Hidden Temples

(8) A new friend

(Rue)
The next morning I get up, and look outside.its pretty chilly. So I put on black tights, a long grey top, and a heavy black sweater.
I grab a pencil, pen, eraser, and my black notebook.

I call the wind mentally, and wrap it around me.
I much prefer calling the wind mentally. The gusts are somehow more powerful, an come quicker than normal gusts do. Not to mention the extra winds that come with it.
I command the winds to take me to the library.

Traveling with wind mentally, also gets me places quicker. But I wonder why it's not common. Jack said that no Lith has ever inherited that power before.
Then why can I do it?
I intend to figure that out today.
Hopefully.

The wind unravels me, and I look at the building. It's extremely skinny, but unbelievably tall, like defying gravity tall.
"Wow," I mutter under my breath.

I open the doors to the building.
In front of me stands a sign, that reads.
'Please take your shoes off.'

The door opens behind me, a beautiful, girl my age, with long black silky hair.
With clean and creamy looking skin, and a tall slim build, with beautiful glassy green eyes, comes in, and starts to take her shoes off.
"Are they actually serious? We have to take our shoes off?"
"Yep," the girl behind me says, in a soothing, and calm voice.
"It's holy grounds," she says mimicking the mistresses voice. 
I laugh.
She looks up at me, studying my face curiously.
"Oh! Your that new mysterious kid, who beat all those guys but's, you even bet Jack. I hear he's your mentor," she says wiggling her eyebrows.
I roll my eyes.
"First, I'm hardly mysterious, second I'm not a kid, I'm actually 18, and ya, that was really fun. But ya, Jack's my mentor."
"Cool I'm 18 to."
She holds out her hand.
"Ivory," she says.
I take her hand and shake it.
"Rue."
"Nice to meet you Rue, now I'm guessing you have no idea were any of the books are placed, let me help you."
"That be great," I say following her lead.
I untie my shoes, and walk with only my socks, as I follow her.

"What kind of books are you looking for?" She asks.
"Um...something about the old history of the winds and how they used it," I say hopping she won't question me.
"What for?" She asks.
"Just research," I say back.
She looks at me, unconvinced, but doesn't question any farther.
Instead she tells me to follow her, up, and up, and up, and up. All the way to the very top.
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"Here we are," she says putting her hands on her hips, why'll panting.
"You don't look tired, why aren't you tired?" She asks.
"I've climbed worse," I say.
She shrugs.
"I suppose. Look around here, it's the smallest section, won't take long to look through."
Ivory's right, there isn't much at all. There's only two shorter bookshelves, with old coverings and some with ancient lettering, that google translate can't even translate.

I look for one that catches my attention, and surprisingly, it's not the large one with the sea blue cover, and thin silver lettering.
It's a small fuzzy brown book with smudged black ink letters, and a thin string for a bookmark, that's almost completely hidden at the back of the shelf, beside a blood shot red coloured book.
I pull it out of its hiding place, and flip through the small book. It's in ancients runes.
I curse under my breath.
"D'you happen to know where the books of translations are?" I ask.
"Come with me," she says dropping her book.
Now she leads me, down
down
down
down
All the way to one of the middle floors.
"Can I see the lettering? I need to know, in order to find the book."
I pass her the book, she studies them intensely, then she mutters something under her breath, as she turns down one of the isles.

She climbs up one of the ladders, and disappears for a moment, before reappearing with a thin square book with the same writing on the book, but this one also has English on it.
I read the title,
"Deciphering runes."
"It has the whole alphabet in this lettering," she tells me.
"It's got everything you need in here."
I take the two books.
"We're do we sign them out?" I ask.
"We don't sign books out here," she says.
"We just take them and bring them back when we want to," she says again.
"Oh," I say feeling silly.
"It's fine, loads of newbies say the same thing," she says reading my mind.
She wanders towards the stairs, then she turns around.
"I'll see you around?" She says.

"Ya, I'll see you around," I say.
And with that she skips down the stars, and out of sight.
I stare at were she stood for a moment.
Did I just make a new friend?
I think.
I walk all the way back down the stairs, and slip on my shoes, before walking back into the chilly night.
I call the wind and order it to take me home.

The wind picks me up, and ruffles my hair, making me feel calm.
The gust plops me down on my new property, and I run toward the large temple, and open the door with the hiss of my password.
I climb and climb up to my room. But as I take my last steps on the stairs, I once again see Jack leaning against my door, waiting for me.
"We're were you? I thought you'd be home, reading or something," he says.
"Why are you at my door?" I question.
"I asked you first," he says.
"Ya well your standing outside of my room," I argue.
He runs his hands through his hair, witch I notice he does a lot, and sighs.
"I want to take you somewhere."
"Where at this time?" I ask, pointing to a nearby window, it's already getting dark outside.
"Do you trust me?" He asks, he says it so sincere I want to believe him.
Instead I ask,
"We're to?"
"Please?" He pleads.
I sigh.
"Ughhh, fne."
"But where were you?" He asks again.
"At the library," I say.
He chuckles.
"What?" I ask.
"Nothing."
He's really getting on my nerves.