I awoke to a sparkling room. For the most part, everything glittered the same colors as were typical of things on my plane. Looking around the room, I noticed there was a fireplace where crystal logs were burning. Even the fire had a mystical radiance; the tongues of flame shimmered as they flicked. Then I noticed the same female who apologized to me was sitting at the end of my bed.
Now that I was not looking through a glass wall, I could see her features more clearly. She was beautiful, with a radiant smile and sparkling eyes. Short and slender, she had ears that flowed down into thin tips that had a glowing blue bead at each end. She wore a light green dress made in the same way I had made my boots.
On top of her head was a thin circlet of crystal vines. Underneath, she had flowing brown hair with veins of what looked to be a purple amethyst running through it. I could have stayed staring for a bit longer, but she noticed I was awake and smiled at me. My heart almost jumped out of my chest, but then red hair flashed through my mind.
Blinking, I sat myself up and rubbed my head. I did feel better than before...right before everything had gone black. How long had I been sleeping?
"How are you feeling?" She asked.
"I am more hungry than anything, how long have I been sleeping?"
"I will have some food brought in with a new change of clothes and you have only been sleeping since yesterday."
The beautiful girl smiled as she spoke to me, but one thing caught my attention. Clothes? It was at that moment that something struck me, and my face turned red. I was not wearing clothes. Who undressed me? She seemed to understand my redfaced expression and made a small laugh. Even in my embarrassment, I still noticed how beautiful it sounded.
"Do not worry; I didn't change you." She put a hand over her mouth to cover her smile. "My name is Kade. Your friend tells me that your name is Dak."
"Ya, Dak is right, Kade is a nice name, I like it! Where is my big friend?"
'I am just in the other room. Come and eat.' -Stell.
"He is just in the other room."
"Yes, I just heard him there in the other room," I said without thinking as I started getting up and continued. "He said there was food as well."
"How did you hear him? I heard nothing but us talking."
She said gave me a puzzled look as she started to examine me closer. Great, you idiot, now she knows you can talk in your head. Maybe she will think I am crazy, and this can all get swept under the rug. Instead, she turned to me, and then without her lips moving, I heard her cute voice inside my head.
'That is amazing. I did not know others could talk this way, as well. I have never met another that could do this thing my entire life.' -Kade.
Kade looks as though she might explode with excitement. She had sent her voice so strong that the roar in my mind and made me wince.
"Are you alright?" Kade asked out loud.
"I am fine. Your voice was just a bit too loud in my head, that's all," I said noncommittally. My head was still echoing from her beautiful voice. Then I told her, "you just need to calm yourself when sending your thoughts, do not worry, though, I did the same to Stell the first time we did it."
"Who is Stell to you?" She asked.
"Stell? He is like a bother, I guess. We have known each other since we were kids."
In truth, where he came from is a mystery. Stell had been with my family since before I could remember, and my mother never talked about it.
"We have always been there for each other. I mean, he is always there to get me out of trouble, hehe," I chuckled.
"Must be nice to have him, I have no brothers or sisters. The Dark-Eyed-Ones killed them along with my parents. They were trying to steal the gems from our Great Gem-Hide Tree. The gems on the tree hold more magic than any other gems on this planet."
"So, you're telling me that these Dark Ones just go around killing whoever they want? Doesn't anyone try to stop them?"
"Everyone struggles against them, but they still attack us even if we beat them back. Once they get the gems, they force the magic to feed the machines they use to mine minerals to build their large stone towers. They are collecting power for something, but I don't know what they plan to do with it."
The next part seemed to shake up Kade because she started to get tears in her eyes, but she continued anyway.
"The worst part is they force the magic into their machine. They do this by constantly draining the crystals, causing the magic to become angry and unstable. The magic inside turns blood red and feeds the machines more energy, but this destroys the gems. It causes the once beautiful gems to go dark without color and become dark stones that never change and never break."
"I am so sorry, Kade."
I sat up with the covers around my waist and reached my left arm out and moved to put my hand on her shoulder for comfort.
"Who are these dark ones, and where did they come from and the towers? What are their purposes?" I asked, looking into her eyes.
Just as the hand was about to touch her shoulder, there was a loud explosion that rocked the house. The shaking threw me out of bed. I landed face down on the floor.
As I pulled myself up, I realized I did not have the sheet anymore. Frantically I grabbed for the sheet to cover myself self which Kade was still sitting on. How had she managed to stay on the bed? That sent me flying out of bed!
As I reached for the sheet, I stepped forward at the same time. My small left toes connected soundly into the nightstand, and I let out a groan of pain. As I tried to grab the sheet to cover myself, the connection with the nightstand had sent me spinning towards Kade.
The next thing I knew, we were wrapped in the blanket tight on the bed.
Cursing and blushing furiously, I asked.
"What was that sound? I am sorry about this. I will try to get us out just let me..."