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as the collar repaired its self I ground my teeth in frustration I new I could destroy but I could not put enough power into the spell in my current condition I looked into her eyes “I will remove it once I have had a chance to recover” I said calmly and then the next thing I new I was being picked up by some sort of dragon it seemed to be heading toward the castle before about and hour later the dragon landed in the middle of the court yard were it let me go and vanished into the air I forced myself to my feet holding my wound as stumbled toward the castle about ten feet from the entrance my straight finally gave out on me I fell to my knees and then blacked out

I awoke finding my self in the castle my wound had been bandaged and I was laying in the bed in my room suddenly I thought of lionie I started to try to get out of the bed but as I did an old woman put a stern hand on my shoulder “and were do u think ur going to” she said calmly “I need to help lionie” I said the thought of her still having the collar on what more than I could bare after seeing what it had done to her “I didn’t spend all that time fixing u up so that u could go running off and reopen that wound” she said sternly “now lionie is safe she arrived here not long after u with ty need not worry she is well protected” she said removing her hand from my shoulder “now u need ur rest go to sleep and in the morning I will send for her” she said taking a set in a char keeping a close eye on me “ok so she’s safe” I said letting myself relax

It had been about a day since they had retrieved Larien and things were not looking to good. Larien and Tramer were both in a sad state when they arived at the castle. Especialy Tramer, he had wounds from being in a fight. During the day Epotheros paced up and down the halls, going to the rooms to check on Larien and Tramer as well as talking to the guards to see if there were any messages from other lands. No one had recieved anything, but this just addd to Epotheros' restlessness. He wanted to do something to take his mind off of such troubles. He then had the idea of training with Clover. It would be wise to gauge her abilities and also try an create some combination attacks. Perhaps he could take her and Ty on a tour of the castle as well.

With something to do his mood seemed to lighten up a bit. He ran up to Clover's and knocked on the door eagerly waiting for her to open the door. Hopefully she was in there and that he wasn't just standing outside her door like a fool.

"Hello Clover," he replied. "Since Tramer and Larien are still bedridden and need rest, would you like me to take you on a tour of the castle, because it's a little big and would be easy to to get lost in. THere are many diferent rooms in it besides the guest hall. Perhaps after the tour we can go down to the medow for some training. It would be a very wise idea that you and I learn some combination attacks like the one we used to finish of that giant man eatting plant."

"Well, follow me I'll show you every room," he said with a smile. Epotheros for some reason enjoyed spending time with Clover. She made him feel happy and care free. If he could he would want to escape from this world he lived in and just spend time with her, instead of dealing with the problems of Zant.

The first area Epotheros took her was the study, which conected to a very large library. The study was decorated with many old banners, flags, statues and artifacts. It was aperfect place for any person of inteligence. The room also had many old stain glass windows in it, each with its own story built into it. The library had shelves from wall to wall. There must have been over 100,000 different books that collected dust on the shelves. Most were books about history and such.

After the study he took Clover to the armory and black smith shop. The armory had enough weapons of every kind to supply a small army of 1000 men. It had swords that spaned the globe, long swords from europe, schimitars from the middle east and katanas from asia.

He led her across the center courtyard to wars a large, very grecro Roman style building. Inside it looked like a very fancy indoor garden with trees, flowers and birds. A little futher there was a roman style bath that was filled with steaming hot spirng water that flowed in from a hole in the wall. It emptied out through another hole on the other side and fed into a river.

Outside in the ceter court yard were the stables were all the animals were kept. IT was a large one because there were the Lords horses, his guards, the servents and their horses. Even with all that there was still room for another six.

The next room on the tour was the giant and elegant ball room. The floors were made of a redish marble and the walls had decorations of gold and silver as well as many banners and shields. The room was lit by gigantic windows during the day and a dozen crystal chandiliers at night. It was so large and grand, because every month Lord Baragoon would invite the whole village to a dance. It didn't matter if you were a famer or a knight, you were invited, because he believed that every one should have a chance to enjoy themselves.

"Care to dance?" Epotheros said jokingly while lifting Clover's hand to his lips and giving it a playful kiss, "or do you want to look at some more rooms?"

"It was more of a joke than anything else, because I am no expert dancer myself. I have never been the type to partake in social events like this. I would spend most of my time just observing the people who came and went. My amount of knowledge on this subject is not impressive, but I do at least know the basics."

Epotheros then placed one hand on her hip and the other in her hand as he led her through a few steps back and forth left and right, spining her a few times and ending it by dipping her backwards. He then pulled her back up and let her go.

"See, I am not that great of a dancer, my experience applies to being a warrior. Since I have shown you the main rooms, or at least the ones I deem as important, perhaps we should go down to the medow and try some new attacks.