Chapter 5
What day might bring?
Marisa yawned and rolled over she was slowly beginning to wake up it wasn't till she rolled
over and knocked herself to the floor that she woke up enough to take in anything of value around her.
As she apprised the room it to be quite plane it had a fireplace, a desk, two chairs and a bed, one
window and nothing else. Amber started to wake up mumbling about never getting any sleep any more and
how life was so unfair.
Amber sat up slowly once she was fully awake, all right I can't lie she wasn't fully awake.
She was only awake enough to see that she wasn't in her room, "Where I'm I?" was all she said as she
snapped into a completely a wake state, after the shock had worn off she just giggled.
"What's so funny?"
"I'm wide awake, far from home and it's not a dream. That and I slept on this all night," Amber
held up her bow showing it to Marisa who started laughing too.
"Why don't we go see what they have to eat here?" Marisa suggested.
"Fine by me but shouldn't we change first, cause I'm not like you I can't just roll out of bed
and have my hair look all right like you. It's just to short, my guess is right now it's flying all
over the place."
Marisa broke into laughter that she had been trying to hold back. When she had gotten a hold of
herself enough to speak she said, "I was going to say something about that but I thought that it wouldn't
be nice and I've known some people who will do just that."
Amber walked over to her pack that she had dropped in the middle of the floor, picked it up and
then threw it at Marisa, who caught it laughing. Then she picked up Marisa's and flopped with it and
herself on the bed. "Got a brush in there some where I didn't even think about it at the time?"
"Sure," Marisa pulled out a brush along with soft brown breeches and a tan shirt that she was
going to ware that day. She tossed the brush at Amber laughing, "I'm thinking that we get dressed eat
they start out again. Oh and maybe we should do like most traveler and get ourselves some horses."
"Yeah likely wouldn't hurt, that is if we have enough. How much do you have left?"
"Twelve gold nobles, three silver, and eighteen copper; my mother made sure I would have plenty.
How much do you still have?"
"Let me see," Amber muttered as she rummaged threw her bag. When she pulled her purse she counted
it out into her own hand then once she figured it out she said, "Ten gold, fourteen silver, fifteen copper.
Let's see that makes it," she thought for a moment, "Thirty gold, seventeen silver and thirty-three copper.
And to think that we would have had more, if we hadn't bought those supplies."
"Well we should have more than enough for horse, hopefully, but well still have to try our bargaining
skills some. Seeing as it would still be nice to have some left, and we have no incoming money."
Amber pulled the brush threw her hair a few times as she listened to Marisa, it didn't take her to
long to have her short brown hair falling strait. She stood up and walked over to the basin of water someone
had set out for them when they had first arrived and splashed some on her hair to let it get some of that lovely
little curls that she liked. When Marisa had finished talking Amber was letting the small drops of water run
down her back and shoulders falling from her head where she had dumped the water on it. She nodded her head
agreeing, then after a moment more said, "Goody I've always wanted to try my hand at barraging. And while we're
at it wouldn't it be a good idea to find something that would help us guard against any more immortal attacks?"
Marisa swallowed hard she had almost forgot everything that had happened the night before, she nodded her
agreement then quickly started dressing into her clean clothing not wanting to talk about it. Amber followed her
lead garbing similar clothes from her pack and dressing.
Amber was thinking about how this all seemed so weird that here she was in one of her favorite books,
well one of her favorite world in a book. This sort of thing just doesn't happen in the real world, when she
had first woken up that day that she had first arrived she had thought that maybe the fortune teller that slipped
her something in her drink. But the longer that she was here the more she began to see it as realer and realer.
It really felt as if she was in Tortall, but for some reason the part of her brain that would say that this was
not possible seemed fuzzy and confused (she doubted that that was really it for some reason, it just felt right).
It wasn't until Marisa started talking again that Amber was brought out of her thoughts and back to the
really world, "I'm sorry Marisa I didn't hear you what were you saying?"
Marisa let out and exasperated sigh then spoke as if talking to a child, "I asked if you are ready yet,
I'm starving."
"Oh, yeah, I'm dressed and ready to attack a plate of anything." Marisa laughed and walked to the door
holding it open for Amber.
* * * *
Amber stared at the stuff on her plate and vaguely wondered if it wasn't staring back at her, and the
smell it made her want to gag. It looked like something you scrape off the bottom of your shoe and smelled just
as bad, she leaned over to Marisa and asked, "What is it?"
Marisa who was poking at it with her fork replied with, "I have no clue but I'm suddenly not hungry, you?"
"I don't think that you could call it hungry any more it's more like nauseated, maybe we should start
on our way again?"
"Yeah, I don't think that that is a back idea," Marisa rushed pushing her plate away and jumping up
almost knocking her chair over. That caused the two of them to get the attention of a man that looked as if he
had been sitting in the same spot drinking all night and only just now started to get that drunken up steadiness
about him. He walked over to them sticking an arm around Marisa as Amber started to get up to fallow her friend.
