"Will your mother be joining us as well?" Edward inquired, studying Maya's face as it slowly sunk into misery.
"Maya, I am so…terribly sorry." Edward whispered.
"It's ok, really." Maya replied. "I'll be right back, let me go get my sister."
She smiled at Edward and clicked her tongue. Mira sauntered out of her tent and to her side. Edward chuckled, a look of amusement and wonder on his face. Maya grinned and climbed onto Mira's back, then led him to her sister.
"Kate!" Maya called. There was no answer. She frowned and had Mira walk around the marketplace. Many knights were having armor fixed and replaced but none of the Farriers were Kate. Maya was not concerned, her sister often wandered about the market, studying her competition.
Maya was about to give up when she heard a group of people who seemed to be arguing….and loudly. She frowned.
"Kate?" As Maya came around the corner she leaped off Mira and ground her teeth together as she watched the quarrel.
"Let me go!" Kate screeched at a young, Knight's assistant who had her arms pinned behind her back.
"Not until you tell me where this, Sir Marcalic is…" Adhemar drawled.
"I told you, I don't know him." Kate spat venomously.
Adhemar's face turned slightly red with anger, before he sighed to calm himself down. Maya walked up to them casually.
"Is there a problem, sir?" Maya asked, her hands folded behind her back.
"And who are you, miss?" Adhemar replied, his brow creasing with controlled anger.
"That, is my relative." Edward replied, resting upon his horse.
Adhemar bowed. "My Prince, I had no idea."
"Apparently." Edward replied, averting his gaze from Adhemar.
"I assure you, there was no trouble." Adhemar said, his voice losing its confidence.
"Edward, I believe he was trying to find Sir Marcalic by tormenting my sister, Kate." Maya replied.
"Oh, really?" Edward glared down at Adhemar. "Well, I assure you Adhemar, whether Sir Marcalic is here or out of country, you have no business harming my relatives in order to do so."
Adhemar simply bowed, completely at a loss for words. He grabbed his assistant by the arm and walked off. Kate curtsied to Prince Edward.
"My Prince, I am so sorry for the trouble." Kate mumbled.
Edward climbed off of his horse and embraced her, laughing wholeheartedly. Maya giggled as the look on Kate's face turned to shock rather than apologetic.
"Prince Edward?" Kate asked.
"Kate." He replied, holding her out from him. "You, are my half-sister…as well as Maya."
Kate stared at him for a long moment, and still, nothing could come out of her mouth in reply.
"Come, my sisters, come have lunch with me and we will reminisce together." Prince Edward chuckled, climbing onto his horse. Maya jumped onto Mira and Kate joined her.
"Follow me." Edward said, giving them both a smile, and leading them to his home.