Okay, I'm not terribly sure that this will be a very long chapter since I have a pretty bad migraine headache right now. So if it isn't don't hold it against me and I'll try to lengthen it at a later date. In the meantime here is the latest- and hopefully entertaining chap of Sweet Stranger.

Enjoy.

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The moment that Mya led them from the garden, Sharrkan began whining. "Does anyone have a bad feeling about letting her lead us? Cause I'm getting a bad feeling about it." He rambled as the others silently exchanged glances with each other behind their Queen and the swordsman's backs.

As if to say, Well- We'll just have to see how this goes before we intervene, as the group continued to trail after Mya.

And sure enough ten minutes later...Sharrkan's paranoia began to get to everyone. And I do mean everyone. Even Mya's patience with the swordsman was slowly beginning to wear thin. Of course it didn't help things any that he kept rambling about her lousy sense of direction and how Sin would never find their bodies once she got them good and lost.

At one point, she had to even bite her own tongue to keep from pointing out that they had lived in the palace for far longer than she, so the possibility of them getting lost within it's walls were practically non existent unless they were fools.

And so far, out of the whole group following her- Sharrkan seemed to be the only one that stood out as a fool to her. But then again, that may have just had something to do with the fact that he was slowly pissing her off.

So she had a lousy sense of direction, so what.

It wasn't like anyone had bothered to show her around before or anything. Nooo. From the moment that she had first awoken within the palace she... Feeling her head begin to ache a bit, she reached up with one hand and massaged her throbbing temple for a few moments, unaware of the fact that she was being carefully observed by Ja-far, Hina, Kouha, and Masrur.

Wondering where those particular thoughts had come from, Mya decided to analyze them later. Perhaps when she had some time to herself. Dropping her hand back to her side, she vaguely listened to Sharrkan's continued paranoid ranting before finally deciding that if the man feared being lost so goddamn much then she'd get him so lost he wouldn't even know which direction was up.

Turning her head slightly, she smiled sweetly at the group and then walked up to the nearest window, and climbed out it and let herself drop to the closest surface so that she could get a better look around so that she could lead the others a bit better.

She didn't hear the shocked shouts and cries of alarm coming from... Where ever the hell she had been before. Instead she waited until everyone had followed suit, and with another sweet smile jumped off of the ledge that she had landed on and landed on another and propelled herself forward at a speed that surprised, even Masrur, and continued to jump around from one place to another before she finally landed deftly on the ground and then turned and ran around the palace- out of sight.

The men all exchanged looks with each other again, this time their expressions were telling.

They. Blamed. Sharrkan. For. Everything. That. Was Going. To. Happen. Next.

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"So that was the young lady you are marrying? She was more polite than I expected." Sharrkan's older brother said as he seated himself between Sin and the Queen of Artemyra whom murmured in agreement with him.

Sinbad did his best not to scowl at the two upon hearing the offhand insult based solely on the fact that they already thought he and a majority of his people were absolute heathens. Still, that was no reason to assume that his chosen Queen would be.

If anything, even he had been pleasantly surprised by Mya's beauty, politeness and grace.

She had done him proud.

Especially after the stunt that she had pulled earlier that morning when she had hacked her long silky hair off and handed it to him after he had forbidden her from cutting it. To be perfectly honest, he was still a tad bit miffed at her for that- though he managed to hide it well underneath his usual good humor.

"Yes. That is she." Sin said as he leaned back in his plushly cushioned wooden chair.

"And where did you find such a gem, Sin? From what we've been told by your household vessel users- you haven't traveled to any exotic lands lately." Rametoto asked curiously.

"Oh. Yes that's right. I actually met lady Mya here on the island. As you know, your daughter, Rurumu has been badly ill for some time now- well, after exhausting every resource I could think of to help her get well again- I kind of stumbled over Lady Mya. She's an orphan who was raised by her elderly grandparents. Both of whom were war hero's. Her grandfather fought on the front line during the war in her country, and her grandmother acted as a healer and saved many people."

"Well, both of them passed away a while back and Lady Mya- as you saw for yourselves- is still considered to be very young. Young enough to be adopted, as a matter of fact. So Hinahoho decided to adopt the little darling and not too long after she helped Rurumu get better. It was amazing! It only took her a few weeks to do what I and every healer I had brought to the palace have been trying to do for a year or more. So naturally, she seemed like a good choice in bride. Plus, she's usually a very reasonable, and thoughtful person." Sin said, only half lying about that last part.

The woman was only reasonable and thoughtful if she wasn't going into hysterics about being married and trying to drown people.

Speaking of- he'd have to warn his friends not to get left alone with Mya around any large bodies of water. He wanted no drowning victims if he could help it.