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This is Shadowsblade's first day at Whateley meeting new students and
getting all set-up for her time at the academy to come.
and to the authors of this universe --I just barrowed your characters
and I hope you don't feel I "bent" them too bad
Whateley Academy - Poe cottage
Wednesday February 14
I leave both Mrs. Horton and Everheart standing there in Poe's entry. I
walk down the hallway towards my room, as I get into my room, I pop
out of my armor, back to what I was wearing before.
I scrutinize myself in the mirror. I HISS OUT! "Great that IDIOT!
Peeper has got pictures of me wearing THIS!" I look into the mirror and
see almost all of me is visible in the near see-through nighty, I am
wearing "Might as well been wearing nothing! If those pictures of me
get around the campus somehow" I shake my head "I just know that
Peeper might be able to edit the photos just enough, so I can't get him
in court. Then everyone on campus is going to know where they came from
and WHO they are of! --great-- I guess I am going to be 'flogging the
dolphin material' I sigh out "Well I might as well get showered up. I
got a meeting with the chief in an hour so. Then I got to go to powers-
MID testing that sounds like fun."
So defeated I get out of my underwear. I find that the cotton bathrobe
that I bought over at the store, 'that I haven't had the chance to wash
yet!' so it has that stinky new smell on it. That's my next chore!
getting my new things washed. I grab the shower caddy and start walking
towards the girls the shower room. I almost get hit by someone zipping
down the hallway from the showers, obviously a speeder of some sort.
Once in the shower room, I notice a couple of girls already there I
have not met yet.
As I go in I say "Hi" to the two already there.
A really nice looking blond says back "Hi! you must be the new Drow,
Nikki said was coming this week?"
"That would be me."
"Nikki told me to watch you --as you might not be 'nice'? and
dangerous?"
I noted the girls looks. Sweet, innocent, bubbly, acts like a airhead?
but her eyes and voice say 'no' to me, she is hiding her smarts.
"If Nikki told you I am dangerous to her--that was before yesterday, we
made up-besides all my issues are with Aunghadhail not her!" I opened a
shower door, then I placed my shower caddy on the shower doors hook.
She almost spits back "Fine! but remember she is my girl--mess with
her--" I stop her with a glance.
I stalk over to her, to tower over her "ONE--never threaten me!--you
won't live to regret it! TWO! I will never hurt Nikki for two reasons,
she is a SIDHE! The other, she is now a friend! --GET IT!"
I growl out as, I turn from her "suingmc rivvil ligrr --henotep aslu
iltan elggen"
(silly human girl --almost got herself killed)
I walk back over to my shower.
The other girl there who was just watching us come to near blows,
finally says "HI" to me.
I almost laugh at her timing. As it was perfect. I say "Hi" back. I am
so near laughing now.
I then turn back to both of them. "Ahh could we start this over? let me
introduce my self I am Rohanna Leigh--and yes I am a Drow by the way--
not dark elf."
The blond takes a minute to say something. As I think shook her bad.
"Ahh hi I am Bunny or 'bugs' ----sorry I goofed I should not be that
way."
The other girl a very pretty Latina finally says after waiting for
'bunny' to talk "Hi I am Riptide or Elena. So your a Drow? So how do
you like being an elf? What do you do? Where are you from?"
"Hold on girl slow and breath between lines." I giggle out " Yes I am a
Drow. I love being a Elf OR SIDHE is the right term, but I will take
Elf to make it easy on you. What do I do? basically---I Kill---and
teach a bit. Where am I from? Not telling."
She just stands there. thinking on what I just 'dumped' on her.
I glance back to Riptide from my prepping for my shower. "Ohh and it
sounds like your from--let me guess-- Manhattan, Hermosa or Redondo
Beach?"
She spins fast back to me "How did you guess? That I am from Redondo
Beach?"
"I traveled there once. Is the surf at 'Dock" still good? and is the
fishing pier at Venice still a good place" I ask.
"Ahh ya 'dock' is just great and they just reopened Venice to fishing
last year."
"Humm is the 'Pike' still fun?" I ask. As I loved its rollercoster.
She looks at me real weird now "The Pike closed and was leveled before
I was born! How old are you!?"
I sigh "Too old" I then turn back to getting a shower.--'how much other
stuff is gone? from my life?'
They both get the hint in my voice and leave me.
Its then I notice a placard on the shower wall there and it said
something about Hydroflux--turning on the noise cancellation-?
NO USING HYDROFLUX HARDWARE
BETWEEN 6 AM AND 9 AM.
WE HAVE TO GET TO CLASSES!
ALWAYS TURN ON SOUND CANCELLATION
SYSTEM BEFORE USING HYDROFLUX HARDWARE -
YOU KNOW WHY!
THE FIRST RULE OF HYDROFLUX HARDWARE
IS YOU DO NOT TALK ABOUT HYDROFLUX
HARDWARE.
Okay whatever that means, it must be some kind of massage bit, or
cleaning off faster. I will try it? So I click on the button for the
noise cancellation, close the cover over it. I put my bathrobe on the
hook outside of the shower stall. Walk into the shower stall itself and
close the door behind me. I see the different knobs for the regular
shower and this-Hydroflux-? I get the regular shower up to temperature
that I like-then switch on the Hydroflux.
As the systems water hits me. I'm just lost in ecstasy! With it washing
all over me. The best feeling I've ever had YET! I am completely lost
in the moment-- screaming----moaning and enjoying every second of it.
My mind clicks off the time and a half an hour's or so going at it. I
turned off the Hydroflux, switch to the regular shower and clean myself
up as, I'm still standing there a bit weak in the afterglow of that
experience. I walk out of the shower, dry myself via my spell, brush
out my hair, grab my caddy. I then walk out the bathroom.
As I'm walking out, I bump into Gwen coming in and she looks at my
face. She sees a giddy grin on my face.
Gwen looks at me with perplexed look on her face "Rohanna what's the
matter with you?--and your eyes are glowing in a weird, neat color?"
I can only say one word "Hydroflux" as I walked past her.
She giggles and nods and as I'm walking out of the shower area. She
yelps down the hallway at my backside as it faded down the hallway
going back to my room.
"Welcome to the club!" she giggles out like mad at me.
I amble towards my door, and I close it after I go in. I then sit down
on my bed. All I can hear from Gwen her is giggling down the hallway.
As I sit on my bed I reflect 'That's an experience I might have to do
just about every morning!'
I'm thinking about it even more to myself--my still part male brain,
that is losing the fight fast--says to me 'If that's three quarters of
what it's like to be on the girls side of the fence during active sex!
Why is it so hard for you, to get one in bed? I don't get it?'
I snapback to reality after a couple minutes of just sitting there,
with a cheesy grin on my face thinking about what I just had going on
with the showers. I get up and start slapping my clothes on as fast as
I can. Knowing that I have to get over to the see the stupid chief at 6
o'clock, Like I was ordered to. I get everything on, since I know it's
going to be a MID test I only put on my workout pants, sweats and
sports top.
