Fake Beauty

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Domitan of Masbolle slowly trekked towards his rooms. The ball had just finished, and he was feeling less then thrilled. He should be ecstatic with the progress he had made courting Lady Claudia the newest court beauty but instead he felt...pitiful. She wasn't that good of a person. She was very cruel if he was to be blunt about it and at the moment he felt just down right horrible about it. As he collapsed onto his bed and stared at his ceiling he wished desperately he had known about this before he had ended the courtship. He needed to give her the normal let down tomorrow.

He knew who he really wanted. It was the same person who had been flowing through his mind all day. He had no clue when these feelings arose, but they were there. Keladry of Mindelan wouldn't leave his mind alone. All those memories had just kept flying through despite his attempts at distraction. Her smile, her laughter, her determination in the jousting ring, everything about her had just been friendship until well today. Dom wasn't sure what it meant but he knew something. She was no fake beauty, not like Claudia. She was a real person, someone he could talk to and appreciate and well to be honest really love. Sure she wasn't the most normal beauty but secretly Dom did believe there was a sense of intriguing beauty about her with her dreamers hazel eyes that sparkled with life, that soft almost fragile face and the way now that her hair was long and brushed her shoulders it made her face more open and showed her true looks. She was all in all a very strong person as well. Her commanding presence added to that beauty.

So now he was torn. Claudia expected things of him, as did her father while his heart expected him to go to Kel and promise her what he'd promised Claudia. Except not the same. Kel wouldn't stand for flowery words or charming smiles. Open blunt words would be the best choice for her. Dom knew what he wanted and he wasn't sure how hard he would have to work for it but he was very prepared to do so. There was no need for a fake beauty when a real one was sitting right there.

A/N: Defiantly not the best thing in the world but it came to me and I rather like it. Therefore, it's here ). Anyway, I always wondered when Dom would realize something along those lines and that just kind of popped into my head.