I reached my destination a few minutes after midnight.
"Where have you been?" Rajic asked. He took in my muddied trousers. Some of the sewer-water had splashed on them. "Oh, I was just- I fell down." I felt guilty about lying to my friend, but something inside told me not to mention my waterbending to him. I'm not entirely sure why.
"Well, we'd best hurry. We need to be out in the countryside by dawn."
Rajic and I got out of the upper ring and were making our way down the city when he realized that we wouldn't get far just on foot. We stopped by a stable to steal a mare. To Rajic's annoyance, I stopped long enough to place some gold pieces in the mare's stall.
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We were well out into the country of Ba Sing Se by dawn, and approaching the outer wall by ten o'clock. By noon we had cautiously exited through the gate, persuading the earthbenders who guarded it that we were going on a trip to see our aunt in a nearby village. Security wasn't too strict, fortunately, on people leaving the city. It was people trying to get in that they were worried about.
When the sun finally touched the horizon, Rajic and I stopped the mare for the night in a small forest. We set up camp and ate a small dinner. Talking to him was so easy. It was like I had finally met a person who understood my thirst for knowledge and who shared my outgoing personality. Eventually our eyelids drooped and we went to sleep, looking forward to tomorrow.
Fire Princess Kya · Tue Sep 28, 2010 @ 12:32am · 0 Comments |