OK, I think I have kept you in suspense for long enough, this is chapter five of my (now only) story. Yes, I did not really like the other story I had written, so I decided to delete it. I'm sorry, but I hate it when they leave it there and then say, oh ya, I'm done with this, so it is not up there anymore.
Anyway, just to let you know, Gijini is coming in this chapter, so don't kill me for making this chapter a bit confusing.
Obviously, if you have read the first line of this chapter, it is three days after that…interesting occurrence, and Dom, Stefan, and Shandra are all alive, and yeah.
Enjoy!!!!
It had been three days after I had exploded, literally, at Stefan, who I later learned was the filthy horse hostler. I wandered how he had managed that. I sighed. I was still mad about that.
"Shandra!" I turned to see Ravi running towards me. I had not seen him at all since that day when I awoke groggy after somehow coming here. He ran to me, and smashed into me, forgetting how to stop in his small six-year-old body (a/e I know I keep repeating how they are six, but I can't have you forget now can I? It all comes to a magnificent end, I have already written it, I just kind of have to get there from here!)
Instead of falling back, I hugged him back, and then jumped away, and he toppled clumsily to the floor. I laughed, and then kept on laughing, and couldn't stop. He just looked so funny, sitting in a heap on the floor with a confused look on!!! Soon both of us were on the floor in fits of giggles that, just when we though we were through, would start up again. I finally got a hold on myself, and stood.
"What have you been up to?" I asked him after helping him up.
"Waiting for you to wake up with Alanna and Neal."
"Alanna? Neal? Hello? Who are they?" I started to get agitated. No one tells me anything!
"Well, Alanna is a girl knight, the first in hundreds of years, but don't get to full of her. Her temper is infamous, worst even than Gijini's on a bad day. Anyway, Neal or Sir Nealan of Queenscove is the healer who was sleeping in the infirmary the day you woke up for the second time. Alanna was there the day you woke up first. Also, the most powerful mage in all of Tortall, and probably of this entire world, has come in to check up on you too. You wouldn't wake up see. You were also so sick that we thought, all thought, that you'd die. Then you were up, and then all of that water streamed in, and Numair said that it came from you, but that is not right, is it? You never told us you had control of water before."
"You blabber." I told him. He was. Going on about how this Numair thought that I was…what? Magical? Ha!!!! Right.
"Sorry. Who don't you come in and see Gijini?" He asked. He had brought her to a large wooden door with pictures of the sun with a face on it. (a/e Sound familiar? But, no, it is not leading into the Chapel of Ordeal, sadly.) 'Pretty' I thought. Inside of the doors, there was a large room filled to bursting with toys, much better made than the ones in the room where I had awoken before speaking to the gods. Thinking about them, I thought about what the God had told me.
"Be wary what you walk, careful about what you talk, and stay to the side, for there is always more talk there than anywhere else."
In the corner was a small bed, which Gijini was happily sitting on, playing with her hands.
"I put her there so she wouldn't hurt herself." Ravi said.
"Oh, smart." I said as I walked over to her. I picked her up, and got one of the stuffed cats hanging around the bed. I hastily dropped it when I saw its eyes. Purple, like Faithful's.
"I see you know one of my old friends." A new voice said. I jumped, I remembered it from somewhere, but it was like a dream, or a dream of a dream. (a/e Narnia!!!!!) "Yes, Ravi over there told me all about it, but I wanted to know what others who met him would think of him. Obviously, you didn't think much of him?" The speaker came into view. Her head looked on fire her hair was so red. It was in ringlets, and her eyes were, 'holy shit' I thought, her eyes were just as purple as the stuffed cat, and as Faithful's. It was one thing for a cat, another for a toy, but something totally different for a human to have purple eyes. It was…strange.
"Hi Alanna! Shandra, this is Sir Lady Knight Alanna of Pirates Swoop, Oloau, and Trebond." Ravi said ticking of the places she was from on his hands.
"Uh…Hi" I said nervously, hold Gijini closer to me, so she wouldn't see the strange eyes and start bawling or something, cause I mean, how embarrassing would that be? Gijini did not like my strong grip. Her eyes, which I had not realized before, were a light green, with darker green speckled in. She started to sniffle, and reached towards a small potted plant in the corner of the room near her bed. "Shhh…it's ok." I tried. She screamed louder until Ravi put the plant in front of her and me.
"Don't blame yourself, she has always liked plants. I had to tear her away from the wild forests in India so she would…do her chores." Ravi said.
"Oh." I said. Gijini stock her tiny fists into the plant, and it seemed that they curled around her hands. 'That can't be." I tried to pry her hands out of the small bucket. She started to cry and the plant held fast to her, not wanting her to go.
"Where did Alanna go?" I asked Ravi.
"I…I…I don't know. Hopefully to get Numair." He said. He was just as confused as I was, so I let Gijini sink a bit farther into the pot. We sat in silence until Alanna came back, towing the tallest man I had ever seen.
"Alanna, calm down, what is it?" The man asked.
"This is Numair, Shandra, he is the most powerful…"
"Mage in Tortall, Ravi already told me. Can you help Sir Numair?" I asked shyly looking down at the floor. He was silent for a moment, and I could feel his eyes boring into me like sawdrills.
"Yes, but was is it you need help with?" He asked softly, a few moments later.
I know, I know, not the best place to stop, but I have to go run and do my homework before my parents come home in…ten minutes. Yeah, so have a happy Friday tomorrow peoples!!! I know I will!