Generous Green Chapter 2

   Chapter 2
Keylyn was cantering Annie towards a lane leading to Sacor city, when a figure in the woods made Keylyn bring Annie to a stop. When Keylyn looked over, there was nothing.
What was that?  The figure had left as soon as it appeared. Keylyn shrugged. Must have been the lighting, or an animal.
She rode threw the path that led to the field that Sacor city was across from. She squeezed Annie into a trot and they started to make their way across the wagon road .
Keylyn...  A voice whispered shrilly from the shadows.
At this point, Keylyn had kicked Annie into a slow, rocking canter. She was looking under her arm when she saw a flash of  chestnut and water flying at her.
“Show me haste ,Annie!” Keylyn and Annie propelled foreword, galloping wildly at the gate, she was in the middle of the field, the gate about a mile ahead.
She looked under her arm. It was gone. She slowed Annie down to a walk and pet her. After Annie was cooled down, she urged her into a trot for the remaining quarter mile.
“Greetings Rider,” the Guard greeted as she clopped by. She tilted her head and trotted on.
She rode in the city, approaching the stable when she thought of the shadow.
What was it? she thought And why did water appear near it?  The thoughts ran threw her mind as she untacked Annie, and let her into the big pasture.
She pushed the thoughts out of her mind as she entered the castle and gave the chief her letters.
                                 
Keylyn glided Annie successfully over the log. She liked keeping Annie sharp and always had her jump the small course behind the burnt down Rider building.
“Good Girl!” Keylyn phrased when they finished, smacking her coat affectionately. “ Let’s hope we get a message to delivered soon.”
Keylyn dismounted and ed Annie into the stables. After putting her in her stall and filling her hay feeder, she went to work at brushing her until all the dirt and light sweat was gone from her mahogany coat. Keylyn knew that Annie wouldn’t shine, due top her winter coat making her look more rugged than ever. She buckled on Annie’s blanket and finally gave her an apple before saying goodbye.
At the rider corridor, Keylyn was about to push open the door when she heard a noise inside. She put her ear against the door and listened.
“ I am relying this very important duty on you. Now don’t disapoint me. I will leave now.” A female voice finished off, and then there was the sound of someone slipping out the stone window and then no noises that of loud enough for Keylyn to hear were made.
Deciding not to enter the rom alone, Keylyn strode into the common room to find  Mara siting in front of the fire as Keylyn strode in.
“Mara, I heard a voice in my room, I didn’t think it was safe to enter alone,” Keylyn whispered.
“ I’ll come, just a second.” Mara replied in the same tone, getting up and creeping quietly down the hall with Keylyn.
Mara paused at the door and looked back at Keylyn. She put up her fingers in a count down from three, and mouthed them.
Mara burst through the door that swung open. But the room was empty... or was it. Mara and Keylyn stared dumbfounded at the bed, for lying in the middle, was a blue-grey cat.
The cat looked up from rasping it’s tongue over it’s fur to them and meowed, staring at them with icy-blue eyes.
Mara was the first to find her voice. “ You obviously didn’t adopt it, according to your face. But my questions are... Why is it here? and Why you?”
“ I- I don’t know. The only suspicious thing that happened to me was yesterday when I was bringing in my message,” Keylyn explained. “ And I heard my name whispered. I looked back to see I had to gallop from this water, it was flying at me”
Mara stared at her. “ Why didn’t you tell us this before?”
“ Well, I looked back to see everything as normal... by that I mean nothing was covered in water,” Keylyn explained.
“ I know, but you should have, that could have been an Eletian like Shawell or something!” At that she strode out of the room, her greatcloak flowing behind her.

Keylyn had a hard time getting used to the idea of this cat never wanting to leave the room. She always brought back a bit of food for the cat from her own dinner. The cat always seemed to appreciate it.
One day when Keylyn went to bed, the cat was outside the door, it stared at Keylyn and took slow steps into her room. Keylyn thought that maybe the cat may finally think that it had enough of Keylyn. She shrugged.
Keylyn had a dream that she was riding down the lane away from Sacor city. She trotted on and when she looked ahead, she say the cat sitting on a rock that marked a trail.
“ What are you doing here?” Keylyn asked, halting Annie beside it.
The cat just stared at her, then suddenly swung around it’s head, looking at something blue walking at her from the trail’s mouth. The blue thing got bigger, then took the form of a girl, about her age.
“Kaylyn, I am Meo, the water priestess,” The girl said.  She stared at Keylyn with piercing blue eyes.
Keylyn sat there on Annie, then realized she was staring at Meo. She quickly looked away. Her hair is the color of chestnut! Keylyn thought. She was the one that threw water at me!
“Why are you talking to me in your dreams?” Keylyn asked.
“The earth priestess is the lord of all us priestesses. he said he foretell a rider on an unusual bay horse having more than one power, which she wouldn’t know of,” Meo replied simply.
“What? I... I-”
“You will be watched closely by all of the priestess, my time here is short, I must go. remember, we are here.”
“But... wait!”
She disappeared on the trail, or did she fade away like Karigan? Keylyn thought she’d never know.