The Many Ramblings of K. A. Webb

Written for LJ user thnidu’s random number prompt.

The day her brother chose to leave them all behind to become a magician was the same day Kenner decided to become a thief. It wasn’t because she wanted to, but so she could find him again, even though she wasn’t sure what she’d do to him if she ever did. A part of her was so angry with him that she would have happily killed him. No one else knew what had happened. Her parents thought he’d gone missing and she knew she could never explain what had happened. She’d tried to find the words multiple times, to tell everyone that he’d chosen to leave, until she realised it wouldn’t make anything better. He’d still be on another world.

Sixteen was old enough to join the thieves. Kenner had found out about them by luck, after searching for hours online to find anything out about where he might have gone, and would have gone as soon as she found the website. She just didn’t want to cause her parents any more pain, so she started planning how she could get to the thieves’ school after she passed her final exams. It was harder than she wanted it to be, because they wanted to keep her close after losing one of their two children, but she knew what she needed to do. Of course back then she hadn’t known how difficult it was going to be to find him, how large the magician’s world was, or anything about the world he’d travelled to, and she’d still believed then that she would see him again.

After Kenner had passed every one of her exams, her grades better than she expected them to be considering all the upheaval, and the work she’d been doing to find out about the other world, all she could do was hope. There had been colleges she’d thought about going to before that were further afield than she would have liked then, but none of them had been right if she was going to attempt to enter the thieves’ school. She didn’t even know how to get into the school, because there was very little information about it anywhere, and yet she was still determined to try. No matter what she wanted to find him. Some of the anger did fade, she began to miss him, so she was tempted to hug him before killing him. In the end she convinced her parents that she should go to a college that was close enough to the thieves’ school that she could attempt to find it.

During one visit to the college Kenner was certain she felt something akin to what she’d felt coming off the magician in waves. She did her best to lose her parents, so she had a chance to search in more depth, eventually convincing them that she wasn’t going to disappear if they went to town to get coffee. It had been a lie when she said it. When she somehow found her way inside the wards, and she had no idea how she did it, she did disappear, but thankfully she managed to convince the man who insisted he was going to her teacher that she needed to talk to her parents first. He went with her.

Mirrored from K. A. Jones Writing.