Disclaimer: I do not own the Dark Jewels Trilogy.

AN: I was having a bit of trouble with this chapter, but as I kept writing it got easier.

In the last chapter I asked for ideas on what to do next. Now a reviewer said that Selari should show a big surge of power. Now I do intend to do this soon. I just want to get Jerrid's wedding out of the way. I'm not sure right now if I should write about it or not because I could just skip over it. Maybe I should. Well I'm not going to show any big power until the Purge of the realm and that is hopefully coming soon.

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 15

Doubts, Arguments, and a Meeting

It had been two days since Jaenelle had found out about Selari. She had learned a lot from what Geoffrey had told her.

Jaenelle was unsure of how to proceed. She knew where Selari was and she could go see her. But who's to say that Selari won't close off the area. Jaenelle was positive that Selari had that kind of power. Jaenelle knew that Selari had no trust in her and that she wouldn't hesitate to block the area that she was in.

What Jaenelle needed was someone that Selari trusted. And she knew the perfect person.

"Lucivar, could you come to my room" Jaenelle called to him.

"I'm busy. Go away" he growled back.

"Lucivar come or I'll make you." She told him. She didn't really want to order him, but she would if she had to.

"Pain in the ass" he remarked before cutting the connection.

Jaenelle grinned; he was a Prick and would never change. But he was coming and right now that was what counted.

If only Daemon was here, Jaenelle though with a wishful sigh. Here eyes filled with sorrow, love, and regret when she thought of him. She missed him.

Wonder what Daemon would think of Selari? Would he want to befriend Selari like he had done with her before? Would he like Selari more? Wouldn't Selari, when she was older, be more suited for him then she herself ever could be? They would go together much more then they did. Jaenelle was filled with all of these doubts and she didn't know how to dispel them.

But she was saved from thinking further on this, when Lucivar walked in. It was more like pounded in.

"So Cat, what was so important had you had to drag me away from-" he stopped mid-sentence when he looked at her closely. "Hey Cat what's eating you?"

"Nothing," Jaenelle told him. Lucivar didn't believe her for a second. But before he could say anything further Jaenelle continued speaking.

"I need you to get Selari to meet with me. She knows you and she'll trust you." Jaenelle told him. Lucivar stared at her for a second. Then he looked thoughtful as though he was thinking it over.

"Jaenelle I'm not sure if she'll do it. She's very suspicious. And she probably knows why I would want a meeting with her. She might not agree." A grin crossed his face. "But I love a challenge."

"Good, I want to meet her as soon as possible." She smiled at him.

"Damn Cat you don't ask for the impossible." He murmured as he walked out. Jaenelle laughed at his comments, knowing that he wouldn't fail. Lucivar hated failing.


Selari stared intently at the cards. If she put it there, he would have to place one in the center, which would make it nearly impossible to proceed. She grinned at Divear's frown. He knew that he was trapped. She placed the card down and watched as Divear's frown deepened. He cursed and she just giggled. She loved beating Divear at simple card games.

"Selari I wish to visit you." A male voice asked.

"Why Lucivar?" she asked, giving no sign to Divear that she was talking with someone else. It really didn't seem to matter all that much as Divear was too absorbed in the game to notice anything else.

"Why to be in your glorious presence" he said sweetly. Selari smiled slightly at this.

"Ha ha ha, really funny Lucivar. Are you maybe setting up this meeting because your Queen wishes to meet me in person?" she asked. She then watched as Divear set down a card. He was still in the game. She placed down another card, hoping to draw him into a whole different trap, one that wouldn't fail, not like the first one had.

"Maybe." He said a bit indifferently, as though he didn't care what she thought about it.

"I might be inclined to meet her." She told him. "I would have to ask Divear though." She added, watching Divear place another card down.

"Come on Selari stop making it so easy. That's the second trap I've avoided." He told her. "And if I hadn't known better I would say that you were letting me win." He said a bit smugly.

"Divear what are you talking about, it is clear that I am winning."

"You are not, I am." He shot back.

"Why must you ask him, he does not control you. He's not even related to you." Lucivar demanded.

"I ask him because, I trust his opinion. And I do not intend to meet anyone without Divear." Selari told him in a voice that told him that she expected no arguments about it.

"Divear Witch wants to meet with me." Selari told him bluntly. Divear looked up sharply at her. Then just as quickly he looked back down at the cards.

"Why?" was all he said.

"Why does she want to meet me? I guess it could be that she wants to know what I can do what I will do what I am capable of." Then she looked at him directly in the eyes. "Or she could just want to kill me."