Marisa yelped when she felt this and struggled to brake free of the man's grasp, while the man was drunk
and unsteady he was still far too much for her to handily. Amber blinked for a minute as the man slurred
something about Marisa going home with him, thinking fast Amber figured she would try the polite approach first.
She walked up to the man and tapped him on the shoulder saying, "Um, mister, could you please let her go and
then you can get back to your drinks?"
He looked at Amber slightly baffled then slurred to her, "You can come too, but sit down and wait your
turn," then he pushed her.
To say that Amber was up set would be an understatement it was bad enough that Marisa was screaming her
head off and no one was coming in or doing any thing. But once he slapped Marisa to try and shut her up Amber
knew that she was going to have to do some thing. Positioning herself just right she rammed her elbow into his
chest, he let out a hiss and leaned forward letting go of Marisa who ran to the far side of the room.
Amber backed up watching to see what the man would do next, when he stood up he came at her leaving a
string of colorful curses in his wake. Amber moved to the side and he sort of tumbled past her all the while
she was thinking that picking a fight like this was stupid of her and that she had never been in a fight before and
that she was going to die right here. Then it hit her if she could get him in the males on true week spot maybe
just maybe she could live to see tomorrow.
So when he stood back up and charged at her again she sidestepped just enough so that he helped her get
him in the "family jewels", he bucked over ramming his face into the floor whimpering the whole time. Thankfully
when Amber looked for Marisa she was already making her way out the door with their bags waiting for her.
They took off running Amber grabbing her pack from Marisa as she went out the door; they didn't stop
running till they were well out of that village and breath. Both were taking whizzing gasps of air trying to
fill their lungs as much as possible when she had caught her breath enough to speak Marisa said, "Well doesn't
look like we'll be getting horses today." Which caused them both to brake out laughing till their sides hurt and
their eyes watered.
When they had gotten a hold of themselves again Amber said, "I think that we need to really think about
finding someone who can fight to come with us."
"Why you were great?"
"Cause I don't really know how to fight and the whole time I was thinking that I'm going to die."
"Although I don't know how easy that will be, for that to happen we'd have to have some really good luck
and the way things are going I'd say we're low in the luck area."
"Either that or we're really high, but your probably right we aren't really going to have good enough
luck to find anyone to travel with us."
"Well, we should get going again before something else happens." And with that said they started off
again for another day of walking.
What day might bring?
Marisa yawned and rolled over she was slowly beginning to wake up it wasn't till she rolled
over and knocked herself to the floor that she woke up enough to take in anything of value around her.
As she apprised the room it to be quite plane it had a fireplace, a desk, two chairs and a bed, one
window and nothing else. Amber started to wake up mumbling about never getting any sleep any more and
how life was so unfair.
Amber sat up slowly once she was fully awake, all right I can't lie she wasn't fully awake.
She was only awake enough to see that she wasn't in her room, "Where I'm I?" was all she said as she
snapped into a completely a wake state, after the shock had worn off she just giggled.
"What's so funny?"
"I'm wide awake, far from home and it's not a dream. That and I slept on this all night," Amber
held up her bow showing it to Marisa who started laughing too.
"Why don't we go see what they have to eat here?" Marisa suggested.
"Fine by me but shouldn't we change first, cause I'm not like you I can't just roll out of bed
and have my hair look all right like you. It's just to short, my guess is right now it's flying all
over the place."
Marisa broke into laughter that she had been trying to hold back. When she had gotten a hold of
herself enough to speak she said, "I was going to say something about that but I thought that it wouldn't
be nice and I've known some people who will do just that."
Amber walked over to her pack that she had dropped in the middle of the floor, picked it up and
then threw it at Marisa, who caught it laughing. Then she picked up Marisa's and flopped with it and
herself on the bed. "Got a brush in there some where I didn't even think about it at the time?"
"Sure," Marisa pulled out a brush along with soft brown breeches and a tan shirt that she was
going to ware that day. She tossed the brush at Amber laughing, "I'm thinking that we get dressed eat
they start out again. Oh and maybe we should do like most traveler and get ourselves some horses."
"Yeah likely wouldn't hurt, that is if we have enough. How much do you have left?"
"Twelve gold nobles, three silver, and eighteen copper; my mother made sure I would have plenty.
How much do you still have?"
"Let me see," Amber muttered as she rummaged threw her bag. When she pulled her purse she counted
it out into her own hand then once she figured it out she said, "Ten gold, fourteen silver, fifteen copper.
Let's see that makes it," she thought for a moment, "Thirty gold, seventeen silver and thirty-three copper.
And to think that we would have had more, if we hadn't bought those supplies."
"Well we should have more than enough for horse, hopefully, but well still have to try our bargaining
skills some. Seeing as it would still be nice to have some left, and we have no incoming money."
