Hidden Temples

(5)Temples

                                (Rue)
I fall, and fall, until I land on a giant plush rectangle, I bounced a bit before jumping off gracefully.

Jack comes down shortly after me, but his landing was nothing but graceful.
"Pretty good for your first time," Jack says, running his hands through his hair once more.
"Why thank you," I say skipping towards the door.
Jack chuckled behind me.
"So we're here?" I ask.
"Yep, just behind those doors," Jack says gesturing to the large blue doors.

I slowly open the doors, and my jaw drops to the ground.
"It's...beautiful,"
I walk slowly out the doors. A crystal clear stream runs like a river all the way into the distance, with white temples perfectly lined up on ether side.
"There's stars in the sky," I say.
"So?" Jack responds.
"So, the suns out, and there's stars?"
He laughs.
"Yeah, it was designed that way, by our leader."
We start to walk.

"So, this leader of yours, does she have a name?"
"Nope."
"Excuse me?"
He laughs.
"She's an ancient one, she has no name, we refer to her as mistress, that's were we're going right now."
"Are we going to use the wind?" I ask.
"Yep, you try."
"What?"
"You try, that's what I said. Follow your instincts, you'll know what to do."
I stare at him, expecting him to laugh, and say he was kidding. But he just folds his arms across his chest, and stared at me. He actually expects me to do this?
I sigh.
Then I close my eyes, and tune out. I search my mind, for something to use, but it's blank.
I search deeper.
Somewhere in my mind a warmth erupts, I follow it deeper into my mind. I find the warmth, and I reach out to touch it. Suddenly something clicks, and the warmth explodes.
I open my eyes and hiss,
"Come," in the language of the wind.
A gust comes and wraps around my wrist.
I look up to see Jack with his jaw dropped to what looks to be the centre of the earth.
I grin.
"Didn't expect me to do that did you?" I ask.
He shakes his head.
My grin widens.
"How...how d'you do that, it takes a couple weeks for a Lith to perfect that, especially the language of the wind."
"Let's just get this over with,"
I say closing my eyes.
I whisper a command. Allowing the wind to wrap around us, pulling us closer together.

"Sorry," Jack mumbles when the wind pulls us closer than ever, so close that I'm technically leaning against his chest.
"The winds need to be closer to each other in this place."
"Oh," I murmur.
The wind whisks us away and I hiss,
"Master."
The winds start spinning and spinning. Until it spits us out, sending us tumbling across the lawn of a huge temple.
I land across Jack's chest.
"Sorry," I say struggling to get off of him.
"This way," he says knocking on a door.
"Come in," a soft voice calls from inside.
Jack opens the door with a click, and walks inside. I follow him down a long hallway, into a small room, were an old woman sits reading a book on an plush chair, facing a window.
"Mistress," Jack bows. The old woman turns around.
"Ah, Jack."
She stands up to face us, she has a tall, slim build, her long white hair weaved into a loose braid.
I can see why she's the ancient one, her deep blue eyes hold wisdom, and fire. She is quite an intimidating figure, fierce like a warrior.
"Ah yes, Rue, Jack has told me about you, exactly how he explained you. Jack has told me that you hold incredible power, may I see."

"See what?" I ask.
"Magnificent." She says looking out the window.
"What's magnificent?"
"I just spoke to you in the language of the wind, and you understood."
"Try speaking it," she says.
I do just what Jack told me to do, trust my instincts, I hiss the words,
"Like this?"
"Wonderful! Your accent is perfect, even better than some of the other Liths in higher levels than you."

"Her use of the wind is also magnificent, she even broke my wind barrier the day I first found out." Jack says grinning at me proudly.

"I see, try calling the wind," she asks me.

I calm myself, and try to sense the winds.
"Come," I hiss.
The winds flow into the room, and  I allow them to coil around my wrist, then I push the gust, to wrap around my waist.

"Amazing, yet curious," she says.
"Curious, very curious indeed."

I uncoil the wind, and set it free.
"She, could, start training?" Jack suggests.
"Yes, I suppose. Show her to her room tomorrow, she will start training. And Jack come here."

Jack walks up to the mistress, and she whispers something in Jacks ear. He nods.
"Very well, off with you two."
Jack opens the door and leads us out.

"So I'm going to train?" I ask.
"Yep, but some of the guys her are pretty challenging, I'll ask them to take it easy on you."
"It's ok, nothing I can't handle. I'm pretty good at footwork, I used to take fencing. And besides, I want to challenge myself."
He chuckles.
"What?"
"Nothing."
There it is again, 'nothing.'

"Do we have to use the wind everywhere?" I ask.
"Ya, pretty much. You want to do it?"
"Sure," I say commanding the wind to my side. I coil the wind around us, and it pulls us closer together.
Jack whispers the location of my temple, and the wind swirls for a moment, before spitting us out onto a garden.
Jack gets up, and leads me into the temple.
"Your room is this one here," Jack says opening the door. He hands me the key.
"When you use the wind tomorrow, just say battle grounds. It'll pick that up."
"Okay," I say.
"Well, night."
"Wait."
He turns around.
"Ya."
"You said you could make the noises stop."
I was actually pretty preoccupied to pay attention to the voices, to be honest, I couldn't really hear them the last couple of days, but their still there.
"Right."
He places his hands on my temples.
"I need you to clear your mind, let your thoughts slip away."
It's pretty hard to clear my head after I found out I wasn't human, but I suck in a breath, and close my eyes.
Jack whispers something softly, and the voices vanish.
"Better?"
"Ya," I say rubbing my head.

"I reminded the voices that your here. Every Lith is born with these certain voices in their head, but once you get here they can vanish. The voices just prove your a Lith."
"Oh."

"I've got to go," he says.
Then he summons the wind and wraps it around him, seconds later he vanishes.
I open my door, one large plush bed is surrounded by shelves of hundreds of books, there's  books everywhere!

There's also a desk with parchment and quills, but I was much more interested in the books, so I grab one that says, "battling with winds and sward's," and plop on my bed. Tomorrow's going to be very interesting.