Divear started gathering up the cards of the game, even though they hadn't completed it.

"Then you won't go." Divear said firmly.

"But Divear I want to meet her too." Selari told him.

"You don't need to meet her. There is no point. Not now any ways. You are too young." He growled, showing that he was letting his temper get the best of him.

"Divear this could be beneficial to us. We see her and we see how powerful she really is. We can't let this opportunity slip by." Then wishfully she added, "I want to see her. She's going to be like me. Well sort of."

He just stared at her for awhile; wondering weather or not it was a good idea. Mother night, he knew it wasn't a good idea, but the thought of meeting Witch was something he didn't want to pass up. It was not the fact that he wanted to meet her, he wanted to see how she was different from Selari. Divear wanted to see what she was like.

From what he had heard, they were complete opposites. The only thing that he could really discern was that they both had Eyrien protectors.

Divear had heard of Prince Yaslana and he wondered if all that he had heard was true. And Selari was really no help with that matter. Selari had a tendency to like anyone. So asking her if the stuff was true would be pointless. She would just ask why and that would eventually lead into a long, long conversation, with Selari only saying why. Divear despised the conversations that ended up like that.

"Fine, but you are to stay with me at all times. Got it." He growled at her. She nodded her head solemnly.

"Where should we meet?" Selari asked. There was silence, and Selari could tell he was communicating with Witch.

"Here," he said sending over a picture of where they would meet.

Selari instantly sent it over to Divear. He shook his head and sent a different place over. For ten minutes they went on like that, each disagreeing with each other.

Finally Selari had had enough of the two of them. She knew that it was Lucivar and Divear that were really arguing over the location and that both she and Witch were just sitting back and watching them.

"Here, we shall meet here." Selari said angrily, sending them both the picture of a place.

"Selari why so angry you're the one that wanted to meet with her. I'm just helping." Divear asked with dismay.

"You two have been arguing for the last ten minutes over the place. Neither of you compromising an inch. We were getting now where. And then far be it for you two to switch over to a different thread instead of using me as your messenger."

"I wasn't going to speak with him first. He initiated the conversation first, then he should have to contact me first." Then he said a bit smugly. "He's older then me he should've done it."

"Divear that's called being immature." She told him.

'My Queen would like to meet in two days time." Lucivar came in through another thread. Selari didn't make the same mistake twice by consulting Divear. She was not going through another ten-minute argument about what time that they would meet.

"Agreed"

Having finished speaking with Lucivar Selari broke the connection between the two of them. She then looked over at Divear and smiled.

"We are going to meet them in two days time. Isn't that great?" she said brightly.

"Why didn't you ask if the timing was all right. I bet they suggested it. We should have at least made a counter offer." Divear muttered.

Selari sighed; there was no hope with Divear. He was just too set in his ways. While she on the other hand was young and still open to new things…and more importantly trusting. But Divear had continued on talking.

"You'll have to actually look nice and not like some street orphan." He continued on not seeming to care if she was paying attention or not.

"Hey, I don't look like a street orphan." Selari cried out indignantly.

"Did you find out if this was a formal meeting or not." He shook his head at this. "No it doesn't matter as long as you look nice." He then turned to look at her, ignoring the fact that she was now scowling at him. "You do have something nice looking, right?" he asked.

"Yes," she told him reluctantly.

"Good, now lets go over are plan for once were there."

"Why do we need a plan?" she asked, her curiosity eliminating her anger over the street orphan comment.

"We can't go in there unprepared." He said in a way that said that it was the most obvious thing in the world. Selari just looked at him. When she didn't say anything he shook his head at her. "Just come over here so I can tell you the plan."


"They're late," Divear growled. Selari watched as he glared hatefully at a tree like it was the trees fault.

"On a technicality they aren't really late. There really wasn't any specific time, it was just two days from now and in this location." She told him. Which caused him to turn his glare onto her.

"Whose side are you on any ways?" he asked. She just grinned at him. Divear was a very impatient man and hated to be kept waiting. To Selari it was so much fun to watch him. "Yes I know you find this all hilarious." He glared at her and Selari couldn't help but laugh at him. "Yes fine go ahead and have your fun." He muttered darkly, turning once again to glare at the tree.

The hours went by and even Selari herself was getting a little impatient. They had been waiting since sunrise for them; the sun was now setting.

"We should leave, this is a damn show of disrespect for you and we should not wait around to here some excuse as to why they deemed it necessary to make us wait the whole damn day." Then as an after thought, he added, "That is if they even show up."

