"Where am I, what happened?" Andrea thought out loud as she groggily opened her eyes.
"So you're finally awake." A voice came from the depth of the shadows that surrounded the firm bed where Andrea's body lay.
"What? Who's there?" Her eyes almost bulged out of her head as she bolted upright, her head swirling in protest.
"Don't you remember me? You woke earlier and seemed to understand what I was saying but perhaps it was too soon..." A figured stepped calmly out from the shadows to where she could make out his appearance and for some reason a voice that actually had a physical form seemed to calm her slightly.
"No, I'm sorry I don't remember. Where am I?" She shook her head lightly her hand placed gently over her temples.
"You are on a floating fortress. My name is Folken. Dilandau tells me you came from a bright pillar of light in the sky and passed out soon after you landed. Is this true?" For some reason the lack of emotion held in his words seemed to bring her attention back to him rather then her throbbing head. He seemed nice enough but something was out of place when it came to him. After a moment she realized that this man or the Dilandau he spoke of must have saved her from the fire that surrounded the place in which she landed.
"Yes... it is. I'm sorry if I have caused any inconvenience for you." she said meekly.
"No, that's quite alright. Where are you from?" A hint of curiosity was held in his words as though the confirmation of what he had heard held a significant meaning.
"I'm from California." She stated plainly as Folken just gazed at her completely perplexed. She raised her eyebrow slightly wondering how someone didn't know of California and broadened her description.
"You know, USA, Earth." Her words had slowed slightly gaining a tint of edginess in them praying that she hadn't made a complete fool of herself.
"I'm sorry but I've no idea what your talking about" he stated with a slight dismissive shrug of his shoulders.
Andrea sighed in defeat and gazed out the window to her left at the sky, gasping at what she saw hanging there in the sky.
"No wonder you haven't heard of it! It's right there in the sky!" She exclaimed without even a second thought.
"You mean your from the Mystic Moon?" an eagerness he seemed to have been holding back now showed in both his voice and facial feature at her confirmation of his suspicions.
"So that's what you call it here? Yes I am." She simply dismissed his excitement under the impression that though it was uncommon it wasn't unheard of for these people to have visitors from an oh so close world.
"Can you tell me how you came to be here?" his calm controlled demeanor re-established itself in his voice as he simply gazed down at her in genuine curiosity.
"Yes, I'll tell you," more then happy to give her account on the events that have changed her life.
Andrea told him everything she could remember even about her past situation with her parents. For some reason she came to believe she could trust Folken though she had no reason to feel this way.
"FOLKEN!" The room shook with the ferocity of yell as marching footsteps made their way loudly to the door the room they were in.
"Who is that!" asked Andrea completely caught off guard and having brought her hands up to cover her ears.
"That would be Dilandau, the one who brought you here..." he chuckled slightly before adding to what he had said, "your savior..."
"FOLKEN!" the second roar came echoing in from the door frame.
"Yes Dilandau, I am right here, were you knew I would be."
"FOLKEN YOU TOLD ME SHE WAS GONE BUT SHE'S BACK, AGAIN!" Andrea more the happily kept her hand firmly placed over her ears still being able to hear what he was saying quite clearly though without going deaf.
"I'm sorry Dilandau but right now I'm talking to our new guest." Folken made a slight gesture with his hand towards Andrea who was not entirely pleased to have attention brought to her though it didn't seem to matter to this man.
"I DON'T CARE WHO YOUR TALKING TO I WANT HER GONE!" Andrea suddenly became aware of how incredibly good looking this man way. If you could really call him a man that is, his age and feminine feature really seemed to place him as more of a boy then a man but the way he stood and the way he glared spoke of a deadly authority.
Folken sighed and turned his attention to Andrea who was still gazing dumbly at Dilandau, "I am sorry for the intrusion but I must ask, what is your name?"
"Oh, I'm sorry it's Andrea." Daring to remove her hands from her ears she smiled up at the two men only to be given a death glare by Dilandau that made her cringe.
"Andrea I'm sorry but I'll have to talk to you again at some other time. There's a boy outside named Viole, he will show you to your room." He nodded his head in a slight but respectful bow and made is way out of the room, a fuming Dilandau following closely on his heals.
"Ok, Thank You." She murmured to their retreating forms then, after a moment, stood and made her way out of the room.
Just as Folken promised a boy was waiting outside. His armor was the same as that of Dilandau's though blue instead of the red that seemed to match Dilandau's temper. She smiled at him, making him falter for a moment before addressing her.
"Hello, my name is Viole, I'll take you to your room." He bowed respectfully to her and turned on his heel, heading down the hallway at a brisk pace.
"Thank you." she said softly as she followed after him, trotting slightly to keep up.
The floating fortress was a giant maze of corridors all lined with doors. It seemed like hours until they stopped at her room though it had only been a couple minutes and she was completely lost.
"The bathroom is three doors to the right of your room and some one will come and get you for dinner." He stated swiftly without looking her directly in the eye.
"Thank you, Viole" She said sweetly and gave him a slight nod of her head.
"Hey don't mention it. I'll see you later ok?" He finally got the courage to look up and smile at her in the friendliest way she had yet seen.
"Ok bye." She waved to his retreating form and turned to see how the accommodations were.
The room wasn't exactly huge but there was a bed, a dresser, and a desk, everything that a room needed and there on her bed was her "incase shit bag". She gave a sigh of relief as she walked over to her bag and let her fingers trial along it.
"This isn't so bad... could be worse."
She was just getting settled in her new room when she heard running and yelling just outside her door. At first she hesitated not sure if she wanted to know what was going on but curiosity got the better of her and she walked towards her door to investigate. As she approach she could make out what was being yelled.
"CATCH IT, DON'T LET IT GET AWAY!"
Well you like it so far? I hope so. Please review. I'll love you if you do, no don't run away from me, I didn't mean it like that...Woops..
