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Trust and Lies Chapter 3
Surfacing lies
Baralai paced the room madly. They were going to land in Bevelle any minute and he'd been away for two days, far to long for him. I hope everything's okay. What if the fiends got out? They may not call us because they didn't want me there yet. Oh no... his mind flew in 1000 directions at once.
"Baralai!" Nalah yelled, in exasperation.
"What?!" her voice threw him back to reality, but he didn't look up.
"Clam down! You're making me nervous!" Baralai didn't care how nervous Nalah was but he stopped anyway.
"Sorry but I'm worried that something bad happed, I didn't know I would disturb you."
"Well excuse me for interrupting your nervous break down." Nalah glared at Baralai.
Paine came over and placed a gentle hand on Baralai's shoulder. "Every thing is fine in Bevelle. Now would two stop fighting! You're at each other's throats all the time!" Paine paused for a moment absorbing herself in thought, "Nalah, I think everyone is a little tense. You're a good singer." Paine had a devilish smile.
"And your point?"
"Sing something."
"Ooo! You can sing? Nalah please! For your best friend Rikku! Pretty, pretty please!" Rikku began pleading with Nalah.
"No." Nalah said flatly.
"Please! Please! Please! Please! Please! Please! Please! Please! Please! Please! Please! Please! Please! Please! Please! Please! Please! Please! Please! Please! Please! Please! Please! Please! Please! Please! Please! Please! Please! Please! Please! Please! Please! Please! Please! Please! PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
"Fine! I'll do it if Rikku shuts up!" Nalah sighed, "What should I sing?"
"Anything!" Yuna seemed very excited by the idea of some else singing for a change.
"Okay let me think... Oh, I know!
I love the time un-in between the calm inside me
In the space where I can breath
I believe there is a distance I have wondered to touch upon the years of
Reaching out and reaching in
Holding out, holding in
I believe this is heaven to no one else but me
And I'll defend it so long as, I can be
Left here to linger in silence
If I choose to would you try to understand?
I know this love is passing time passing through like liquid.
I'm drunk in my desire...
But I love the way you smile at me
I love the way your hands reach out and,
Hold me near.
I believe...
I believe this is heaven to no one else but me
And I'll defend it so long as I can be
Left here to linger in silence
If I choose to would you try to understand?
Oh, the quite child awaits the day she can break free
The mold that clings like desperation
Mother can't you see I got,
To live my life the way I feel is right for me
May not be right for you, but it's right for me...
I believe this is heaven to no one else but me
And I'll defend it so long as I can be
Left here to linger in silence
If I choose to would you try to understand it?
I would like to linger here in silence if I choose to...
Would you understand it?
Would you try?" (Elsewhere by Sarah McLachlan)"
"Oh Nalah! That was beautiful!" Yuna closed her eyes remembering it.
"Ooo! That was so cool!"
Paine just smiled, and Baralai watched Nalah in amazement. "Good job Nalah..." was all he could say. Nalah is so beautiful... Is it really absurd that she hates me yet I think she's beautiful? She had golden hair and her skin was just as dark as his and her eyes... They shifted from one vibrant color to the next every few seconds mostly between deep shades of emerald and jade but every now and then they would turn gold or red... sometimes even gray. Baralai recently had been finding himself not able to stop thinking about her and not because she didn't trust him... At this point he really didn't care. His mind was plagued with her, everything about her. But he couldn't help but notice, every time he heard her sing it was either treating or sad. Baralai shoved the thoughts from his mind he had other problems now.
--Bevelle--
"Hello! Glad your back so soon Gullwings! The fiends haven't been any trouble, but I fear they will be soon." Aldimar acted like he was lying, but Baralai looked relieved no one was hurt.
"Aldimar, I really don't think these fiends are from the farplane." Nalah knew Aldimar wouldn't believe her, but if they were at least she could say 'I told you so'. "I mean think, weren't they being sent by aeons before? What could possibly be sending them now?"
"Nonsense! Now Baralai, this way please. We need to fill you in on all that you've missed." Baralai nodded. He bid the girls good luck before he went to follow Aldimar.
