Grænin's Siege(Book 1)

Chapter 21

By Leafpaw1000
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Tara's PoV:

Briar is too trusting. That can be a good thing but in this instance, it's not.

We walked for another two hours until Briar started complaining that she was carrying too much.

"You should've enchanted your bag!" I said angrily.

"But I don't know howwwwww." Briar whined.

"Let me teach you." I said.

I tried to teach her how, but she ended up enchanting it wrong. Her bag now wouldn't hold anything, so she put all her stuff in my bag. I was angry, but I saw the purpose of it.

We walked for another hour or two until I was stopped by Briar again saying, "Tara, I'm tired!"

"Well I'm not stopping." I said.

"It's the evening though!" She whined again."

I looked to the sky and calculated the time. We could walk another forty-five minutes.

"Okay.  Let's walk another half hour. Then we'll stop." I grumbled. I wanted to get this done as fast as possible.

Briar had an idea. She grew a mushroom on the ground next to her and said, "Spores will poof out when it's time to stop! I invented it myself!"

I thought it was pretty cool, but didn't say it.  We walked along until POOF! The spores exploded on me, and got all over my shirt. I groaned and set up camp. I changed into a fresh shirt and made a campfire. Briar joined me on a log a while later.

I pulled out my clarinet again and started playing it. It was a simple melody. Only 10 notes. But I could repeat it a ton in different keys and it would sound new each time.

"Wow Tar." Briar said.

"Don't call me that." I snapped.

"That was a pretty melody." She said, ignoring my retaliation.

"Umm, thanks, I guess." I said, putting the clarinet away. "I'm going to bed."

I started to head to my ice hut thingy, but Briar stopped me.

"Hey Tara?" She said.

"What." I snapped.

"How far are we until we get to Grænin?"

I sighed. "I have no idea."

I turned and headed back to my hut. I fell asleep listening to the sounds of Briar stoking the crackling fire.

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