Disclaimer: I do not own the Dark Jewels Trilogy…blah, blah, blah…same old, same old.

AN: I don't have any thing to say. Oh well…I guess on with the story.

Italics are the private communications between the Blood

Italics are normally used for the Blood, it will just be the other part of Selari

Bold lettering is when inanimate objects are speaking (Selari's replies will also be in bold)

Chapter 7

Winsol Gifts

Bad idea. Why did she have to open her big mouth? She could have just said nothing. But no, she just had to go and say something didn't she. Couldn't leave well enough alone.

Selari couldn't stop thinking how stupid she was. Here she was a very powerful Jeweled female with great potential and she can't even think of a simple Winsol gift, how great was that.

Potential, you were born with the all three gifts. You are a natural at all, and yet you say nothing of these. You are a Healer, though that was a shocker. A natural Black Widow and a Queen. You hide all of these things away. You could do many things, yet you choose to think about a stupid holiday that celebrates your rival.

"I have a rival?" Of course Selari would choose that as her question and ignoring the rest of what he had said.

Of course you have a rival. Witch is your rival. She is your opposite and will seek to destroy you, if she knew that you existed.

"And what am I Wind, that Witch would want to destroy me?" Selari asked the question that she had asked a thousands times over, never getting an answer. She knew, though, she had known ever since she had become it. She had known what Witch was, and had known that she was like Witch yet vastly different. Selari just wanted him to say this to her, to tell her the truth.

You are a very powerful Witch that is a rival to the Witch that the Blood celebrate. A rival in all things, be it in power or trivial things.

"Really, well maybe Witch can help me with my Winsol gift to Divear." She muttered to him sarcastically.

Why do you do this to me? You ignore everything I say and then turn it into a joke. '

"Cause its fun" she told him with a small laugh.

Done with talking, Selari went back to the problem at hand. She had know idea what to get Divear for Winsol. It had to be something special. Something that would stand out, not something stupid. But her mind remained blank, and there was no forth-coming idea on what to give him.

The sun was just coming out. Selari had been lying in her bed, trying to come up with an idea. She hadn't slept the whole night. But time was running out and she still had no idea.

Jewelry…No

A toy…No, Divear wasn't a kid he wouldn't appreciate.

A weapon…No, he has plenty of those, she wanted to give him something that he didn't have.

It was an hour later before she came up with something that might work. She was still just lying in bed, when the thought had came to her.

Seriously it wasn't all that great of a gift, but it was something that he didn't have. Selari sighed as she pushed out of her bed and got dressed. In fact it probably wasn't al that great.

Divear didn't have a jacket. He never wore one that is. So now Selari was going to give him one, and then he could wear it all the time, and he wouldn't be cold. He was always going around in a leather vest. Why in the world would someone choose to wear a vest in the middle of winter.

Selari hadn't thought about it until now. But if he never wore a jacket maybe the cold didn't bother him, and maybe he wouldn't appreciate having a jacket. But…still he might like the option of wearing a jacket.

Now, that she had decided what to give Divear, she just had to go find one that would suit Divear. She left the house shortly after that. Nobody was at home, and nobody would notice if she were gone.

Her family were almost done with their service to the court. But they all wanted to stay in their position, so they intended to stay. They just had to secure their positions, which would be no problem. Selari was glad for this. She didn't want to move. If she moved it would be harder to see Divear. Not impossible, but hard.

Both Jerrid and Beatrix had made the Offering to the Darkness. Jerrid when he had turned 18. He was now an Opal Jeweled Prince. Beatrix had made the Offering this very year. She was a Purple Dusk witch. She wasn't a Priestess yet, the old one was still there. But it wouldn't be long now, the old one was getting sick.

Selari had grown more distant from her family ever since she had met Divear. She had never been that close to them in the first place, well except for Jerrid. She missed him a lot. But he was away more and more lately and whenever he was here, Selari generally shied away from him. She didn't want to get close to him if he was just going to leave again. Selari had never told her family about Divear. She hadn't wanted to taint Divear, with her family. It was pretty to keep the secret nobody cared who her friends were.

Selari dismissed these thoughts and went back to the more important ones.

Important, Ah. A gift is not important, it is a waste of time.

'Ok, let me rephrase that. Important to me.'

Selari then spent the next two hours in town looking for the perfect jacket for Divear. But nothing was right. Everything was wrong. For one thing, none of them were made for an Eyrien. Then when she occasionally came across an Eyrien jacket, it wasn't right.

Cursing, Selari stepped out of what must have been the thousandth shop. She was never going to find one that was just right.

If you ask me nicely I might tell you where you could find some nice Eyrien jackets.

"What's the catch" Selari asked suspiciously.

The Wind never did anything nice, without their being a catch. He just wasn't the giving type, or the nice type. Selari knew that she would agree to the terms no matter what he asked, she was running out of places, and she really needed help.

Why would you suspect that I would want anything from you other then a please.

"Cause I'm not stupid, now spit it out"

Yes, you know me to well. It's not all that bad you know. I just want you to learn all there is about your respective gifts.

Damn, she should have known that he would throw that back in her face. She just had to have all three. She just had to be special, she couldn't be normal. Nope, she just had to have the strangest things happen to her. Now she was going to have take lessons on those.

It wouldn't be that bad, she thought trying to think on the positive side. A positive side would be if the Wind suddenly couldn't talk, yes that would be positive. But still, she always liked learning new stuff about the craft, this would be no different.

"Fine, I'll take your stupid lessons. Now where is this place?" Selari asked, a little dejected.

No need to sound so over joyed, I know you can't wait till we start. Its in a town close to Ebon Rih.

"Really, we can get there in an hour. Well, that is if we use the black Webs and we go my way." She thought.

Your way is much better, and faster. Plus, it is more efficient.

Selari went to the nearest Web landing place, even though using her way she didn't need to. This was just for appearance. When there she was off, to get her Winsol gift to Divear.


AN: Ok, when I started writing this chapter, I had no idea it would end the way it did. In fact I thought it would end with Winsol. Turned out a bit differently, but this way is better.

I would also like to say I love all my faithful reviewers. I'm glad you all like my story.

Trying to update as fast as I can. Right now I know exactly where I'm going, so I might be able to update real fast. Well, that's what I hope.

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