I leave my room, jog down the hallway to see Mrs. Horton LEERING! at
me.
"Yes! I am going --Yes I am sorry--and please don't be mad or really
worry about me going into the Grove --as it will protect me!"
I glance at the thermometer as I walk out the door, looks like its
reading about 5?or so this morning. I jump down the staircase and get
clear of the building wards. I teleport to security complex. A security
officer is standing there as I pop in existence.
He leers at my sudden appearance "lucky for you it's a green Flag Day!"
I am stunned at what he just said and I didn't even check! I have to
remember to do that every time! I wake up in the morning, see what the
flag condition is before I go around campus like that. I walk in to the
front doors and over to the officers desk.
As I walk up, I do have my head down "I'm here to see Delarose at 6
o'clock."
The officer behind the desk says to me "OOO Your the elf that got in
trouble last night walking into the red section by the Grove didya. I'm
pretty sure that our personal told you more than once, your not suppose
to go over there."
All I say to him flatly again is "I am here to talk to Delarose."
"Well go right on in young Missy, he's waiting for you."
I walk up to the chief's door and I knock. I hear "come in" --I open up
the door, then close it behind myself as I enter, then walk up to his
desk.
"Sit down please?"--- 'humm he has manners today'
Just as I sit down He starts into me. "You know what you did last
night? You were told about not going into the Grove! But what I'm
hearing from out of Samantha's report is that you're probably going to
use the religious defense that you have, religious freedoms and stuff.
Well unfortunately for us, it actually does protect you from the act of
walking into the Grove being punishable. Since we've had two other
elves and more go out there for the same purposes. We can't deny--you--
-entrance into there. Just know that is a dangerous area."
"Mr. Delarose, its not dangerous to Sidhe! Especially this Drow! that
is sitting in front of you. That Grove would never hurt me. I think it
would probably kill itself to protect me. So I'm not worried about it
one bit, neither should you."
"That's beside the point!" he barks at me "You disobeyed the orders of
my security officers!"
I look at him with a perplexed glance "You mean-- the robot?" I
question him.
"That was Samantha Everhart. One of the best security officers and you
blew her off! Then you called her a toaster! on top of that!" 'boy is
he mad! at me' I think.
"Well-- she is a robot?" I state back.
"NO! she's not, she's a cyborg."
I sit there thinking on it "Ahhh Delarose--the definition of a cyborg
is more man than machine? She's the other way around, she's more
machine than man."
"That's beside the point, that's Everheart! she's a human. It does not
matter how much the percentage of her body has been replaced by
machinery over the years, because it was needed to heal her up and keep
her alive!"
I look at Delarose. I say to him in a reserved tone "Okay--okay-she is
a person. I will genuinely apologize to her for insulting her like I
did. I didn't realize it. All I saw in front of me was a machine with
about 10 pound the meat stuck in it."-- I think 'I goofed on this.'
He stands in front of me "She is not a robot. NOT! 10 pounds of meat
stuck in a robot chassis. That's a living person out there. One I trust
completely. She's practically second-in-command of this office" he is
screaming at me now.
I look at him now, more harshly now. As he is getting on my nerves with
that attitude of his.
"Besides the point, you still went out there after being told not to."
I stand up in front of Delarose "You don't tell us sidhe, NOT to go in
the Grove again."
"What do you mean?"
"Sidhe and the Grove belong together that's all, there is to it! WE are
not going to be forbidden from going out there anymore or shouldn't be.
I will apologize to Everheart and I apologize to you now for using the
terms, that she's a robot, she's a cyborg, I will not say 'meat'
anymore in disrespect. THEN don't raise your voice to me. OR command me
like you're doing now, that's one thing I am not going to let anybody
ever do to me again!"
Delarose gets closer to my face "I'm in charge of this school and
security and I'm telling you what to do."
"No---you're 'suggesting'-- to me what I am going to do. The rules
here-I choose whether I want to or I want not to obey them at all. You
make suggestions. I either listen to your 'suggestions' or I don't. I'm
not going to be ordered about. I was before and I NOT going to have it
happen ever again."
Delarose realizes what he is doing, sits back "Yes okay--I did read
your notes, you don't like being ordered around. I understand that you
had a bad experiences with being ordered about."
I stop him with a yell. "myar lu'lgarr uk tanaleth'u" 'I then remember
'English' stupid!' (bad experience he says)
He looks at me like I have lost it --and I near have.
"Bad experience you say?--LET me tell you what it was. All they had to
do was say 'this is a command' and my free will was GONE! -Do you have
any idea what its like to sit in terror, helpless in the horror of your
own head? You can't do a thing, nothing to stop it! Then they tell you
to do anything, they want too? From just plain killing, to horrific
shit I want to forget-- BUT can't!" I sit back -"Sorry about that, last
night in the Grove was a bit 'emotional' for me and its still very
fresh in me."
He waits a minute for me to settle down. While he is--he thinks 'I will
have to tell Bellows about that little outburst, it may help him to
help her out' -- then he says-- "I will not do that again. I'll make
suggestions to you, I suggest is you have respect for my officers, When
they are wearing the uniform, are not being violent toward you in a
threatening manner or deadly manner-- unless of course you're attacking
them first."
"Okay we already talked about this right?-- yes-- I already agreed to
it. So do you have anything else to discuss."
"I don't at this point. I don't dish out punishments and since it looks
like your going to be dodging around the punishment for going into the
Grove. That's probably going to following include whatever you did with
Everheart. So you're free to go. Your supposed to go over to Doyle and
start doing your MID tests. After that I think your scheduled for
physicals at 3 o'clock."
I roll my eyes --kinda "Lab rat again! DAMN IT!"
"You just have to go through it. It is only one day? You will live
through it" he happily says to me "At least you're doing that here, not
ARC where you where at. This is a better place. So get used to being
here. The people around here are supportive of you, not in your way or
anything. But Thank you for coming in on time and that's all I have for
you. If you want to leave or ask me more questions it's up to you."
"Okay Delarose I don't have any more questions for you. You have a good
day.
I open up the door and walk out, the door slowly closed behind me.
Once I am out of the chief's office. I am back out in the main security
department area. I see Samantha Everheart standing there. 'good time
for that apology' I think.
I walk up to her "Samantha Everheart?"
She turns around to me from her paperwork "Yes Rohanna? You can just
call me Sam, you don't have to be formal with me."
"Can we talk in private Ms. Everheart?" I ask.
She looks around the room "Yes, why don't we walk outside for a bit?"
I turn around and walk out the door. As I do she starts to say "Don't
you need a coat----" she stopped halfway through saying 'coat'
"I don't need a coat Ms. Everheart? You remember that, shouldn't you?
"Yeah I remember that now. A girl that walks around in a near blizzard
like you where the other day, wearing what you where wearing, obviously
doesn't need a coat."
We walk outside and its slightly snowing and cold out.
"Ms. Everheart, I am genuinely sorry called you a robot last night. I
was going with a first glance contact with you and I was not exactly in
a clear mind at that point. I should've made the leap to assume that
the security staff here, would let an automaton walk around, do its job
and be in charge of people. That makes no sense, maybe having it
partnered with another person but not by itself."
