Heidi couldn't help but look at her shoes as she walked along between the two magicians. With only suspense on her mind and the thought of getting told off really made her uneasy.

"this is all my fault" Heidi wispered to Ebony out of ear shot of anyone else. Ebony wispered back through gritted teeth."dont be stupid, i should have said no when the idea came about".

"well at least that were together. if i was on my own i would be crying by now" heidi wispered back. Heidi really wanted to take back what she did earlier. and she really wanted to know if they were getting punished for this.

Ebony and Heidi reached Zurina's rooms. The two novices waited in anticipation for Zurina's next move. "Heidi, i hope we dont get thrown out!"

"yeah same here" Heidi blinked every time that zurina stepped, as she was pacing the room, heidi couldn't stop watching her waiting for a reply.

Zurina ushered the girls in to her office and told them to sit. She wasn't in the best off moods lately as it was, and having to deal with rebel novices was an annoying inconvenience. She sat the other side of the desk, her face stern. "I have to say, i am dissapointed in you two. I don't expect disobediance from my novices. " She looked across at them, but they avoided her eye. "There is a reason that warrior lessons are strictly supervised girls, for your safety. By taking it upon yourself to enter the arena, which might i add is off limits during the time that it is not in use for lessons, you endangered your lives. You arn't warrior novices, and there is always stray magic." She paused, there was no point in shouting. "May i remind you of your oath? when you take the novice oath you swear to abide by our laws and to use magic only when instucted to by your teacher. I didn't tell you to practise, and by doing so, you mistreated that oath." Once again she paused, looking at them to see if she could tell how they were feeling from their body language.

Heidi sat with her face looking down she was sooo sorry for what she did and she really wanted to say this but didnt really know if she could speak. Heidi new she had done wrong, very wrong, and now she just wanted to leave and forget what had happened. but Heidi handn't forgottern that there must be a punisment.

lorkin walks in holding a very sick looking boyo "umm, Lady savara said you'd be here, boyo's just eaten the plastic fruit display in lorlen's office and ..... " he trailed off looking from the two disgraced novices too the horified teacher. "mabey now's not a good time.."

"No no, its fine thank you Lorkin." Zurina took Boyo off Lorkin, "There is an issue i need to discuss with the administrator actually, but i can't seem to catch her, could we perhaps have a word in the night room later?" Lorkin agreed and left the room, Boyo writhed on the table in pain, his poka dot spots a pale lilac. "I have to get Boyo to the healing quarters quickly, so as for your punishment. You shall be in charge of making sure that all the pets of the guilds litter trays are constantly cleaned, for a week. Report to Lady Savara tomorrow. You may leave." The novices bowed with solumn faces then Zurina wisked past them with Boyo in her arms heading towards the healing quarters.

Ebony and Heidi stumbled out of the room as quick as possible. "phew cleaning pet trays isnt as bad as what i thought we'd get!!" "no" Heidi agreed. The two novices crept up to the Novice quarters for a good nights kip before cleaning litter trays tomorrow.

Zurina knew her punishment didn't seem that harsh as she carried Boyo away, but they hadn't seen the pets litter trays, they were in for a treat!

Kasloumor entered the Arena all nervous and excited at the same time. After all, she had little to none experience when it came to warrior skills and had chosen this discipline because no one else wanted to. "Someone has to be able to defend the Guild" she thought and shuddered because she was not sure she was the right one for the job. She was small and looked anything but a warrior. "I hope some of the newcomers will join in too, after all our High Lord was once a warrior - some ought to chose this discipline simply because they look up to him... Anyway, once I get the hang of it, I'll probably be more confident - wonder when Akkarin'll show up? Mayby some one else is filling in for him?" Kasloumor sighed and scraped the Arena floor with her foot. She narrowed her eyes and focused her will on cleaning off the dirt from her boot again. The dust came off and soon after the boot looked shiny and good as new again "Hmm, at least I can clean up stuff using magic - but I guess that does not really have anything to do with warrior lessons?" she accidently said out aloud...

Ebony and Heidi were sitting by the Arena enjoying a picnic when they saw a shadow in the Arena moving about. It turned out to be Kas, the only Warrior novice. "hey Kas!" Heidi shouted towards the Arena. Kas turned round as she heard a muffuled voice behind her. She strolled over to the entrance of the Arena and saw two Healing Novices. " Hey, arnt you Ebony and Heidi?" Kas asked. "yeah, we thought we would just tell you that its probably best not to past the barrier without a higher Magician, we have already made that mistake and it wasn't pretty!!" Heidi said to Kas. "cheers guys" Kas replied Kas walked over to the Arena remembering not to go completely inside. Heidi and Ebony continued eating their marvellous buffet.

Akkarin walked into the Arena robes billowing behind him. Akkarin after seeing the myriad of small-talking magicians discussing everything from sick animals to plastic fruit felt disgusted, and realized that the only way to purify himself was by wasting a lot of magical energy. So he stood in the middle of the Arena, and with a quick flash of his wrists began heating up the air around him. The sand quickly turned to glass, and soon he was juggling glass balls, making them hotter and hotter. He then made random flairs of light explode here and there, continously using more and more magical energy. Soon the arena was more a Sauna than anything else. First then did he notice his waiting pupil, Kasloumor. He ceased with all his magical exploits. "Kaaaasss! How are you? Let's get started shall we? I want you to hit every person in this room, save me, with a stun strike, a weak one of course. If they shield, well, your first assignment is to utterly shatter every shield in this room, save mine."