The sun rose over the horizon bathing the campsite in a pale yellow light. It wasn't the sunlight that woke her but the sound of tiny wings struggling to stay in flight. 'What's that I wonder.' She thought as she crawled to the entrance of the tent, what she found waiting for her was a very old leather bound book and sitting on top of it was a small male humanoid figure. 'A pixie? Here?' She thought

"Sorry to wake you, but my lady told me to deliver this book to you so that you will need it in two days." The pixie said in a small tired voice .

"Um thank you?" Rixxa said, confused as she pulled her golden hair into a ponytail. Looking at the small Fea brush himself off as if he had fallen a number of times, before he gave a quick nod and flew off with a small wave leaving her alone with the book. Her doe colored eyes lit up when she read through the book. This book was exactly what she had been spending the last eight years of her life looking for.

"This is a book of arcane magic, but who gave it to the Fea? Did they always have it?" She whispered to herself as she continued to flip through the pages until she stopped on a page that read.

Conversation spell

Light and Darkness turns to Time and Chaos when spoken when day becomes night or the moon becomes red as blood. Cast the following

"Day and Night shift and change to make way for Time and Chaos. No longer of Light and Darkness but something more."

Beware once changed you can not return and only those bound by blood can complete the change.

"This is just what I was looking for and if I'm reading this right then the spell will only work if my brother is still alive." She said to herself, as she dug through her bag looking for a chart of the stars. 'Two days, two days time,' she thought as she looked at the charts.

"The solar eclipse that is what the pixie was talking about, I can cast the spell then and finally get an answer about my brother, even if it means giving up my power over light I can work with time magic and he will just have to work with chaos." She said before she went about making breakfast and getting the things she would need to cast such a powerful spell and she only had two days to get the ritual preparations done, or she would miss her chance for who knows how long.

Two days later

Rixxa sat with her legs folded in a circle made of pixie dust that reflected the light of the sunlight making the ring sparkle. 'I will not have about five minutes to get this right. There is simply not enough time to try again, the new moon is tonight so let's hope my powers are strong enough during the day.' She thought as she tried to ignore the stiffness of her shoulders and back, she dared not risk breaking or leaving the circle in case she missed her chance to cast her spell.

After what seemed like ages passed finally at high noon the sun began to grow dark at this point she took a small knife from beside her and cut the meat of her palm straight across allowing the blood to drip freely to the ground. Once the sun was completely dark she began her spell.

As she said the words her blood began to glow with an odd brownish purple. She watched and waited to see if things had changed, as the eclipse passed.

'I guess I have my answer he is no longer alive.' She thought sadly as she stood to break her circle and head back to camp for a nap. Unfortunately it appeared that her body had other plans, before she made it all the way to her feet she just collapsed and slipped into darkness.

At the same time in the capital.

A young man, his dull sapphire eyes and yellowish gray hair sat perched on his bed, his nose in one of the many well worn books that he had read countless times. Today he was reading one of his favorites, his odd colored mouse friend was laying on the pillow next to him. Suddenly a wave of dizziness washed over him causing him to fall off the bed. The last thing he saw before blackness took him was the mouse jump from the bed and placed a paw on his nose.

The next thing he knew he was being dragged to his feet.

"Come now boy you we thought you would have learned by now that even if you pretend to be asleep that it would not save you." A voice said but unlike the times before he sounded distant muffled. He half walked half fell into the room he was all too familiar with and placed in the circle.

"Caspian tonight is a treat thanks to the eclipse, your powers will be greater tonight but right now this will be some of the purest we will get that comes around only once in a while. Well let's get started." The high priest said. As he flipped the switch.

White hot pain slammed his body as it had always done. 'Stop please, I want the pain to stop, please anyone make it stop.' He thought for the millionth time as tears fell from his eyes as he waited knowing that the pain will only stop when they turned off the machine. Suddenly without warning a flash of silver light lit the room as bright as day. The pain stopped just as suddenly, slowly he uncurled himself and looked around as the light faded.

The first thing he noticed was that the sound of the machine had stopped but no one came to pick him up and drag his drained body to his cell. Instead the room was still eerily still nothing moved. After a few heartbeats Caspin decided he was not going to wait around to see what happened instead he raced back to his cell and grabbed everything he could fit in his pillowcase. As he packed he noticed that his mouse friend who he fully intended to bring with him had not greeted him as he normally would have.

He looked in the house he had made and what he found there startled him. The mouse stood unmoving just inside the door as if frozen in time. 'Wait if time has stopped then how come I can move?' He thought as he carefully picked the mouse up and placed it in his pocket. With a quick nod he decided that he would figure it out far far away from there. And with that he fled into the night leaving the capital for the first time in almost fifteen years.

