Note- this takes place btween realms of the gods and first test. It's at numair's tower

Disclaimer- my name is freke, not tamora pierce. Get the pic. Good so don't sue me i don't got much

Tauros

Daine shook her head as she heard once again of another girl who had been raped and murdered by a tauros.

"Daine?" Numair, her friend and lover asked as he saw her shake her head.

She looked up at him with tears in her eyes, "It's not right, Numair, it's just not right."

"Of course it's not right that she died. She was only 13, and was out picking berries for her mother. She wasn't supposed to die then," Numair sympathized.

"No it's not that."

"Well then what is it?"

"I wouldn't have told you Lady Daine had I not thought you could help," the old lady who had told them looked up at her.

"How can I help against a tauros? I can't talk with them! Mithros, I won't even get near the beasts. I was near one before, and I wish to not repeat that again," Daine shivered remembering the time in the Realm of the Gods when a tauros had come close to raping her.

"But you can help. You've found a problem, and you can fix it," the lady encouraged.

Numair was thoroughly confused.

" What problem?" Then she remembered what she had come to realize during that close encounter. "Ohhhhhhh. Thank you, I shall try."

The lady grinned, "That is all I can ask." With that she walked away.

"Daine," Numair put his hands on her shoulders, " What was that about?"

Daine stopped. She could tell him, but then he might want to take control. Besides, would he understand? What foolishness, she thought, of course he would understand. She looked up into his eyes. They showed worry, love, and admiration all at once. He felt all that for her, he'd understand her plan.

"Um-well I've always thought that tauroses weren't evil beasts. Well I thought that they were, but I thought they were only that way because of how the Gods made them. They never made any female tauroses. So the only way a male tauros could feel love would be to prey on female humans," she blurted out.

Numair just looked at her, "Go on."

"I think the old lady is telling me that I need to go to the Realms of the Gods, and fix this. I should have some power there."

"But you aren't allowed back there."

"Well then I'll have my ma or da do it for me," she said with her usual stubborness.

He looked at her like he was about to say something, but thought better of it, "Go ahead my magelet, I can tell I won't be able to stop you."

"Nice to know you've learned something," she joked.

"I've learned something else too," he whispered leaning in close.

"And what would that be?"

"What it's like to feel in love," his eyes showed he was completely sincere.

Daine blushed and ran off to try and find a way to contact her ma.

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"Weiryn, look at her. She seems distressed, " Sarra called to her lover as she looked in a pool of water.

Weiryn looked at his love, and realized what she wanted to do,Sarra, you can't go down there. It' will drain all of your strength."

She looked at him, pleading in her eyes, "But she needs me."

Like her daughter, Sarra could be very stubborn and Weiryn knew this was a fight he could not win.

He sighed, " Okay, go, but be quick."




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