Sam nods her head "Yes I understand you where not in exactly in a clear
mind and your first assumption was correct. Its was a brilliant logical
assumption at the time. The fact that you could tell was what amazed
me. That you could tell at a glance, that I was a lot different than
anybody else walking around here. I'm sure the chief has set you
straight with my situation."
"Yes, I hope everything goes better with us, in our relationship here.
I'll try not to disobey you again. I can't promise I won't -but I will
try."
Sam chuckles at that "Yes "try" as best you can. I understand you can't
promise that you won't."
I turn from her, to start walking away. Sam taps me on the shoulder. I
turn back with a slight jump! At her touch. As I could not feel it
coming? She moves so smoothly, I can't hear her muscles and tendons
flex or machinery in her move ---humm?
"I understand you do archery? long-range?"
"Yeah-- what about it?"
I've reread the report that the chief's got, since I am second-in
charge and I look through everything he does to. So you would call
yourself a sniper with a bow and arrow?"
"YA?" I am getting impatient.
"It said your best shots, maybe 2 miles?"
"Naww ---Actually my average shots are 2 miles. My best shot it's just
shy of 25."
She stares at me more than shocked "You shot somebody at 25 miles?"
"Ahh ya it was a planned shot, it took days to figure it out."
"That's insane! To say you shot a person at 25 miles?"
"You doubting my word?" She shakes her head in reply, so I go on "Yeah
I had a spotter help me out, we preplanned the shot. So they would be
standing in a specific spot. I was already launching arrows at that
point, where I knew they would be standing right where they need to be
to hit them. I launched my arrow while the target was walking, to that
exact spot and it landed right on target at that split-second."
Sam gets a little closer to me "You and me need to talk a little bit.
Because my side hobby and my specialty in the military was sniper.
Maybe you and I should hang out once in a while? Chit-chat the
difference between a gun and a bow an arrow."
"I have no problem with that, we can do that if you want, I would even
like to set-up a range here, that we both can use."
"I guess we could get some kind of electronic range set up?" she adds.
I look at her "If you want to, you figure it out. I give you the specs
that I think we should shoot at. I'll pay for it to be installed. We
just have to pick a good spot somewhere on the grounds? Maybe one of
the mountain tops, or a hilltop around here. To shoot at, so that we
get a clear field of fire and no one gets hurt?"
"Of course, I will talk to some of the gadgeteer's. Then I will come
and ask you for specs in a couple weeks, We will find out from there."
"Well thanks Ms. Everheart for your time and your understanding and
like I said sorry again about what I would call a definite insult to
you personally."
"Don't worry about it, I've heard worse over the years."
I look her over again "I have a question Ms. Everheart? You definitely
don't act like a 16-year-old girl. You're acting like a middle aged man
or older. I guess your going to have to catch me up on your story a lot
better? Maybe we will exchange stories? Because you obviously know mine
near completely. I will listen to yours later on."
"Definitely! its lunch date. We will talk over a meal one of these
days. AND is there anyway you can call me Sam and not Ms. Everheart? as
it makes me 'feel' old."
"Ahh No I can't Ms. Everheart, I have a lot of small compulsions and
people in lead positions? I have to use proper names. So it might take
me years to get over that with you. But thanks anyways see you later."
I turn around and walk out of the building I look towards Doyle. I
teleport over to Doyle from the front of the security building and
walk-in to the front desk. "I am Rohanna Leigh I'm here for 7 o'clock
MID tests" The lady there walks me down the hallway to where it is. I
start going through the same thing over again. The ball test, this time
they leave out the IRON cannonball! BUT we still do agility and
teleportation and everything else. They schedule me for all kinds of
crazy stuff to do to me. At about 3 o'clock, they wind up and say to me
'your are done here for the day. We have you scheduled at 3 o'clock for
your physicals. So go down this other hallway' they show me where to
go for my physicals.
I go through the blood workup again. Just like I did at ARC I make sure
that they can't use it for any magic spells, they examine my eyes
again, how tall I am, my weight, my hearts an MRI, another CAT scan. I
walk into the last office.
I see a man there with a name tag 'Dr. Poland' standing there. He
starts going over the basic physicals.
He says "At this time I need you to strip-down." he gives me a gown. I
start stripping down.
I ask "What part of the exam is this?"
He points over towards the exam table. I see the stirrups and all the
examination instruments laid out. I had a couple girlfriends and a mom
so I recognize the table!
"Your going toooo do a Gyne--colo--gical exam on meeee!" I stutter out
shaking at the thought.--'The still 'male' part of me wants to run
screaming from the room!'
He says "Yes its standard for every female who enters the school here
for a complete 100% physical, to make sure everything is good with you.
Especially since you just changed."
"I just had one at ARC! While I was unconscious. So I am not going to
do one with you! You can just go ask them for the records!"
He says back "NO we have to do one for our own records!" his tone, I am
NOT liking.
I near yell "NO! you're not, it's not gonna happen--not with you!"
He walks of towards me "I'm asking you please, cooperate and do as I
ask of you."
"It's not gonna happen!" I bark!
"We have to have this exam, you're gonna do it! You do it now!" he
barks --ohh he is so DONE now! HE ORDERED ME!
"Gaer zhah NAU i'dol natha rivvil jaluk zhah aluin ulu hirhelar uns'aa
harl gaer!"
(There is NO way a human male is going to examine me down there!) I
YELL OUT! ----'the thought of a male HUMAN touching me in that way
makes me ILL!'
I push him away from me.
He walks back up towards me, then gets somewhat threatening in his
moves and attitude to me, he is waggling a finger in my face "YOU don't
push staff around like that--young lady!"--- 'GOD I so want to break
that finger!'
I just stand there--at the ready--He just said 'young lady' to me!
which offends me. But I'm give him a pass on that. Because he doesn't
know anything.
"I have to insist! We must have a Gynecological exam of every female
who enters here on file and it must be done here" his voice is raising
in its tone towards me.
I am looking at the table and him and the instruments.--'Nope! my brain
screams at me' ---both sides agree on one thing today --both my old
male part and the old drow part --'NO WAY! is he going to do that!'
I shove him back against the wall and pin him on it "NAU JALUK! rak'nes
lowly rivvil zhah rin'ov aluin ulu xta'rl uns'aa wun nindel valyr!"
(NO MALE! especially lowly human is ever going to touch me in that
manner!") I YELL out.
He looks at me "WHAT are you saying? Its not English! I don't
understand you!"
I shake my head 'damn it I am talking Drow again' I think. So I repeat
it all just for him. "I SAID --NO MALE! especially lowly human is ever
going to touch me in that manner!" I say it a bit less loud this time.
"Don't get excited" he says to me. --'excited! I will show you
excited!' my brain reels.
I pop out of the gown, that I was already 'almost' into Then manifest
my armor. I am screaming at the top of my lungs "NO Lowly male human is
ever going to touch ME! in that manner! Its NOT! going to happen!"
