Thank you, Dagger, For reviewing so many chapters! Thank you, Erin Tribal, for (sarcasticly) putting no pressure on me and reviewing every chapter! And thank you, wonderful reviewers other than them and KitKateGurl for telling me to continue and not sticking around long enough to read past chapter 1! Honestly, (launches into a lecture that would make Dagger proud and scare Eiko, which I'm too lazy to type.)Oh well, you can't expect people dumb enough to do that to realize I LIKE REVIEWS TOO!!!! I'm done now. Oh, by the way, sentences with stars after them mean they're not true.

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I wake up. Where... oh, yeah, we moved to a different forest last night cause of that scare. It'd better not happen again, otherwise the mountaintop will be our refuge. We could freeze to death up there. I glance around for Catalina, then notice the curses spelled out on the ground. All curses have a second meaning if you can find it.* I decipher the message...(assembling new food supply, old one at last camp, find temporary refuge while I'm gone, shall return when sun is center sky.) That could be tricky, unless I find a few extra materials. I notice a boulder about twenty yards away and heave it to the center of the meadow. I head five miles east before finding a second rock, then heave it onto my back, careful not to let my pinky crush it into putty. After it's back at camp I head to the edge of the forest and topple a few trees, which I place over the two boulders, their branches forming a perfect roof. I look up, and here footsteps behind me. Catalina enters the clearing with two pounds of jerky flung over her back. You'd be amazed to find only five percent of monster meat is eddible.

"Hello, Clara, how are you today?" She sings as she comes into the field. I smile, knowing shes playing. "Fine, Catalina, and how are you as well?" She giggles, we both know what she's going to say next. "Huungryy" She moans in the best baby voice she can. Then we both laugh, as we both know how that got started. Uncle tests how long we can go without food each year without passing out. She first said that five years ago on her twentieth day without food, promptly before passing out. My current record is a month and hers is forty-six days. Can I help it if she doesn't get cramps from going without food for too long? Of course I can't, but making excuses makes the weakness worse, so it is. Catalina tosses me some meat and I catch it perfectly, immediately raising it to my mouth to bite.After eating 1/8 a pound of meat each we're stuffed and divide the rest of the provivions equally. We settle down for some rest before our big job tonight, no watches as those knights are going to be resting for tonight as well.

(Here, she has that dream again, this time able to see everything clearer, for reasons unknown currently. She doesn't get as far, only to being carried down the hall.)

I awaken second, suspicions rising immediately. Catalina promised to wake me the instant she did. I sit up and look around. Nothing. She's already left? That cheat! I hear breathing behind me in the shadows. I turn and look around. Still nothing. It has to be Catalina, but what's she doing? I reach into the darkness, searching for my siblng, the one who has stood by me through thick and thin. I feel something underneath a tall pine, yank it into the light, and, "AAAAAAAA-" I feel something stuffed into my mouth, muffling my scream. I pulled complete blackness into the light!? How... waaaaaaaaaiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit a minute. I hurriedly cast dispell on the... thing. The thing that soon becomes my sister rolling on the ground in laughter. "I'm sorry... heeheeheehaha... the look on your face... hoohoohoogigglegigglegiggle... I've been practicing a new spell when you weren't here, and IT WORKED!" She seems excited. I'm comtemplating wether or not to summon roshisho and kick her butt. I finally decide against it, as it'll attract attention. I take the bundle of twigs wrapped in leaves out of my mouth. "Tell me what it does already!" Okay, I want to know what that spell was, too. "I can turn anything completely black! We can go on raids together now, not alone!" My face lights up. Now we'll be safe on the raids and won't have to cover for each other and worry! She continues, "I don't know how long it lasts yet, but I can caste it over and over again, so it doesn't really matter. This'll be great!" I smile, get up, and hug her. "What do you call it?" She thinks for a moment, then replies, "Hidden Darkness." I smile wider and let go.

"We have to prepare." I tell her, speaking about tonight. "What else do we need, besides the spell?" She replies. "Food, in case they catch us." She nods. We both know it's a chemical in the food they prepare, we just don't know which one. That means we have to be extra careful not to eat anything made inside city walls. I know it's a stupid idea, but why else would they use it? We each strap half the remaining jerky to our backs, and Catalina casts the spell on us both. It feels creepy, even worse than being invisible. Now we can see ourselves, but there's nothing to see. That's even worse than knowing you're not there, to know you're absolutely nothing, a blob. After getting used to the sensation of darkness as we've been trained to adapt to anything we set off into the night.

The regent is taking extra caution tonight, no openings what so ever. We have to use a float spell to get over the wall. Once over another problem arises, the problem of getting down. the street is crawling with guards. I recognize the soldier I fought among them. After watching for about a half hour we notice a pattern in the watch, and avoid every guard. As we get to the air cab station another problem approaches. They've disconnected the engines. I pop open the hood and take a look. Five wires are disconnected, the least obvious ones. I thank the spirits that uncle insisted I learn advanced air ship mechanics. In a few minutes I have the wires reconnected and have improved the design so the lights won't come on and the engine makes no noise. We're on it in a flash, the destination programmed in and enjoying the ride.

Once inside I go out to investigate. The room is dark, perfect condition for our mission. I wait as Catalina goes to investigate the hallway after this room. Her mind report is the hallway, too, is dark, but has guards in every corner. It's obvious we need to make a killing machine quickly then get out of here as fast as possible. We silently creep along, trying every door, and hoping to find one unlocked. Catalina finally finds one in the third hallway we creep through, and I stand watch while she checks it out. I hear her mind in mine. A library. She casts firaga, and we walk quickly through the halls. But not fast enough.

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Is this my first cliffhanger? Tell me! Is it succesful?