DOES ANYONE HAVE AN IDEA ABOUT WHAT MY NAME SHOULD BE???????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And no, this story's not finished, and no, although it much sounds like it, I didn't steal your idea of marriage, Stacie.(If you allow me to call you that). They don't actually get married, you know.*wink*
Chapter VII-Causus Belli(Latin; the Cause of War-Edited, hopefully)
She sighed and looked at her engagement ring. It was beautiful. Still, she missed Neal. It had been four years since she had seen him in his normal state. It had felt more like four decades.
Dom quietly came in and closed the door behind him. She tried to smile at her new to-be husband, but she found herself saying that he looked tired.
He gathered her in her arms and squeezed her so hard that she thought she might pop. She could feel his heart thumping against his rib cages.
He edged her over to the bed and kissed her. Her elegant hairnet and shawl disappeared sometime in between.
A stream of light and somebody saying"Uh... Did we interrupt at the *cough* wrong time?" made Dom and Kel scramble up from the bed.
Dom was blushing too furiously for him to talk, so Kel invited her old knight-master, his wife, and his son inside.
"M'lord! Come in, come in..." Kel was starting to flush. Buri, currently of Goldenlake and Malorie's Peak, winked at Kel.
Raoul was trying hard not to laugh as he took a seat near the fire. "Well, actually, there's two reasons why I came.. then you two can go back to your "business". " He winked, making Dom flinch.
"One is that Jonathan wants to see Kel in a few minutes.
Another is that... I'm retiring." He leaned back and grinned at the apparently stunned couple.
Dom finally spoke. "My lord, but you're the best leader I've seen, and I don't know how I'll follow anyone else. My liege is yours, my lord, and only yours." He got on both knees.
"Who said anything about you following anyone?" Raoul demanded.
"But, Sir.."
Raoul waved off the comments with a gigantic hand. "You, sergeant, Domitan of Masbolle, will precede my place as Knight of the King's Own."
"But I'm not a knight."
"I don't really care, do you know that?"
"But Sir.."
"Keladry, the king wants you. Farewell, you happy couple." Raoul marched out the door.
He stopped, came back in, and squeezed his sergeant.
He lifted his son, Francis, on his shoulder and marched out the door again, bending over so that his child's head wouldn't hit the ceiling.
Buri scurried after him, closing the door. She opened the door, and whispered "Good Luck" before closing it again, making both of them blush furiously again.
"Well, I guess I'll be going to see the king." Kel said wistfully, gently touching Dom's cheek.
"And I'll go back to my quarters." Dom said, opening the door.
"Bye." They said in unison, making them both laugh.
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Kel rode on Peachblossom, leading a troop of men behind her. She sighed as she thought of the planned wedding, and how it had been postponed.
Flashback
Keladry, the Scanrans are raiding the borderlines again.
Keladry, Tortall needs your help..
Troops...Men...
Scanra...
Very sorry about the postponed wedding...
Postpone..Postpone..Postpone...
Kel shook her head very hard. Of course she had her duty to the country before her wedding..
But she still felt angry, angry at everyone.
At Kalasin, at Neal, at Dom, at Jonathan of Conte, at Raoul, even at Peachblossom.
For no reason at ALL.
She sighed as she punched herself in the head.
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"I want every man avaliable for fighting out here. I also want all the weapons you have, but not the kitchen knives and such. Also, old or injured men should not come. Training for keeping Scanrans out begins today. I also want everyone with the gift-- Sir Domitan of the King's Own will help with anyone who has the gift" Kel announced to the group of villagers, who suddenly sorted into groups of men, gifted ones, and people who didn't fit in both.
A brown-head caught her eye in the gifted section, contrasted to the blondes. Since this was near the Scanran Border, most people had mixed blood, and blond hair.p> Dom went to the gifted people and started testing them, ordering the gifted soldiers of the King's Own around, while Kel went over to the rest of the villagers and told them to get back to their work. Then, she went to the young men, and started handing out swords and shields.
"KEL! COME LOOK AT THIS!" Dom yelled, making Kel spring over.
Standing side by side was the brown-haired young man with a muscular body. An emerald mist was gathered around his hands, healing a boy with a skinned knee. He looked up and at Kel directly in the eye with emerald eyes.
"Neal?"
A/N
HAHA Sorry.. That's cruel. I know.
I'm feeling sad. Somebody I really trusted betrayed me..*sniff*