I shove him in the corner by the door I am looming over him while he
shakes in fear. He reaches suddenly into his pocket, I grab his hand at
his sudden move and pull it out of his pocket. Looks like a panic
button is resting in his hand and he pressed it, as a small light is
now glowing and flashing on it.
The door opens up and near surprises, me as all my attention is on the
doc. A security guard walks in, I glare at the sudden appearance of the
guard. I push off the doc and shove him back harder in the corner. Then
I step back into the room farther to give myself more room to fight in.
The security guard says to me "Calm down." while trying to look non-
threatening.
I scan around the room to Dr. Poland and the security guard who is now
near to blocking the door. I don't like what I am seeing now. As the
guard is nearly filling the door that happens to be my only way out!
My mind starts clicking fast in a BAD WAY 'What are they doing?--he is
armed with more than one weapon, one is a gun!--are they delaying me?'
I start backing up and I'm feeling definitely cornered at this point--I
feel out to the buildings wards--shit!--they are good----going to take
a few minutes to find a hole!'
I look at the Doctor and point at him, then hiss out "That male! is
NOT! going to examine me! That human male! is not examining this SIDHE
in the way he thinks, he's about to do!"
The security guard says "Okay everything is fine" he backs out of the
room to now fill the doorway thus blocking it fully.
I leer at the Guard "GET out of the doorway because, I'm feeling REALLY
cornered right now and that's not a good idea" I had just barely enough
presence of mind to say that to him.
He nods to me--then gets out of the doorway. He hangs on the edges of
doorway, outside looking in at me.
The turn to the doctor who is still in the corner "YOU! can leave!" I
growl at him.
He slides against the wall, till he gets to the door and slides
outside. He calls to another Doctor--- "Ophelia---come here!"
The 'new' Doctor walks into my view at the door. I see her name is Dr
Ophelia Tenent by her name tag.
"Ophelia? its another one like Caitlin again! Your going to have to
handle this I guess. Why do I always get all the nuts!" he says to her.
I heard that! something clicks down in me, someone calling me nuts! is
just one of the biggest insults I ever heard!
I start to walk my way toward the door "NUTS! I HEARD THAT HUMAN!---
NUTS! I'll cut off your nuts if, you call me that again--human!" I YELL
OUT.
Ophelia catches my move and thinks 'Sir Wallace told me about this kid
and those red glowing eyes of her's right now--mean someone is about to
get hurt!'
Ophelia walks slowly into the room, while keeping her hands out to me
to appear as non-threatening as she can "Calm down now Rohanna, he's
going away, he doesn't have good manners when dealing with some of the
female students around here. He doesn't understand our position."
I yell at him, going over her shoulder "If he calls me nuts again! I
don't care what promises I made to Carson. I am going to hurt that
man!"
Ophelia calms me down and closes the door. "I'm only closing the door,
so we can have some privacy. I am not here to corner you or make you
feel bad or anything else. Can you do me a favor get out of the battle
armor there that you're wearing?"
I back up in the room, start calming down. I center myself to bring me
more to calm. I let the armor go and the gown comes back on. I am
breathing slow-- to keep calm.
"Good" she says "I am going to tell you a secret and only few girls
around here know this or changelings like you. I'm a changeling just
like the rest of you. Okay so I understand exactly what you're going
through. At least more than that idiot does! Why they keep on
assigning him to changelings. I'll never understand. You genuinely have
to do the exam. I'll do it, at least a girls doing it. I know your none
too happy with a human doing it. At the least it's a female
changeling." She laughs at it "that is two thirds out of three--all
right?"
"I guess we have to--right?"
"Yes we pretty much have too, there is no way out of it. It looks like
the only reason they managed to do that ARC, is you where unconscious
at the time, so you didn't really have a choice. At least now you have
the choice and you voiced your opinion. When it comes down to you
visiting from here on out. I'll make sure I'm on the top of your chart
as the only doctor you see okay?"
"Okay-- I relent." I say none too happy.
"Now please get up on the table?"
I do as she says--after an unpleasant half an hour plus of that
madness. I get my clothes back on and walkout.
Dr Tenent stops me as I walk out. "Rohanna you are one of the most
interestingly built kids I have ever seen at Whateley. I am going to
have to read up on you for next time, so I have more of an idea what's
in you? --humm the 2 hearts bit of yours really got me."
She hears my stomach growling "You did not even have lunch yet have
you? You did your MID testing straight through?"
"No I haven't, eaten yet"
"Well unfortunately for you you're going to go over and see Sir Wallace
and a couple of people at Kirby Hall for your magical MID
evaluation. So it looks like you going to have a very late dinner at
best. So go over there and someone is going to meet you out front and
show you where to go to. Because you have to go through a specific
door, that is not exactly viewable to everybody."
"Ahh Dr Tenent can you call Doc Bellows for me and tell him. I can't
make his appointment tonight?"
"I sure can, good of you to remember! Ohhya remember, I do teach some
of the magic classes here--so we will see each other!--now git along!"
I stroll towards Kirby Hall, not having done it before, so it is not
marked in my mind. As I am walking towards the building front. I don't
see anybody really waiting for me outside, because its colder then
heck! is my bet! I know everyone else is feeling it, to me its nothing.
I see the main door front of me and I see another entrance it's hiding,
kind of hidden magically
I figure 'well that makes more sense to go in that door. I am supposed
to be doing a magical exam. I should use the magical door, trying to
hide itself to get to it.? To me it sticks out like a red sign saying
'magical door here come in here!'
As I walk towards it and it opens up to me. What whatever magic lock
that is on it, is so simple to me, its like turning a doorknob. I walk
inside of it. There's no one there? There is an elevator there. 'naww I
will take the stairs' So I run down the staircase to the bottom floor.
Start looking through the hallways and wondering around.
There is no one there to ask questions? I bump into a lady in the hall
there "Ma'am? I'm lost? I am supposed to be here for a MID test, with
Sir Wallace and others?"
She looks at me somewhat confused at me being there? "Who let you in
here? Your a new student?"
"Yes I am going to be in a few weeks. When my first classes start,
whatever ones I get?"
"Well I am Mrs. Elyzia Grimes, I teach -Intro to Magical Arts- in the
magic mystic arts program among others."
"HI I am probably going to be in your class! I think my friend Nikki is
your teacher's assistant?"
"Did she show you how to come down here?" she leers at me.
"No I saw the door and walked in?"
"You saw the door and walked in? You have not even done the basics
class?"
"Yaa the door--storta stuck out--practically glowed and shouted "come
in here stupid it's a magic class inside!" to me?"
She is stunned -- then scrutinizes me a bit closer "Well Nikki did say
something about another elf coming to the school maybe? I've been
hearing Sir Wallace has been talking about a dark elf coming and I was
expecting someone looking like Jobe and his little minion."
I step back and glare at her "Jobe and his little minion as far as I'm
concerned aren't! Dark elves! They are Petri dish, DNA scientific
experiments, gone amok and I DO NOT consider them a true DROW like I
am! Its almost an insult of my being that they actually breath!"
