(Okay, I've been lazy and I should have updated A LONG time ago. A million apologies. Here it is!)

"Okay, Tobe." Kel sat up. "Please deliver this to Sir Merric. Third corridor, second door on the left." As she was giving these instructions, she poured wax on the letter to seal it, and pressed her fief ring into it. A small picture of a owl and two glaives were barely noticable.

"All right, Lady," Tobe said, yawning. He had been dozing; Kel had written several letters, deemed them not good enough, and thrown them out. He left the room, and Kel sat sprawled out on her bed.

She knew she had overeacted. She knew it. She knew she had been wrong in trying to take things too far, and then getting angry at poor Merric. Merric, who even when he had done nothing wrong, apologized to her. Merric, who treated her as a mix friend and lover. He wasn't after just sex, like some men of the court. He had been her friend. He wanted to stay her friend. Kel sighed, and began to dress for bed.

*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*

She woke up to soft knocking at her door. "Kel?" a voice whispered. "Kel, wake up!"

Her eyes snapped open. She glanced out the window. The moon was still out. She yawned, and shook her head. Tobe was asleep. She had been dreaming...

"Kel! Hey, Kel, out here!" the voice came again. A very familiar masculine voice, Kel realized.

"All right, I'm coming!" She whispered. She quickly wriggled into breeches and a shirt, and slid boots on her feet. She quietly opened the door, and slid out.

Merric was standing there. She knew he would be. He smiled bashfully, and was holding her somewhat wrinkled letter in his hand. "Kel-," he began.

"Wait." She held up her hands. "Don't say anything, okay?" He quickly closed his mouth. "As my letter said," she whispered, voice barely audible, "I acted like a fool. I was very, very, very wrong, all right?" Merric nodded, almost impatiently. "And," Kel continued, "I am sorry. I apologize. I,-" Merric began laughing, cutting her off.

"You think I don't know that?" he asked, smiling. Kel blushed, as Merric slid an arm around her waist, and kissed her tenderly. Kel smiled suddenly, and Merric would have kissed her teeth, had she not pulled away and said, "Maybe I should apologize more often if this is what it gets me."

Merric laughed, and kissed her quickly on the cheek. "Kel," he whispered in her ear. "Follow me, all right?"

"Ah, brave knight, I'll follow you anywhere," she giggled as he took her hand. They walked in silence for about five minutes. Then, Merric instructed her to close her eyes. Feeling a bit silly, Kel obliged, and a cool breeze met her face.

"All right," Merric said, and she opened her eyes. She smiled. "Well," Merric said. "Our walk to stargaze in the garden the other night was, shall we say, ruined. So I decided to try again! So here we are. On a balcony. And there are the stars, of course."

Kel laughed. "Merric, you are mad!"

"Am I?" he asked, smiling wickedly,

"You are," she told him, moving close to him. "And Mithros abov, I love you for it!"

(Very short, and cliched, but hey, it's an update! ;) hahaha.)