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Chapter 9

Levy couldn't believe she hadn't made the connection sooner, just how dumb can I be? She thought as she ran from the ball with the book she had just stolen and tears welling in her eyelids at the frustration she felt.

~~~~~~ Flashback~~~~~~~

"I have to go check on something."

She had nodded but he hadn't seen because he had already turned around walking towards the stairs. So she watched him to find out who he was with her brown eyes narrowed making sure she didn't miss a single detail, as she watched him, she realized that he was tall, really tall and that she must seem tiny to him-not that she admit it.

It was also because she was watching that she saw him go up the guards and saw the guards treat with him respect. And it was also because she was watching so closely, that she could tell what he said.

"Send him to my office in the afternoon tomorrow."

So it was all because she was watching that she figured out he was, he was Gajeel the new guard commander who wanted to catch her and who had accused her of a murder she hadn't done.

~~~~~~~~~End of Flashback~~~~~~~~

"Argh!" She screamed into the night attracting several weird looks but she didn't see them.

Why was she sometimes so dumb? How had she not seen it? Lucy could have seen, so why hadn't she? Why had she enjoyed talking with him so much? There were so many questions that she couldn't answer running through her head so she ran faster down the cobblestone road as if she could run fast enough for everything to disappear. A lot of people turned their heads to see who would be running at this time of day. She couldn't see much because of her cat mask and the tears that had started streaming down her face, so when she tripped she wasn't all that surprised.

Instead, she picked herself up and took a deep shaky breath before she started walking calmly as though nothing had happened. The people staring stopped and lost interest after a few more steps with her calm demeanor. She had to act normal that way she wouldn't stand out, that way no one would remember her, that way she would just be like an everyday person. But that wouldn't matter would it, after all you talked to the commander himself, and he will remember you because you decided that you would do a dumb thing, the voice in her head said.

She winced, not that anyone could tell because she shaking from the run and the revelation, and most people thought she had been shaking from the cold the night had brought with its arrival. She took a couple other breaths to calm her mind because while she may have calmed her body, she hadn't calmed her mind.

Calm down. She thought, when you get to Porlyuisca's you are going to think answer the question right down the answers and then go to bed satisfied. It always helped Levy to think of what would happen and how she was going deal with whatever happened. And it helped, it always helped but now that she wasn't distracted she finally felt the cold and the sting of the scratch she had gotten when she had tripped. Whatever luck she had during the ball, had left her because it was especially windy tonight and the dress she had on wasn't very warm. It was like there was a bunch of holes and the wind went just through them to her.

She made it to Porlyuisca's and went inside her fingers touching the binds of books and stopping only when she came across a couple of the best books she had read. Like Graceling, Mysterious Benedict Society, Six of Crows, The magic thief, The False Prince, and The Sorcerer's stone, those were only some of the best books she had read. She debated of whether she should bring a couple upstairs that way she could read until she fell asleep and finally decided that since she had a bad day-or week more like it-she was going to take a couple.

She went up the stairs with seven books, they were Finnikin of the rock, Throne of Glass, The Poe estate, Outcast, Thief's Convenant, and Protector of the small. Once she got to her cozy room, she made a list of all the questions she had and answered them logically, and for some of them that meant putting that she had gotten arrogant and careless. As someone had told her, flaws make people but people can decide whether they are good or bad flaws (I made that up, is it good?). And she had gotten a couple bad ones, but no one is perfect.

She then read her books and re-read her favorite parts and skipped the parts she hated but knew they were necessary to the book. She got hot because of some the fight scenes had gotten her energized and so she opened her window and stood next to it for a minute or so. The cold wing felt nice against her small, hot, sweaty body and her blue hair swayed and brushed her face.

When she finally fell asleep, she was re-reading Finnikin of the rock and was at the part where…

~~~Snippet of Finnikin of the rock~~~

They both looked over to where Evanjalin stood, her nose pressed against the horse. Finnikin leaned forward to whisper.

"All that silence. It's not right."

"That would be the vow, Finnikin. The novices take it very seriously."

"I saw the novices of Lagrami often as a child. My cousin was one of them. They sang, they weaved, they planted roses. They did not fight like a feral in the King's Guard. They did not know the amount of damage the handle of a sword swung between a man's legs could do.

~~End~~

Levy had forgotten about the open window and so when there was a particularly big gust of wind, she would shiver but never did she wake up. At one gale, the piece of paper she had been wrote on fell to ground and turned around on its way there. And you could see that all the questions had been answered accept one instead it had two question marks.

Why did I enjoy talking to him- ?

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