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Quickly after arriving in Orbis the Guiding Force’s elite rented five rooms in a hotel, The Yellow Rose, in the city’s finest district. Derrin was placed on a makeshift stretcher and taken to the hotel by three warriors. It was at this hotel that Derrin spent the next few days recovering. He woke up four hours after they arrived in Orbis, but quickly returned to his peaceful slumber. The next two days consisted of going in and out of sleep for Derrin. He saw Kayla rarely, as she had to help in gathering provisions for the rest of the Guiding Force that would arrive little by little over the next few days. He felt fine and yearned to be up and about but knew that he was still recovering from the battle, even if his mind couldn’t tell.

Finally, on the third day in Orbis, he was allowed to get up. The preparations had been almost completed, and they hadn’t been expecting him back so quickly, so he was left with nothing to do. The situation was an unfamiliar one; he’d always had something that needed to be done ever since joining the Guiding Force. The thought of being able to do whatever he chose was foreign and incredible. After getting breakfast, he set about exploring the city. It was beautiful in every form of the word. The sky was a solid blue and was filled with an energy unlike what he was used to in Victoria. The streets were paved with brilliant marble, the sun making them brighter than one would think possible. Fountains were everywhere: in parks, in public squares, in the markets, anywhere you went almost.

Not surprisingly, when he took a break around noon he found himself lying upon the edge of one, staring out into the sky above. He began to doze off as he laid there, eyes almost completely shut. A giggle brought him out of it with a jerk. He grinned, cheeks red with embarrassment, as Kayla sat down next to him. “Look at this,” she said with mock disdain, “I’m told you’re out of bed and fully recovered yet here I find you about to fall asleep.”

“It’s something about the place, so peaceful,” he said as he stared off into space.

She laughed, “It’s a welcome change from what’s been going on lately.”

He nodded; their relationship had been forged during times of distress, and they had been in times like these almost constantly ever since he’d really met her. To find himself talking to her with no reason but to talk was strange. Strange didn’t necessarily mean bad, though. He found that he liked this much more than shouting out from across a horde of enemies. It was. . . he searched for the right word. . . nice.
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he stood up, “Well, unlike you, I’ve got things to do. I’ve got to get back to getting food at the market for the Guiding Force. It’s necessary, but oh so boring. I wish I had to day off like you. Anyways, I’ve gotta get back, see ya later.”

“Wait,” he said as she began to leave. He couldn’t let this go: today could be the only chance to just have fun together. “Um,” he began awkwardly, “How about—since this might be the only free day we have for a while—we try to um. . . do something tonight. You know? nothing special, just hanging out or something like that.” Frustrated, he seemed incapable of finding the right words.

“Sure, that’d be great,” she said with a smile. She quickly took off before a departure could become awkward, and disappeared into a side alley.

“What have I gotten myself into?” he wondered aloud.

Before you yell at me about how short this is, listen to my explanation. The next chapter is going to be extremely long and it doesn’t have any real breaks. So ,instead of putting a third of it in this blog and totally mess up the flow of a majorly important blog (the next one), I decided to leave this one short and have the other one long. Anyways, you know the rest, click the button if you liked it and rate out of ten if you want.