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the Guardian. The Guardian would have sent someone with experience, preferably someone from Zargon who was dragonborn. But perhaps there was no one from Zargon to send. Lea Waterborn had not seen anyone from that world for a long time, and she had lost her connection with the Zargonian Watcher.
The Watchers of each world had a connection with one another through the Guardian of the Six Worlds and they were able to receive impressions and thoughts though this connection when they opened their minds to one another. Through her connection with the Watcher of Earth she sensed Mariah Templeton’s anxiety for Ben. She could normally sense each of the other watchers if she chose to, but now the Watcher of Zargon seemed to be missing from his post. Something was not right on Zargon. However, even if things were not right on Zargon a dragon could not have come through the portals without her knowledge even though they were creatures of great power and cunning.
“No,” the Watcher muttered as if trying to convince herself, “The Guardian would not have sent an inexperienced boy if there was a dragon. Certainly not!” Yet Lea Waterborn felt more anxiety than she had ever known in her three hundred years as the Watcher of Lushaka.
She stood watching the two boys ride off until they could no longer be seen. Her anxiety kept her from noticing that another pair of eyes watched as well. When the boys were out of sight, Lea Waterborn turned and walked slowly back to her office. It was not until later in the day that she sensed that Charla was absent from Fairwaters.
7 A change in Plans
Osch and Akca swam side by side. The fish conversed with one another and sometimes with Brina in their high pitched whistles. As the day wore on Ben and Brina had ample opportunity to share the story of their lives and discuss their respective worlds. Ben learned that land was rare on Lushaka. There were isolated islands, but few humans lived on them. Most lived on the lily pads and in the trees that grew up from the bottom of the sea. They even raised livestock on the lily pads, feeding them with sea grasses.
Ben learned that up to 50 years ago Fairwaters had human as well as mer students. A war in the world outside Fairwaters, between mer and Humans, divided the students. Most of the mer and all of the humans were expelled from the school.
While almost every other student was the child of parents with the ability to transform, Brina was the son of non-transformers. When he was young, his mother had taken him to see a nearby Island. Brina was fascinated by what he could see and reached out to touch a flower just beyond his reach. Brina was unaware as he did so that his tail disappeared, to be replaced by two very human legs. His mother cried all the way home. She never took her young son near land again. Over the next year she made some discreet inquiries that led to Brina’s enrollment in Fairwaters.
They stopped about midday and rested atop a cork lily pad that floated on the water. Akca and Osch disappeared. They soon returned with fish, which they tossed onto the lily pad at Brina’s feet. Brina took out a knife and filleted one of the fish, which he held out to Ben. Ben just stared at it.
“Don’t you want it?” Brina asked.
“What for?” responded Ben.
“To eat, of course,” Brina replied. “Don’t you eat fish on your world?”
“Yes, but not raw…at least I don’t eat it raw,” said Ben.
“Suit yourself,” Brina replied as he bit into the raw fish. Ben rooted around in his backpack for something to eat. There were eggs and dried sea cucumbers wrapped in seaweed. Ben ate two eggs. He was about to eat another, when Brina said, “Lea Waterborn told us to save the food she gave us for when we are on land.”
Ben wrapped the remaining eggs in the seaweed and returned them to his backpack.
After
The Watchers of each world had a connection with one another through the Guardian of the Six Worlds and they were able to receive impressions and thoughts though this connection when they opened their minds to one another. Through her connection with the Watcher of Earth she sensed Mariah Templeton’s anxiety for Ben. She could normally sense each of the other watchers if she chose to, but now the Watcher of Zargon seemed to be missing from his post. Something was not right on Zargon. However, even if things were not right on Zargon a dragon could not have come through the portals without her knowledge even though they were creatures of great power and cunning.
“No,” the Watcher muttered as if trying to convince herself, “The Guardian would not have sent an inexperienced boy if there was a dragon. Certainly not!” Yet Lea Waterborn felt more anxiety than she had ever known in her three hundred years as the Watcher of Lushaka.
She stood watching the two boys ride off until they could no longer be seen. Her anxiety kept her from noticing that another pair of eyes watched as well. When the boys were out of sight, Lea Waterborn turned and walked slowly back to her office. It was not until later in the day that she sensed that Charla was absent from Fairwaters.
7 A change in Plans
Osch and Akca swam side by side. The fish conversed with one another and sometimes with Brina in their high pitched whistles. As the day wore on Ben and Brina had ample opportunity to share the story of their lives and discuss their respective worlds. Ben learned that land was rare on Lushaka. There were isolated islands, but few humans lived on them. Most lived on the lily pads and in the trees that grew up from the bottom of the sea. They even raised livestock on the lily pads, feeding them with sea grasses.
Ben learned that up to 50 years ago Fairwaters had human as well as mer students. A war in the world outside Fairwaters, between mer and Humans, divided the students. Most of the mer and all of the humans were expelled from the school.
While almost every other student was the child of parents with the ability to transform, Brina was the son of non-transformers. When he was young, his mother had taken him to see a nearby Island. Brina was fascinated by what he could see and reached out to touch a flower just beyond his reach. Brina was unaware as he did so that his tail disappeared, to be replaced by two very human legs. His mother cried all the way home. She never took her young son near land again. Over the next year she made some discreet inquiries that led to Brina’s enrollment in Fairwaters.
They stopped about midday and rested atop a cork lily pad that floated on the water. Akca and Osch disappeared. They soon returned with fish, which they tossed onto the lily pad at Brina’s feet. Brina took out a knife and filleted one of the fish, which he held out to Ben. Ben just stared at it.
“Don’t you want it?” Brina asked.
“What for?” responded Ben.
“To eat, of course,” Brina replied. “Don’t you eat fish on your world?”
“Yes, but not raw…at least I don’t eat it raw,” said Ben.
“Suit yourself,” Brina replied as he bit into the raw fish. Ben rooted around in his backpack for something to eat. There were eggs and dried sea cucumbers wrapped in seaweed. Ben ate two eggs. He was about to eat another, when Brina said, “Lea Waterborn told us to save the food she gave us for when we are on land.”
Ben wrapped the remaining eggs in the seaweed and returned them to his backpack.
After
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