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A/N: I typed this tonight (along with chapter 10) to make up for not updating for a long, long time..sorry to keep you waiting!!
~ Midwinter ~
Kel awoke to the peeping of the new head Sparrow, Wren. Nari had dies peacefully after Kel had returned. Jump walked over to the bed and licked Kel's hand and nudged it, telling her to get up. "Alright, alright. I'm up." Kel told her animals.
After she dressed, she did a pattern dance with her glaive, the animals watching her intently. When Kel finished, she bathed and put on a new dress to go to breakfast. It was a white dress with a gold trim along the edges. Kel put her now shoulder length hair into a bun, to keep it out of her face while she worked. Kel opened her presents that had been delivered. From Neal she received a book on Female Warriors. Yuki had sent Kel a shushuken, painted with a red and gold dragon. Owen, Merric, Raoul, Roald, Cleon, Inness, and Anders had all pitched in to buy her a new dagger form the Raven Armoury. But something was missing. Dom hadn't gotten her anything, Kel realized with a sigh. Stop being so greedy, Kel thought to herself, but if he didn't love her anymore… don't be an idiot, of course he loves you. She had sent him a beautifully crafted gold ring with an opal in the center, designed to render any poisons, either put into his food or into weapons that wounded him, useless. Suddenly Kel heard, a quiet knock on the door, so as not to disturb anyone who might be sleeping. She opened it slowly.
It was Dom!!
"Kel, we need to talk." Dom said hesitantly, as if he didn't want to tell her what he had to say.
"Okay, Dom. Please come in." Kel said just as hesitantly, not knowing if she wanted to hear what he had to say, lest it be bad news.
"Thank you." Dom said
courteously. He took out a piece of
paper, but dropped it because his hands were shaking. He knelt down to pick it up and looked at Kel
"What's wrong, Dom? Whatever it is, you can tell me." Kel said, a little surprised at her own words.
"Okay," Dom replied nervously. He looked down again and she noticed he wore the ring she had given him. He took her hand and slipped something cold on her finger. "Kel, will you marry me?"
"WHAT!?!?!" Kel screamed, momentarily unaware of where she was, and extremely shocked.
"Will you marry me?" Dom replied with a little more confidence than before.
Kel quickly composed her self. "Yes, Domitan of Masbolle, I will marry you." Kel replied with her most Yamini- Lump mask on.
Dom whooped loudly and all of Kel's friends came running to her room. "She said yes!! She said YES!!"
"Congratulations." Her friends chorused.
"You knew about this?" Kel asked, taken aback at their ability to keep such a large secret from her.
"Who do you think helped Dom convince the King to change the law that said men in the King's own couldn't marry?" Neal drawled, amused.
Kel was speechless for a moment, she had forgotten about that. "You changed the law for me?" Kel asked Dom, her mask starting to deteriorate, her eyes filling with tears of love and happiness.
"You mean the world to me, Kel. I would go to the ends of the world for you. If I couldn't marry you when I was in the own, I would resign so that I could marry you, because I couldn't stand not being with you. I love you, Kel, possibly more than you can imagine."
"I love you to." Kel said and passionately kissed her sergeant, her future husband, not caring who saw. Her friends broke out into applause, but instead of breaking away, they deepened their kiss and broke apart only to shove their friends out and to close the door. Then, suddenly, the breakfast bell rang.
So what do you think??? Should I keep going, make an epilogue, or make a sequel?? You tell me!! Please review!!