Chapter 21
"This one love in a lifetime/Our two hearts of a kind/These three reasons you'll be mine/For there's five or six ways through/Seven days without you/Seven days without you." –Seven Days Without You, Teddy Geiger, UNDERAGE THINKING
Alanna locked the door to her chambers and shot a violet ball into the fireplace, summoning Jonathan. Please work. She begged. When Jonathan's tired face filled the fire, Alanna began to cry.
"Alanna? What's wrong?" Jonathan asked, obviously very concerned.
"I… I saw," she replied. "I had a dream. I saw your mother dead."
"Oh, Goddess," Jonathan said. "Oh, Alanna."
"I'm coming home," she told him. "You need me, Jonathan. I'm coming home."
"You are doing no such thing," Jonathan replied sternly. "You are going to get the Dominion Jewel and bring glory and honor to Tortall by doing so. You are going to bring it for us- for our reign. You know the tales."
"Mage kings," she said. "Not queens."
"I'm sure it applies to both," Jonathan assured her. "And I'm sure two mages are better than one. But we can't use it if you don't stay and get it." Alanna wiped her eyes and smiled.
"Are you sure Jonathan?" she asked.
"I'm sure, Alanna. I can manage without you. I really can. My whole life doesn't revolve around you, you know," he teased. Alanna laughed lightly. "You will keep joining the Moment of the Voice?"
"Of course. You have a right to know what's going on," Alanna replied.
"I miss you, Lioness," Jonathan said.
"I miss you too, Jonathan. But I have to go. I think we're moving on," Alanna replied.
"I love you."
"I love you, too."
"Goodbye."
"Bye." The image faded and Alanna put out the fire. She gathered herself once again and adjusted her tunic. She took a deep breath and unlocked the door. She pulled it open and was pounced on by Thayet and Rose.
"We're staying?" Rose asked excitedly.
"You were eavesdropping?" Alanna demanded. "Thayet, I thought you were above that."
Thayet flicked her hair over her shoulder haughtily, a playful gleam in her hazel eyes. "I haven't the slightest idea of what you speak, Sir Alanna. Princesses do not eavesdrop. We happen to overhear," she replied.
"'Happen to overhear', eh? That's what my friend Gary used to say. What about you, Rose? What do ladies of the Rogue do?" Alanna wondered.
"Ladies of the Rogue do whatever it takes to get their information," Rose replied bluntly. "You've spent enough time with George to know that."
"But we are still going to get the Jewel?" a voice inquired from behind Rose and Thayet. They stepped aside, revealing Raoul.
"Did you 'happen to overhear' as well, Sir Raoul?" Alanna asked dryly. Raoul smiled evilly.
"Of course," he replied. "How else am I to get information from you?"
Alanna sighed. "Yes, all right? We are still going to get the Jewel."
She yelped as Thayet, Rose, and Raoul leapt on her happily.
Author's Note- new song in 2 chapters. The new song will be "For You I Will (Confidence)" by Teddy Geiger. And I'm developing a new story, which will start out almost immediately after LR. You shall see. I CAN tell you that the song for it will be "Just Can't Live a Lie" by Carrie Underwood, however. REVIEW.