Episode 7

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Soon Zain is surrounded by a lot of young ladies. Taking advantage of the

moment Spanx uses the crowd to escape the company of Zain. She keeps

herself hidden by one of the many statues. Then someone taps on her

shoulder she turns quickly.

“Hey glad to see you’re ok.” Rexen says with a small smile

“Thank goodness, I thought he had found me.” Spanx says with a sigh of

relief

“Are you disappointed that it’s me and not him?”

“Let’s just leave it as; for a prince, he is a bit hyper.” She says

“Should I call him over then?” He acts like he’s going to call Zain over

“Oh no; please don’t.”

She lightly places her hand over his mouth. He puts his hand over hers

then they both blush shyly at one another.

“So… um... what happened with that creature?” She asks as she takes a

step back getting closer to the statue.

“I don’t think here and now are a good time to talk about that.” He

says as he slowly loses the smile.

“Was Syi and everyone else ok at least?” she asks

“Everyone was ok thanks to you.” He says

“How long was I asleep?”

“You slept for three days. Yet your wound was healed within a few hours

after you had been bitten. Do you remember anything that happened?”

“The last thing I remember was that you and Maxen had fought it together

because I wasn’t able to stand after it had bit me.”

“Why are the two of you hiding over here?” Maxen asks in a low voice

“Wait; are the two of you having some kind of secret tryst?” Syi asks as

her eyes grow wide and she smiles.

“Hugh?” Rexen looks at Syi

“Oh no; I’m hiding from Prince Zain.”

“He has seemed to be looking around like he’s looking for someone.”

Maxen

“Awe the prince likes Spanx; that’s so cute. Lucky, you...” Syi says

as she smiles happily.

“Luck has nothing to do with this; and truthfully it’s not all that

cute.” Spanx says as she peeks around the statue.

“Well I have heard a lot of rumors about him since we’ve arrived at the

castle.” Syi says with a shrug of her shoulder.

“Really; I think I’m going to head back to my chambers. I hope you three can

enjoy yourselves. Let me know when a good time would be to talk.”

Spanx makes sure that Zain is preoccupied before she starts to leave.

“Yes. I will.” Rexen says as she’s walking away.

“What was that about?” Maxen asks a bit confused

“She doesn’t remember what happened that night; she was asking if we

could tell her.”

“Don’t you think we owe her that much; she did after all save our lives.”

Syi

The three of them talk as they watch as she leaves the main hall.

Once Spanx is back in her chambers she sits at the table and starts to

write a letter to Mila. Telling her about the events of what happened

so far.

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“Maid have you seen Spanx recently?”

“Oh prince Zain I believe that she retired to her chambers.” The maid

gives a bow.

Hearing the voices outside her room she quickly jumps into the bed and

pretends to be asleep. There’s a knock then the door opens and Zain

steps inside. He walks over to the bed side.

“Brave, smart and beautiful; just what I’ve been looking for.” He moves

the hair that’s lying in her face; then pulls the blanket up over

her shoulder.

“Sleep well.” He then leaves the room.

“Wow I can’t believe he actually believed I was asleep I thought that

only Mila would fall for that.” She sits up with a smile.

“I wonder why he moved my hair from my face.”

She gets up and goes back to the desk to finish the letter for Mila. She

seals the envelope and starts to get ready for bed for real when the

door opens.

“Spanx is now a good time too…?”

Rexen stops mid-sentence. With her back to him she turns her head.

“Would you mind turning around so I can finish getting dressed please?”

“I… I’m sorry. I didn’t mean to… you know… while.”

“Just turn around please.”

He turns and she finishes getting dressed.

“Ok, I’m dressed now so you can return around.” She says

“I really didn’t mean to… well you know.” He says

“Why don’t we just forget it ever happened; we should talk about what

happened the day with the creature.” She sits on the side of the

bed he sits in the chair by the table.

“Ok; you were with Syi. Maxen and I had been fighting it together when it

had fell we both thought it was over so we started to walk back over

to you and Syi.

“I remember sitting with Syi, because she was knocked out and I couldn’t

stand.”

“We only had a few steps before we would have reached the two of you when

you stood up, you said something that neither Maxen, Syi nor I had

ever heard before; but because of it you saved all of us.” Rexen

looks down at the floor like he’s remembering what had happened.

“I stood up and spoke to it?”

“You did, but the stranger part was the look in your eyes was of deep

mediation and so much determination. You looked at it spoke to it in

its language I assume. You used water, fire, and air all together you

took it out in one hit.” Rexen says with a little bit of amazement

in his voice

“I used air and fire, yet my element is supposed to be water and none of

you reported me; I really don’t even know what I should say because

thank you doesn’t seem like it would be enough.” Spanx lowers her

head

“You risked your life to save ours more than once. For us to keep one

secret for you it couldn’t be that bad, right? Just know your

secret is safe with the three of us.” He says has he pats her

shoulder.

“Thank you.” She gives him a hug. He hesitates at first but then hugs her

back.

“May I ask how long you’ve been able to use fire and air?”

“Well it’s thanks to you that I can use fire.”

“Me?” he gives her a look of confusion.

“Yeah, the day you helped with the injury I had on my ankle. When I

encountered fire, I became able to use it.”

“That’s really interesting.”

“Water was given to me by being raised in the water village. I was maybe

seven when an air villager was traveling through for trade. I wasn’t

paying attention I ran in front of a horse carriage I would have been

killed but the villager used the air to save me. Shortly after that I

could use air; of course, I had to keep it a secret so I found a

place just for me to be alone so I could practice using air and water

together.”

“That must have been strange to deal with at such a young age. Keeping that

big of a secret as a child I don’t think I would have been able to

keep it. Well I’ll head to my chambers now so you can get some

sleep; after all we have that banquet tomorrow. They even had a

uniform sent for me to wear to it.” Rexen says as he stands and

makes his way to the door.

“That was nice of them to give you something to wear.” She gives him a

small smile.

“Yeah I suppose that’s true.” He says

“Goodnight, see you at the banquet tomorrow.”Rexen leaves. Spanx uses the air

to blow out the candle on the desk. She lay’s in bed staring at the

ceiling going over everything in her head as she slowly falls into a

deep slumber.

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There’s

a young boy smiling happily as he runs through a small village. He

runs to a small house and when he opens the door he sees his mother

lying on the floor. A shadow figure goes out the window the boy runs

to his mother’s side. He lifts her head into his small arms as he

starts to cry.

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