Fire's Mage (Book One) Kyoko of Fire Country

Chapter Forty

Kyoko smiled at John as she showed him a seal on a ring, it was small and barely noticeable.Which was one of the reasons she had to point it out to John, if he didn't notice it without her needing to tell him.

Then Adrianne wasn't going to know what hit her.

"Neon orange," John asked as he looked at the ring in his hand, not putting it on any of his fingers. If he had done so, then he'd be the one with bright orange hair.

"Neon orange," she promised.

"How is she going to get it?"

"Stanley hasn't returned from work, has he?"

"Grandpa's not back."

"This will be easy."

John watched as she took out a note from her pocket, allowing him to scan the words written. It was something Ruby had shown her a number of times in the pass, letters proclaiming their love and admiration of them. Declaring their beauty and grace, something that made Ruby and Kyoko laugh to each other over the lies.

The gifts that usually came with said notes were always nice, gold and silver. Rings and necklaces. Gowns made out of silk grown in the Silk Islands.

"Gross," John told her.

"Gross indeed," Kyoko agreed, but she pulled out a small ring box anyway. Ruby wouldn't care if she had lost one of the many rings that Kyoko had 'borrowed' over the years. "But some people, idiots, think it's romantic."

Placing the ring into the box, and rolling up the note before tying it in a pale pink box. Writing Adrianne's name on the side of the scroll with beautiful hand writing, not the handwriting that Adrianne had seen from her before, nicer and used when she was trying to impress someone with her research. So only Dominic, Mrs and Mr Blackwater had seen her handwriting this nice.

"Now we just leave it where she can find it, or we can bring someone else into," Kyoko told him, John nodding his head while running out of the room, bringing Cecily in with him.

"So I just give this to Adrianne?" Cecily asked them, when Kyoko noted the girl took the ring box and note, putting both of them into her bag.

Brown eyes looking at her with amusement, Cecily was thirteen years old, along with her twin brother. She looked between the two of them, before sighing and leading them back towards the playroom, where Eliana and Ashley were playing tea party.

"So what does this do?" Cecily asked them as she walked to another table, Edward was looking at a wooden sword.

"There's a seal on the ring," Kyoko told her, John smiling at Cecily. "It'll change the colour of her hair."

"She's a bitch," Cecily told them. "I'll give it to her, Uncle Stanley should be back soon."

/B\

Adrianne was surprised when a girl was waiting for them, she looked at her with a smile. Stanley walked to her, but she whispered something in his ear and he nodded his head. Her brown hair was blend and her eyes were the same colour. She had short hair, barely touched her shoulders and looked four years younger then she was.

So she doubted that dear Sheikh was going to look at her twice, he had told her that he didn't like children like that. So this little girl would count as a child.

"Are you Adrianne?" she asked her, when Adrianne nodded her head she handed her a ring box and a note. "A gentleman asked me to give this to you, he said he was passing through."

"A merchant?" Adrianne asked her, when the girl nodded her head. This was perfect! It would make her prince jealous that other man were looking at her, like her love novels. He would be jealous and declare the she was his and no one else's. "I'll open this later, Winston wants Sheikh and I to train."