boo: Hey guys. No muses today, though I might get some later with the publics consent. This chapter is from Cora's POV, so you'll get a detailed description of Alato. Anyway...

ON WITH THE FIC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Solant: Rising Tide

My family... I miss them... Why were they killed?

Cora glanced at the boy, Alato. He had suffered and huge shock by losing his family to the Fire Raiders. She ground her teeth. How DARE Delemo kill Zaron? He would pay with his life for that. Zaron had been her only family ever since... She shook the thought from her head. She could remember that later. In the mean time, she kinda had a rugrat on her heels.

Who is this girl? She sure is quiet. I wish she'd talk. I'm bored.

She glanced at the boy again. His dusty blond hair was tangled. His clothes were pretty basic. He wore a gray tunic and brown trousers. His eyes were blue. And she needed to teach him to shield his thoughts. Undoubtedly he would want to come with her to stop Delemo. The bastard HAD killed every one he knew.

" Yo, kid."

" Huh?"

" Shield them thoughts, would ya?"

" I can't." Cora sighed.

" Listen, when ever you have a thought, try now to THINK it, try to just figure out what it is. Until I can figure out how to teach you the right way, that'll do."

How do I... Oops.

" Sorry."

" It's okay, just keep practicing. I need time for my own thoughts you know." She grinned at him to let him know she was teasing.

" Okay." She felt a thought nearly rise to the top of his mind. She didn't catch it.

" Better." She felt Catrat, the horse, freeze under her. " What?"

" Get off." Cora looked behind her. A little girl with black hair stood behind her. The girl's clothes were covered in blood and dirt, as if she'd been fighting. Around her neck she wore a necklace with a pendant shaped like a star. Cora wore one very similar to it.

" You knew Zaron."

boo: Yeah, I know. This chapter is short. I'd like to thank those that reviewed. I hope I get more soon. LATER! ^_^