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Thought/Flashback/Dream
Chapter 9
The captain wished to know what was happening in the head of the princess as he saw her dance with her sister. He still could not believe that Elissa was so close. Everything he had seen in that night, in the rain, would never leave his memory as the time passes. He couldn't stop observe her, Crawe noticed where his eyes rested and was trying to distract him with a joke but still he couldn't stop looking... It had been painful to see her in the arms of Roderick and know that he would never had any chance to show his feelings that he kept imprisoned in his chest and grew, even if he had the chance he couldn't do it because it was wrong, he was her Knight... And he had to do what was right.
"Elmont!"
When he saw her body beginning to fall he run and began to yell orders and saying to people to get back. He still approaches in time and his hands circled her body. Then he adjusts her body lifting her easily, his chest filled with her scent. His heart was racing against her form and he closed his eyes momentarily. When he opened his eyes he looked at the worried face of Isabelle.
"She will be alright?"
"I'm sure she will..." He tried to tell himself she would be alright, though the reassurance did little to help calm the frantic flutter of his heart against his ribs.
A hand closed in Elmont's arm when he tried to move.
"I will carry her"
"There's no time for this" he hissed to Roderick, trying to match the anger he saw in his eyes but without success, he was worried with Elissa. Her forehead was cover with sweat and she was slightly shaking, he had to get her to her room and quickly.
The King asked for Elmont take Elissa immediately to her room. In his voice was present in the authority but Elmont could denote the concern hidden beneath it. Crawe run through him with more men.
"Get someone!" was what he said before he starts to carry her to her room.
The entire waiting was made with the king only resumed to his agitated pacing while Roderick watch everything with a calm look. Isabelle watches Elmont trying to remain impassive while waiting as he asked the King to calm down. She wanted to know what was happening, the whole waiting thing was leaving her annoyed and upset, and she didn't want to lose her sister when she just had finally found her...
Crawe approached the group and whispered something in the ear of the captain, he nodded and replied something. Isabelle's curiosity was interrupted when in that moment the door opened to show the master accompanied by Alyn, the monk, companion of Elissa.
"How is she?" The king pushes forward and put in words the question that Isabelle wanted to be answered.
"The body of Princess is weak... And the strong emotions of the day had a big impact in her, it's easy to verify that she is exhausted and had been..." The master talked
"The body was not prepared for the journey and the emotions so it found the only way to make the Princess rest..." Isabelle chuckled, indeed it was expected of her sister to be stubborn and reach her limit "Maybe she felt the tiredness and..."
"And didn't tell anyone..." The king sighed. Now he was calmer.
"Exactly... That is to be expected if he are talking about the Princess..." Alyn sighed "But she will remain unconscious for a few days and have a slightly fever. The rest will give her body time to rest and heal. There no need to worry about her... We only need to wait until she is awake"
Isabelle moved to enter in the room but was stopped by his father
"It will be better if you rest now Isabelle"
"But..."
"Tomorrow..."
Isabelle reluctantly accepted. Elmont escorted her to her room at the request of the King, through the stone corridors of the castle a silence settled between the two. Isabelle's thoughts like the thought of Elmont were on her sister. The young Princess sign deeply, she knew the she couldn't wait to see Elissa... Perhaps Isabelle could, in the dark, walk to the quarters of her sister and keep her company. She would be feeling much better if she knew Elissa was in good health.
"Elmont... Someone will guard Elissa?"
"Crawe will be for a few hours... After doing the tasks I have to do, I will dispensed him and stay in his place. He has not rested since disappeared of you. Princess" Elmont looked accusingly at her and smiled slightly.
Now, she was lucid that the Knights who went looking for her had not found much rest. Mainly Elmont, Isabelle had noticed the fatigue present in his posture and his features. The Princess bet that due to the concern that she had caused him the captain never closed his eyes for a moment as he search for her. And now his concern now falls on Elissa.
Isabelle remember that as Elmont carried Elissa to her room, she cried out in her sleep and clung to him like a lifeline, Isabelle saw the terror and fear that appear in his face in that moment. She heard her sister, crying for help, asking for his help.
"Elmont... help me..." in that moment his heart almost stop and with tenderness Elmont kiss her forehead without caring that Isabelle saw the small gesture.
"Shh... It's okay, you're safe now..."
He had feeling for her sister... Isabelle was almost certainly. And if he had then her sister had too because Isabelle remember that Elissa always wore a glow in her eyes whenever she was with him or every time she look at him.
"I'm sorry for that Elmont."
"That's okay princess..."
Elmont bowed slightly and began to walk to the opposite side, leaving Isabelle at the door of her room. He ran a hand through his hair and sighed deeply. He was tired and wanted to fall into his bed and sleep, maybe he could find the sleep and rest that deprived his body for so long.
