< How do you know my species, twolegger? > He tried to say to the twolegger.
"Hey, did you say something? I'm sure I heard something." The girl said with question in her face.
< Yes, I said that, but hearing isn't the right term for receiving mindspeak. Do you have a name, Twolegger? >
"My name is Alex of Emilia and to answer your first question: Axually I didn't know your species by name. This name just popped up in my mind. It's always happening when I absorb a picture. I don't why I do it. It's something I do without thinking and I can't stop doing it. I don't even know if absorb is the wright name for it. What's your name, if I may ask?"
< You can understand me?! >
"Yeah, strange, isn't it! But you didn't tell me your name."
< I'm not sure if I should give it to you, I'm not even sure I should talk to you. My familie isn't really fond of your species. But then again I feel save around you, so: My name is Darkflames. > He spread his dark-red wings to show her where he got his name from.
"So I can see" Alex nodded "I come from Emilia as my name says. My family died not long ago. Don't ask me why, nobody knows. Not even the healers. I am old enough to care for myself and I wanted to travel. I left Emilia and entered this beautifull land. Others warned me for your kind, that you are not very friendly. But I guessed I could handle it anyway. I wanted to get as far away from Emilia as I can, and to do that I have to travel through this forest. They told me not to try and kill one of the animals here for that could cause trouble. I told them not to worry, I'm a vegetarian. My parents were too; my mom had wildmagic and she couldn't stand eating the ones that were so close to her. My father joined not so long after they married and I don't know any better. I have never eaten meat ever. I eat berries and plants. Now I'm alone, I wanted to friends with the animals I meet. I already know your travelar companion on your back, don't I? How are you little one, want to join my shoulder, I won't hurt you.."
The monkey hesitated, but then jumped from Darkflames to the shoulder of Alex.
"Back in Emilia I was thought that I was the one, who had to live with myself, so I could be everyting I wanted. I wanted to be a fighter, so they learned me archery, swordsmen and hand to hand combat. I already knew how to handle a knife. And after my parents died, I went off in to the wild. So now that I have told you my story, will you tell me yours?"
< I'm Darkflames and I was born in this forest, now I am three years old and almost full-grown. When I am 4 I am full-grown and in theory ready to search my own forest to protect. But I am far from ready. I still have much to learn about magic, but one thing I already know is that twoleggers aren't supposed to understand me when I mindspeak. How come you can understand me? >
"I think that's because of my mother had 'wildmagic', she could understand from mouse to dragon. Eh.. but from the dragons only the ones who can mindspeak, so that would mean the grown-ups. I guess that somewhere inside me, there is some magic I inherited form mom, but I couldn't feel the animals around me, before mom died that is. Everything feels different after mom died. As if there's more in me then before. But besides that I feel just a girl from 10 years old. I hoped when I was young I could become a knight but I guess I never will. Still I wanted to go to Tortall to see if the rumours are trugh, that they take girls to become pages. So now that we know each other a little, maybe you could tell me something: Why don't you're kind like us, it seems to me we could learn a lot from each other."
< If you would kill me I still wouldn't know, I'm already trying to get them to make contact, to find some way that we wouldn't be enemies... Maybe you can help! >
"How can I help, I'm just a little girl. Maybe I can get help form outside the forest."
Then the monkey was jumping up and down on the shoulder of Alex. Darkflames tried to sooth him, and with that he exadently touched Alex with his horn. There was a little spark, none of them saw.
~No, no-one from outside, they killed my mother and little brother.~ said the monkey in a strange mindspeak.
"Hey, now I can understand you too, how's that possible, unless...... Darkflames, I thought I felt you touch me with your horn, maybe your magic let my magic survase. Could that be possible?"
