Finally on to Chapter 2.
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I also want to thank everybody who messaged offering to help.
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Escape from the Foreverdark
The Gathering
Belar put her hand up and closed her eyes, a minute later she took her hand off the wall and walked away. Down the hall she turned and watched Zilvra put up her ward, and just like her room the ward was very powerful.
She wondered if her sister knew about the transformation in her aura, or if she is still clueless about the growing black and yellowish-white that is in her aura. She knew that Zilvra and Henri had a bond but how tight would there bond be.
This was the real reason to have them as allies, she knew that her baby sister now had a magical aura stronger than her own and she truly doubted that Henri was still human, the black in his aura was now covering his torso and she started to see a blue aura as well growing very slowly.
Zilvra took her hand down and could feel the power of her ward then turned to Henri, studying him closely.
I asked, "Can I trust her about Shyntaunlin? Hell can I trust her at all?"
Zilvra said, "You can never trust her. She told us just enough to get what she wants.
The fact that she was honest bothers me, she is a game master. Most of us play a game within the bigger game, she plays a game within the game that most of us are trying to play and sometimes much more than that.
She has run circles round Mica and she is her closest competitor in this family, even our matron isn't as good as she is."
I was shocked at how good the minx was and decided it was better to leave it and see for myself.
While I was checking her out, I noticed her outfit and asked, "Are those your new leathers?"
Zilvra looked down and knew they were the same she had tried on last night, she replied annoyed, "No, they are the same from yesterday but I don't understand they didn't fit and now they fit better than they did before."
I looked her over again and noticed her feet saying, "You forgot your boots, were you in that much of a hurry to get down here?"
She glared at me and said, trying to emphasize how dangerous her sister is, "Leaving her in the same room with you is dangerous and that is being very generous."
She tried to put on her boots which looked too small for her feet and sure enough they didn't fit.
She said annoyed in general but a little with Henri, "Now, these don't fit either. I have no boots that fit and this thing fits like a second skin. You did this somehow, I mean you touched these and now they fit even better than before."
She got up and walked towards me, as she did I saw her tattoo start to glow through her leathers and sure enough my families crest appeared on her leathers like it had been branded there. I could see she felt something from the exposure.
As she got closer I took the boots and asked looking for something to build a relationship from, "What are you feeling?"
She looked at me and grumbled, "I can feel the magic flowing through these leathers like it is alive with magical energy and your mark is now on these and the magic is flowing from it."
I remembered how when I walked past the room just outside my cell, how Dirzune felt sick and asked wondering if it bothered her, "In the other room there is a door, what is in that room? Dirzune couldn't stand it, whatever it is."
She looked at me like I had asked the dumbest question and said, "Your sword and the strange things that were attached to you are in there, I remember one of the guards telling me that nobody can go near that room, but I felt nothing when I walked past."
I had to think for a moment what she meant about the strange things attached to me, I think she is talking about my pistols. Then I remembered that when I unsheathed the sword it was the first time I felt that burn and now I have that new tattoo on my chest from the burning.
I handed the boots back to Zilvra, not really sure how I made her leathers fit so well and said, "I got my tattoo on my chest when I unsheathed my sword, so maybe it is magical or something. Can I have my sword back? Maybe I will feel that burn again like before or something."
Zilvra tried the boots on and they still didn't fit her, so much for that idea.
Zilvra sounded amused as she said, "You're not getting your hands on that sword, but I will go in and touch it and I will know right away if it is or isn't magical."
She walked off to the room where my sword was being kept and felt nothing. Looking around the small room she saw a male Drow sitting in the corner opposite the door.
As she approached the door he said his voice filled with concern, "You don't want to open that door."