A Misty Path

Chapter 2 (part three)

Ahlyias's POV

"I, I, I... am sorry." I stuttered. I had the habit of stuttering when I was being scolded.

 "I, I, I... am sorry." Master mimicked in a high falsetto voice. "Well, sorry doesn't fix anything does it." he exploded. I flinched as I felt some small blobs of saliva land on my face. 

"Do you realize how important she was." 

"I... Sir John was almost... I didn't mean... sorry" 

I scurried away. I wasn't mentally ---- or physically ---- prepared to face his wrath any longer. It wasn't my fault. Sometimes things just happen. I tried consoling myself, but in truth I felt horrible. Everything I did was trying to impress master. I was just very self-conscious. Every single time I saw a different maid whispering to her friends, I thought they were gossiping about me. I hated to be ugly, disappointing, or lazy, but sadly I was all of them.

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Ziroc's POV

 I felt some rough shaking and quickly opened his eyes and got up. I knew I was a fierce shade of crimson, but I tried not to show that I was embarrassed. They saw me sleeping. Goodbye dreams of being important. 

In our society we had a certain pecking order. There was the Lord of the Shadows. We didn't know what to call him because only one person had ever seen him, The Dark Lord. The Dark Lord was his "ever humble servant." Then the ---- excuse me most ---- testers. Then the knights and servants and pages and squires. I was some where at the very bottom. Maybe right above slaves.

"Umm...yes?" I muttered starting to look at who shook me up. My breath caught in my throat. She had to be Dark Lord's latest affair. She had straight dark brown hair, green eyes flecked with gold, and quite a figure. Ziroc, you idiot, you have a wife. I scolded myself. 

"I was sent here to train you to stop being, well, you."

"Oh, yeah I was just resting my eyes to recharge my power."

" Resting your eyes, sure." she muttered sarcastically

"It wasn't my turn to watch Azalea anyway so..." 

"I know" she interrupted

"I am part of the Amalazia family!" she declared, somewhat randomly.

I quickly bowed, the Amalazia family was an extremely important family of nobles. 

"Stop, I don't like such formality," she said, but I could tell she loved the attention.

She started explaining some exercises to increase my telepathic powers. Today was going to be a long day. I sensed that immediately. 

"Wait" I interrupted "Where's Azalea" Elfin names usually had a z or a (or both) in it.

"She's over with that darn nanny." I wasn't certain, but I thought she was going to swear but thought better of it and said darn.

"Wait, I don't know your name!" 

"My name is Zifna"

So I know you might think that it is pointless to add in Ziroc's POV, but later on it is important. Zifna and Ziroc will come in later. I didn't plan for them both to have Z names it just happened. I'm sorry I don't have the attention span to write long chapters, I get bored so I only write small ones. Thank you if you are actually reading through my notes. Last thing is some books add a glossary for the names. I've thought about that, but when I was reading some book I called one girl something then I got to the glossary and it said I was saying it wrong so I liked calling it what I thought it said. But please comment if you want one or not. :) Love You

-MJM