WOW!!!! 100+ REVIEWS!!! I really feel loved and I'm glad so many people like my story. I just hope I can live up to it with my next story. And it really makes me more confident with my novel which I am half way through.

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Sydelle Rein: Yah I guess he did deserve it but really it wasn't intentional.

SarahE7191: I agree I really like Wyldon in Squire and Knight but unfortunately in my story he didn't get a chance to be like that. And it is perfectly fine that you didn't review I think I update faster than most.

AMulata: Make up for the title, how so?

SwiftShadow: Spanish is hard but I had to learn Latin, as in the language spoken by ancient Greeks, that was four years of torture. Blasphemy but I think I am worse I have never read a Harry Potter book or seen a movie. I think I am living under a rock but I just never got around to it. They sound interesting and are on my list of books to buy but I want to read the books before I see the movies. Are the movies anything like the books?

Shamrockgirl07: I'm not sure about the King. I could write it in but I think he was to far away.

JaBoyYa: What do you mean who is Kaven? In my story or in the books cause he isn't in the books he is an OC. As for the camping trip it was fun but cold. We go to Yorkshire Dales National Park and camp near Dent Dale. Don't know if you know where that is but it is beautiful.

Pie of Doomeh: The Shamer's War and it was great. I don't want to tell you a lot about it but there are a lot of new characters but I didn't like the ending it left to many questions. How old are you're brothers?

Theknightofkonaha: Yah for making sense! Really if you are still confused just reread the story from the beginning.

Tears of Winter: You're review made me laugh. I didn't mean for that part to be funny but now when I look at it I see that it kind of was funny.

Eclipsa: I have problems controlling my anger too so I can definitely relate to Kel.

Mrs. Dom Masbolle: Yes this chapter is all about Dom and Kel a subject that I love.

Lady Azkaban: I take it that this is princess- of- everything? I'm glad you decided to keep her and now you get to buy cute clothes and things for her.

Tamorapiercerulz: Thanks I'm glad you like my story.1

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Kel walked quickly yet steadily to the stables trying to draw as little attention to herself as possible. The ground outside was untouched and it looked as if it had been spared from her tirade. She knew that if Kaven hadn't come it would be just as bad out here as it was in the mess hall. She made it to the stables and located Peachblossom's stall safely. The latch on the door was broken so she had to set the basket of apples down and use both hands to heave it open. Once inside she collapsed onto the hay in the corner and put her head in her hands.

She was a lost cause and she knew it she was totally desolate never going to fit in. It was bad enough when I didn't have this gift and now I just distanced myself from people who had been willing to give me a chance. Neal will never want to be friends with me now she thought. I should just leave and never come back why would my family want to see me when they know what I have become. She couldn't count the times that she had asked the gods to take away her burden but they never responded unless it was to give her a new task through the chamber.

Peachblossom nudged her hand with his nose and stamped his feet. It was plain as day that he was telling her to stop with the self pity to just get up and do something and that something was probably to give him a good once over with a brush.

I love my horse she thought as she got up from the ground brushed hey off her clothes and picked up a brush. She went over Peaschblossom's round muscled sides with the comb smoothing out the hair and pulling hay from it as she went along. She worked a fine comb through his main and tail getting out the burs and hay balls that were stuck in it. He had let Gaven brush him but not work out his coat like he did Kel. She was checking his hooves when she heard shuffling near his stall door.

Kel looked up and saw Dom standing in the stall entryway leaning on the frame. She didn't feel like talking so she ignored him hoping he would get the point and move on.

"So..." he drawled holding out the word, "I guess you wanted to make a good first impression as the new you at breakfast?"

Kel dropped the hoof pick she was using shocked at his unusual way of putting it. She was so shocked she let out a small laugh but then thought about what really happened and the laugh turned into a small sob. Dom's smile twisted into a frown and he stepped further into the stall concern outlining his body. Kel was busy controlling her emotions and setting her mask into a stone sculpture reminiscent of her real face that she didn't warn Dom not to get closer. When she straightened up she saw that Peachblossom had Dom cornered and was slowly advancing on him. Kel was annoyed with Dom and she would have let Peachblossom bite him but someone had already mucked out the stalls and she didn't want to have to clean blood off of them as well. She quickly walked up to him and grabbed his arm pulling him through the stall door just as Peachblossom's teeth slammed shut where Dom's head had been. Dom tripped over a bail of hay began to fall and pulled Kel down with him. They landed with a thud the wind blown out of both of them.

They both lay there breathing heavily trying to fill their lungs with air. Dom sat up and coughed. "What did I ever do to that beast?" he asked drawing in another sharp breath.

"Nothing he just likes his space." Kel replied. "Listen, is there some reason you are here, I would really like to be alone for awhile."

"Well I went into the mess hall this morning to get breakfast and there wasn't any and when I heard why and about what happened I thought you might need someone to talk to." Dom was smiling again trying to make fun of the situation.

Kel didn't understand she hardly knew him shouldn't Gaven, Kaven, or even Neal be here doing this? She thought back to a week ago and how Dom had been so easy to talk too and she had felt so comfortable with him. In a way it seemed natural that he was here but she certainly wasn't going to open up to him she didn't even think she was willing to talk to Gaven about this.

