(Keyi)
I wanted to go home. I wished I'd never begged Chase to bring me to Wyvern's Court. I missed sitting around the fire with big brother at my side and Teresa and Uncle telling stories of an age gone by and Auntie singing her songs and Akiro dancing her magic filled dances while Tris played the flute for her. I missed Audra's hyperactivity. I missed watching Ali and Kia dance for each other and with each other. I missed Tessai bouncing off the walls and Meari's silence and Brian's constant wisecracks. I missed the people who didn't ask questions and left me alone when I was upset. I short I missed home.
I wanted to go home. I wanted big brother to hurry up and find me so I could.
(Chase)
Finally.
Wyvern's Court loomed before me. I should have made here a long time ago but it was hard for me to travel fast when my bad arm started hurting again, which it did, right after little sister ran off, of course. I just hoped that she'd got here all right. I pulled the hood of my cloak up so that it hid my face and rearranged the rest of it so that it hid the sling my left arm was in from view. I really hoped that Keyi was okay.
I might know the way to Wyvern's Court like the back of my hand but the interior was a different story. I'd made the trip to court with Audra often enough but I rarely went in with her. Convincing Teresa to let us go alone was probably one of the stupidest things that I've ever done and I've done a lot of stupid things.
I walked through the market just as lost as Keyi must have been when she first entered as I tried to recall landmarks that Audra had told me about and tried to look for Keyi's cream colored cape or wavy golden hair. I tried to think of where she might have gone. We hadn't eaten breakfast before leaving so I could try asking someone who sold food.
I ditched that idea after realizing that I was way too scared to try to talk to any of these people. I'm a coward. I really wished that I had brought Audra. Despite her hyperactivity she was much more of a people person then I was. I was never going to find Keyi at this rate. I tucked my good arm in my sling with my bad one, it was a nervous habit that I'd never been able to break.
I found myself in the center of Wyvern's Court at the wyvern statue. I suddenly felt exhausted. I sat down in the shadow of the statue hoping that no one would see me there and closed my eyes. I pulled my hand out of my sling and found it covered in blood. The defiantly wasn't good.
"Hey. Are you alright?" Someone was standing in front of me.
"I'm fine." I replied though unable to completely hide the pain in my voice.
The man in front of me looked down and saw the blood on my hand, "Someone get a doctor!" He shouted.
Then the world went black.
(Keyi)
I unburied my face from my knees when someone knocked on the door. "Come in!" Salem shouted at the door.
A guard opened the door, "Sir, we think we found her brother."
"Really? You found Chase!" I tried to stand up but Hai stopped me.
"Well… We think but he kind of dropped out cold in the middle of court."
"WHAT!" I tried to get up again but this time Hai picked me up, "Hey! Put me down! I want my big brother!" I couldn't help it. I started crying into her shoulder.
"Show us to her brother and then find a bird to get Nicias from the northern hills." She told the guard.
The guard nodded and Salem and Hai, carrying me, followed him out the door and down the hall. Hai carried me the entire way.
When we entered the room, the guard left and it was just the three of us and the doctor I started crying again. The figure lying on the bed was defiantly my big brother and his left arm, his bad arm, was bandaged from his wrist to his shoulder.
I buried my face in Hai's shoulder and cried and cried and cried, "I want to go home!" I cried, "I want to go home! I want to sit by the fire in the nest and listen to Teresa's stories and watch Akiro dance and help Brian play tricks on his sister. I want to build sandcastles with Tessai and Meari on the beach and go swimming by the falls. I want to laugh and joke with everyone else as Auntie tries to drug Uncle onto the dais. I WANT TO GO HOME!"
"Shh, shh." Hai whispered in my ear, "It'll be alright." She smiled down at me, "If you'd like I'll make sure your big brother is taken care of and Salem can show you Wyvern's Nest."
I wiped the tears from my eyes, "You just want me occupied so that I'm not in the way but I'm not crying either."
"Maybe." Hai replied.
I looked at Salem, "If it's not a bother to the king and it'll help me keep my mind off unpleasant things then I would like to see this Wyvern's Nest."
Some things in this world are simple,
Most are not.
For as long as there has been war,
There have been those who did not wish to fight.
The ones who dance with the hope of peace.
The ones who have danced alone,
Here, they do not need to.
We have been here for as long as there has been war,
And there have been the ones who did not wish to fight it.
If it is peace you seek to dance with,
Then dance this dance with sha'Keyi.
Dance this dance with the ones who dance with hope.
The words of Teresa Elder,
Leader of sha'Keyi.
Leader of the ones who dance with hope.