“So you do serve the same masters as I? Can you help me return to the Academy? I'm due for my joining.” Blue rose, expecting the girl to acknowledge his request. Instead she took his hand once again and led him to the back door.
“My father is late.” She laughed sadly. “He was always late. My mother would say he did it purposefully but the truth was he was a dreamer, his head always in other places.” Blue frowned at the change in tense the girl was using. She shrugged and pushed her way through the back door of the kitchen to a porch and the golden fields beyond. Once again Blue was struck by the astounding beauty of the farm he had woken in.
“Do you like it?” The girl whispered and Blue saw the tears swelling in the girl's eyes.
“Yes of course!” He answered immediately, not wishing to u
