Part 1
Taala slipped from beneath the covers as carefully and quietly as she could. She did not want to wake Seaver for two reasons. Firstly, the man hardly ever slept, a troubled heart beat within that one. Secondly he had asked her to try and be there when he woke for she seldom was. She looked at Seaver and smiled, he'd understand, that man understood her better than most of the others. She could not afford much time to think...Seaver was a whole chapter in himself, one of many men she knew, but he was one of only a few that fulfilled a need...
She tiptoed downstairs plucking a trail of clothing and such along the way until she reached his map table in the main room, where the day had started...then again... no, that was not entirely true, that was /not/ where it had started really...she held on to that thought whilst she dressed and picked up the maps that had been scattered from the table...she smiled, recalling the encounter, but it always was mutually rewarding between her and Seaver, that man knew his way around a woman that was for damned sure.
She gathered up the maps from the floor and lay them back on the table. Seaver was fanatical about tidiness, everything in his life seemed to have a place, even her she supposed, though he knew she expected nothing from him, other than that one night she sought him out to comfort her in her grief at losing her father...he was the only man who understood the pain she was feeling and the only one to witness her sobbing. They had clung to one another for many different reason's that night...
She snapped her thoughts back to the present, no... the day had not began with a visit to Seaver's...well actually, it had in a sense as she was there earlier to 'borrow' one of his wagon's, it isn't stealing is it, if there was always an intent to bring it back?
Taala reached to the place about her neck where her locket usually hung...try as she might, she could not settle. That locket, containing a lock of her son's hair was all that she had of Tagen, and she could garner no rest until she had at least tried to find it...