She says "Hold on now, don't take offense at something that you haven't
even met him yet-- right?"
"NO I still take offense at them! That they think they are Drows and
dark elves." I point at myself "This is What a dark elf looks like!
What they look like? I've been described--is not what a dark elf looks
like. What I've been told they really are is some kind of Playboy
inspired dream of Jobe's for a perfect girlfriend! It's offensive even
think about it!"
She says "Lets not get on that tangent, you need to go back down this
hallway--How about I show you there and drop you off? to Sir Wallace's
group for you-- okay?"
"All right?"
"But glad to meet you, my name--Ms. Grimes-- is Rohanna and I'll be
seeing you in couple weeks?"
She leads me down the halls to a large main door, we go in and we're in
a large room and that seems to be pretty well magically warded and
shielded-- actually pretty amazingly well and some people sitting in
there, in an observation booth of some sort. She shows me that Sir
Wallace is there and Nikki's there, she's hiding in the corner.
"Hi Nikki!" she barely waves at me from the corner.
Sir Wallace introduces me to the other people "Mrs. Grimes do you want
to sit in on this one? It will be interesting!"
Mrs. Grimes walks up to Sir Wallace "She walked in the advanced door!
without even anybody showing her, she just found it instantly?"
Sir Wallace chuckles at that "I kind of expected that, the advanced
door wouldn't be nearly warded or hidden enough to keep her out."
He walks over to me, pats me on the back "Looks like you already found
out one secrets of the building, That most first-year students don't
get to see. The advanced door is usually hidden to people who have not
taken even the basic class yet. So your already ahead of the grade. But
I figured that already with your case.
He leads me to the main chamber. I can feel the wards pop into
existence as it opened up. He leads me over to a circle on the floor.
He says "I would like you to stand in the circle on the floor?"
I look at the Circle, then back to him "Your kidding---right?"
"I know you're leery about that but, I promise on my true name that
we're not going to hurt you, this poses no threat to you."
I say REALLY leery as HE Is a human! "Okay---"
I see Nikki's still in the booth. I ask him "Can Nikki hear us?"
"Yes -Nikki can call out to us via the sound system. Matter a fact,
Mrs. Grimes? open up the window so she can hear us just regularly,
Without having to worry about the glass."
The glass retracts into the boxes side. "Nikki, is it okay to be in
this circle?" I ask.
I could hear Aunghadhail's voice "It is perfectly fine sister, that you
can be in the circle. They are only using it to test you."
"I trust her" I say out and I step to the circle.
On that split moment Nikki's thinking --"Aunghadhail Why did you call
her sister?"
"We had a long talk last night, while you where asleep. Me and her
pretty much agreed, we're not in competition or fighting anymore. We
are just going to have long talks at night, when your asleep.
Everything has been patched up between us. You do not have to worry
about her anymore being any threat to your life or your good being.
Matter of fact! She is probably going to be one of the best friends and
protectors you ever had. So just be friendly toward her when you can.
Don't worry about being scared and hide back in the corner like you
just did. It is actually probably going to be an insult to her, if you
do it again."
"If your sure Aunghadhail, I will do what you say." I say again not too
sure of humans and the magic they do.
I hear from her, as I step in "I'm sure"
As I step into the circle, it pops around me. I examine the weave of
the magic, looking for the weak points. Already see three and I can
probably get out of it in a few minutes if I had to.
Sir Wallace walks out of the room "I can not stay in here, while we
test you. Please stay in here."
I think he is saying it to remind me not to go through the wards. As I
stand there waiting for them, I push against the weave of the magic
circle and it flexes a little. Finally he is back to the observation
room and then does a couple of incantations, that make the circle
expand around me. This gives me more space to work in.
Wallace says "Now its bigger, so we can have more practice room. The
first thing I want to know is, how do you gather up your essence? Do
you use Ley lines."
"Ohh you mean the normal Ley lines connecting one object and next in
the living force of magic? --No I usually don't use those because
that's what that the Bastard was basically destroying at the time, when
I was being taught how to fight with magic."
He asks "What do you use?"
"I usually use a the general flow of magic, that just seems to be in
the area. That's not actually connected to anything. Its always free
flowing, essence usually is always pouring out of something. So you
just suck it up like a sponge. If I need more of it, I usually tap into
the deep Ley lines that are underneath the ground that feed into the
secondary Ley lines, that come out of objects, people, plants and other
such things."
Sir. Wallace is amazed at that explanation of mine "Your tapping into
the MAIN Ley lines that go underground --that are attached to others?"
"Yes"
"May I ask how big are ones have you done?"
"I've done major ones, I've done up to a seven-point nexus in my life."
"You stood at the center point of a seven point Nexus and tapped that?
and your still alive?" he questions me back.
Mrs. Grimes contests Wallace "She has got to be----She can not be
telling the truth!"
I leer at Grimes. I am getting short in breath, Getting real mad at
her.
"Dos yor'enz losvael dosst dro a i'lutni uns'aa J'NESST! Neitar erg'les
ussta bel'la xor XAN'SS!"
(You willingly risk your life by insulting me WOMAN! Never question my
honor or WORD!)
Nikki near jumps from her chair, Aunghadhail's regal voice comes over
Nikki's body "Rohanna calm down. She did not mean it as an insult. She
is just surprised at what you can do is all."
I am still growling -waiting for an apology.
Sir. Wallace leans over to Grimes "This Sidhe is a little bit different
than most. Insult her and call her a liar to her face, like you're
doing. Your taking your life genuinely in your own hands. Don't ever do
that with her!--Elyzia."
Grimes says "Really? you think that?----"
Wallace nods, interrupting her "Yes I really think that Sidhe, in that
room could probably tear through that ward in a couple minutes and come
walk in this room to hurt you badly!"
Aunghadhail turns from looking at me to reassure me to Grimes from "So
do I and I am pretty sure of it. Your looking at the product of
hundreds! If not thousands of years of best Elvin training available!
In both magic, martial arts and Combat arms available.
Grimes looks towards me again "So she's an avatar?"
Aung says "No, she is a literal reincarnation of her older self. She is
100% possessive all the knowledge of a Sidhe that lived at the same
time I did. That was 40,000 years old plus and has all the training to
back it up. Almost all of that time of her life in combat, fighting
everything. Including the Bastard from before the Sundering. Even I do
not fully understand how she got to here and now, yet she did and with
all of her personal belongings it seems."
She says amazed "OH"
Wallace quoted her back "OH--yes she's the real deal."
Sir Wallace stands to ask me more "Since that's the way you resupply
your essence. How much essence do you think you would carry. You may
have an idea what Nikki can do so, what is your in comparison?"
I glance at him, then to Grimes. I say nothing, as I pace the room--
then I start leering at her.
"Mrs. Grimes, I know Nikki is your teachers assistant and student. I am
not! So this comes from me not her--I Think Rohanna is waiting for
something? As am I--You might want to Apologize to her?"
