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place with the exception of
us thinking about trying to find a way to wash the blood out of our
clothes. I even had the time to start thinking about how the Altors
must have come up with some kind of product to do such washing with
all the battles they had to go through.
    Before I could really get
into it, I was hit with a wave of electricity from Vervaine into
our hands, up into my body, circling my system and then slamming
back into her.
    It nearly forced us to let
go, but we stubbornly held on, our fingers tightening as we gritted
through the pain that followed. Detaching my eyes off our hands, I
looked up and gasped when Vervaine's pupils glazed and shone
brightly. I could see images in the depths of them. They flashed by one after the
other at a high speed, making it hard for me to distinguish
anything out of them, unable to identify what it was she was
envisioning. It was like she had turned into a hard drive and was
quickly downloading the memories out of me.
    "Vervaine?" I asked,
panicked when it seemed to never end, the feeling growing when I
was no longer in pain and could only sit here and wait. What was I
supposed to do?
    "Vervaine?" I repeated a
little louder this time and it seemed to trigger something out of
her. I yelped in fear when her pupils returned very suddenly and
the lost look in her eyes made me want to back away in fear. But
that gaze was quickly replaced by a look of
understanding.
    "Here," She said, unlocking
our hands only so she could place her bloody palm against my
forehead. "They are yours again." Her voice sounded distant and the
grass surrounding me faded away. I blinked my eyes, wondering if my
Altor vision was turning on, but soon realized my world wasn't
turning grey, instead it was distorting and shaping itself into a
new image.
    ~~~~~~~~
    "Why can't I just stay
with Uncle Jan?" I asked the tall man, reaching up to take his hand
in mine. Looking down, he offered me a smile.
    "Uncle Jan is going to
marry Iris."
    I frowned. "I don't mind
that. I'll be very nice to her. I'll even call her auntie if she
wants me too. Just like I call Jan uncle even though he isn't
really my uncle."
    Pieris chuckled softly,
but I could hear that he was a bit sad. "Iris would have loved
that. But, you see, she has a very dangerous job. It's not a place
for little children like you, Calycanthus."
    "So they are leaving me
here for my safety?"
    Pieris patted my head.
"Exactly so." He pointed at the house before us. "Stay here while I
go talk to Mina. She will be your new guardian." Pieris nodded over
at the group of children playing in the yard. "Maybe try to make
yourself some friends." Gulping, I watched him walk towards the
boarding house's entrance, leaving me standing all by
myself.
    "Are you an intruder or a
guest?" Someone asked behind me, making me yelp in fear and turn
around so I could see the boy. A long braid fell over his shoulder
and he had very funny eye color. He looked older than my seven
years and he was taller too. He looked nice though. At the very
least, the smiley on his t-shirt was cool.
    "You look like a guest."
He said and then grinned. "You have chocolate all over your mouth."
My eyes widened and I uncovered the stain of chocolate on my
t-shirt, placing my hands over my mouth to hide the chocolate there
instead. Laughing cheerfully, he pried them off my mouth, taking
one in his hand so he could pull me along towards the
house.
    "Where are you taking
me?!" I shrieked, kind of afraid. He stopped in his footsteps
instantly at my frightened shout, turning around with concerned
looking eyes.
    "I'm just going to take
you to the bathroom so we can get the chocolate off your mouth." He
offered me a small smile. "I'm not going to hurt you or anything."
Staring at him for a while, I tried to figure out if he was telling
the truth. After a couple of minutes I decided that he
was.
    "Can you give me another
shirt too? Mine has a big stain on it." I grimaced at the stain,
pointing at it so he could