Chapter 8
Mara ran from the garden. Ran from the lust and the love. She couldn't want Raoul. She couldn't. She had a man at home. A man she needed to get back to. She reached her room and walked in, heels clicking on the stone floor.
She paced the length of the room. Then stopped at her rarely used vanity. An engraved silver-back mirror lay there. She reached down and grasped it, her fingers curling slowly around the handle. Looking into it, her reflection stared back.
Numair had been teaching her magic and had told her once about how to scry using a mirror. She wondered if she could do it. Slowly she spoke Rodrigous's name, concentrating on her magic. The mirror began to swirl with her blue magic, then stopped, revealing a picture.
Rodrigous had the leader of Ninth Street by the throat. The rest of the Deadly Rose had the other gang members with knives at their throats, whispering merciless threats into their ears.
"What did you to with Mara?" Rodrigous asked coldly.
"I don't know what you're talking about!" the other man gasped, struggling against the hand the pinned him against the wall. Rodrigous slammed his head back.
"Yes, you do!" he screamed in fury.
"No. I really don't!" The man choked as Rodrigous's hand closed around his throat tighter.
"You do! Now tell me!" Getting no answer from the now dying man, he slit the vein on his neck, not caring about the blood that poured over his hand. He let go, allowing the gang leader to slump to the floor, eyes open in shock and death. He squatted next to the body, cleaning the blood off his knife.
"By the way, it's The Bloody Rose now. In honor of my girl." he got up again, kicking the corpse in the stomach as he did "Bastard." he spat.
Mara pulled back with a gasp, losing concentration, causing the scene to leave glass.
"The Bloody Rose." she whispered "Oh, Rodrigous."
She walked into her washroom to change for bed. Ridding herself of the tight bodice and heavy skirts was heaven for her. It was a warm spring night and so she just pulled on one of her longer tunics and slipped under her cover, falling asleep moments later.
It was the banging on the door that woke her the next morning. With a groan she got up to answer it. It was Raoul. He blushed her see her in her current state of dress. The tunic left nothing to the imagination. She rubbed her eyes groggily, unaware of her friend's (ahem) feelings.
"Wha' is it?" she asked grumpily, accent thick. Raoul coughed.
"Ehh, Numair wants to see you for mage training."
"This early? No way! I'm going back to bed." she turned and started to walk away. Raoul however had different plans in mind. He caught her shoulder and spun her around, bringing her to his chest. He stared at her for a small moment, then kissed her heavily. They broke apart a while later.
"Thought you could use the wake up." he said, then blushed a deep red, muttered an apology and ran off. Mara smiled and shook her head a bit. He was right, the kiss had woken her up.
"Well, after that I'm not going to get any sleep. Might as well get dressed." Stepping back into the room she closed the door and went to get dressed.
Soon after arriving in Tortall, Mara had discovered that whatever she wanted from her world appeared, everything except for living things. It was how she kept herself in ammunition and her feminine necessitates; and her favorite underwear.
Right now she wished for her black cargo pants along with her black baby tee that read 'I HIT BACK' in big bold white lettering with a picture of a fist underneath it. She also wished for her dark red converse sneakers. She looked in the mirror, studying how she looked.
Mara wasn't vain, but she took pride in how she looked. And right now, she looked pretty damn hot! She sighed and pulled her hair into a high ponytail, giving her look a dangerous, don't mess with me, attitude.
"Alright Numair, give me your worst." She grabbed a bottle of Tylenol and stuck a few of the pills in her pocket, they were for later, when she dueled Alanna. She grimaced at the thought, then walked out, intent on giving as many bruises as she would receive.
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