come?"

Taybur had realized Senna was looking at him, looking him straight in the eye. It was almost as if she was singing directly to him. As if all the words in her song were meant for him and him alone and as he pondered this he thought that might not be such a bad thing. Go away with her? She was beautiful and she had revealed she had a magnificent singing voice, but it was more than that. He felt the same now as he had felt… well, this afternoon, the same afternoon when he had been about to kiss her.

"Come away with me

and we'll kiss

on a mountain top.

Come away with me

and I'll never stop

lovin you."

Both Senna and Taybur were now locked into the song. No one else in the room existed, just the man, the girl and the song floating around the room and wrapping itself around and in their very souls. The words pierced Taybur's heart, he began to feel as if he wanted nothing more than exactly what she was saying and Senna now felt that she meant every word and she meant it for him as much as he believed it so.

"And I wanna wake up

with the rain

fallin' on a rooftop

while I'm safe there in your arms.

So all I ask is

for you,

to come away with me in the night.

Come away with me."

By the end of the song there was no denying that Taybur was absolutely, one hundred percent in love with her, however so was a large percentage of the room. A loud raucous applause jolted both Taybur and Senna back into reality, but not before they had a chance to share one last lingering look. Senna smiled graciously and curtsied a few times as a rosy blush creeped to her cheeks. Unfortunately along with the blush a strange sensation crawled up into her head, until she realized it wasn't a sensation at all but a feeling as if she was crawling out of her body. She had enough time to grab the side of the piano to steady herself while making a distressed look before her soul leaped out of her body. As the empty shell of her body slumped to the ground, Taybur was there to catch it.

Senna looked around light-headedly at a lush garden outside of some vast building. There was a strange sparkling quality to the air as if it wasn't quite substantial. She twisted and turned, looking for somewhere to sit down until her eyes lighted on Kyprioth pacing in a corner. He seemed smaller and more dark than usual.

"This is simply no good. How could I make such an error in judgment?" He turned to Senna "Are you aware of what you just did? No, of course not, how could you know according to your people there is no such thing as magic but this is outrageous!" His voice climbed in pitch and sarcasm with every letter of his speech. He seemed to be highly stressed.

"Um, Kyprioth, I would be much in your debt if you could explain to me what exactly was going on here." Senna hazarded.

Kyprioth turned on her sharply considering, he let her wait a moment before he started in an absurdly calm voice "You my dear. Have the gift. Well not the gift exactly, you have the speech. The speech is the power, through magic, to completely convince anyone to do whatever you want them to do. It is connected with magic which means that before you are able to conjure any major magic you should have to be trained and taught and it should take a reasonable amount of energy out of you to perform even the most menial acts however, you just made one hundred and seventy five people in that room fall in love with you. Come to think of it I wonder what was wrong with the others. Were they listening or what? Anyways, that's not the point. The effect on most of them will go away now since you did not intend it for them but there is that one. He is lost forever now I think. But once again I digress. The question is how you performed such a large and encompassing act of the speech when not only you are untrained, but you are not even aware of your ability to do this type of magic. Secondly, how am I going to keep this off the radar of my siblings? Well?" Taybur looked at Senna demandingly.

"Um, I don't know. I didn't mean to do anything." Senna said timorously.

"No matter. When I send you back to your body I want you to arrange to take lessons with someone at the conference and inform me of your teacher. As for my siblings I will figure them out myself." And with a flick of the wrist in her direction, Senna was sent hurtling back to her body in Rajmuat.

AN: Alrighty, here is the chapter singing chapter, hope you liked it. I promise next week that the chapter will be almost entirely about Ally. So if you've been missing her, you're in luck. Now, reviews.

TinkerBell394587: I do love Wicked. Haven't seen it though, just read most of the libretto. I'll be performing either No Good Deed or When I Meet The Wizard this spring, Which do you think? I'm really glad you are enjoying the story. You're going to name you're iPod Monster? That is awesome! Thanks!

Jollyrancher-j2k: Yes, rambling is fun. And "isn't fun fun?" (I'll give you a preview on the next chapter if you can place that quote) Did you enjoy the song I picked?

Amaya: Did you enjoy my song choice? Was it what you wondered? And I would just like you to know that my story loves you too but it's considering joining the clergy so it has to stay celibate. Not really, but my story is too young to have a romance right now. What am I saying? Well anyways, I promise to always update ASAP.

Luna y sol: Sorry you thought the ending was abrupt. I know it was but I thought you guys deserved an update and it would have taken me a lot longer to update if I had ended it at the next good place (which incidentally is the ending of this chapter). I'm glad you discovered it. Thanks.