New Friend

["Ruth!"]

["Ruth!"]

["Leave me alone!"]

["Ruth Wolfire!"]

["What do you bloody want!?", growling.]

["Get up."]

["If I get up will you leave me alone?", asking as I roll over on the bed.]

["Very much so."]

Rolling my eyes, I stretch and yawn as I force my body to wake; hopping out of bed before stretching while standing. Once fully awake, I answer my grandmother-

["I'm up. Is there something you needed?"]

["Glad that you're up; have you found what the mark means?"]

["Not yet.", I state.]

["Mhm; well I'll leave it to you then."]

["Do you know- And she's gone.", I begin then state.]

Groaning, I pick up my bag and as I was heading towards the kitchen; I hear Wyatt and Lexa talking. Turning invisible while masking my scent, I listen in.

"Have you seen the freak?"

"What freak?", Lexa asks.

"Your sister."

"Oh, her... yeah no. I haven't seen her.", she says.

"your not much help.", Wyatt states.

"Why should I worry about someone who doesn't exist to me?", she demands.

"She's the biggest threat to us!", snapped Wyatt.

"What's so special about her?"

"Everything."

"Everything?", Lexa says out loud while I think it.

"What does that mean?", demand Lexa.

He groans before talking, which by the sound of it, he moved closed to the wall I'm hiding behind.

"Have you dreamed of your grandmother?", he asks.

"Well... no, but why is that important?"

"Your grandmother was the queen of Tevelia before she passed do to some miss unfortunate."

"Are you saying that my grandmother visits me in my dreams to teach me how to become a queen?", she asks.

"Yes.", he says.

"How do I get her to visit my dreams?", she demands.

"There isn't a way.", he points out.

"Then why is she getting visits!", she all but screams.

"One, lower your tone and two, I'm not hundred percent why she is getting the visits instead of you.", he says

["Grandmother."]

["Yes, dearie?"]

["I just overheard Wyatt and Lexa talking and he asked

["ᚢᛚᛁ ᚷᛋᚡ ᛟᛚᛖᚡ ᛚᚡ- ᛗᚡᛖᚡᛁᚾᚱᛗᚹᚡᚹ. You need to get out of there.", she says before demanding.]

["Huh? Wait, what's going on?", I ask, shocked, then sounding confused.]

["There's no time, get out of there!", she yells.]

Not wanting to get on her bad side, I do as I'm told- once I'm safely in the kitchen; I become visible.

"Ah!"

Whimpering and covering my ears, side eyeing the person to see someone who looks like Celia but smells different.

"Mind not screaming.", I growl.

"Mind not scaring me.", they sass back.

"Who are you? You look like Celia, but you smell different, which means you're related to her somehow."

They stare in shock before blinking, lifting their hand to me then to themself as they tried to speak.

"What... how? When... huh."

Raising an eyebrow, but says nothing.

"Casey, what are you doing here?", Celia snaps.

["She doesn't sound too happy."]

["No, she doesn't.]

["What the fuck!", I yell as I slightly jump.]

["Language dearie."]

["Language? You're one to talk. Besides that, why did you say 'For the love of- neverminded' in our native tongue."]

["You understood me?", she asks shocked.]

["Y... yeah? Am I not supposed to?", I asked confused.]

["We're not in the same clan.", she points out.]

["Are you sure we're not in the same clan?", I ask.]

["Do me a favor, I want you to listen in to their conversation, okay?"]

["Okay?", I say causational.]

"ᚴᛖ-"

"ᚢᚹᚷ ᛒᛪᛖ'ᛋ ᚷᚺᛏ ᚾᚴ ᚹᛪᛟᛟᚷ ᛞᚺᚠ ᚲᚴ!?", screams Casey.

"ᚷᚺᛏ ᚱᚹᚺᛏᛃᛈᛖ'ᛋ ᚾᚴ ᛪᛃᛩᚤᚴ!", Celia yells loudly before storming off.

["That conversation, I definitely didn't want to hear."]

["So you understood them?"]

["Yeah, do you want to know?"]

["Yes."]

["Well, when I tuned in I got was, 'En-' then Casey said, 'Why can't you be happy for me.' which made Celia angry, making her scream, 'You shouldn't be alive.' so yeah..."]

It goes silent, which makes me slightly worried but turning my attention to the now upset sibling.

"Hey, why don't we get you something to eat while you talk about what happened? If you want."

"Yeah, that sounds like a good idea.", they mumbled.

Once I have them at the table, I grab themselves and myself a snack before heading over to her. Placing the snack down, she mumbles a thank you as she munches on it.

"Let's start by saying my name is Ruth.", I say.

"I'm Casey. Sorry about that by the way.", they say.

"Don't worry about it, but are you okay, thought?", I ask.

They nod their head before shifting in their seat, I change the subject since I know they don't want to talk about it.

"How come I've never seen you until now?", I ask as I finished the snack.

"I work in the neighboring kingdom.", they say.

"Which kingdom?", I ask.

They open their mouth before closing it and they do it again; if they work in the neighboring kingdom means one of two things: they're working in that actual castle of the kingdom or they're in a kingdom where they make you take an oath.

"How about I ask yes-no questions so you can answer with either a head nod yes or shake no.", I say.

They nod their head, and then they get comfortable, turning the chair a little to the left so I can lean back more.

"Do you work in the kingdom left from here or right? For this your can put you finger for one or two."

They put two fingers up; hiding the smirk that was going to pop up. Now I have to do is make sure that it's the right kingdom I'm thinking about.

"Alright, now onto the next question.", I say.

"Do you work inside the castle?", I ask, holding back a smirk.

They nod their head yes, smirking I lean forward onto the table before asking my next question.

"Are you in close connect with the king or queen?"

Again, they nod their head. Interesting, as I think another question- sensing another person coming, so grabbing their arm as they get pulled along until we're hiding in a storage closest.

"What are you doing?", they whisper yell.

"Saving your ass.", I snap back as I focus on blocking their scent.

They open their mouth when-

"Are you sure they're still here?"

"Oh, please, like Casey would leave without us have a 'conversation'.", Celia points out.

"So, do you know what's in your hand?"

"No idea, but they said it would help us."

As I continue to focus on what I'm doing when I suddenly smell something poisons. cupping my hand over my nose and mouth as my eyes widen in fear. Casey looks at me in confusion, and that's when I realize only dragons could smell. Slightly panicking, I try to reach Cheryl, but she's still not answering.

["Casey, I need you to get me out of here!"]

["Who's this?"]

["There's no time! Just find me a way out without being spotting.", I snap out.]

["Look I'm not-"]

["ᛞᛩᛖᛈ ᚲᚴ ᛪ ᚢᛉᚷ ᚺᛏᛋ ᛖᚺᚢ!"]