Lilian's Story

The Desert.

Why did she have to go see the world? Including the freaking desert! She sighed and continued walking through the golden grains. “Why in the burning flames did the caravan leave me here? No offense Agnin…” she murmured to herself, her blond hair blowing across her face as she squinted her shimmering soft green eyes. Tears forming in her eyes as sand got in them, she fell to her knees and gasped for breath as the sweat fell from her body and dampened the sand before it vanished. She stood up her short brown dress discarding the sand slowly as she took a few more steps. She fiddled with her cracked ruby necklace, “Where is water when you need one? Azula if you can hear me please let it rain!” she cried out as she shifted the spear on her back. She looked at the cloudless sky and sighed. “…Nothing to do but to continue forward.” She muttered, “seriously Lilian next time you get the urge to explore do NOT take up the offer to be taken to the desert…” she muttered as she took out her water canteen and shook it lightly. She heard the slight sloshing and quickly opened it drinking half of it, feeling slightly better.

She continued walking lifting her high heeled knee high white leather boots with sea green trimming planting one shoe in front of her. She could feel the sun burning her milk pale skin, “ugh…I should have stayed in the city…” Lilian muttered, she usually did not complain this much, but she hated the heat. “Where is the town here…? And if I see that caravan again Imma gonna kill them…I paid them in full and this happened…” she thought of all the money she had spent to get here and moaned. She continued walking using her elegant spear as a walking stick as her dress clung to her body.

Soon she could not walk any further and collapsed propping herself up with her spear. “…darn it Azula, Agnin… forgive me for not being stronger…” she whispered a tear coming from her eye. She was going to die here surely unless she got some help soon.

The suns rays spread across Kalebs face as his eyes opened up and took notice of his surroundings. Perhaps his eyes were aware of the new surroundings before he did but never the less he looked around. He was in a very hot place which was completely white no matter where he looked and it was full of sand. {This is a desert I must have fell asleep on the chair again} he thought to himself as he looked around. He took his sunglasses off and tried to turn on his music player. "Damn it must be out of battery but if this is a dream shouldn't I have full control" he said tapping on the music player. " Oh well might as well wait here till I wake up" he said as he put back his sunglasses and layed back in the sand basking in the sun. He layed there for what seemed like an hour until he finally sat up. {Thought I would have woken up by now, I guess I won't wake up until I do something} he thought to himself as he got up. He than began walking through the sea of white. He continued walking for what seemed like hours. The heat was finally getting to him so he took off his leather jacket and wrapped it around his waist. "Shit I should have woken up by now whats the deal" as he looked behind him and saw the long trail of footprints. He then continued walking for what seemed like forever until he thought he saw what he thought looked like a figure in the distance. He smiled and said "Finally that must be where I have to go" as he started moving pretty fast. Eventually he got close enough to see some detail. It appeared to be a woman she was wearing a brown dress, knee high white boots, heels and she was holding a spear. As he got closer he thought to himself {wow, I must have really outdone myself, she is really pretty, too bad I won't remember most of this}. He finally approached the woman and said jokingly "Hello I don't suppose you know where I am do you?"

Lilian cracked open her sea green eyes as she heard a voice, “another idiot the caravan left behind?” she thought to herself as she turned to face an oddly dressed man, with red hair and a weird looking headband on his head, she tried to speak but found her mouth too dry. She took her water skin off as she gently took one sip. “You are in Langish Desert. Did the caravan leave you behind as well?” she asked as she looked to the sun, “…by Agnin and Azula the sun is setting…” she said with a sigh, “Good news less heat… bad news predators, now unless you are a master Water mage and can bring the water deep in the desert than we better get walking sir.” She told him. “Oh I am Lilian.” She added. “The town hopefully isn’t too far from here… but do you have a weapon in that weird clothing you have?” she asked him in concern as she leaned on her spear lightly so as not to fall down, her blond hair cascading down her shoulders as she gently touched her cracked ruby necklace with her milky pale hand, she was not built for this weather, or this territory.

The pale blonde woman looked up him and began to drink from her canteen. She then said “You are in Langish Desert. Did the caravan leave you behind as well?” He wiped his forehead as he thought {Langish Desert wow I have no imagination I might as well call it Languish Desert. Still what's with the caravan she was talking about.} She then began to say something around the lines of the sun going down. He looked up and saw she was right the sun was setting. {Finally hopefully I'll wake up soon, although that's kind of a shame considering the situation} he thought as he looked at the pale girl in front of him. As he stared at her he mostly blotted out the whole thing about the mage, predator, and walking thing she was talking about. She then said “Oh I am Lilian.” She added. “The town hopefully isn’t too far from here… but do you have a weapon in that weird clothing you have?” He then shook his head and said " Right...the names Kaleb and as for a weapon does this count". He then reached into his pocket and pulled out what appeared as a shiny metal object. He then flicked it and a blade came out. "Does this fit your repertoire, The let's go, oh and I will have you know my clothes are made from the finest leather money can buy".

Lilian nodded at Kaleb, “I would say a pleasure to meet you… but I don’t do well in heat…” she offered weakly as he pulled out something and flicked a blade out of it backing away in shock at that, “By Agnin how did you do that?” she asked before she shook her head, “Whatever… you can answer me later…” she commented as she shrugged, “Leather is good armor, but here… yeah it is a hindrance keep it with you if you want, if we are attacked by the things here it may save your life.” She proclaimed as she started walking to the east hoping to make it to town before the sun went down. She was curious about this odd man with the odd blade… but more concerned about living than anything else.

Her response to him was not surprising. People always did seem to think of him as odd. What did surprise him though was her response of shock to his knife being flipped out. He thought to himself { OK...that's kinda odd not sure why she would be so fascinated by me flipping my knife out and what's with her rubbing that necklace is it for good luck; A lot that will do in my dream, besides you gotta make your own luck}. As he began to walk with her he noticed she seemed to be very tired and weak. { Is she ok I mean she did say she did not do well in the heat} he thought as moved closer to her. "Hey..uh Lilian do you need some help, at this pace it will take quite a while to get to that town." he said waiting for a response.

Lilian smiled at him, “I am not built for the desert… or dry areas, I come from a place close to the ocean.” She explained as she looked around squinting her eyes to see what she could see, “It also doesn’t help that I wasn’t prepared to be dumped like that. I mean really who just dumps a paying customer in the middle of the desert?” she told him as she stumbled a bit letting go of her spear accidently. She reached for it not wanting to lose her main weapon. She sighed as she sat there to gather her breath. “I am sorry about this Kaleb.” She told him as got up, “Can you see anything?” she asked him. She was a stubborn mermaid… she hardly accepted help unless injured.

She was definitely tired but she stubbornly held herself up. He sighed and took off his glasses "Here take these they are called sunglasses they should help you see better when the sun is in your eyes". After he handed them to her he went a little further ahead. He saw what appeared to be a rock hill of sorts in the distance. He walked back to Lilian and said " There is a hill we can rest and make camp at." He wipes his forehead and looks at the setting sun " The suns going down, here let me give you a lift we can make it there faster and let's face it we both could use a rest."