I know that I didn't have a lot of feedback for the last chapter but as I've been working on all my stories I thought I might add another chapter to see if it woked any better.
As usual none of the characters belong to me except for Ailana.
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It had been several hours since Ailana had left Athkatla and she was already missing Anomen. She wasn't sure whether she wanted Anomen to come after her or not. She had asked him not to but Anomen didn't always do what he was told. In the time that they'd travelled together he had often questioned her decision especially if she was travelling along the rightful path or not. Jaheria had questioned her decisions even more, the thought of Jaheria brought a tear to the young womans eye. Jaheria had been the closest thing Ailana had ever had to a mother much in the same way that Gorion was her father. It had been a long time since Jaheria had been killed in the final battle, they had all been seriously injured in the last fight and Ailana had not been able to summon the will to move out of the way of the final spell that Melissan had cast, Jaheria had thrown herself in the way and had been obliterated. What hurt Ailana the most was the fact that she had never got to say goodbye.
Her friends were scattered all over the country and Ailana was determined to see them all before she returned to Anomen once more. She was going to see Nalia first as her friend still lived near by. Ailana had given control back to Nalia seeing that the girl was sufficiently toughened up to deal with any threats to the land that she might have to face. As the familiar sight of the De'Arnise keep came into sight Ailana was reminded of when she had first seen it.
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Flashback
It had taken them 20 hours to get to the keep from the gates of Athkatla. Ailana was not completely comfortable with the group around her as she didn't know three of them proberly. She had walked at the front of the group talking to Aerie who she found fairly harmless if a bit naive. Jaheria was talking to Nalia and trying to explain to the girl why no-one could help everyone in the world. Minsc had been stuck with the paladin and Ailana wished him joy of the mans aquaintance as he never shut up about himself. She didn't know why she'd even agreed to let him in the group in the first place, she already had fighters and a cleric so he served very little purpose. She'd let him stay with them for a short while longer then let him go in return for Yoshimo who seemed much more trust worthy.
The quiet chatter of the group was interupted by a troll suddenly springing out at them. Ailana and Aerie at the front of the group were completely taken by surprise and only quick reactions on both their sides saved them from imediate death. Aerie managed to keep to her feet by grace of the shield that she'd summoned, Ailana on the other hand found herself sprawled on her back with the monster towering over her. She rolled out of the way of the first swipe it aimed at her but knew that there was no way she could avoid the second one. As the creatures claw descended towards her it was blocked by a glowing green warhammer. Ailana scrambled to her feet and shot a grateful glance at Anomen who was no dodging the troll himself. It's attention was soon drawn away from the young man by spells from Aerie and Nalia who were standing together casting spells on the creature. Minsc and Jaheria joined in slashing at the creature where they could. Ailana stayed back slightly so that she could fire arrows at the creature as she doubted that any of her knifes or the short sword would penetrate the creatures thick skin. Minsc, Jaheria and Anomen were starting to wear the creature down with small wounds while the two mages were having a defiante effect on the thing by utilising fire and acid based spells. The creature fell to its knees and Ailana quickly dispatched it with an arrow to the heart.
"Is everyone all right?" Ailana asked looking round. She received nods from the othet five people.
"Are you alright Ailana?" Jaheria asked concerned for her friends wellfare.
"I am fine. Did you forget to mention something to us Nalia?" Ailana inquired giving the younger girl a piericing look.
"I didn't want to lie to you. It was just ... everyone else who was told what they would be up against refused to come." Nalia said looking embarressed.
"You should not have lied Ailana wouold have come anyway." Minsc said sure that the young woman he followed would have done the right thing regardless of the odds.
"You know now, will you still help?" Nalia asked
"We've come this far, we might as well go the rest of the way." Ailana replied.
"We need to head to the fort slightly west of the keep. Any surviours would have regrouped there." Nalia said.
"Let us go then." Ailana said pausing to collect her arrow from the trolls body before moving off. She deliberately walked by Anomen trying to think of the right words to say to him.
"I would thank you Anomen, you saved my life." Ailana said. He flushed slightly
"Think nothing of it. I would have done the same for any who travelled with me. You are giving me the chance to prove my self to the order and if I allowed you to be killed then I would not be proving myself." Anomen pointed out. Ailana smiled at him, the hesitant smile that he gave in return showed that he was in fact much younger than she had originally thought by the way he acted and talked.
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"Ailana it is good to see you again." Nalia said hugging her friend. In the months since Ailana had last seen her Nalia had started to grow her hair and it was now out of the bob she'd had it in the entire time they had been travelling. Ailana hugged her back, Nalia had always reminded her of Imoen, they were both very similar in the way that they acted and in the abilities that they possesed.
