The Long Lost by Rebecca Woods

Author:Rebecca Woods [Woods, Rebecca]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2015-03-27T23:00:00+00:00

Friendships

One morning, a few weeks into our training, Woodarch met me outside my bedroom alone. I was surprised not to see Khalashaya but hid it and sort of leaned against the wall outside the door as if to wait for him. Woodarch grinned.

“We seem to have got off on the wrong foot”. I looked at him as if to say, “Carry on”. He seemed to get the message.

“Or rather, I got off on the wrong foot with you”.

I nodded, not sure what to say.

“Are you coming?” he said suddenly.

“Are we not waiting?” I began before I was interrupted.

“No, it’s me and you today. Khalashaya has other things to prepare for”. He said this calmly and in his matter of fact way but I did detect a microsecond of a pause between “other” and “things” and my curiously was piqued.

Woodarch smiled again.

“You won’t have time to wonder why so don’t worry Long-Lost!”

He was right. After a light breakfast of toasted bread and nuts we were out in the garden preparing to start training again.

He took off his cloak and threw it over a low wall. I did the same. I was wearing a long dark dress and thick boots so was covered enough to withstand some hard work.

“What are we learning today?” I said.

“You will learn plenty” he said, with a mysterious grin, “However; I would like to be the one that learns today”.

That confused me; I was expecting him to attack me with something monstrous.

He laughed.

“He said you would expect the worst from being alone with me. I told him not to worry. I think you can more than look after yourself, am I right?”

I nodded.

“Let’s just…talk for a while before we start any magical training today”. He sat down on the low wall and beckoned me to join him. I sat beside him feeling strangely vulnerable. I had never been alone with Woodarch before and was apprehensive to say the least. He was right though, I was more than capable of taking care of myself.

“What would you like to talk about?” I said, hoping I had injected enough nonchalance into my voice.

“You,” he said.

I gave him what I hoped was a nonchalant smile and nodded my consent. What did he want to know that Khalashaya hadn’t already told him?

“Did you always know you were not really part of the Blue Planet?”

“New Earth you mean”.

He nodded.

I thought about it. I had always known I was not like the other women who were too afraid to break the rules. The condemned women of Zafiya like Herena were more kindred to me than the never seen, never heard wives and daughters of the city.

However that was a personality thing and not something I could immediately attribute to being of human parents but not being human.

I had always known I was different. I looked different from everyone else. I was taller, skinnier and much more startling looking with my black hair, slightly pointed ears and very white skin. I had never enjoyed looking the way I did and felt it inhibited my nighttime outings in the ancient city.

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