Outside the castle, the captain walked by Knights and wave to them. The moon illuminates his way. Elmont Approached the top of the stone wall of the castle and saw that the night would be prolonger up for a few hours. Turning to the knights that approach, he began distributing tasks.
Maybe now was the time to think about what happened during the day more calm, he remember very well how her body had been shaking, the color livid of her face and her forehead covered with sweat.
He shook his head slightly. Maybe it would be better to concentrate on what he had to do and think later.
Isabelle smiled quietly to herself as she left her room. A few hours had pass and she was sure she would not find anyone...Well maybe a knight...But surely he would not stop her for seeing her sister, not when she as at his side. As much as her father or anyone else told you that Elissa was well Isabelle could only rest and calm down when she saw her.
Quickly she passed the stone walls.
Why the room of Elissa has to be at the other end of the castle?
She sighed with relief when she saw someone passing without seeing her.
When she reaches Elissa's chambers she didn't saw anyone at the door. It was supposed to be someone guarding her... Isabelle opened the door slowly to reveal the room that was lit by candles and the fire. She entered and closed the door behind her and when she did find the captain in front of her. Isabelle smiled slightly.
"Princess, what are you doing in here?" his tone was serious.
"I...Elissa...I wanted to...Please..."
"You were supposed to be in your room"
"I wanted to see her" Elmont sign.
"What am I supposed to do? Princess, you could help me..."
"I'm sorry, I know you are tired but please don't make me turn..."
"I couldn't do that." The Captain smile and moved away so Isabelle could enter in the room. Quickly the Young Princess approached the bed; she looked at the knight and smiled.
Isabelle was concerned about her sister and when she looked at her, she noticed nothing unusual. She sat on the edge of the bed, next to Elissa's side, with her hands holding her sister's hand.
"She will be okay" Isabelle whispered but Elmont heard. Elmont would only be relieved when he saw her deep grey eyes and her smile.
The captain brought a chair and request to Isabelle sat down but the Princess smile and demand to Elmont sit and he sat. Elmont gently ran his hand over the scar in Elissa's forehead, moving the hair out of the way that had fallen there. He felt guilty for want she gone through.
If I had protected her...
"Elmont, can I ask you something?"
"What do you want to know, Princess?"
"Do you love her?" He looked at her surprised. "I see the way you look at Elissa and now the love in your gesture..."
Silence filled the room, he felt his heartbeat sped. Elmont swallowed and then he looked at Elissa. Her beautiful face, the dark hair. He ran his fingers through her soft hair.
Should I tell?
The simple gestures of affection said to Isabelle what she has ask him, she was happy to know it but sad in the same time. Happy because her sister had someone that loves her and didn't think in her as a tool but more than that, but sad because of the marriage of Elissa. Isabelle took pity on Elmont and Elissa.
Somehow He knew that he could trust in Isabelle with his feeling. It was so hard to keep them...
Isabelle smile.
"Princess..."
"Isabelle"
He chuckled
"Isabelle..." he said in a serious tone "It's hard to tell what she makes me feel... I love her... Like I've never loved anyone as much... I wanted... I wish that all could be different..." said hesitantly not thinking about the consequences of his words. He wanted to describe how he felt for her but no words came out, He wanted to get rid of the weight that the secret consumed.
She smile slightly, now, for her it was clear that Elissa had the same feelings for him.
"You can change the situation" He laughed bitterly
"Forgive me, Princess if I don't believe in that. I'm a Knight and Guardian of Cloister and nothing more."
I never could or can be more to her then that...
"If my father change his mind? If the wedding was canceled?"
"Then I would be happy for the Princess, is what she wants..." She growled in exasperation for the blindness that now Elmont showed to her, hear his confession had given her the certainly that Elissa shared the same feelings.
"I understand that it is impossible for you to believe, but the time will show you that you're not the only one who shares these feelings. At heart, what both of you feel is not so different!"
Elmont only looked at the Princess trying to understand his words.
"Princess what are you trying to say?"
Isabelle smiled mysteriously. She knew something he did not know but only time or even He could unravel what she was saying. The Princess believed that was not so hard to understand... Perhaps Elmont wishes to see something different... Isabelle understands why the captain had doubts. After all he was the guardian of Elissa and was not allowed to have any intimacy with her; he was not allowed to have feelings for her... But...
Heat... The Heat was around her, again she couldn't breathe... Her surrounding was the same when she had dream the same dream. Like before she screams for help and ask the heat to leave her. She wanted water, wanted the cold air to involve her... She wanted to live.
Elissa felt cold hands involve her. The hands never release her to replace, like before but she began to felt her skin burning... She felt her skin melt. Then water took the place of the heat and she stop receiving air in her lungs. She needed air... Two hands wrap around her neck tight, the hands where hot and when they touch her skin Elissa felt pain thought her all body. She was drowning and to kill her more quickly the two hands were suffocating her.
Her heartbeat begging to stop.
"Elmont... help me..."