Grimes finally says "I am truly sorry for that, I was just surprised is
all."
"Finally! I WAS getting inpatient for that to come!" I leave off any
'thanks' as Aung had to remind her of manners! "Sir Wallace I have to
guess? as I have not seen Nikki empty herself? it's a maybe 3 to 5
times what she has got it. But mind this--she can! I can not yet? dump
all that into very large spells, I do smaller and faster ones."
Wallace says "Well that's pretty amazing, how fast do you fill up?"
"As long as there's not a lot of general combat going around me, where
people sucking on the essence as quick as the environment is putting it
out. I can refill my well in a couple days. If there is a regular Ley
lines and I'm completely drained, mattering on its intensity? I can
fill up in a dozen hours--less? If there is a primary Ley line, and I
can get close enough to it. I can be filled back up a couple hours. Out
in the Grove I could be completely empty. I would probably be filled up
in less than an hour? With a little bit of concentration out there. I
feel a couple nexus points are around here, so if I can get to them?
who knows how much more quickly I can fill up there?"
"For the next test we would like to see if you're okay with that, you
drain off almost all of your essence in the spell containers and we
will feed it back to you after you're done."
"Okay hope it's big enough" I laugh.
"You don't worry we have several available!"
He shows me the spell he wants done. I look it over. Okay it's a simple
one and the uses of a lot of essence for something stupid but it makes
sense for testing. I start into blowing off essence in that spell as I
was instructed. I blow off essence for quite some time and down to the
point where, I'm feeling really close empty and I stop.
"That's as far as I want to go. I never go to completely empty if I can
help it."
"We'd like to see a complete empty, Please?"
I'm thinking about his request and stalling 'I don't know about that, I
don't like being vulnerable' I stand there pondering this.
"You heard me promise. I won't hurt you. I will not allow anybody hurt
you in this building. Aunghadhail is here and she's okay with this."
Sir Wallace says trying to reassure me.
I start dumping more and more into it, for quite a while longer. I stop
and I am spent, really feeling quite tired from it.
"That's it I can't do it anymore" I gasp out "Anymore and I risk losing
my Well spark."
They are looking at the measurements.
"That's quite a bit there, we will discuss that later. We will start
releasing it back to you."
I start gathering it back up, its taking time. I finally get to a point
where I'm feeling pretty good. In about 20 more minutes I have most of
it back.
"I'll go to out the Grove tonight and tap off the rest. You can
disperse the rest of this--I'll be okay from here."
He starts questioning me about other things "You do illusions?"
"Yes I do illusions quite well. You want me to demonstrate?"
He nods--So I go through some of standard illusions that I do.
He interrupts me as I run through some of my illusions "What do you
consider, your most dangerous, powerful spell?"
I check over the wards of the room "Aaahh--Yeah I could probably do one
in here!"
"What do you call this spell of yours, that your about to for us?"
"I call it a Levin bolt of a certain style."
I start pull vast essence out of the near by Ley line, I found running
under the building, get into weaving it. The 'blocks' of my spell are
just starting to fall together.
Aunghadhail jumps up "NO! not that! Not here!"
I pull it back, before I fully formed it. I am going with her word on
caution.
Aung turns after watching me, I am sure she waited to see and make sure
I had stopped, To Sir Wallace, "Sir Wallace--that's not advisable to be
doing that here. I do not know if the wards of the building are up to
taking the impact from that. Not at the level she's going put it out
at."
Sir Wallace asked Aunghadhail "What kind of spell is that, I have
never felt anyone weave anything near it?"
Aunghadhail informed him "It's quite a dangerous and quite a hard to
control spell. It is also one that is very very difficult to get off.
Only experts, even at my time would do it. Nowadays? I don't think
that---- I know I can do it myself. Nikki? I will teach her to do it
eventually. But it's definitely not a spell for an amateur. I prefer
and advise, that we do it outside of the building if we are to do it
anywhere."
Sir Wallace turned back to me after taking sometime to think on what
Aunghadhail had said to him. "So Rohanna, could you tell me about that
spell more. Please?"
As I am about to start. I see Aunghadhail glance at me harshly, A look
that said to me 'don't tell him'
I stand there, not really knowing what to do or say. Wallace is a
teacher. Soon to be my teacher! But Aunghadhail knows far more than
this human does? I glance at her, hoping she gets via the looks on my
face 'why' or ?--- she does not respond to me.
I say. "Ele"
(Why?)
Aunghadhail says to them "Let me talk to her --she needs guidance on
this."
" L'sanrr ele nind zhal'la naut tangis'zhaun d'nindol obsul'ress wlalth
zhah, ka uss d'mina experiments lu''udtila ji ghil xuil natha --
vel'bol? blyn mon'tu nexus au a wun l'Ixaan. Ka nind hojh ol orn
obsul'ress l'gordo tier breche. ji xun naut tesso mina. Qualla."
(The reason why they should not even know of this level of spells is,
if one of them experiments and does so here with a --what? A seven
point nexus near by in the Grove. If they fail, it will level the whole
academy. So do not tell them. Please.)
Sir Wallace looks to me "What was that language?"
"Drow" Says Aunghadhail, then she goes on "Sir Wallace, We talked in
Drow to keep our conversation private--there are just something's that
are between only us Sidhe and especially us older ones like Rohanna and
me. So please don't ask."
Another lady sitting in the back says "That is not any 'Drow' that I
know."
"You know Drow?" I ask her, almost happy someone might know it "Well
speak it please--ask me the same question Sir Wallace did. the last 2
or so questions will do, or add more if you wish to give me a good
sample. Please ma'am?"
Out of her mouth comes a mishmash of stuff, that just slays the DROW
language to no end. I get like 2 words at best and that is only via me
knowing what she is trying to say.
I start laughing---badly "I am sorry( I laugh harder) please don't take
this as an insult--but what ever that was? It was not 'Drow'. If
someone taught you that? Please stop them from doing so anymore.
Because you almost got 2 words right out of the whole--what? 5 or 6
sentences you said" I start laughing again.
The lady sitting there looks at me harshly.
Aunghadhail is near laughing but, still manages to shake her head a
bit.
"vel'bol? Vel'uss zhah il?"
(what? Who is she?) I ask.
"l'karliik d'l'gordo faer tier breche"
(the head of the whole magic department.) Aunghadhail tells me.
"ohh shu --vith!-- yah xsa ol!"
(ohh shit-- fuck!-- god damn it!) I spew out. As I start kicking at
dust on the floor. (basically throwing a fit!)
"I am so sorry Circe, I never meant to insult you. Please take my
apology." I plead back.
"No--you meant it, and it is correct. I probably did learn it
incorrectly. As I got it --what? 4 generations of learning from the
source or better. Most via translated books. It is a DEAD language
after all."
When she said 'DEAD' She really poured on to that, to make it sting.
Aunghadhail and Sir Wallace both turned to her to glare harshly at her.
So was I!-- I was now mad as hell.
