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Lord Wyldon sat on his bed, not believing what had just happened. The fact alone that he had been thrown out of his saddle for the first time in years was bad enough, but it was much worse because Kel, the girl he had not allowed to stay even though he saw potential in her, had been the one to throw him. He took a moment to clear his thoughts before he changed for the banquet tonight.

"Lord Oakbridge?" Owen asked.

"Not now Owen," he replied.

Lord Oakbridge was frantically trying to decide on whether or not to move Kel's tent and on whether or not he should change her seating arrangements for tonight's banquet. Plus all of the other normal issues he had to solve.

Owen just sat on the bench. He couldn't believe that The Kraken - the knight he admired greatly, was Kel, the girl he had heard so much about from Neal, Merric, Esmond, and many of the other older boys. He still admired her greatly he was just hurt that she hadn't told him the truth. He sat there sulking until Lord Oakbridge sent him to change so he could help serve at tonight's banquet.

Neal was sitting on the bleachers long after the jousting was over. He was still unable to believe that it was Kel, but he couldn't believe that he had missed the clues that would have told him it was her.

First of all there was Peachblossom. One day he had gone searching for Kel in the stables and had went in his stall. He had no idea that it was Peachblossom since he was a different color. When he walked in the horse had promptly walked over to where he stood and bit him on the shoulder. After that he stayed as far away as possible from the horse.

Then there was her laugh and smile and...

"Neal," Merric interrupted his friends thought as he took him by the arm so that they could go and prepare for the banquet.

Neal just followed in a daze.

"Go ahead Alanna, just say it," Jonathan told his friend.

"Say what Jon?" she asked.

"I told you so. You said I would regret not making Lord Wyldon let her stay," he replied.

Several moments passed in silence.

"Well aren't you going to say it?" he questioned.

"No," she said.

"Why not? You know I can order you to. Your silence is torturing me."

"Fine. I told you so."

"What did you tell him so?" asked Gary as he and George walked in the room.

"That he would regret sending Kel home," she replied.

"Oh, but it was his own fault since he decided not to listen to his advisers."

"I didn't give you permission to criticize me Gary, only Alanna. And besides half of my advisers were saying I was doing the right thing."

"Yea, the conservative half," Gary mumbled.

"What was that Gary?"

"Nothing, your Majesty."

"Stop being so pert, Gary."

Several more moments passed in silence before a thought dawned on Jonathan.

"You knew! Didn't you, George. Admit it!" Jonathan accused his long time friend.

"I didn't know, Jonathan! That's what's bugging me. How is possible that she was able to complete all of that training and I missed it."

"It's not your fault George. You didn't have any reliable spies over there," Alanna soothed her husband.

"You're right Alanna," he admited, "it's just hard to accept that's all."

"She's not right," accused Aly Cooper who had just popped out from behind a chest, thus revealing her hiding spot.

"Alianne Cooper! What are you doing in here?" asked her mother very sternly.

"Practicing my spying skills, since two over protective people won't allow me to practice them elsewhere. And if they had, Kel's identity wouldn't be a surprise. Therefore yes it is your fault, father, that you didn't know this ahead of time," she impudently replied, smirk on her face.

"Apologize to your father this instance young lady and then go to your room, you will not be attending the banquet tonight."

"Sorry," she said before storming out of the room, "besides there's going to be tons of banquets."

"Make that the next week," he mother said in reply of her comment.

Aly just rolled her eyes.

"So how does it feel, my love, now that you've shown Tortall who you really are," Henrik asked Kel as they walked to the banquet together, hand-in-hand.

"It a mixture of feelings, glad that I lived up to my goal. My anger has started to diminish, though I still haven't forgiven the king or Lord Wyldon. Then there's relief. Relief that I don't have to hide it anymore. It was getting harder and harder to keep it from my friends. Especially when Neal wouldn't eat his vegetables. I almost ordered him to eat some once, but then realized that if I said it he would realize immediately who I really am. It was probably the hardest to keep from Owen. There's just something about that boy, which makes you want you to confide all of your deepest secrets to him, but you'd have to kill afterwards to make sure that those secrets didn't become the latest gossip since he has a rather large mouth," she said laughing.

Henrik joined in her laughter.

"We should probably announce our engagement soon now that everyone knows," he suggested.

"Yes, but we might want to wait a week or two so that we don't give everyone heart attacks with all of the surprises that I've been giving them lately," she replied.

"You're probably right, my love," he said pulling her into a kiss.

Note: Hee Hee! For once Neal's speechless! Hope you enjoyed the chapter. If there is any person's reaction that you really wanted to see...I mean read then tell me and I'll try to include it in the next chapter or add it on to this one.