"I don't need to talk to anyone about it I just lost control, it shouldn't have happened and I am embarrassed about it. It was hard enough to be normal when I didn't know who my parents were and I was basically a Shang prodigy people just expected me to be good at everything and I made myself be good at everything. I had friends and for a time life was great and then I took my Shang Ordeal early and got this stupid Gift. I mean why do they even call it that? If you ask me it has been nothing but a burden. But I still had a few friends and I thought that I had found my place in the world and then Maggur has to come and destroy that. Then after he has almost killed me I get told by a god that I am not the person that I thought I was but that I am really a long lost girl thought to have been killed by a conservative. I remember it all but that is not what makes me mad. What makes me mad is that the gods who did 'what they thought were best for me' and took away the memories won't tell me why they took them away. That and I don't think I can go and meet King Jonathan without burning him to a crisp with anger." Kel's hands were balled into tight fists her nails cutting into the flesh of her palms.

She hadn't meant to say anything, she never did with Dom but it always just happened. She knew most of it didn't make sense but her mouth wasn't talking as fast as her mind was forming thoughts and that was how it came out as a bunch of half formed thoughts. Tears that she had been holding back all morning sprung from her eyes running freely down her cheeks dripping from her chin and making wet splotches on her dress front.

Dom was speechless as he watched the women who had held her own against the King of Scanra cry over something as simple as losing her temper. He knelt down beside her and lifted her up then guided her to a bench next to Peachblossom's stall. "I'm not going to lie and say I understand because there is no way I could understand what you are going through but Keladry you have to believe me when I say you're old friends won't not want to be friends with you because of what you can do. You should see the Lioness's room after she is done with one of her famous outbursts. There isn't a whole vase left in it." He slid his calloused fingers under her chin and lifted it up so she wasn't looking at her hands anymore and only at him. Without any hesitation he looked into her unlimited eyes and fell in letting himself be enveloped in a comforting blanket of gold.

Kel looked into Dom's astonishing blue eyes and saw many things. She saw the love that he had for his family; she saw his courage when battling the metal monsters and immortals that had terrorized the countryside. She saw him giving his rations to a group of Scanran refugee children and saw him pulling a man off of a struggling woman in the streets of Corus. Kel looked deeper and saw his hopes and dreams of a great career in the Kings Own. She saw Dom standing with a woman in his arms children running around their feet laughing with joy and childish cries of delight. She looked closer at the women and pulled pack quickly breaking her contact with Dom's eyes and looking down at her hands once again. Her eyes were wide open and she once again found it hard to breath. Dom was also having his own problems breathing. He didn't know what it was that Kel had seen but he had a feeling from the slight expression on her face that it was something shocking.

Kel built up the courage to look at him again and this time held back her gift looking him in the eyes as a normal person would. Her tears were forgotten and the sorrow and pity replaced with curiosity. The first thing she saw was hey sticking out of Dom's hair at odd angles. She reached up to pull it out and saw a look of adoration on his face and oddly it didn't scare her in the slightest. Kel was lowering her hand after pulling the hey from Dom's hair when he enclosed his larger hand around it. This time it was Kel who was captured in someone else's eyes. She couldn't look away even as she noticed that he was leaning in closer his hot breath against her cheek. He cupped her chin with his other hand and gently planted a soft kiss on her lips.

Kel pulled back quickly and stood up from the bench almost knocking it over in the process. She slammed Peachblossom's stall shut making sure that it was fully latched and turned to Dom. "I can't do this it is too much for now, to much to handle. I'm sorry maybe after I have sorted things out and everything is as normal as it is going to get. I really am sorry." She turned and fled from the stables heading towards her rooms.

Dom watched her fleeting form and sighed. He had kissed her and she hadn't killed him. He was sure that she would have but he couldn't help himself. He didn't blame her for not wanting to complicate things now and he admired her for it. If it was him he probably would have went for it and realized later that he had taken on to much. He was glad, he would rather start a relationship with her when she was settled and didn't rush into things. She didn't strike him as that kind of person but he didn't want to take advantage of her. Besides she had said maybe later and that she was sorry and really sounded like she was sorry that she couldn't be with him now. And that was good enough for him he would wait for her with only the memory of that soft kiss and the soft feel of her skin. It would give him plenty of time to get to know her as a person.

Dom pushed himself up from the bench and walked past Peachblossom's stall eying the horse. He noticed a basket of apples sitting on the ground outside of it. He bent down and picked up the basket thinking to take it back to his room with him when his eyes once again rested on the strawberry roan who was looking at him with a measuring eye. Dom picked out a brilliantly red apple and tossed it into the air watching Peachblossom's eyes follow it up and down. Dom set the apple on the door of Peachblossom's stall ready to yank his hand away at any moment. He waited as the horse eyed first Dom then the apple. Peachblossom stretched out his neck and took the apple into his mouth all at once. He chomped on it his eyes never leaving the man in front of him as he chewed. Dom took a step closer and held out another apple to the beast this time leaving it in his palm and thrusting it dangerously close to Peachblossom's nose. The horse took it from him without hesitation. Dom smiled and lined three more apples up on the stall door and left one for himself. He bowed to Peachblossom mockingly and walked out of the stables with one hand in his pockets a smile plastered on his face, humming a happy tune.

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Wow can you say fluff? I'm not sure if I am good at writing fluff but let me know if I am seeing as how this story is a love story. Also I know this is kind of short but it ended happy and on a lovely scene don't you agree?

As to the drastic measures that I was talking about two chapters ago this is everyone's last warning. If you are reading this story and aren't going to review I just want you to know that I am building a machine that is full of drastic measures and is just itching to perform them. So once again you have been warned. And for those people who don't respond well to threats (of which I am one) I will resort to pleading. Please please please please please review I love them.