Chapter 4
Yuri and Ramses lead the pack of soldiers back to Egypt. The entire way Yuri isn't left out of Ramses sight for a moment. Which made sleeping very awkward for her. The only person that she wanted to sleep next to for the rest of her life was of course Kail.
One night Yuri posed a question to Ramses that caught him off guard. Laying in the same tent (on opposite sides mind you) she asks him, "Ramses why am I so special? Kail has never really been able to answer the question completely. He just says because he loves me or because I'm Ishtar. There has to be more to it though." Ramses thought about the question carefully as to not offend her or answer the same way Kail did. He had the perfect answer.
"Yuri, you are different. Mysterious I guess. While there are plenty of women out there who are more feminine than you, there's just something. You don't need to have outward beauty to be beautiful. The way you care for the people, how you are willing to do anything you have to, to help them. Even if it means getting dirty, risking your own health or safety. That's not something that is very normal around here. Normally the women around here are seen and not heard, but you, you have this caring, mothering nature about yourself. It just draws men to you. At least the men who have taken the time to spend time around you. Does that answer your question?"
Yuri blushes and says yes. She's happy that its dark in the tent so that Ramses couldn't see her cheeks. She quickly snaps out of it. She was kidnapped by him after all. They both close their eyes and start to drift off to sleep.
Next morning Yuri wakes up comfortably warm. When the blurriness in her eyes fades away she sees that she has Ramses blanket on her and he is sleeping without one. Yuri thinks to herself, "I hope I didn't take it last night." Ramses slowly starts to wake up. "Oh good morning I'm sorry I think I took your blanket last night."
"Non-sense. You were shivering last night so I gave it to you. I figured that you weren't used to such light blankets and so little of them at that. Don't worry about me. I'm used to it. Besides if we were attacked I would get tripped up by it. So it's better that I don't have one." Yuri nodded and started to get everything packed up.
While Yuri was trying to pack away her pillow, the blanket got caught around her ankle and she fell over onto Ramses. Ramses looked at Yuri lying on top of him. "See? Told ya." They both start to giggle. That's when Delphiti poked his head into the tent to see them on top of each other. He blushed.
"Oops sorry sir!" He quickly pulled his head out of the tent. "I-I just wanted to tell you that we would be leaving soon, but if you're busy I'm sure that we could wait a little while?" Ramses knew that this would upset Yuri. He's been trying so hard to make sure she was happy. This was the last thing that he wanted. He looked over at Yuri to see her blushing. He urges her to get off of him. Then he gets up and runs out of the tent.
"Delphiti we weren't doing anything. She got caught in the blanket and fell." Delphiti gets a smug look on his face.
"Oh I see." He starts to elbow Ramses in the stomach as if to say 'nice goin'.
"No that wasn't what I meant! Look are the troops ready to go?" Delphiti shakes his head yes. "Good we will be ready momentarily." Ramses goes back into the tent and gets everything else ready. "Yuri?" She looks over to him. "I'm sorry I didn't mean for that to be misinterpreted. I tried to make it better, but I think I only made it worse. Don't worry though I don't think any of them has the gall to say anything to you." Yuri giggles.
"Don't worry Ramses. Thank you for trying though." He smiles a little and finishes getting packed as they continue their journey to Egypt.