A/N: My fav chapter!!! Even if Alanna is WAY out of character.
"Why do you change the subject so much?" Alanna, it seemed, hadn't given up. In fact, she'd never even started. Till now.
"Cause we do." Miliko said.
"But why?" Alanna persisted.
"We want to." Miliko replied. She was going to enjoy this.
"Why do you want to?" Alanna asked.
"Cause we do." Miliko answered.
"But why?" Alanna questioned.
"We want to." Miliko responded.
"Why do you want to?" Alanna inquired.
"Cause we do." Miliko retorted.
"Is this going on forever?" Alanna wanted to know.
"Yes." Miliko countered.
"But why?" Alanna said before she could stop herself.
"Cause I want it too." Miliko grinned.
"Why do you want it to?" Alanna sighed.
"Cause I do." Miliko rolled her eyes. This was too easy.
"I think I shall just shut up then." Alanna said quickly.
"You do that then." Miliko smiled lazily.
"I will." Alanna was being really thick.
"Do then." Miliko couldn't help it.
"Fine." Alanna really was stupid.
"Fine." This was Miliko's favourite game.
"Fine."
"Fine."
"Shut up!" Alanna yelled.
"As you wish." Miliko replied mildly.
"Good."
"Okay then."
"Argh!" Alanna screamed.
"Argh? Pathetic and inarticulate. Your mother must be so proud." Miliko had just finished reading Artemis Fowl.
"Why you..." Alanna was lost for words.
"What? Cat got your tongue?" Miliko laughed.
"No!"
"Well, it certainly sounds like it."
"Why?" Alanna asked, again.
"Cause it does." Miliko answered, sick of this game. Raoul was much better at it. He asked different questions.
"Why are you here?" Alanna queried. Finally. A new question.
"Cause Shadi said a spell."
"What spell?"
"Dunno."
"Okay, Lady Miliko." Alanna finally gave up. Miliko, however, wanted to see how many times she could trick Alanna.
"Black game!!!" Miliko suddenly shouted.
"What?" Not very original, Alanna knew.
"I say a colour, you repeat after me." Miliko informed Alanna. Alanna nodded.
"And I bet I can get you to say black." Alanna shook her head.
"I'm not stupid, you know. You can't just expect to trick me that easily." Alanna frowned. Miliko's smile grew.
"Repeat after me: Green."
"Green."
"Purple."
"Purple."
"Pink."
"Pink." Alanna pulled a face.
"Hot Yellow."
"Hot Yellow."
"Silver."
"Silver." Alanna had a very short attention span. Already her eyes glazed over.
"Purple." Miliko said again.
"Purple." Alanna repeated.
"Ha! Told you I could make you say purple!" Miliko cried triumphantly.
"What? No, you said you could make me say black!" Alanna protested.
"And I just did." Miliko retorted smugly.
"That's not fair!" Alanna protested.
"Yes, it is." Miliko stated.
"No!"
"Yes. I said I could make you say black, you said black. I win." And with that, Miliko turned back to her friends.
"Round and round and round it goes, where it stops, no-one knows." Shadi said dryly, her mouth turning up at the corners. Miliko bowed.
"Thank you, thank you, thank you very much." She couldn't resist it. Ah, how she loved tricking people.
"Do the blonde test!" Myanh suggested. Miliko smiled, looking suspiciously evil.
"Okay. There are three questions. You can get a total of ten points. You have to answer them. Right, Alanna, first question. Listen carefully. For this you can get three points. Say your name." Miliko didn't put any extra stress anywhere, she just asked the question, in a monotone.
"Alanna." Alanna replied, slightly confused.
"No, wrong. Say. Your. Name." Miliko repeated slowly.
"Lady Knight Alanna of Pirates Swoop and Olau." Miliko shook her head.
"Say... Your... Name..." She repeated, even more slowly.
"Your name?" Alanna hazarded a guess. Miliko clapped.
"That's a mark of one. You can get four points for this next question. A rooster lays and egg, at the top of a mountain. The wind is blowing to the left. Which way does the egg fall?"
"To the left." Alanna answered surely.
"No. Try again. If you get it right this time, you get three points."
"The right?" Alanna sounded distinctly nervous.
"No." Miliko was amused. Really, how stupid can someone be?
"Behind the mountain?" Alanna's voice was shaking.
"No. Way." Miliko stated bluntly.
"The front?" Alanna said in an obvious last ditch effort.
"No. You just lost your last chance. The answer was, roosters don't lay eggs." Comprehension dawned on Alanna's face.
"Third and final question. You can get three points. There is a one-story house, and it is all gold. Everything. Nothing isn't. Absolutely nothing is not gold. What colour are the steps?" Miliko was sure Alanna would get this right.
"Gold." Alanna couldn't have been more definite.
"No."
"Yellow?" Alanna really had no idea.
"No."
"White???" Miliko sighed in exasperation. Alanna was blonde.
"No. I swear to god, you are one true blonde." Alanna looked offended.
"Why?"
"Houses with one floor don't have stairs." Miliko explained. Alanna looked ready to bang her head against a wall.
"But why am I blonde?" Alanna had to know.
"You got one out of ten. Got that? Thank you, and good night."
"It's not night." Alanna pointed out. Miliko began to hit her head.
"It's a saying," Miliko said slowly.
"But it doesn't make any sense, it's not night," Alanna repeated.
"It's a saying, it doesn't have to make sense," Miliko said.
"Well, it should. Why say good night when it's not night?"
"Like I said, round and round. She just met her worst nightmare. Another Candi." Shadi sniggered. Alanna shrugged, and sat back down.