"'Let's do it to it!'" (Sonic the Hedgehog has been quoted) Nalah smiled and ran toward the door. YRP followed close behind Nalah. She dashed in unlike last time they were attacked immediately. All of a sudden an unsent walked out of the darkness and shifted into a huge fiend!
"No fair there's only supposed to be normal fiends down here!" Rikku yelled, tossing her black mage dress sphere into the air, "Well, at least we can have some fun..."
--Meanwhile--
Baralai yawned; Aldimar was absorbed in a conversation. Apparently nothing, good or bad, had happed. He slid away and went up to his room. He sat down and thought, could Nalah be right? Maybe the fiends aren't from the farplane... It wasn't long before the youngest council member, 20-year-old Kiran, entered. He had curly black hair and dark eyes though it was always hidden under the long white robes him and the rest of the council wore. If anyone of them could be trusted it was Kiran.
"Baralai?" Kiran asked in a voice one may expect to be timid, but he had a certain authority to it. Because of his age he didn't get much respect out of the rest of the council. It didn't really make any sence though, Baralai too was twenty and the council respected him... sort of.
"What?" Baralai answered in a flat angry tone.
"Come."
"Come where?"
"Your friends lives may depend on it." Kiran turned to leave Baralai jumped up from his seat and ran after Kiran.
"What do you mean?! Where are we going?! What's going on?!" Baralai yelled as Kiran searched around.
"You must be quite they can not find out." Baralai followed Kiran down a few hallways until they were outside the room where the council met.
"What's here?" Baralai whispered.
"Listen, carefully." Baralai pressed his ear to the door.
"Make sure they all die." Aldimar was saying.
"But sir, the lynx girl, why kill her?" another, clearly younger, man's voice asked.
"She is suspicious, if we do not kill her, she will surely find out... She's a little brat anyway."
"As you wish sir." The younger man, who Baralai now recognized as the New Yevon military leader, sounded reluctant that he had to kill yet another person.
"Are the doors locked?"
"Yes."
"And the guards are informed to not let Baralai in at any cost."
"Yes, and we made sure that the guards are undoubtedly loyal to the council and New Yevon... Baralai, not included. They are sure to go along with it. Yuna, Rikku, Paine, and that lynx girl will meet their end today." Baralai was shocked at what New Yevon's military leader was telling one of it's highest ranking officials, they wanted to kill Yuna, Rikku, Paine, and Nalah!
"No." Baralai whispered. "This isn't happening."
"It is, I'm sorry but you can't try to save them." Kiran shook his head as if he couldn't believe what he was saying.
"I have to!"
"Aldimar hates you too. You're lucky you're not with them." Baralai thought for a moment.
"You want me to sit around and let them die?"
"I think... I think I know what we can do." Just then, the door Baralai was still leaning on swung inward. He fell to Aldimar's feet. Kiran easily slid to the side and hid.
"An eavesdropper..." Aldimar mused. Baralai got up as if nothing happened.
"Hi Aldimar, I'll just be... going now." Baralai tried to speak smoothly and talk his way out this but he was still in shock that he had been betrayed and his friends my die.
"You're not going anywhere. Guards! Seize him!" Baralai dashed off but he wasn't fast enough. A guard grabbed his shoulder and rammed him into the wall as hard as he possibly could. The only thing that kept him from sliding to the floor was the forceful hand on his back pressing him to the wall.
"Let me go!" Baralai used all his strength to struggle away, but the guard put a gun to his head and he stopped, frozen in terror. No. I have to save them, but if I struggle then I will be killed too, and no one will be left. Aldimar walked up to Baralai interrupting his thoughts.
"Well Baralai, what do you have to say for yourself."
"After all the good I've done for Yevon you're going to kill me? And they saved the Spira, yet they must die? Why Aldimar?"
"You exposed our secrets, you call that good for Yevon. We don't want you or them uncovering anymore." Aldimar put his fat scowling face directly in front of Baralai, spitting the words in his face as he continued. "Guards, put him in the labyrinth. We'll see how he fairs there."
-Chapter 3 Complete-
About the songs, wondering why? They are meaningful to the story and give you a bigger look at Nalah's personality. I said I'd kill this story, I changed my mind! Inspiration has struck! ((rubs back of neck)) and it hurt! But I do have an idea!