"It is good to see you as well."
"I am surprised that Sir Anomen is not with you." Nalia said with a grin a hint of the innocent and playful girl she had once been showing through.
"He is in Athkatla, taking care of his estates." Ailana said sadly.
"You haven't argued have you?" Nalia said shocked
"No. I just wanted time to find myself once more. I think I would have stayed if we had progressed at all with our relationship but Anomen seems to have given up on trying to persuade me to marry him, I don't think he knows me anymore than I know myself." Ailana told her friend.
"Anomen loves you he hadn't wished to push for a marriage as he thought you were uncomfortable. He also wanted to give you time to leave him if that was what you truely desired." Nalia said. She had seen Anomen on occasion when she had been in Athkatla on business and the young knight had confided his fears to her then.
"When did you become so much wiser than me?" Ailana asked. It was a valid question as Nalia was only 19 years old, two years younger than Ailana and had always seemed much younger in the past.
"I am not. I am just lucky that Anomen trusts me enough to confide his fears to me." Nalia said
"It is a shame that he doesn't trust his own fiance enough to tell her these same fears."Ailana said bitterly.
"You know that Anomen still worries that he forced you into becoming mortal because of your feelings for him, it isn't that he doesn't trust you he does, he just doesn't want to feel that he is forcing you into doing anything that you don't want to." Nalia told her friend.
"When I have left tell him that I love him and that if he wants to marry me still then I would be more than willing to when I return." Ailana said
"How long are you staying for?" Nalia asked.
"Just one night." Ailana said
"Do you know where you are going next?" Nalia inquired thinking to tell Anomen and get him there at the same time.
"I have yet to decide. However I will be going to Candlekeep last before returning to Athkatla." Ailana said.
"You will be gald to see it again. Come lets us have a meal and I can tell you what has been happening on the estate." Nalia offered. A plan that Ailana was glad to agree to.
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What do people think of that chapter. I know that none of the dialogue was lifted from the came but as I couldn't be bothered to go through the game up till that point just to find Nalia's lines.
I apologise if I have put Aragorn instead of Anomen anywhere as I was watching the TT DVD at the same time as writing this and the names are quite similar.
If I carry on with this I will put in more flashbacks mainly dealing with Anomen. There will be some type of trouble for Ailana eventually but it always takes a while for that to happen.
If you would like to read more please review.
As usual none of the characters belong to me except for Ailana.
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It had been several hours since Ailana had left Athkatla and she was already missing Anomen. She wasn't sure whether she wanted Anomen to come after her or not. She had asked him not to but Anomen didn't always do what he was told. In the time that they'd travelled together he had often questioned her decision especially if she was travelling along the rightful path or not. Jaheria had questioned her decisions even more, the thought of Jaheria brought a tear to the young womans eye. Jaheria had been the closest thing Ailana had ever had to a mother much in the same way that Gorion was her father. It had been a long time since Jaheria had been killed in the final battle, they had all been seriously injured in the last fight and Ailana had not been able to summon the will to move out of the way of the final spell that Melissan had cast, Jaheria had thrown herself in the way and had been obliterated. What hurt Ailana the most was the fact that she had never got to say goodbye.
Her friends were scattered all over the country and Ailana was determined to see them all before she returned to Anomen once more. She was going to see Nalia first as her friend still lived near by. Ailana had given control back to Nalia seeing that the girl was sufficiently toughened up to deal with any threats to the land that she might have to face. As the familiar sight of the De'Arnise keep came into sight Ailana was reminded of when she had first seen it.
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Flashback
It had taken them 20 hours to get to the keep from the gates of Athkatla. Ailana was not completely comfortable with the group around her as she didn't know three of them proberly. She had walked at the front of the group talking to Aerie who she found fairly harmless if a bit naive. Jaheria was talking to Nalia and trying to explain to the girl why no-one could help everyone in the world. Minsc had been stuck with the paladin and Ailana wished him joy of the mans aquaintance as he never shut up about himself. She didn't know why she'd even agreed to let him in the group in the first place, she already had fighters and a cleric so he served very little purpose. She'd let him stay with them for a short while longer then let him go in return for Yoshimo who seemed much more trust worthy.
