I've been trying to get a move on with this and actully get a plot in here *gasp* hopefully this chapter will have the first sparks of romance! Thanks to all my reviewers! Not many but there are some. Feel free to email me with ideas!

"Who is she?" Alanna heard voices . They weren't in her head either. She blinked groggily. She groaned a pain in her shoulder and legs hurt intensly.

"I think she waking up," a voice above her mummered. Her surrondings became clearer and four blurs hovered over her. She blinked agian and tried to sit up, groaning with the effort. Tired of the pain, Alanna reached inside herself and used her gift to heal herself. She hoped the blurs wouldn't mind, but she hurt so much! Even after healing. With the pain fading the blurs sharpened into faces. Three girl, one boy who was quite handsome she noted.

"Why did she just get purple?" asked one girl.

"Donno, why don't you ask her she awake now... I think"

"Well I don't know, she did talk a lot in her sleep" muttered the boy. He was watching her sleep! Creeper! she thought

"Where," she began but was shocked by her throats croak. The three standing over her jumped back.

"Niko!!!" screamed one of the girls. Alanna tried to sit up but found she was chained to the bed. She tried her magic and like in her cell it stung her.

"*!#*" she swore at the sting "anyone care to explain?" she croaked at the suprised children or young adults. Whatever.

"Well the cuffs work," drawled a man from the doorway. It was the dude from the prison! Wait, it was the dude from the prision. Right, bad. That would explain the cuffs.

"So...feel like explaining because my other guard didn't really talk much and I have a feeling that I'm not going to be sent back." Alanna told him. Niko seemed stunned. Thsi woman didn't seem to be the unitelligent,barbaric, witch the captain described. Niko walked around the room spreading a powder. He muttered a quick charm and realised Alanna. Alanna sat up and rubbed her wrists.

"Niko do you think that's a good idea?" whispered one of the girls.

"Shhhh Sandry nothing can exit the room, or enter it." he told her while looking at her. He sat on the floor.

"So I will explain after you do," he told her. Alanna streched her arms and legs. She exaimned the spots where she had been hit by arrows. She saw the boy staring at her from behind.

"Can I have my sword" she asked

"After you explain," he told her firmly.

"Okay sorry feeling out of practice." she sat. "So I was practicing with Gary when I get snatched and I land in this .... place," she told them waving her arms. "Then I go to ask someone were the hell I am and they call me a witch and attack me. The guards were pathetic just so you know, you might wanna get some new ones."

"Okay so where are you from?" asked the boy.

"Tortall I'm guessing I'm not there anymore, you people have weird gifts." she told them remembering creepy mage guy. Jeez what a loser. "Ya so they sucked, I beat them up then creepy blue robe guy attemps at throwing some little magic things at me, but I just burned them, then one of the cowards hit me with something, and ya jail?prison place and escape then you came," she said jerking her head at Niko ", and I ended up here. Which is where?"

"I will explain everything later, you must rest for now." Niko told her he nodded at Daja who used her magic to reattattach her cuffs. Then the five of them left her. She didn't reliaze how tired she was until she blacked out.

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Briars POV

Who was she? She certainly wasn't like girls here. He thought Daja could fight but when he saw Niko carry her in... wow. You could tell she was a fighter. She was something different.

Niko explained to them how she was being held prisoner and was a magical savage of some kind from out side of the pebbled sea.

"Niko she's wearing my cuffs," Daja informed him. Now that she mentioned it the women was. She had traces of all there magic plus some weird purple stuff that was all over her. He would ask tris later. Niko called them to the cub where Niko asked Daja to use her magic to secure the women. Then they waited. He exaimened her. He knew the others were too but for a threat. Niko left after a while to do something Niko-y. She muttered a few times in her sleep.

Something about Gary and "where's my ****ing sword," Then she turned. "Who is she?" asked Sandry curious as ever. "Don't poke your nose at her. Shes not an animal!" Brair whispered angrily. "She could be for all we know," Tris told him. Briar noticed her stir.

"I think she waking up," mummered Daja getting closer. Daja jumped back as the women opened her eyes and stared at them blurrly. Then she was covered in purple fire. They yelped and jumped back.

"Why did she just get purple?" asked Sandry. Like they would know!

"Donno, why don't you ask her she awake now... I think" Tris told her. She could still be dreaming he thought.

"Well I don't know, she did talk a lot in her sleep" he told them. They nodded in agreement. Then they heard a raspy voice croak "Where..." she was cut off by Sandry screaming "NIKO!" The others covered there ears. Briar noticed a bit of purple fire creep out from the stranger. He was about to shout a warning when the stranger yelped. Good ol Daja he thought.

"$^#^%&!" he heard he swear. He nodded in approval. Here was a real women who wasn't dainty and breakable. Niko chose that time to enter. Some one misbehaving (or swearing) seemed to draw him in so he could lecture them.

And we know what happens from there. Sorry for taking so long. That was my attempt at romance. We'll just have to hope Alanna warms up to him.