Trust

Quote: “I wouldn’t want to belong to any club that would have me as a member.” -- Groucho Marx

((OCC)) Ona again. It was suggested that I change from posting the results to having a messenger sent to Gemma when the results where known so that is now what Mr. Goldstein said in my last entry.

Gemma sat in her tree and let the wind blow her hair back of her face. The feel of the wind on her face and tugging at her hair was soothing, it calmed her nerves. It really was her tree too; she had planted it there when she was two years old, with the help of her older brother, Ben. One of the most useful things about her tree was that it now reached high enough that when she climbed to the top she could see the road leading to the house where she and her family lived.

She had climbed up with a book as soon as she finished her morning chores, only climbing down to prepare lunch and only come down to help prepare lunch before climbing back up with her own lunch and her book. She wanted to known about the messenger as soon as possible.

A few hours after the afternoon meal a man came walking down the road. Gemma rushed to climb down from her perch and scrambled around to the front of the house. There she sat on the porch to wait for the messenger.

The man who came into view didn’t look much like the kind of man who would work as Mr. Goldstein’s messenger, he carried a sword, was covered in scars and had an eye patch over one eye. He did not look very reputable, but Gemma knew that looks could be deceiving; her nanny had been a Gypsy who wore colors that where far to bright for any proper woman to be caught dead in. However, that same woman had discovered that Gemma had a natural talent for music and convinced her parents that she must be trained.

Never the less bright clothes where an entirely different thing form a man who carried arms and looked as though he had used them, though apparently not very successfully. The man however had no such fears about her and walked right up the driveway until he stood at the bottom of the stairs to the porch.