In the Gaian camp Trudy lay asleep in midnight bed with Brady by her side,
Trudy's dream
she was stood in a room which looked like the centre of the mall and all around her stood what looked like Greek warriors, gods lords and ladies as well as her friends and family, suddenly a great cheer erupted round the room and the gathering all turned to look at the stairs, looking up Trudy was in awe, there walking down the stairs was… herself arm in arm with a young man who could only be Midnight, his striped hair the scar over his eyebrow, that protective look about him there were being cheered like heroes or royalty but with midnight and his warrior ways that was to be expected, but what surprised her even more was who was beside Trudy walked a young woman about 7 or 8 with blonde hair that was feathered
"Brady?" Trudy exclaimed recognising the war paint, no one heard her they were all looking at what Midnight cradled in his hands, Suddenly Trudy found herself on the stairs with midnight beside her, he looked at her and smiled, it was strange seeing him smile in a dream when she had never seen him genuinely smile,
"Isn't she beautiful Trudy?" midnight asked, Trudy at first thought he was talking about Brady until she noticed what midnight was cradling, it was a baby girl with the most beautiful purple and blonde hair Trudy had ever seen, stripes in the hair of a child so young would have confused Trudy had she been paying attention, but midnight spoke again
"and to think Trudy, I almost lost you because of my own fear." He said.
End dream
Midnight got to his feet and continued on his way down the blue stoned path that he had been following since leaving Dakotas tribe grounds,
With the shield at his side constantly brining the outline of his planet into his sight Midnight began to notice that the cloud formation and the formation of the land and water in the painting looked like the face of an angry demon glaring at him for deserting his planet even after the people he was afraid to face evacuated it, the more he thought about the elders of his planet the more he began to think of the old legends Decca had told about the first Karovans
"Wonder if the land of sorrow in the old stories was earth?" he thought.
As Midnights mind focused on the road ahead he began to notice the scythes and robes dropped by the wayside of the path, he wasn't in the woods anymore but out in the fields where he guessed the chosen had resided when they first began, Midnight didn't hesitate to forget about the chosen, they had ruined his life and caused his quest, Karone was his main goal, but his heading this time wasn't to find her, it was to find Sasha or Paul or Ryan or even…Patsy, but somewhere along the way he hoped to find the one person who had aviaded him since he had realised his feeling for Trudy…Himself
"Golly! General Kinwon always said if you've lost yourself then go looking." He thought to himself, at first it had seemed like a stupid thing to say as a crystal of wisdom but the day Midnight had decided to take this journey he had agreed with himself that this would be his walk to find himself, he would keep walking until he found himself and… here he was, so far from the city he could breath easy without being on guard or watching out for one of his old enemies trying to run him through from behind
Midnight knew that sooner or later the gods would either challenge him again or try and challenge him with a human would be warrior like they had at the start of his journey, thinking of challenges made Midnight think about his first challenge as a mall rat, it had been a strange one
Flashback
tai-san had told him that after they had been together that he had to sit down and write a poem about Zhane and he had, it read
I owe you my heart, because you've always been there
And I'd do anything, to let you know I care I owe you my strength,
because you've lifted me up And you were there for me,
even when I messed up I'm uncertain of a lot of things,
but I know this much is true I consider you my friend,
and if you had let me I would have died for you
it was about what he had meant to the vengeful warrior, it didn't explain Zhanes part in Midnights life like it had supposed to but by the time it was finished Midnight was satisfieyed it explained who Zhane wasI end flashback
Midnight shook himself out of the past again, he had stopped to rest by the path-side, and looking to the sky he saw that it was already nearing no shadow time "Shouldn't stop me, I've spelt so much I could go on for a thousand cycles." He said before stepping back onto the path, taking a gourd from his pocket he drank deep, suddenly something struck him, a journey didn't mean 100 walking, and so making sure his boots were as tight as he could make them he took off like a shot, so fast indeed that anyone from the many farms he passed who saw him would later say they saw a lost soul chasing the sun to its own grave.
As he ran he a poem formed in his head, he always thought better when he was moving,
"Trapped in the glorious years within the memory of belief,
lost of all grief. Take the reasons, Which once seemed so clear,
but never mind, you have nothing to fear.
For you my fried will be forever young,
forever in the heart of memories. Lost in the glory of all time,
the wisdom was there within that smile,
you see you could have told us,
there within lies the mystery. So shed a smile, and grin a tear,
for you my friend, will be, forever young, forever young.
Forever in the heart of memory, we see not through or misery.
Forever young, forever young. There's a new angel tonight." Were the words, it was a poem he had heard whilst with the gaian's, rat had been talking about the death of her own friends when the virus came round a second time, he knew that sooner or later he'd have to turn back empty handed or no, he missed Trudy, Brady, grey owl, salene, he even missed ebony and lex but he didn't show it, sorry and longing were emotions and the emotions he had left were captured in a titanium and stone and barred box inside his ice and stone heart.
As he walked he realised he had gone a full day without one of the gods annoying him "Are they bored or have they found someone else."
back in the Gaian camp Colt had spent days training with Trudy and was finally beginning to see a change in her
"Our sister is ready to face her love when he returns." She said to another new friend of Trudy's called melody
"Uh, as if but baby girl gotta look good, she still look like spiritual momma." Melody said before venturing forwards to where Trudy was trying to correct the paint on Brady's cheek
"Allow me girl!" melody said, Trudy moved back and melody seemed to catch Bradys attention the minuet she sat down "You know purple may be your hair colour bu but it doesn't suit as a clothes colour." Melody said in a passing stamen
"Midnight likes purple." Was all Trudy said, melody nodded?
"But if you guy is a real natural playa playa from the Himalayas. He'll like natural colours more." Melody continued
"Sista girl and I can even help you make some new outfits if you want Trudy." Colt said joining them, Trudy thought for a moment the nodded
"But we have to do some for Brady as well." She said, melody and colt both nodded End chapter four