Chapter 9:

Ahiru lay on Fakir's bed staring up at the ceiling. She rolled over and sighed.

"I'm bored" she whispered and closed her eyes. She stayed like that for a while. Suddenly she heard a bump followed by a child's "ow!"

"W-whose there?" Ahiru had Fakir's pillow in front of her as a shield.

The door to the wardrobe opened and Uzura toppled out. She looked up, "Ahiru!" she exclaimed and ran over to her. "Where are we-zura?" she asked looking around.

"F-fakir's dorm…" she looked at the child, where had she come from?

"Ooooooh! How'd we get here-zura?" she hopped up on the bed and sat in front of Ahiru.

"I came here with Fakir, where'd you come from Uzura?" Ahiru put down the pillow.

"Erika's house-zura," she started to tap on the drum.

Ahiru put her hand on Uzura's, "don't make too much noise, we don't want to get caught."

"By who-zura?"

"By the dorm leader"

"Why?"

"Fakir won't be able to stay here anymore"

"Oooooooh-zura!" she looked around the room, "why are you in his room-zura?"

"I need a place to stay, so I'm staying here."

"Uuuun…"Uzura looked sick.

"What's wrong?" Ahiru asked. Suddenly a Uzura began to glow green."Uzura!" Ahiru put her hand on Uzura's shoulders. She too was engulfed in the light. She pulled Uzura close and squeezed her eyes shut. She felt like she was falling and pulled Uzura closer. Suddenly the falling stopped and she felt like she was floating. She opened her eyes and saw that she was in Drosselmeyer's world, but the gears weren't turning. She only had a short amount of time to look before she was engulfed in light and falling, again. She felt herself landing on something familiar, Fakir.

"Get off me!" Fakir said annoyed, he was pinned under her, face down, squirming underneath, trying to get up.

"Sorry," she said and got off him to help him up.

"What just happened?" he asked still annoyed

"I'm not sure…" she said looking up at the ceiling

"Where have you been? It's been two days!" he said, relieved that she was okay, but there were a few other indistinguishable emotions there too.

"Two days? But I was only gone for a few minutes at most." She said confused. Two days? Two whole days? How? She wondered.

"Where were you?" Fakir asked again

"Drosselmeyer's world, I think…"

"How'd you get there?" Fakir asked bewildered

"I don't know Uzura started glowing and suddenly we ended up there, I'm not sure how or why though…"

"Uzura?"

"Yeah Uzura," Fakir looked at her weird. "What?" she asked.

"Uzura's not here."

"What?" Ahiru looked around. He was right, she was gone. "But she was just with me. What happened?"

"I don't know" fakir shook his head, "we have to ask Erika."

"But didn't she tell us not to visit?"

"We have to find out what's going on," he said and suddenly his door swung open. Ahiru, startled by this, quacked and ran under the bed.

"What is it Fakir? You look like your hiding something," said Autor, sitting down on the bed Ahiru was hiding under, "got another girl in here?"

Fakir ignored this comment, "I want to go outside campus." He said with a straight face.

"Where? Is it important?" Autor asked, bored.

"To my cousin's house, and yes it is important."

"Fine," he said with an annoyed sigh and got up off the bed and followed Fakir out the door.

What was that about? Ahiru wondered as she watched their feet exit the room.