Chapter 1-The Carriage and a New Home
Everyone crowded around the windows to watch the handsome man get out of his carriage. Everyone knew who he was, well, everyone except one girl who sat in the corner of the orphanage ignoring the excited twittering and squeals from the other girls. The "nanny" called for them to line up. Tala, who was the tallest, was at the end. "You’re so lucky Tala!" the girl next to Tala whispered suddenly.
"How so?" asked Tala
"You are so pretty you will get picked for sure!" Tala fell silent hoping she wasn’t right, but knowing she probably was, her long unusual colored hair was intriguing and her long legs were elegant and beautiful she was also very tall. In this world of Juno many people were tall but Tala was taller: an attractive trait there. The man was now near her. He kept moving from one to the next asking each the same questions, then he got to her.
"Name?" she looked up at him with emotionless eyes.
"Tala"
"Species?" her gaze held steady and she answered emotionlessly.
"Human," she curtsied. "and you my lord?" she immediately bit her tongue; she wasn’t supposed to talk unless asked to but he answered her evenly,
"I am Kishi, a formless mage,” he said
Tala lowered her head and gray colored eyes.
"How would you like to come with me?"
"Neither like nor hate my lord"
"Then, you shall come with me and be my personal servant."
"Yes my lord. I shall gather my things immediately" she walked out of the selection room to go to her shared room as she ignored the whispers and glares of jealous girls, all of them wanted to go with Kishi. She was neither happy nor sad to be leaving the orphanage but there was something very far away in her mind that pulled at her heart; however, she ignored it and it went away.
"Are you going sis?" Tala turned around there it was again: that feeling.
"Ashley..."
"Don’t cry sis."
"But…I never cry." Ashley walked up to Tala and hugged her legs because she was so short.
"…you cry in your heart."
"How do you always know what I’m feeling?"
"I’m a centari, it's what we do" she winked at Tala.
"Even the oldest centari usually can’t see into the heart of people. Yet you are the youngest here..." suddenly Tala hugged Ashley back. A tear fell down her face then turned into a pearl as it fell. Ashley bent over to pick it up.
"Sis you’re a...."
"Shhhhh!" Tala held up her finger to Ashley’s lips. "I’ll leave my stuff to you because you are the youngest and newest here...plus I like you. I even let you call me sis." Tala said without smiling and grabbed a smallish box. "Keep that pearl with you, if you need me, as long as you have that pearl I will come." Tala left the room carrying her box to the room where Kishi was finalizing papers. Tala stood out side of the door and heard the end of a conversation between ‘Overseer’ and Kishi, “My father is making me get another servant. Jupiter knows why. At least it’s another girl.” Kishi gave a wry laugh, “Father wouldn’t have it any other way. he would kick me out.” Kishi stood up and walked out.
"All done." Kishi said, "Ready to go?"
"If you wish my lord"
"Then let us go" they both went and entered the carriage.
 kit_the_shifter · Sun May 17, 2009 @ 02:59am · 0 Comments |
