ETTING   OME   O   LFANDRA

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Jehann the Wanderer part 10.1

  "Do you really have to go?", Erich pouted. The cheetah-like boy stared sadly at Jehann, as she took two compasses out of a wooden box.
   They were in the supply chamber of Nirakai Meesha. The sun shone in through a long pane of glass that lined the area near the ceiling. The smooth, stone walls were covered with metallic shelves. The room was, also, filled with self-standing shelves; numbering six aisles with a barrel in each corner of the room.
   "I'm sorry, Erich," she sighed,"but I have to get back home. They must be so worried about me."
   Jehann was leaving today. Geni Long had mapped out the three worlds and RealmGates that the blue dragoness had to pass through. She could go to Alfandra directly from there, but with Avin'kar; they had to be cautious. The blue dragoness gave Erich a bright smile. "I'll be back to visit a lot", she smiled brightly at him. He gave her a weak smile in return.
   "Rashad", she called around a corner of an aisle. Her twin brother looked up from the lower shelf in the next aisle.
   "Yes?"
   She walked over to him, handing him the compasses. The male blue dragon takes and places them into two, brown travel bags. " You don't have to journey with me, you know."
   Rashad shook his head, a few slivers of a deep bluish-silver fringe settled between his golden eyes. "You /harass/ me, and then leave me?", he laughed, "I'm coming. Besides, your my twin sister and we've been apart since birth, I just...."
   "I know", Jehann answered silently.
    After a long silence, Jehann spoke up. "You're going to visit me, right? After all this is over."
"You know, I will", he replied," all the time. I'll just use the direct gate between our worlds. You'll do the same, of course."
 She nodded her head, "Everyone will be surprised to see you. You."
 "What?", he asked.
 The dragoness shifted a bit. "You want to go see our family, too....right?"
  For a second, he looked away. He sighed. "I don't know, you think they want to meet me?" "Oh, don't be so negative, Tehrann!" "Fine, fine, Jay. Don't go...", he paused, "What did you call me?"
 "Well, Tehrann. Can't I call you that? I mean, if you don't want me to use your real name, that's fine."
 Jehann watched her brother. He gave a her a warm smile. "Go right ahead."
  A loud crash sounded in the aisle behind them. They went to look, only to find various items on the floor and Erich in the midst of the mess; with a metal bowl on his head.  He tilted it up. "Um, I slipped?"
  Rashad shook his head as his sister giggled.