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That night I sunk into the forest again to meet the Masters. When I arrived at the clearing I saw only Sara'bas standing in the center. He was the only thing sticking out in the whole area. I guess my hair and eyes were the same when I was back on earth; sticking out like a sore thumb everywhere I went.
"Hello Celene. Ready for your first lesson?" Sara'bas asked me. I stood in front of him and nodded. "Good. Our first lesson will be testing how fast you can run. Follow me." Sara'bas got up and lead me away from the clearing. Soon we came to the river that was near the Home Tree. The river was at low tided because most of the ground was covered in mud and the river was thinner than before.
"What do we do now?" I asked him. Sara'bas trotted over to a rock that looked over the river. He climbed on top of it then sat down on it while looking at me.
"Start running the length of the river from this rock to that fallen tree. You will stop when I tell you." Sara'bas said. What did he say?
"You're serious?" I asked them. Sara'bas nodded and stayed where he was. I groaned and started doing laps up and down the river.
I was running for God knows how long! My chest hurt and it was getting harder to breathe but I could feel my legs getting stronger. I remember back when I was on earth how I sucked a gym. I would always try and find a way out of it for this very same reason. I hate running! Gymnastics wasn't so bad because I did more stretching and bending than running. But this was taking it to a whole new level! I felt like I was back at gym class running for my life. But there was one thing different….there wasn't any mud. Yes, mud. It was making my running even more difficult when I would slip and slide all over the place. The mud would stick to my feet, dragging me down. It would stick to my skin, making it itch when it dried.
I'm starting to hate mud.
"Celene you can stop. That's enough for tonight." With that my legs gave out and I landed face first in the mud. I didn't care really because my feet were hurting like hell! "You better get some rest for when you're your time alone comes, meet me here and we'll continue." I groaned loud enough for him to hear.
"You're an ass you know that?" I shot at him which only made him chuckle. He trotted over to me and helped get on to his back. I rested my head against his neck as he made his way to the healing pools. There I cleaned up and said good-night to him. I slowly and tiredly made my way to my hammock but a hand stopped me. The hand snapped me out of my daze as it spun me around. Golden eyes met my white ones in a second.
Tsu'tey caught me. Shit….
"Where are you coming from?" he ordered.
"The healing pools. I couldn't sleep so I went there to relax." I half lied. Tsu'tey glared, looking in my eyes to see if I was lying.
"You are right…and wrong. What are you not telling me?" he demanded.
"Nothing worth of your damn business! Now, I'm going back to sleep. Or did you forget that you're supposed to train me now?" I'm tired, sore, pissed and ticked off for anyone to bother me.
"You're right. Be prepared for tomorrow for it is going to be a long day." Tsu'tey said with a smirk meaning that he wasn't going to go easy on me. I gave a low growl before turning to leave. What a jerk! I walked up to my hammock and climbed in. I pulled over the side so that I was incased in it. Just great, my new teacher was going to make me work harder now. Oh god, what did I get myself into?
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