Amber pulled the brush threw her hair a few times as she listened to Marisa, it didn't take her to
long to have her short brown hair falling strait. She stood up and walked over to the basin of water someone
had set out for them when they had first arrived and splashed some on her hair to let it get some of that lovely
little curls that she liked. When Marisa had finished talking Amber was letting the small drops of water run
down her back and shoulders falling from her head where she had dumped the water on it. She nodded her head
agreeing, then after a moment more said, "Goody I've always wanted to try my hand at barraging. And while we're
at it wouldn't it be a good idea to find something that would help us guard against any more immortal attacks?"
Marisa swallowed hard she had almost forgot everything that had happened the night before, she nodded her
agreement then quickly started dressing into her clean clothing not wanting to talk about it. Amber followed her
lead garbing similar clothes from her pack and dressing.
Amber was thinking about how this all seemed so weird that here she was in one of her favorite books,
well one of her favorite world in a book. This sort of thing just doesn't happen in the real world, when she
had first woken up that day that she had first arrived she had thought that maybe the fortune teller that slipped
her something in her drink. But the longer that she was here the more she began to see it as realer and realer.
It really felt as if she was in Tortall, but for some reason the part of her brain that would say that this was
not possible seemed fuzzy and confused (she doubted that that was really it for some reason, it just felt right).
It wasn't until Marisa started talking again that Amber was brought out of her thoughts and back to the
really world, "I'm sorry Marisa I didn't hear you what were you saying?"
Marisa let out and exasperated sigh then spoke as if talking to a child, "I asked if you are ready yet,
I'm starving."
"Oh, yeah, I'm dressed and ready to attack a plate of anything." Marisa laughed and walked to the door
holding it open for Amber.
* * * *
Amber stared at the stuff on her plate and vaguely wondered if it wasn't staring back at her, and the
smell it made her want to gag. It looked like something you scrape off the bottom of your shoe and smelled just
as bad, she leaned over to Marisa and asked, "What is it?"
Marisa who was poking at it with her fork replied with, "I have no clue but I'm suddenly not hungry, you?"
"I don't think that you could call it hungry any more it's more like nauseated, maybe we should start
on our way again?"
"Yeah, I don't think that that is a back idea," Marisa rushed pushing her plate away and jumping up
almost knocking her chair over. That caused the two of them to get the attention of a man that looked as if he
had been sitting in the same spot drinking all night and only just now started to get that drunken up steadiness
about him. He walked over to them sticking an arm around Marisa as Amber started to get up to fallow her friend.
Marisa yelped when she felt this and struggled to brake free of the man's grasp, while the man was drunk
and unsteady he was still far too much for her to handily. Amber blinked for a minute as the man slurred
something about Marisa going home with him, thinking fast Amber figured she would try the polite approach first.
She walked up to the man and tapped him on the shoulder saying, "Um, mister, could you please let her go and
then you can get back to your drinks?"
He looked at Amber slightly baffled then slurred to her, "You can come too, but sit down and wait your
turn," then he pushed her.
To say that Amber was up set would be an understatement it was bad enough that Marisa was screaming her
head off and no one was coming in or doing any thing. But once he slapped Marisa to try and shut her up Amber
knew that she was going to have to do some thing. Positioning herself just right she rammed her elbow into his
chest, he let out a hiss and leaned forward letting go of Marisa who ran to the far side of the room.
Amber backed up watching to see what the man would do next, when he stood up he came at her leaving a
string of colorful curses in his wake. Amber moved to the side and he sort of tumbled past her all the while
she was thinking that picking a fight like this was stupid of her and that she had never been in a fight before and
that she was going to die right here. Then it hit her if she could get him in the males on true week spot maybe
just maybe she could live to see tomorrow.
So when he stood back up and charged at her again she sidestepped just enough so that he helped her get
him in the "family jewels", he bucked over ramming his face into the floor whimpering the whole time. Thankfully
when Amber looked for Marisa she was already making her way out the door with their bags waiting for her.
They took off running Amber grabbing her pack from Marisa as she went out the door; they didn't stop
running till they were well out of that village and breath. Both were taking whizzing gasps of air trying to
fill their lungs as much as possible when she had caught her breath enough to speak Marisa said, "Well doesn't
look like we'll be getting horses today." Which caused them both to brake out laughing till their sides hurt and
their eyes watered.
When they had gotten a hold of themselves again Amber said, "I think that we need to really think about
finding someone who can fight to come with us."
"Why you were great?"
"Cause I don't really know how to fight and the whole time I was thinking that I'm going to die."
"Although I don't know how easy that will be, for that to happen we'd have to have some really good luck
and the way things are going I'd say we're low in the luck area."
"Either that or we're really high, but your probably right we aren't really going to have good enough
luck to find anyone to travel with us."
"Well, we should get going again before something else happens." And with that said they started off
again for another day of walking.