"Aniko, may I come in," she heard Aileron say as he knocked on her door.
"Yes, come on in."
"Prince Zaki has asked for us to join him for dinner, would you like to."
"Could you tell him no. Would it cause you trouble if you just said no," Aniko said as she looked at the floor, refusing to look up at Aileron.
"Are you okay Aniko, did he do something to you?" Aileron asked with concern.
"No no no, it's just," 'being near him made me want to do something at that scares me' "I would like to get on to the tower, and on to my studies."
Aileron knew something was wrong and he had some idea what it was. He made quick appologies to the Prince and they departed for his tower early that morning.
Aniko wore a plain blue and baggy shirt, a baggy pair of jeans and plain white tennis shoes. She allso wore the plain silk vail that Aileron had giving her when they approaced the city and she took it off as soon as Aileron said it was okay to do so. She was glomy all day and they talked very little, he really didn't know what to say.
As they road from the city Aniko would look back from time to time to see if the prince would ride up. She thought he would, 'she almost hoped he would'. It was very late in the day when they approached Aileron's tower, it was very tall and made of gleaming white stone. It was 7 stories high and appeared to have a large balcony near the top. Aniko marveled at it, it was most stuning to look at. Lord Williams castle looked like a midievil castle, the city of Bellizar looked like an Arabian city but this tower looked like something out of a fairy tale. "Wow" was all she said.
"It's good to be home, its been to long, and Welcome to your new home Aniko I will introduce you to the others," Aileron said as they approached.
'Others he hadn't mentioned others', she thought but she remained silent.
As they came close a figure started to run toward them from back of the tower. As the person got closer Aniko could see that it appeared to human like tiger person, a female tiger person. She had on a dirty shirt that barely covered her large breast, and a loin clouth that bearly cover her, well anyway she ran toward them yelling "Father, Father!" Aniko gave a sidwards glance to Aileron, he appeared to be a little red when his eyes meet hers.
"She is my adopted daughter, she is a Lacosra, a tiger person, her name is Emma." As they got of the horses Emma practaly knock Aileron down when she jump into his arms, she also huged him tightly. "I've missed you Emma."
"Jacob said you would look different but I can tell its you." She looked at Aniko and then walked over to her, "who is she, mother?" Aniko could see she was sniffing the air as she got close to her. It made her a so nervous that it took her a second to realise what Emma had just said.
"No Emma this is Aniko she is my new student, she will be staying with us awhile."
Aniko was a bit embarassed and had stuck her hand out to shake hands with Emma, Emma grabed her in a tight bear hug. Aniko felt the preasure of Emma's large breast against hers, it only helped remind her how big hers realy were.
"Wow you have such pretty hair," Emma was saying as she was tugging at Aniko's long ponytail. "Emma, watch your manners." Aileron said, Emma quickly stoped tugging on her hair and looking at the ground her cute little pointed ears turned down a little and said, "Im sorry Aniko, I should have asked to play with your hair."
"It's okay I didn't mind," 'why not everyone else wants to play with it'. Emma looked back up and quickly hugged Aniko again, as her face brightened.
"Emma dear, run on and tell Jacob we are here." Emma had alread started to play with Aniko's hair, wich she droped as she ran back to the tower.
"How old is she," Aniko asked?
"She is a little more then 5 years old," he replied to a puzzeled Aniko, "she is to you about the same as a 13 year old."
"But you said you were in my world for nearly 50 years."
"And I was but I was only gone from mine for a little more then one year. It is one of the things that I will teach you about."
Aniko meet Jacob, he must have been 100 years old she thought, but he was very nice. He was Aileron's butler but he realy did very little, as she was to find out. She Emma and even Aileron did most of the work around the tower. Emma did the gardening that is what she was doing when they came to the tower.
Thu Mar 29 15:04:17 2001