'I apologized as decorum demands and then she insults me. Then reminds
me I am the only one of my kind!--If I was not so mad I would be in
tears'
Sir Wallace Got up and said to her "Can I see you outside Circe, my
dear?"
They both walk out the door at the rooms back. As the door closes. I
toss a fit to end all.
"Nindel zhuanth et'zarreth vith'ez elg'caress, rivvil shii's ulu alu
yib yib xuil uns'aa! Usstan orn belbau ilta vel'bol il shii's"
(That old ass fucking bitch, human wants to go toe to toe with me! I
will give her what she wants.) I spout out!
"Nau dos orn naut! honglath harl. Il zhah testing dos doeb ulu kyorl ka
dosst fir'mul. Usstan shlu'ta tesso. Il zhah jivvust xuil dos. Ji fridj
fre'sla gaer calmly lu'jivvin xuil ilta rath. Usstan zhaun olt dubo
whol dos Ilythiiri ulu kyorl l' shar 'nibeless' nindel fol d'udossa
jivvin saph nindol. Jhal ol zhah vel'bol il zhah xundus ulu dos."
(No you will not! calm down. She is testing you out to see if your
stable. I can tell. She is playing with you. So just stand there calmly
and play with her back. I know its hard for you Drow to see the mind
'games' that some of us play like this. But it is what she is doing to
you.) Aunghadhail says to me. In a nice tone, that says to me --calm--.
So I do.
I nod back to Aung --'So she wants to play a game? I think I can learn
the rules fast enough!' I think.
OUTSIDE
Sir Wallace near grabs Circe by the arm "What are you playing at?
Messing with that Drow is a bad Idea, she is not stable. She tried to
kill herself the very day she changed! I don't know if she has gotten
better after leaving ARC. As it was too confining a space for her and
not the right environment for one of her kind at all. So you telling
her or reminding her that ALL THE DROW are dead is not something I am
not going to watch you do! to her! I know you run this department but
she is an asset I will not see played with!"
"What I am doing is seeing 'how' stable she is Wallace. As I have to
know before I bring a student in that can do that!--you did SEE what
she was doing?--She was tapping the Ley line under this building for
that spell.--It would have leveled the building I think, if Fey had not
stopped her."
"I trust Aunghadhail. She only stopped her, Because it might have hurt
the building, not leveled it. Rohanna had full control over that spell,
I saw that much. But do remember this, I have talked to Aunghadhail
about these type of Drow. They have a problem in seeing the world, they
don't see it the way me and you do. They only see straight lines in
thought, none of the twist and turns of political or plotting people,
make or do--they totally miss the other lines of thought. As she said
to me--- "They are simple creatures that love or hate fully forever.
They do not plot. Honor is all to them and so with that their word."---
- So don't make light of her--please--she will not forget it. Besides--
Circe. She knows magic like no other I have seen does--she just does it
so differently. Would you have tapped that Ley line??"
"No I would have not done that or could I even do it. That's why it
worried me."
"So please don't test her, as Carson did JUST that and Rohanna almost
just up and left the academy. But now she is here and Carson tells me,
she will hunt any mythos for us if they come again or get out of hand?
It is what she was 'made' to do."
"I read what Liz put in the files. I understand now. I will ease up on
her. So lets go back in."
I am standing there waiting of them to come back, so I can get this
over with. As they come in, I try to play cool and stand there rocking
back and forth on my feet, looking bored.
Circe and Sir Wallace comes back in, Wallace sits down. But Circe keeps
standing. She says to me "Rohanna I should have not said that to you
that way. Telling you that your race is dead and rubbing it in, is bad
manners of me. Sorry again. Lets please continue the tests?" she sits
down and grabs up a notebook.
"Circe, Everything is fine with us." I smile to her "So what's next?"
I change the subject, hoping they will go along.
Sir Wallace asks me "So please go on with telling us about that spell
you just did, Please?"
"Ahh Sir Wallace If we can go over that later in private please?" I ask
him.
"Okay if you want to do it that way. I am fine with it. So lets move on
and have you tell us how, you interpret spells then?"
Circe interrupts me as I am about to speak "No--I think we should hear
more about that spell you where about to do before we go on?"
"Ahhh Circe after talking with Aunghadhail, I think as she does, that
talking about a spell that high in level, where others may hear it. Is
like letting a kid have a loaded gun, So I will tell those I feel can
handle it before, I tell them." I let that one burn a little bit.
Circe sits back in a huff.
Sir Wallace changes the subject fast! "So lets go back too, what we
where on and have you tell us how you interrupt spells then?"
"I just in my head--I see it fit together like a puzzle. Each part of a
spell is block to me, so I just remember what block I see and redo it.
Its real easy when you just see it as little parts and each spell is
only about 4-10 parts at best. Once you get that, it goes REAL! quick.
This is how I was taught by my masters. Unfortunately by intent maybe
or design in my training. I have never really learned how to weave
higher level spells from scratch, like Aunghadhail does. But if I see
it done fully, I can almost say, I will get it and repeat it fully
after that."
"How about your speed? You did say that you do them faster?"
"I have so much practice its second nature to me. There's a number
spells I just do daily in my head even as I wake up in the morning from
meditation. I just practice on the 'parts'. I don't do a full spell or
form them up fully. Its just something to do while I am board, its how
I was trained 'if I am not doing something' I practice. Its burned into
me. I do it through out the day, it's just like walking, ya just do
it."
"So you just have a main set of spell parts or complete spells that you
use constantly that you've been practicing for years on end?"
"Yes, Sir Wallace. That's how I do it."
I stand for a bit thinking "To help you out---I think I know why you
are all shocked at how a person can tap a Ley nexus or major Ley lines.
You all see them as rivers? I do not, I see streams. You think you have
to 'jump' into the middle to tap it? No you don't, you can tap them at
the edge where the 'current' will not destroy you. You all probably
think you have to channel all of it? No again, you can take what you
need. Then, when taught right-- feed the excess back in easily. Does
that help a bit? And PLEASE don't experiment near here without more
help --as I like the campus so far, as it its now--not a smoking hole."
He nods to me "We will talk later on all of this today."
He looks at the rest "I think we are done here at this point. Please
Rohanna give us a few minutes?" he starts talking with the rest of the
panel.
"Well what do you all think?" he asks them.
"Elyzia please go first" Sir Wallace asks.
"She's definitely a five, she probably could go higher. It seems like
she's got enough power to be a true six maybe even on the edge of seven
just below Nikki?"
"Circe, if you would please next?"
"She's a definitely a strong five and she easily could be a six with
more training. It just seems, that she's had the basics of training
only in one school of magic. In that as she branches out she is going
to get stronger."
"Aunghadhail? what do you say?"
"I definitely would call her a five at this point. She could definitely
be a six, With training a very strong six at that. Maybe even a seven
close to what I can do in a 100 years or so of training maybe 200 years
at max. After that she can easily rival what I do. She definitely can
do certain spells in a more destructive way than I can, that's for
sure. But it looks like she has a complete lack of healing spells and
holding spells, none of that at all. Her whole repertoire seems to be
destructive or sneaking or breaking into places. Which makes sense for
how she was trained."