Selari wanted to agree, but she had to be fair. She had to wait until midnight. Midnight was the latest that they would stay and then they would leave.

"Divear we shall wait till midnight and if they have not shown up then we shall leave." She told him. "If they do not show up they have lost their opportunity and we shall not redo this thing again.

"Yes, Lady," Was all he said. It was clear that he did not like her idea at all. But he knew that it would be pointless to argue now, she had made up her mind and she wasn't going to change it.

They will not show. You do know that right?

"Yes, I know that. But I have to stay until midnight, for that is the end of the day and when that hour should come then we shall leave." Selari told the Wind.

They will try to make another meeting with you.

"I know this as well." She muttered at him.

Then what shall you do? For it might offend Witch if you disinclined a second meeting.

"I don't care if it offends her. It offends me that she as not shown up for the first one. So I would say that we are pretty even."

Would you care to know why they are not going to show up?

"No, I do not."

But it could be important and then you might change your mind.

"Well what if I don't want to change my mind?" she asked stubbornly.

Then you would be acting childish.

"I would not."

You would do and you no it. And saying would not is also very childish. You should grow out of the habit. It is not very becoming of a Queen.

"I'm not a Queen." She told him angrily.

Not yet but you will be.

"Is there really any point in arguing with you on this?" she asked with a sigh.

No. And since you have conceded the point I think that we should get started on training you to be what you were born to be.

"Training me?" she questioned.

Yes, training you. Expanding your knowledge. That sort of thing.

"I guess we could start. I don't want to fall behind or nothing."

Waiting was a very boring thing and Selari soon grew sleepy. She had been sitting on a rock since they got there and it was starting to get uncomfortable. She got up and went to sit down by Divear's feet. Once she had found a comfortable position she leaned against the tree and instantly fell asleep.

Selari wasn't sure how long that she slept, but the next thing that she knew was that she was no longer leaning against a tree but being carried in somebody's arms.

"They didn't show did they?" she asked sleepily.

"No they didn't show." He murmured.

"Where are we?" she asked snuggling a bit closer to him.

"We're close to home."


It was the next morning at breakfast that she was contacted again. It was one of the rare times when the whole family was there together. Yeta loved those times and made a big deal about them, by cooking a big fancy breakfast.

"Selari we need to speak about yesterday." Lucivar's voice came to her.

She was upset by the interruption. For one thing she was surprisingly enough having a good time with her family and for another she didn't really want to talk with him.

"Go away I do not wish to speak with you." She said politely restraining the anger that she felt.

"I am not going away and your going to listen me weather you like it or not, kid." Lucivar growled.

"Oh, is that what you think. Well I don't want to listen so I'm not going to listen and I would to see you make me." Then she cut the connection and blocked her mind.

Selari hated being told what to do, especially by people who are in the wrong. But Selari didn't want him to ruin her breakfast so she pushed the conversation to the back of her mind. She knew that she would have to talk with him sooner or later, but she thought later was better.


Later happened to be after a training session with Divear. They had just finished and she was exhausted. So when Lucivar did contact her she didn't feel like fighting all that much.

"Mother Night, you are one tough kid." He said by way of greeting.

"That I am."

"We had some complications that couldn't be delayed and we couldn't make it to the meeting yesterday." He told her.

"I figured you had a good reason for not being there. And at first I was angry, then I thought about it. It is not time for Witch to meet me. It is too early. And so I do not think that we will be arranging another meeting." Selari told him.

There was only silence after that. Selari figured that Lucivar had to tell Witch about what she had said. And that Witch had most likely agreed with her.

"So Divear are you happy you got your way." She smiled at him.

"I always get my way. But meeting them now it is not right and I hope that they have proven that to you."

"Ya," she then cast him a sidelong glance. "Jerrid said that you can come to the wedding."

Divear groaned at the very thought of a wedding. He hated the very idea of one let alone going to one.

"I'm busy that day." He said.

"You don't even know what day it is." She smirked at him.

"Doesn't matter, I'm still busy."

"Oh, but Jerrid will be so upset if you don't come."

"I sincerely doubt that."

"Oh but he will."

"Go away." Divear told her, starting to walk away from her.

"But Divear…" she called to him. He ignored her and kept walking. Selari laughed at him. He would come she knew he would. All she had to do was bug him enough. So with that in mind she ran to catch up with him.

AN: There another chapter and it only took me forever to do.

I have nothing else to say, I guess, so now all you have to do is review, review, review.