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Avin

The man looked away, and Avin relaxed. Rosemary and Jade were talking at him, and Avin was left to himself. Out of the corner of his eye he saw a sudden movement, and heard a sound a moment later. A sound like someone was humming a long distance away. Sight and sound met as a young woman ran against Lorcan and fell backwards, surprise written all over her face. Avin started toward her, but she bounced up again and stared, wide eyed and unafraid at the man in front of her.

Suddenly Avin was aware of some one talking next to him.

“Do you know where I could find some chemicals?”

Chemicals again.

“Does the castle control them? How did you get here?” It was Rosemary’s voice.

“Don’t overdue it.” muttered Jade. “You just met him sixty seconds ago.”

“Chemicals…?”Avin tried to place the word in his vocabulary. He shook his head. Perhaps someone educated would know, but not him. He looked the girls over, as if for the first time. They were. He could see knowledge in every line of Rosemary’s face, and there was a grace of movement that Jade had which contradicted her speech. It reminded him of Elsa.

“No, I’m afraid I don’t know where you can find chemicals.” Or anything about them. “I only just got here myself, so I know nothing about the Castle. He seems to have been here longer.” He jerked his head at Lorcan.”And I just…got here. What about you?” He was relieved to turn the conversation away from himself.

@e-n-leonard.