Chapter 5 - Answers
Celandine woke with her whole upper body on fire. She groaned as the pain worsened. She opened her eyes a tiny bit and looked around her. She was in a small room, lying on a soft, clean, white linen bed. There was a window on the left and she looked out to see. training courts?
She shook her head and squinted. yes! They were practice courts and a group of boys were hitting and blocking with wooden staffs!
Her pain momentarily forgotten she tried to rise, but she cried out when her shoulder burst into hot pain. She lay back on her bed and bit her lip, to stop from crying out again.
The door to her room opened and in strode Lady Alanna.
"My lady?" Celandine asked weakly, "Where am I? What happened? Why are there boys outside with staffs?"
Alanna laughed and said, "I'll answer all that in a second. Firstly, how are you?"
"My shoulder and arm are like on fire!" Celandine said, then realized she might sound like a cry baby in front of Lady Alanna, "I mean, it's nothing much, really."
"It's ok to feel pain, you know." Alanna said as she seated herself on her bed. A thin tendril of purple magic floated into Celandine and within a minute, the pain began to subside.
"Thank you." Celandine sighed gratefully.
"Now for your answers." Alanna said, making herself comfortable, "We beat the bandits, and took any left alive prisoners. Cleon was almost frantic with worry when we couldn't find you."
"Cleon?" Celandine asked, cocking her head slightly.
"Sir Cleon of Kennan, you know, the big red head. Anyway we found you on the ground unconscious. You had lost lots of blood. I healed you as best I could for the moment, and removed the two arrows from you arm. We took you quickly to that small village I told you about, but no one knew you. We asked around for your sister also, Kira, but no one had ever heard of her either. Even your horse Felda was unknown to these people. We could not leave you there, so we had no choice but to take you back with us. You are in Corus, lying in the Royal Palace. Outside those boys are training pages. You have been asleep for almost a week now, and you have been treated by the finest healer in Corus, Sir Nealan of Queenscove."
"Wow! I'm really in Corus! In the Palace! I finally made it here after all." Celandine realized what she had said and quickly covered her mouth.
"Who are you, Elsa? Where do you come from?" Alanna said, her face grave and deadly serious.
"I can't tell you." Celandine said defiantly, her temper beginning to flare, "I don't have to tell you everything about me."
"Where will you go once you are recovered?" Alanna continued, "This is not a time for games."
"I don't know what will happen. But if I tell you who I am, you'll take me back, and I can't go back!" Celandine pleaded.
"Please, Elsa, or whoever you are, you must tell me. I promise I won't do anything without your permission if you tell me. I must know."
Celandine looked into Alanna's violet eyes, still serious, but gentle. "My name is. is Celandine. I am from." Celandine hesitated, "From. Lithenwood."
Alanna gasped, "You are the missing daughter of Lord Pavel! The whole of Tortall has it's eyes peeled for you!"
"But I won't go back. Father said he'd send me to the convent. But I want to be a Knight, more than anything in the whole entire world!"
"You remind me of someone." Alanna said, an amused smile on her face.
"Who?"
"Me. My Father was going to send me to a convent as well. But I swapped with my brother Thom."
Celandine smiled, "And became the greatest Knight ever."
End of chapter five, hope you liked it! I wonder what will happen? Will she go back to Lithenwood and be sent to Convent? Or will she be able to complete her life long dream of becoming a Knight? Find out in the next chapters!!!!
Celandine woke with her whole upper body on fire. She groaned as the pain worsened. She opened her eyes a tiny bit and looked around her. She was in a small room, lying on a soft, clean, white linen bed. There was a window on the left and she looked out to see. training courts?
She shook her head and squinted. yes! They were practice courts and a group of boys were hitting and blocking with wooden staffs!
Her pain momentarily forgotten she tried to rise, but she cried out when her shoulder burst into hot pain. She lay back on her bed and bit her lip, to stop from crying out again.
The door to her room opened and in strode Lady Alanna.
"My lady?" Celandine asked weakly, "Where am I? What happened? Why are there boys outside with staffs?"
Alanna laughed and said, "I'll answer all that in a second. Firstly, how are you?"
"My shoulder and arm are like on fire!" Celandine said, then realized she might sound like a cry baby in front of Lady Alanna, "I mean, it's nothing much, really."
"It's ok to feel pain, you know." Alanna said as she seated herself on her bed. A thin tendril of purple magic floated into Celandine and within a minute, the pain began to subside.
"Thank you." Celandine sighed gratefully.
"Now for your answers." Alanna said, making herself comfortable, "We beat the bandits, and took any left alive prisoners. Cleon was almost frantic with worry when we couldn't find you."
"Cleon?" Celandine asked, cocking her head slightly.
"Sir Cleon of Kennan, you know, the big red head. Anyway we found you on the ground unconscious. You had lost lots of blood. I healed you as best I could for the moment, and removed the two arrows from you arm. We took you quickly to that small village I told you about, but no one knew you. We asked around for your sister also, Kira, but no one had ever heard of her either. Even your horse Felda was unknown to these people. We could not leave you there, so we had no choice but to take you back with us. You are in Corus, lying in the Royal Palace. Outside those boys are training pages. You have been asleep for almost a week now, and you have been treated by the finest healer in Corus, Sir Nealan of Queenscove."
"Wow! I'm really in Corus! In the Palace! I finally made it here after all." Celandine realized what she had said and quickly covered her mouth.
"Who are you, Elsa? Where do you come from?" Alanna said, her face grave and deadly serious.
"I can't tell you." Celandine said defiantly, her temper beginning to flare, "I don't have to tell you everything about me."
"Where will you go once you are recovered?" Alanna continued, "This is not a time for games."
"I don't know what will happen. But if I tell you who I am, you'll take me back, and I can't go back!" Celandine pleaded.
"Please, Elsa, or whoever you are, you must tell me. I promise I won't do anything without your permission if you tell me. I must know."
Celandine looked into Alanna's violet eyes, still serious, but gentle. "My name is. is Celandine. I am from." Celandine hesitated, "From. Lithenwood."
Alanna gasped, "You are the missing daughter of Lord Pavel! The whole of Tortall has it's eyes peeled for you!"
"But I won't go back. Father said he'd send me to the convent. But I want to be a Knight, more than anything in the whole entire world!"
"You remind me of someone." Alanna said, an amused smile on her face.
"Who?"
"Me. My Father was going to send me to a convent as well. But I swapped with my brother Thom."
Celandine smiled, "And became the greatest Knight ever."
End of chapter five, hope you liked it! I wonder what will happen? Will she go back to Lithenwood and be sent to Convent? Or will she be able to complete her life long dream of becoming a Knight? Find out in the next chapters!!!!
