Keledry of Mindellen woke up with a start. Breathing heavily she looked around the dark room. It had been a year since Kel came to the castle training to be a knight, and still the doubt that Lord Wyldon would change his mind and send her home came as a fright. Breathing a sigh of relief, Kel got out of bed. Every morning to improve her glaive skills and to strengthen her arms, Kel would do her practice dance.
Throughout her practice, she kept having weird feelings of needing to be somewhere else. Not knowing what her strange feelings were, she kept doing her dance. After being done with her dance, Kel got ready to go to breakfast. Going out of her room, she closed the door and locked it with her magic key.
When she turned around, she noticed the empty hallways.
"HMMMM." Kel said. "I wonder where everyone is." Everything this morning seemed to be going weirdly, and Kel didn't like it.
Far down the hall, Kel say a figure. Ducking behind the corner, Kel watched the page approach. Seeing that it was only Neal, she jumped out from behind the corner, and waded over to Neal.
"Neal!" Kel greeted with a smile. Taken by surprise, Neal jumped back. When he turned, pale faced, and spotted Kel, he too smiled.
"What are you doing here Kel? It's really early. Shouldn't you still be in bed?" Kel looked around then stared back at Neal giving a sigh of relief.
"So that's why no one is out yet!" Shaking her head Kel continued. "I knew something was wrong! This morning I woke up even earlier then I normally do." Looking at Neal, Kel sighed.
"I don't know what's wrong with me. This morning I woke up feeling something was wrong. It was even hard for me to concentrate on my practice dance." Neal looked at her for a moment then closed his eyes.
"Hmmm. Did you have any weird dreams or visions that could have somehow effected the way you feel?" Kel thought for a moment then sighed.
"I might have, but I don't remember." Smiling, Kel looked at Neal. "Lets just forget about my situation. What were you doing up so early?" The smile slowly faded from Kel's face.
"Oh… I was just… You know…"
"NEAL," Shouted Kel. Tell me what you were doing? You better not have been getting into trouble. It's only the first day of the second year. Seriously." Kel tapped her foot.
"How come you always guess what people are doing? And," Neal stated in a very proper tone, " It wasn't exactly getting into trouble, it was just doing things I'm not supposed to do." Kel remained calm.
"Ok. So you caught me. I just went down to get in some reading before all our practicing started. When I got there, I Saw Jorren and wondered what he was doing there. So, well, I went and asked him." Kel looked at Neal as though he wasn't telling her everything.
"AND?", Kel asked. Neal tilted his head.
"And… Well, this might sound weird, but I think something scared him." Neal remembered exactly how Jorren's face looked. "I'll never forget that face!"
Kel and Neal were both silent for a moment. Neal smiled while looking at Kel. She looked as though she were sleeping in place with her eyes open! Neal waved his hands in front of her. Blinking, Kel laughed.
"Sorry. I was just thinking." Pausing for a moment, she changed what she was about to say. "I was thinking how You, Nealen of Queenscove who wont even eat vegetables, could scare the almighty Jorren." Laughing, they both went down to wait at the mess hall.