Sir Wallace says to them all "Okay we all agree on a level five for now
and a retest in sometime next year to see if she goes to a six?"
He gets nods all around.
Wallace turns from the group in the room, to look across the room at
me. I am just standing there looking deep in thought at ward line of
the spell circle I am in, testing it.
He asks me "Rohanna? What are you doing there?"
"I am just looking at the weave of this circle that you got me in."
then I finally flick at it and it breaks. I step out of it.
Ms. Grimes stands up to look at the circle better. "How many minutes
did you work on that?"
"Just now? about six or so, But I have been studying its since I first
saw it. It was a pretty durable spell circle. But it was simply built
and had three mistakes in it. So it was pretty easy to snap. Who ever
put it together didn't have a lot of concentration going when they did
that, it looks like they where distracted by something?"
Grimes glares at Sir Wallace "Hummm! distracted!? I wonder what or who?
Could've been distracting Sir Wallace when he was putting that spell
together?"
Sir Wallace clears his throat. Trying to innocently think of something.
Then Nikki lets off a giggle, Knowing full well what Ms. Grimes was
getting at.
(What I did not know is Sir Wallace is know to be a bit of a ladies
man. So I might have been 'the' distraction!)
He clears his throat again "Humm-- What we will call you is a wizard
five at this time. With training from here, you will get easily to
level six. Your powers in certain spells are definitely superb! My
offer still stands I would Like to tutor or mentor you on the side with
Nikki in the same class. She can learn some of your spell craft and I'm
definitely going to be learning from you, how you to spells in your
manner."
"I have no problem with that. An exchange of knowledge is always a good
thing!"
Sir Wallace says to me "They are still trying to figure out how? You do
your teleporting? Your not going to let us know that are you?"
"No-- its just the way I was 'built' is all." I actually see Nikki
wince when I say 'built'. "There's certain things I am always going to
hold back from all of you. that's the way I am in life. I don't have a
choice in the matter, so please don't press the issue."
Sir Wallace say "Okay then, we all are done! So see you here soon
Rohanna."
"So Nikki I am famished! We should go get some dinner!"
"I want to go to my room first, then I will join you for dinner." she
says back.
"Can I walk with you? Nikki?" I ask.
"Ahhh I don't know?" she still sounds scared to me. 'Did Aunghadhail
not talk to her yet?' I think.
"Okay" I say--very disappointed in her or Aung.
I walk out of the room by myself. Go outside and I teleport back to my
room back in Poe. I get out of my clothes really quick. Got my shower
caddy, then ran down the hallway to the showers and take a regular
shower this time as quickly as I can. When I get done I get redressed
as best I can with what little I have in clothes. I clean up the room a
bit, by tossing pretty much all I own in the laundry bin for a washout
tonight!
I run out of my door, around the corner of the hallway down to Nikki's
room then knock on her door.
A tall, thin black girl opens the door 'kind of cute in a way' I think.
I think her name is Chaka? as I have not met her yet.
She looks at me "Your new? I have not met you before?"
"Well so are you--I know your Nikki's roommate. So you must be Chaka?
or Toni right?"
"Yes-- hummm your not Jobe and you're not Belphoebe? You must be that
dark elf that was threatening Nikki! That she told me about!"
She moves into the doorway between Nikki and me. I can now see that
Nikki was in the corner, she was studying. Now she jumps back at my
sudden presence at the door. It now looks to me like Chaka has not been
told of me in a good way after yesterdays little chat with most of the
kimba's there in the sunroom and it looks like Nikki hasn't had time to
talk to her or neglected that.
Chaka interrupts my train of thought "You! where threatening Nikki with
a sword Gwen told me. Are you here to hurt her!?" She's definitely
getting an aggressive body angle towards me. Like she's getting ready
to jump on me at any second.
"No I'm not--I'm not here to hurt Nikki. I am here to talk to Nikki. If
I could ask you to leave the room? So that me and her can talk in
private. I would be much obliged of course."
"I don't know if I am going to leave you and Nikki here alone?"
I can see Nikki still in the corner leering at me and Chaka. I had
hoped that Aunghadhail had talked to her by now? It doesn't look like
she's fully talked to her yet. I could see Aunghadhail's demeanor pop
over Nikki, with that everything changes about her. She sits up
straighter and stops looking so scared at me.
"Toni please let us have the room-- child." her tone of voice is now
soothing to me instead of the grating it was just days ago.
Chaka looks over "Aunghadhail is this okay with Nikki?"
"I would not be saying it! If it was not okay with Nikki" The tone
Aunghadhail voice took, told Chaka to back off now!
Chaka leers back at me "Why do you want to talk to her in our room and
not yours? You have a single?"
I study Chaka "You don't know much about magic users do you? You just
live with one, you don't really question it do you?"
"Okay? well then educate me!"
I hesitate and breath out "Well I'm asking her to talk to her,
privately in her room which is her domain. What she has power in. Which
means she's in the position of strength in her room, because it
obviously has got wards in it. Among other magic's to protect her.
Where as if I asked her to talk in my room, she would be the prey in my
room and I would be the predator. So it would be impolite to ask her to
talk to me in my room, considering her position that she is scared of
me. Asking her to talk in her room as being polite and with manners."
Chaka contemplates me with a sideways glace "That makes sense to me!"
and she tumbles over the bed and picks up her schoolbooks and tumbles
out.
At the doorway, Chaka gets 'real' close to me--she whispers in my ear
"If you hurt Nikki. I don't care what it takes! I'll mess you up!"
"Chaka? I promise I won't hurt Nikki."
Aunghadhail must have overheard what I said "Chaka? a promise from that
Sidhe standing there in our doorway. Means ALLOT and you will learn
about that about her sooner or later."
I stand at the doorways edge "Can I have permission to come in?"
Nikki says back in her own voice this time "I don't know, if I want to
let you in?"
I stand at the door with the edge of her wards. I can feel them pulsing
at my feet. Knowing that I would be burned and battered pretty badly by
just walking through the doorway. It looks like Nikki or Aunghadhail
poured more on this rooms wards in the last few days --some are even
types that are aimed just at me, I can tell from the spells 'weaves'. I
look to her and I feel real disappointed right now and terribly let
down by Aunghadhail. Either Nikki does not trust me or Aung did not
tell her right or at all yet.
"Aunghadhail and me, we had a talk last night?"
Nikki says to me "She's telling me that. But I don't know yet?"
Aunghadhail tells Nikki in there shared mind "Just have her promise on
her true name. That she won't hurt you and you will be fine --child."
Nikki argues with Aunghadhail "I don't know?"
"You have to trust her on that. You know what a true name swear means.
So do not worry about it."
"Okay I'll do it" Nikki relents as she talks Aunghadhail in her mind,
Nikki comes back to me --here.
I am still in the doorway waiting starting at her. "Well obviously you
and Aunghadhail have been talking. So what's the decision? me standing
out in the hallway and we letting ever