Kissed by Chaos

Kissed by Chaos (12) - Encounter

Yay, two uploads in two days! I wrote this by hand and it seemed very long. I'm so sad that it was actually so short :(   About the song (Viva la Vida, by Coldplay) ... I think it just goes well with Raafi's situation, but I don't know if it's particularly suitable for this chapter. Once again, the image is not my own but found on DeviantArt.com . It's called 'Desert Warrior' by schattenlos. All credit to the artist. http://browse.deviantart.com/?qh=&section=&q=arabian+warrior#/d2u5fou

His eyes aren't green but anyway, I like the image.

Anywyay, enjoy! .. Do i say 'anyway' too much?

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Kissed by Chaos

(12) – Encounter

“You know, Raafi,” Sami began in an irritatingly happy tone, “you never quite told me the whole story about this Jinni.”

“I thought you promised me you would not utter a single world,” Raafi muttered in reply, attempting to steer Sami’s train of thought away from anything Jinn related. Raafi did not think he was ready just yet to talk about the very thing that haunted his thoughts every minute of every day. The very thing that had caused him to be driven out of his own home!

“I will not.” Without warning, Sami clucked at his horse and galloped in front of Raafi. Sami turned to face him so that Raafi had no choice but to come to a halt. Rolling his eyes at his friend, Raafi attempted to step around him. However, his attempt was foiled as his tall friend grabbed him by the shoulders and gave him a mighty shake.

When his head stopped nodding back and forth, Raafi cried indignantly, “Sami! You can’t do that!”

“And why not?” Sami inquired, arching one thick eyebrow. “Because you’re the prince of Mirzan?”

“Precisely!” Raafi exclaimed, slightly put off by the fact that his friend had so easily predicted his words. He had been wanting an excuse to give Sami a stern speech.

“Well, Raafi, out here you’re nothing but a man.” Suddenly, Sami cupped his hands around his mouth and screamed out, “HELLO!” Ignoring the startled whinny of the horse underneath him, he silently waited to hear the echo of his cry. After pausing for emphasis, he turned back to Raafi. “In this barren, lonely, forsaken land you are nothing but a man,” he repeated in an uncharacteristically serious voice. “The few creatures who dwell here do not care about the fancy title attached to your name. I’ve known you too long to think of you as someone who can order me around. So get off that high horse of yours and come back to the ground.”

Raafi was caught off guard by Sami’s little speech but it did not take him long to see the truth behind his words. Colouring slightly with embarrassment at his own inappropriate beahviour, he opened his mouth to apologise. Sami had already cantered off in front of him though. Nudging his own horse into a canter, he had soon caught up with Sami again.

“Listen Sami, I’m… sorry?”

Raafi watched with surprise as Sami turned around in his saddle and… laughed at him, of all things! Soon Sami was doubled over with the force of his laughter. Through tears of mirth he finally gasped, “Was that… was that an apology, your Highness?”

Groaning with frustration, Raafi swatted his friend in the arm. “Seriously Sami? That was all a joke?”

With a considerable effort, Sami straightened up and affected a somber façade, which soon cracked as he started cackling like a madman all over again. After several moments, Sami finally sobered under Raafi’s glower. “It wasn’t a joke, but you just took it more seriously than I had hoped.”