Later that night

"Finally I made it, why? Why did you have to live in such a remote part of the woods? You owe me a nice cup of tea when I get in." A woman with flaming red hair and sapphire eyes huffed. As she shrugged her pack higher on her shoulders then went to knock on the door to the cottage, only to have the door swing open before she could. The person who stood before her was a man his midnight hair was cut close to his head but that was not where her eyes focused. Her blue eyes widened with shock as she noticed tied around his eyes only just managing to hide the scars was a strip of black cloth.

"Oh my Gods Ari what happened to you? I know My Lady said things had changed with you but this was not what I was expecting." The woman said before she could stop herself.

"Keru, blunt as always I see." Ari said with a small laugh. The two of them studied together when they were younger. Well more like they harassed each other. "Please come inside. We have much to discuss and yes I have tea waiting for you. It's your favorite, blackberry green tea." He finished as he motioned for her to come inside. Once inside she took around the room. There wasn't much in the way of furniture; no surprise there, only a couple of chairs and a small fireplace in the main room. The kitchen wasn't anything special either, just a clean counter and miscellaneous items. In what could only be the dining room the small table was set with tea for two complete with a light snack.

Keru moved into the room and sat at the table pouring herself a cup of tea and waited until Ari did the same before she asked.

"What happened to your eyes last I saw you were fine?" She asked.

"They were taken from me about a week or two after you fled on your mission from the Gods who gave you. I was arrested for treason, could you believe that? I was giving a bull shit trial and went to jail. About three days later I was sitting in my cell when I Saw something that I guess the council didn't like so in an attempt to take my power from me well." He said as he removed the strip of cloth revealing scar tissue where his eyes once were it was clear that they were not just any scars his eyes had been burned out.

"That's just wrong. They will pay for this I will see to that." Keru growled as took a drink from her cup, earring a small laugh.

"You were always the first one to spring to someone's aid, even if they were being an asshole to you. Do you remember how we first met?" He asked as he took a sip of tea.

"How could I forget, you were the only Oracle that we had every seen. When you were introduced to our class for the first time that year. When we were told about your gift the whole room began to whisper to each other." Keru said with a small laugh. "I remember how people used to chance you around begging for you to tell them their future. Most of them were young ladies, some even wanting to be yours." She said with a laugh.

"Yeah and the day we got our first up close encounter two young gentlemen had backed me into a corner and I don't remember exactly what they wanted but they were definitely not happy. But I will never forget the look on their face when they found the way blocked by a huge, very much in control twister." Ari said with a smile. That was one of the few memories that he vividly remembered.

"Now as far as where you will be sleeping you have two choices either camp outside or you can sleep with me in my bed it should be big enough, if you're still the bean poll you used to be." He said with a smile.

"I have a little more meat on my bones now thanks to living on a farm for seventeen years but I am still small enough to share a bed with you at least this time we won't be chained together by a couple other students saying either they will kill each other or bed each other, jokes on them neither option happened." Keru said the two of them both paled as the memory of how that happened.

It started the same day that Keru had rescued Ari before she had dismissed the twister; she saw his eyes once a dark blue paled as a strange film covered his eyes and he began to act as if he was writing. Keru had pulled a piece of paper out of her bag and a pencil and handed it to him.

It was over just as quickly as it had started. He stuffed the paper in his pocket as well as the pencil and ran off. She had spent weeks stalking him trying to figure out what he had written down. Only to find that he no longer had the paper and had refused to tell her. One day about two months after she had begun to follow him two of their classmates had tricked the two of them into meeting them.

"I have alway wondered about what you wrote even to this day, is it possible that enough time has passed that you could tell me now?" She asked as she met where his eyes used to be.

"Not yet the time has not come for anyone to know yet but the time is drawing near so it will not be too much longer. But we should probably get some sleep if I'm right, we are going to have a long trip ahead of us soon and who knows when we will sleep in a proper bed." Ari said with a yawn. The two of them cleaned up the table and then headed in a room just off of the main room that held a good side bedroom with a smaller room that held an indoor wash room.

"You will have to wait until later today to get a bath. My helpers won't be here until then. It will also take them a bit to fill the tub. I rarely use the tub. I normally just use a rag and a bowl only because well even though I don't leave the forest does not mean I can't keep certain areas clean and stink free, sorry." He said as he scratched the back of his head sheepishly. "And well at least you don't have to worry about me creeping on you." He laughed causing Keru to laugh as well.

"That's fine sleep sounds heavenly right now." She yawned as she removed her travel clothes and changed into fresh clothes before falling into the bed. She heard a soft chuckle before a dip on the other side of told her that he too had climbed into the bed.

"This is your only warning you kick me out of the bed. I will make you sleep in a tent outside." He yawned before laying down next to her. The sound of soft breathing told him that she was already asleep. 'Somethings never change' he thought before he drifted off to sleep.