3- Gemenii regal

It only took the two women a short while to get to the stables behind the grand castle set just beyond the small town. As they rode up towards the castle it appeared that there were already fired lit inside as well as lights in some of the rooms of the castle. Anna showed her guest to the stables before dismounting her horse and hands it off to one of the many stable hands available. A young boy wearing a brown woolen cloak came over to Kya and very carefully offered to help her down. She gladly accepted it and allowed the boy to help her down from her horse before gently taking the reigns from her and bowing to the young woman. After unstrapping her bag from the saddle she reluctantly left the boy to tend to her horse. She looked towards her cousins horse, he was as dark as the night the only thing off about the horse was that there was a small white patch on the top of his head. she watched as Anna very gently stroked the animals mane before taking its bridle off and putting it on a hook that was just outside the stall. It was clear that Anna cared for her horse and even though she was a princess she would take the time to care for her horse like this. Perhaps Kya's expectations were a bit harsh for meeting her cousins for the first time.

She expected them to live in a castle, truth, with hundreds of servants waiting on their every hand and foot, possibly, and they look down their noses to any one and everyone in their path. The image of Anna in royal robes and a crown did not fit such a woman. She bled a lethal air around her that told anyone around her that she was ready to kill you at any moment. Now that Kya was able to see the woman up close and in better lighting from the torches that were lit in the stables she could tell that Anna had spent many hours, if not years training her body so she can be as strong as she could be. Even as she gently stroked the horses back while taking the saddle off, she could tell that the woman standing across from her was not a traditional Royal like the ones back in England. She was one that actually worked alongside her subjects and did her best to try to serve them as they did for her.

After another moment or two of the woman caring for her horse she let the stable hands take over before walking over to Kya and putting her hands on her hips.

"Thank you for coming here on such short notice. We would have come to get you at the station had we not been busy trying to catch a werewolf." She waved he rhand and walked past her towards the passage that leads to the actual castle. "Follow me."

Kya had to stop for a moment and collect her thoughts before following behind the woman. There goes all her hopes that her distant cousins were mentally capable and didn't feed into the stories about their home country. Why would this woman be searching for a werewolf, shouldn't she be trying to make relations with the other nobles around here. Perhaps she set her expectations a bit to high. Kya sighed slightly before trying to catch up to her and looks around the inside of the castle. On every wall there was a painting of some sort. Be it a mural of a long passed ancestor or simply... a map of Transylvania. Alright... perhaps they once used to be expert map makers?

Kya shook her head and she followed her cousin through the halls taking note of just how many weapons this family collected. Clearly they believed that these creatures were odd but it could also be that they make their own weapons and simply put them on display. Swords of varying sizes, maces, stakes of all sizes, and even silver bullets. Clearly this family has some issues that need to be dealt with. Kya followed behind the woman and stops as Anna comes to a pair of large ornate wooden doors and throws them open. Inside the room is lit by the light of the roaring fire that is already burning inside the fireplace. There is a large bed set off to the right side of the room with two small tables beside them. One with a large candle stick on it allong with a bible and the other a was basin mostlikely filled with water.

"You can stay here, it was my mothers room." Anna walks into the room and throws open the heavy curtains that covered the window beside the bed.

Kya walked into the room carefully almost afraid to breathe. Its almost like everything had been made for a woman with a... lighter touch. The colors in the room were blue and creme rather than the red and various shades of brown through out the castle. The large window was able to open out to let fresh air in, but Kya knew with the snow coming down outside that would be a bad idea. Why was it snowing this early in the year? Was it because of the location of the castle or perhaps just a change in altitude?

"The maids come every morning with breakfast, Velkan and I are rarely home when breakfast is served. They will treat you like the do us, like royalty. I wish we had more time to talk about this but i must go. Please make yourself comfortable and feel free to look around the castle."

And with that Anna hurried from the room and back down the halls towards another part of the castle.

"Thank you..." Kya whispered to herself as she placed her bag down upon the grand bed before slowly sitting down upon it.

The mattress easily gave way to her weight, cradling her even as she sat. It was already much better than her living quarters in London. Though the family she served were very kind and gracious, the home that they owned was very old and had very small rooms for the servants to use when living there. Looking around the room again Kya can now see more details in the room. There were at the very least three large tapestries strung up onto the wall each depicting scenes that contrasted greatly with what was in the castle its self. These were much older as well, they depicted ancient cities long gone and battles that shaped the world and the land the castle now stood on. Kya reached into her bag and took out a leather bound book and held it in her hands before standing back up and taking her cloak off. She carefully lay it over the back of the wooden chair beside the fireplace and left her room to explore the castle that she will now call home for the next few months.

As she left her room she looked around the hall again seeing nothing but weapons upon weapons up and down the hallways. She looked down to the book in her hands and opened it up and read the last thing that was written before moving to the left.

"I shall be telling this with a sigh

Somewhere ages and ages hence:

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I-

I took the one less traveled by,

And that has made all the difference."

It was a small portion of a larger poem that her mother had written for her as a child. Kya had always been fascinated with literature and did her best to gain new books whenever she could and change them into her own stories. The ones written by men that were tasteless and boring were the ones she liked best. She could always find a way to make it more entertaining. Looking up from her little book she found that she had made her way into what appeared to be the armory, although the entire castle looked like an armory of sorts. The torches in this room were not lit so Kya turned around and whent back the other way this time at the end of the hallway on the opposite side she found what turned out to be a library. Instantly she felt more at ease when she set her eyes upon the walls filled with books. Though her master had a grand library in his home, this one was by far the most grand that she had ever seen.

All four walls were covered completely with shelves upon shelves of books. The largest of them all were set upon a large wooden table that stretched across the room in front of a fireplace larger than the one in her bedroom. This room was very well lit and it appeared that it was one of the most used rooms in the entire castle. Kya turned around in a circle to admire the room then whent to one of the shelves and attempted to try to find something to read, if not then she could always write. It appears that there was some parchment and ink laying on the table, so she would not have any trouble with entertaining herself for the evening. All of the books were written in Romanian and unfortunately, even though Kya can read unlike many other women, she does not know any other language than English. With a sigh she moved towards the chair that was pulled up to the table and placed her little book down before her. As she sat down she took in the room once again enjoying the sight of all of these books, then she picked up the pen from the ink well in her left hand, opened her little book to a clean page and began to write as she always did.

"The snow drapes over the mountain tops,

and o'er the tops of the homes.

Though it be Autumn, the snow falls..."

Yay chapter three. I hope everyone likes this chapter ill try to have another one up soon and thats when we get to the main story. Hope you liked it, please let me know and review.