Into the shadow Chapters five and six
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They are fairly short I know, I hope everyone enjoys them anyway.
chapter five: a quest begins
It had been six days since they last saw Jay and the others. Brom walked up to Soro and Oramis. They were in a clearing somewhere far south. It was sunny, and contrasted to the events of the present, it was irony. They had set up a huge cream-colored tent in the middle, and six dark green tents for the rest of them. Archers, Warriors, and Strategists walked around like ants, shouting orders, meeting with friends, chatting about relatives. Some even wrote letters to loved ones.
"There are three more spies in our camp." Brom said, reporting to Soro and Oramis at the main strategy table, behind the huge cream-colored tent. He had been looking for spies via telepathy around camp. "His name was Matthias. The other spies are Sara, Marten, and Arthur. Arthur left as soon as he got here but the other two are still in our ranks."
"So, how can you to find them?" Oramis asked
"I think we should have Mina find the spies." Brom replied.
"Am I not good enough to find them?" Soro asked in an irritated sort of voice, the one she used with new people, who usually doubted her services as a woman.
"I have plans for you, Soro." Brom went on. "I want you to accompany me to find Jay, Cfett, Tyran, and Kentis. "If it's okay with Oramis."
"I think it's a good idea, Brom. You may go look for Jay.", Oramis responded, adding in a worried tone, "and please don't die."
"Well try our best." Soro answered. "Now where are we going to start looking, Brom?"
"Well I taught Jay everything he knows, and knowing him, he probably made a portal out, and unless you are a very powerful mage like me, you can only go to a place you have been before."
"So, what do you think?" Soro said, getting irritated. "There's about a million damn places to look."
"I bet he went back to the place of his birth." Brom said simply. "When a mage is in trouble, he always witnesses images, however deep in memory, of his place of birth. It is an instinct, useful for fast escape via a portal, but incredibly obvious. We will start there. But there's only one problem."
"Yeah, and what is that?" Soro asked, making to pack.
"Jay was born in the Clan of Shadows."
Soro and Brom left a few hours later, at sunset. Oramis summoned Mina to the cream tent to get her assignment. "Hello, Mina." He said as she walked in. "How are you today?"
Mina was seven-teen years old, like Kentis, and had nice, dark, hair, streaked with blond.
"I'm fine, Oramis." She said, sitting down on one of the sleeping bags, elevated by magic. "So, why have you called me here today?"
"I have an assignment for you."
"Does it have anything to do with the spy Soro found?" she asked.
"Why, yes it does." Oramis said, surprised that Mina had guessed her assignment easily. A glint in her eyes reminded him of a stalking leopard, and he suddenly felt slightly uncomfortable, like he was being scanned.
"We need you to find the spies here in the camp, and then go find Arthur, the spy that escaped."
"It shouldn't be to hard," she answered, "what are the named of the spies?"
"Arthur for one. Also Sara and Marten, they are in the camp right now."
"I'll get right to it." Mina said, "This should be fun." she said as she left.
"We need them alive!" Oramis yelled after her
"Yeah, yeah, I wont kill them. Just break some bones and such like that."
"Why did I choose Mina?" Oramis said to himself after she had left, "last time she went on a mission she almost got herself killed." And as he sat pondering the evening's events, he realized he was incredibly sleepy. It was nighttime after all, the sun had set. He slapped himself to keep awake, a decision that would prove it's worth much later.
Chapter six: The Herbalist
"Come on, Tyran!" Jay yelled. The group of four were walking through the forest. Tyran, who was still sore, couldn't move as fast as the others and had started to annoy Jay by lagging behind.
"Well, maybe if you didn't let me get shot I could move faster!" he yelled back, irritated.
They had been walking threw the forest for a while and had no idea were they were going, but Jay figured they would have to run into a village sooner or later.
"Why don't you just make a portal back to our old camp?" Cfett asked.
Jay sighed. "I don't have enough power to make a portal, getting here used the last of my law runes and I'll need more if I don't want it to drain my life-force. Plus, I don't think that's safe. Enemies might be swarming around there."
Jay's answer seemed to satisfy Cfett so he didn't ask more questions. They walked for a long while, enjoying the shade that the trees provided.
"Is that the end of the forest?" Kentis asked, pointing ahead of them.
"Finally." Tyran muttered as they walked to a point where the trees were thinning.
"Would you look at that." Jay remarked as they walked out of the forest. In front of them was a beautiful log cabin. It didn't look very old. In fact, it looked a bit young. "It's nice here, but you wouldn't expect someone to live alone in there. Especially with the bears around here."
"Well, we might as well see if anyone's home." Kentis said as he walked to the door. He reached the front step and knocked, waited, and knocked again. Nothing happened.
"Whoever lives here must not be home." Cfett said, "We might as well keep walking."
As he turned to walk away, he saw a young woman walking out of the forest. She had blond hair and was considerably tall, not as tall as any of them, but still tall and she looked about twenty years old. She looked at them with interest and addressed Jay.
"Well, well what brings you here? Have you come to buy something? Some herbs to boost your strength, or a good staff perhaps?"
She spoke with a strange accent that Jay couldn't quite place where it was from.
"Could you point us out in the direction of the nearest village?" Jay asked.
"Yes, I could." The strange woman replied. They waited for several minutes waiting for her to tell them. After a while, Tyran got impatient.
"Will you tell us for Pete's sake?" he asked not too kindly.
"Yes," she replied. They waited. After another wait of several minutes, the woman spoke.
"Well, why are you just standing there? You asked me if I could tell you and if a would tell you but you never actually asked me to tell you." She said in a plain voice.
"Fine." Jay said, "please tell us were the nearest village is so we can be on our way."
"The nearest village is Seers' Village. About 3 miles that way." She pointed the way they had been walking.
"Thank you!" Cfett said, "Now, can we go?"
"Well I guess you could but I don't see why you would." The woman answered him.
"And why would we stay here?" Kentis asked. "Well, because its almost nightfall and you don't want to be traveling in the dark, now do you. And besides, you look as if you have been through the forest for a while, and I love a good story. And I would give a proper meal and a place to sleep. It seems that you haven't had either in a long time."
Jay turned and walked to his friends, and said, "Well, what do you think? It would be nice to have a good meal and a place to sleep, and I don't think she means us any harm."
"It's fine with me." Kentis said, licking his lips at the thought of some food.
"Good, what about you two?"
"Fine" Cfett and Tyran both answered.
Jay turned back to the woman.
"Ok, we will stay for the night. By the way, what's your name?"
"I have gone by many names, but you can call me Silvia."
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