The quiet chatter of the group was interupted by a troll suddenly springing out at them. Ailana and Aerie at the front of the group were completely taken by surprise and only quick reactions on both their sides saved them from imediate death. Aerie managed to keep to her feet by grace of the shield that she'd summoned, Ailana on the other hand found herself sprawled on her back with the monster towering over her. She rolled out of the way of the first swipe it aimed at her but knew that there was no way she could avoid the second one. As the creatures claw descended towards her it was blocked by a glowing green warhammer. Ailana scrambled to her feet and shot a grateful glance at Anomen who was no dodging the troll himself. It's attention was soon drawn away from the young man by spells from Aerie and Nalia who were standing together casting spells on the creature. Minsc and Jaheria joined in slashing at the creature where they could. Ailana stayed back slightly so that she could fire arrows at the creature as she doubted that any of her knifes or the short sword would penetrate the creatures thick skin. Minsc, Jaheria and Anomen were starting to wear the creature down with small wounds while the two mages were having a defiante effect on the thing by utilising fire and acid based spells. The creature fell to its knees and Ailana quickly dispatched it with an arrow to the heart.
"Is everyone all right?" Ailana asked looking round. She received nods from the othet five people.
"Are you alright Ailana?" Jaheria asked concerned for her friends wellfare.
"I am fine. Did you forget to mention something to us Nalia?" Ailana inquired giving the younger girl a piericing look.
"I didn't want to lie to you. It was just ... everyone else who was told what they would be up against refused to come." Nalia said looking embarressed.
"You should not have lied Ailana wouold have come anyway." Minsc said sure that the young woman he followed would have done the right thing regardless of the odds.
"You know now, will you still help?" Nalia asked
"We've come this far, we might as well go the rest of the way." Ailana replied.
"We need to head to the fort slightly west of the keep. Any surviours would have regrouped there." Nalia said.
"Let us go then." Ailana said pausing to collect her arrow from the trolls body before moving off. She deliberately walked by Anomen trying to think of the right words to say to him.
"I would thank you Anomen, you saved my life." Ailana said. He flushed slightly
"Think nothing of it. I would have done the same for any who travelled with me. You are giving me the chance to prove my self to the order and if I allowed you to be killed then I would not be proving myself." Anomen pointed out. Ailana smiled at him, the hesitant smile that he gave in return showed that he was in fact much younger than she had originally thought by the way he acted and talked.
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"Ailana it is good to see you again." Nalia said hugging her friend. In the months since Ailana had last seen her Nalia had started to grow her hair and it was now out of the bob she'd had it in the entire time they had been travelling. Ailana hugged her back, Nalia had always reminded her of Imoen, they were both very similar in the way that they acted and in the abilities that they possesed.
"It is good to see you as well."
"I am surprised that Sir Anomen is not with you." Nalia said with a grin a hint of the innocent and playful girl she had once been showing through.
"He is in Athkatla, taking care of his estates." Ailana said sadly.
"You haven't argued have you?" Nalia said shocked
"No. I just wanted time to find myself once more. I think I would have stayed if we had progressed at all with our relationship but Anomen seems to have given up on trying to persuade me to marry him, I don't think he knows me anymore than I know myself." Ailana told her friend.
"Anomen loves you he hadn't wished to push for a marriage as he thought you were uncomfortable. He also wanted to give you time to leave him if that was what you truely desired." Nalia said. She had seen Anomen on occasion when she had been in Athkatla on business and the young knight had confided his fears to her then.
"When did you become so much wiser than me?" Ailana asked. It was a valid question as Nalia was only 19 years old, two years younger than Ailana and had always seemed much younger in the past.
"I am not. I am just lucky that Anomen trusts me enough to confide his fears to me." Nalia said
"It is a shame that he doesn't trust his own fiance enough to tell her these same fears."Ailana said bitterly.
"You know that Anomen still worries that he forced you into becoming mortal because of your feelings for him, it isn't that he doesn't trust you he does, he just doesn't want to feel that he is forcing you into doing anything that you don't want to." Nalia told her friend.
"When I have left tell him that I love him and that if he wants to marry me still then I would be more than willing to when I return." Ailana said
"How long are you staying for?" Nalia asked.
"Just one night." Ailana said
"Do you know where you are going next?" Nalia inquired thinking to tell Anomen and get him there at the same time.
"I have yet to decide. However I will be going to Candlekeep last before returning to Athkatla." Ailana said.
"You will be gald to see it again. Come lets us have a meal and I can tell you what has been happening on the estate." Nalia offered. A plan that Ailana was glad to agree to.
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What do people think of that chapter. I know that none of the dialogue was lifted from the came but as I couldn't be bothered to go through the game up till that point just to find Nalia's lines.
I apologise if I have put Aragorn instead of Anomen anywhere as I was watching the TT DVD at the same time as writing this and the names are quite similar.
If I carry on with this I will put in more flashbacks mainly dealing with Anomen. There will be some type of trouble for Ailana eventually but it always takes a while for that to happen.
If you would like to read more please review.