**Dyanisa**

She sighed as she heard the door open.

"Dyanisa?" Jadain asked softly.

"Coming.. " she said, carefully standing up.  She heard him walk across 
the room and obligingly held out her hand, hating the necessity of it.  

He took her hand and led her out of the room, to the dining hall, 
chatting, relating the gossip Sienra had already told her to fill the 
silence. 

She could tell when the entered the dining hall simply because it became 
a lot harder to hear her young companion.  She stuck close to him as he 
carefully led her around the diners to an empty table.  Or at least she 
thought it was empty until her foot brushed against another foot.

"Dyanisa, meet Healer Dryan Hymnov," Jaidan introduced politely.  "Mr. 
Hymnov meet Dyanisa."

Healer Dryan Hymnov?  A healer for her?  Gods how humiliating...  

"Pleased to meet you," a pleasant voice addressed her after a brief 
akward pause.

Dyanisa gave a start and managed a clipped "Yes," quickly thrusting out 
her hand for him to shake.  She blushed as he tapped it over a couple of 
inches before shaking it.  She was surprised at how big his hand felt 
and had a slightly frightening thought of him crushing her fingers in 
his grip, her bones poping and cracking.

"You can let go of my hand now," he said softly.

Her hand flew open and was quickly drawn back into her lap, but not 
before her elbow knocked a glass of water and sent it crashing to the 
floor.

**Dryan**

Dryan winced sympathetically as he watched her hang her head, a dusky 
blush coloring her cheeks.  He wondered again how the hell he had let 
his fellow healers talk him into this.  It was only the precense of the 
boy that kept him from coming right out and telling this woman that 
looked so much like his Adie but wasn't that he would find her some one 
else.

"I'll go find a broom or something," the boy said helpfully and ran off.

He sighed in relief and spoke.  "Look, Dyanisa..." he trailed off for an 
instant as he looked at her still red face and deep blue green eyes.  
Dryan sighed helplessly, he couldn't just ditch her.. she needed him.

"Dyanisa," he started again, getting up from his chair and moving to 
stand beside her, avoiding the glass shards and puddle.  "Hold up your 
hands please."

He waited as she turned towards him and offered her slender hands to 
him.  He gently enclosed her thin wrists in his hands and guided them to 
his face, trying hard not to burst into tears.  Adie had had the exact 
same hands, slender graceful, calloused with work...  He closed his 
eyes, and touched her fingers to his rough cheeks.  

"My name is Dryan, though it would please me if you felt comfortable 
enough to call me Dray.  I am--Go ahead, look at my face with your 
hands.  You should know what I look like since we're going to be 
spending a lot of time together.  I'm going to be your teacher, not your 
slave or servant and I will only be your teacher if you try to help 
yourself." 

He opened his eyes as her fingers left his face.

"I would like to live in the same residence as you, since I can't teach 
you many things if I don't."

"I understand," Dyanisa said softly.

"Not totally... I have a baby girl named Kerrie and she would have to 
live with us of course."

"Of course.. I don't think I'll have a problem with that.. I like 
children."

Dray smiled at her, it was obvious she was more at ease now.  At that 
moment Jadain returned with a kitchen worker and he took the moment to 
study his patient.  Gods the resemblance to Addie was amazing...  Oh, 
Addie's hair and been a bit browner with no white streak and her eyes 
had been bluer, not to mention his beloved had been a bit more.. curvy, 
but it was hard not to embrace Dyanisa and start crying.

"Dyanisa," Jadain piped up once the mess was dealt with.  "Are you going 
to the trial tomorrow?"

"Trial?" Dryan asked, returning to his seat.  

He watched Dyanisa frown slightly as she said, "Explain it to him, 
Jadain."

After listening to the boy explain the whole situation, he could well 
understand the frown.

"Would you like to go, Dray?" Dyanisa asked out of nowhere.

"I have to admit, this wasn't what I expected to be occuring at a 
warren.  But I'm curious and I'm sure there will be enough room for one 
more person don't you?"  Dray addressed the last to the boy with a 
smile.

"All right," Dyanisa said, missing the look.  "We'll look for a new 
apartment after then since I don't have enough room in my old one."

"Its a deal," he said.  His stomach choose at that moment to gurgle 
loudly.

"I think we should get some food and your stomach seems to agree," she 
said, standing up and offering him her arm.  "Shall we?"

Dray barely managed a smile as he took her arm and led her off to the 
food.
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NRPG: sucky I know, but I'm way down in motivation and inspiration :)  
SSS, I'll do the trial after Lyn posts.

Submitted by,
Bridget Olson
Dyanisa and Sienra
Dryan and Kerrie Hymnov

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