<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=9845.msg590514#msg590514">Quote from: Swedish Steel on 04-05-2008, 23:40:37</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">She could tell he bit back his first reply. Instead he answered, after a few seconds:<br/>"No thank you, not right now. I can see the problem. I will have it sorted in a couple of minutes, then we'll be on our way."<br/>What she could help him with later he never said, and she wasn't sure she wanted to know. In any case, Io was true to his word and 10 minutes later they were back on the road.<br/>"Not far now," Io yelled back to her. If the school lay somewhere along here the students were lucky, Lily thought. The surrounding had become more and more idylic for the last 30 minutes, now it looked like something out of a fairytail, the scene around them alternated between snow covered forrests and white open fields.<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>She almost expected a prince to ride out along side of them upon a white charger, challenging them to a race.  The setting was perfect and all sorts of likewise images flitted through her head as she clung to Io as the motorcycle bumped along the highway.  Half closing her eyes, she even began to imagine dwarves and other strange creatures in the forsest shadows, making her shiver as she remembered that all the creatures of faerie were not benign nor harmless.<br/><br/>"Does the school look like a castle?" she asked, only half joking, imagining small round turrets with pinions flying from them and ivy covered walls.