"Shh..." in the moment she heard his voice the water surrounding her began to change color, like before. "It's okay, you're safe now..." the hands around her neck release her and she began to breath.
Time seemed to stop as Elissa floated in the water, she closed her eyes momentarily and when she opened again she was at the top of a tree. The Princess slid down the tree to be able to reach the ground. Then she felt the herbs wet with moisture of the night. The light of a new day was peering through the treetops. She was barefoot and all the possible clues of burned skin didn't exist. Another delirium of her mind... But what could she say as she find in a tree?
Is not this also a dream?
She looked around her but only saw trees of varying sizes. Elissa began to walk forward hesitantly; the rustle of dead leaves that sometimes she trod was the only sound she heard in the silence of the forest. There was no sound of the birds, nor the sound of the wind playing with the trees... It seemed that everything around her was dead...
Elissa wondered why she was there and that scared and silent forest. While she was walking, she felt something different in the air she breathes, the air grew denser and heavier and the forest seemed to close around her. A child's laughter filled the silence; Elissa looked away and saw the girl involved in the arms of the queen. In the arms of her mother. She was that girl... She smiled. The image was replaced by an older girl that hugged her little sister that was crying. Not a tear sprang from her eyes... Elissa felt remorse for not having shown how the departure of her mother had affect her but only wanted to be strong for her sister and even for her father. The death of her mother had severed her from the inside and she suffered. Elissa remembered that the one that was by her side was Elmont. He had held her as she cry in his arms. He had been there to her.
A fog started to descend around her separating her from the scene. Slowly the fog that limited her vision began to fade and through the mist appeared again the forest. Elissa started shaking with the cold that was in her body, she continued to advance finding a piece of cloth on the ground. When she removed her gaze from the fabric and looked forward she found a person who never thought she would see again. Ahead was her mother with a tender smile on her face.
"My child" she had open arms waiting for Elissa to move forward and without thinking Princess advanced hugging her mother tightly.
"Mother... I miss you..."
"I know" the queen stroked her black hair Elissa and guided her
"I what to tell you so much..."
"I'm sure of it"
Elissa was cold and when approached the fire she saw to warm up something strange happen. The fire did not produce any heat.
"Mother, a question. Why is the fire cold?" she try to approach the fire but her mother stop her.
"I don't feel nothing of that but be careful, even if the fire cannot warm you up it was still power"
Strange.
Elissa looked at the water that was beside the fire. The two elements were brought before her as two essences. She couldn't figure out the end and beginning of each... One of the strangest things would be the only element that provides her some warmth and comfort was the water... Maybe it was not strange.
"You have to choose Elissa"
Choose?
"Choose over what? Mother I don't understand..."
"Water or Fire ... It's a simple choice"
"Why and what's the reason of all this?" Her mother only smile to her.
"You don't have to understand, you only need to know that you have to choose" Elissa look puzzled "You can choose the easy way..." her mother point to the fire "that is accept things or the hard way..." she now point to the water "fighting for what you want and believe" Really? If she had to choose she would choose the hard way just because she could never accept the things she didn't believe, she could never be submissive. She would always fight for what she wanted and believe.
Elissa look at the fire. It seems that it stirs with hungry... It was fire; it has looking for destruction and was dangerous. Ambition. It was the only thing that fire could make and was made for, to destroy. Then she looked at the water. Calm and inviting but could become dangerous and even deadly like the fire but was different, so much different. Water could create but if wanted to destroy.
She began to laugh, this is so absurd.
Then the water star to change color like was trying to draw attention. The color change to the color between blue and green, the color of that remind her of the beautiful eyes of Elmont.
"The color reminds me of..."
"Elmont's eyes" Elissa surprised look to her mother "Don't look so surprised. I remember him child. I'm sure he has turn to be a great man."
"He has" she whispered
"So you have choose water"
"I didn't said anything"
"But you clearly have chosen the water, from the beginning. Look at the fire and tell me what you feel about it"
She felt, and didn't know why or understand it, disgusted by it. She only wanted distance, Elissa was a little afraid and the only comfort was her mother or the water.
Strange feeling.
"I understand your feelings I never like it either." Elissa gaze snap to her mother. She thought she heard him instead of it. "Water... I knew that for you was never a choice... Understand you have to be careful with fire and make sure it cannot turn the water impulsive... The water has to remain calm... It is your strength. Remain strong and believe in yourself"
"MOTHER!"
It was a strange dream, I know but I wanted to show somehow she was choosing between two people that don't mean she was divided, like her mother said she had chosen from the beginning. But Elissa needed to settle things down in her mind. She could never or would never choose the easy way. I just wanted to show that she will fight always for her happiness even if someone as doubts. When Elmont said that he love Elissa in that moment he felt like he couldn't hide his feeling and he knew that he could trust Isabelle. I wanted to show that.
Have to wait for the romance that is coming…Let me know what you think…
