Alisha Noor's Story

Alisha was going through the fields, looking for the ripe fruit of her hard labor of planting and now harvesting the crops. Today, she was in the orchard. They had several different types of trees, every other tree a different type of fruit. She picked the fruit that was ready, taking a bite out of one of the ripe apples she found. As she walked under the sun, she looked around to make sure no one was watching, and took off her outer dress, leaving her in a flimsy, loose white dress. She pulled it up, belting it so it was just above her knees, and continued to pick her fruit.

The dress was loose, and she felt free. As she climbed up one of the trees to reach some ripe fruit, she looked out over the horizon. To the East, she saw a dot on her endless horizon, a dot that was coming toward them. She knew she should tell someone, but she wanted to watch the dot. Alisha abandoned her task and started looking at the dot, focusing on it. It was scary, this unknown dot, moving closer at a glacial pace. Alisha knew of no life beyond her little island, and didn't want anyone interrupting her normal. She jumped down from the tree, pulling her normal dress back on, and running back toward the village. She had to warn someone! That dot would not interrupt her life! It would not interrupt her normal!

Alisha saw the prince and princess by the river, and ran up to them. Respectfully, she knelt on one knee, looking up at them both.

"Something odd is on the horizon, my prince. A dot, I can't quite make it out yet, but it seems to be some sort of water creature coming towards us," She let her eyes hit the ground again, knowing it was improper for her eyes to linger to long on the royals, unless it was a special occasion. Alisha looked back up, looking for any sense of listening in their eyes. "Please, my prince, you must warn your father. The something is odd, and coming directly at us. I feel ill when I look upon it, as if it brings something black to our world..." Alisha once again let her eyes fall, and she stood. "I shall return to work," She said, backing away slowly. When she was a respectful distance, she bowed, turned, and walked back toward the orchard.

Pay looked to the young girl who knelt at his feet listening to what she had to say before glancing back to his sister.

“Alisha, are you sure of this?” he asked looking to her

Awen jumped off her horse as she followed after the girl once she had left. Calling her name finally catching up to her grabbing her arm gently taking both of her hands into her looking into her eyes seeing the fear in them.

“Alisha, take me to where you saw this. I must see for myself.” She said worried for her tribe “Pay, go and warn father. I’ll find Setia.” She sighed as she and Alisha headed back to the fields. He nodded as he hopped onto her horse kicking it's sides gently as the horse took off at a dead run past the two girl toward the village.

Alisha took the princess to the tree, helping her climb up and pointing to the dot on the horizon. "There, and it's gotten closer since I left to find you! What is it, princess?" She asked, holding the princess by her back to make sure she didn't fall. She was certain this was against the rules of her society, having the princess high up in an apple tree, looking out at some mysterious dot on the horizon. She was certain, as well, that she'd get in a lot of trouble for not finishing the harvesting she was told to have done by sunset.

Alisha focused on the dot on the horizon, certain it was coming to them to kill them. "Princess, just so you know, I'll protect you and your sister with my life if that's what it comes to with this...monster," She said, picking her word for the dot carefully. She couldn't have been gone an hour, maybe two, looking for them, and already the dot was larger, and darker.

Awen looked at the dot it was something, but whatever that something was wouldn’t be here for a few days at least…she hoped.
She glanced to Alisha “You’re so sweet, but let’s hope there will not be a need for that” she smiled casually.

“Awendela, What are you doing up there! You’re going to get hurt.” Tecumseh voice was loud and strong as he moved in front of Alisha to help Awen. But, she didn’t use his help. “Alisha, you should have never…”

“Tecumseh, I am fine.” She said cutting him off and stepping in front of Alisha. “I asked her to help me into the tree.” She said looking straight at him.

“Where is this dot?” Enapay interrupted. The men of the tribe looking at the unknown dot for a while trying to figure it out though it getting dark before they could come to a conclusion. “We shall all retire for the evening and not let this bother us for now, let us men worry about this.” Enapay spoke to everyone who had gather, he was a natural like his father.

“Come on Alisha.” Awen smiled to her as they walked back to the village together.

Alisha was absolutely offended by his last comment. "Men aren't the only ones who can handle things," she said under her breath, looking at the ground. "My princess, I would be glad to come back to the village, but I still have work to do. I will return when it is finished," She bowed low, in respect, and returned to her work with the fruit. She knew this was something to worry about, and she knew she could handle it as well as any man. As she watched the group walk back to the village, she merely continued her work, singing in their native tongue, and glancing up every so often to watch her little dot as it seemed to grow like the moon in the sky. The dot would be upon them by the end of the coming week, if they were lucky to get that time...

As Alisha continued her work for the nexfew days, she always watched he dot get bigger. On the fourth day, she could finally see what it really was. Once she saw hat it was a large ship, on the fifth day, she ran to the village from her orchard, and warned the royal family.

"A ship!" Alisha announced, falling to her knees breathlessly. "It's a ship! That's what the dot was. And by the way it's moving, it shouldn't be more than two days until its upon us!" Alisha was nervous and scared, by kept a straight ace as she tried to catch her breath while she knelt at the feet of her nobles.