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Chapter 9: Tobe
Kel sat in the room with Tobe. He never stopped moving. Squirming about she smiled. Tobe looked at the Knight.
"Why are we here?" He asked. Kel sighed.
"Tobe we are here to become a family." Tobe who was shocked looked at his knight master.
"I like you a lot lady, but that don't mean I want to marry you." He said with a squeaky voice.
"I want to be your mother." She said quietly. Tobe looked embarrassed. "Will you let me be your mother?" She asked standing before him. Tobe jumped up and hugged her.
"Oh that's all I ever wanted!" He shouted, just as a priest stepped into the room.
"Tobe and Keladry of Mindelin." He said. "I am here to join you as mother and son. Does this agree to both of you?" Both nodded and a white fire swept around them. Another priest came down and took both of there hands. He cut the fingertips of each of their thumbs and pressed them together. After a few minuets both stopped bleeding and their hands released. "Tobe of Mindelin, you are now a noble's son, do good to your mother, and have some fun." He told them with a smile. Tobe raced out of the big room and into the palace hall.
"My lady mother!" He shouted. "I have a mother!" He ran down back to his room to tell his friends the news. Kel walked quietly back to her room to change into practice gear.
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Two hours later, Kel sweaty and in padded armor faced a knight. They raised their lances and charged. Kel whispered the command to Peachblossom and down they went. Kel rose into her saddle and leaned forward. Both lances hit squarely in the middle of shield. Kel's shattered.
Going back to her side of the field, she was given a new one. A Man shouted and Kel and Peachblossom thundered down upon the Knight. Both rose in their saddles and hit each other again, but this time the other knight was on his back when he finished blinking. Kel dismounted and walked up to the knight.
"I am an idiot." Said the familiar tone of Neal's voice. "I should have known you wouldn't go easy on me. You never do with swords or spears." He said and sat up. Kel took her helmet off and she saw Tobe, Dom, Yuki, and a few other lone knights watching with hidden amusement.
Neal stood up and walked over to Tobe. "A Mindelin? Are you now. Well that's nice." He said to the boy. "Welcome to the family. Not that I'm family, but I am as good as any."
"Your as good as your nick name, Sir Meathead." Said Dom with a smile for Kel. Neal glared at his cousin and looked back at Tobe.
"Ay, your like my Uncle, Neal." Said Tobe. "I have real uncles, right Mother." Kel nodded as she was walking into the stables. Stefan the holster took Peachblossom.
"I'll tend him Miss." He said and she went back to her rooms to bath.
When she had finished she walked down to the mess, and found, to her surprise, Cleon and what hopefully was his wife sitting in the dinning area. Neal, Dom, Merric, Esmond, and Owen all sat with them. Neal looked up and pointed to a free chair next Dom. She walked in and took her seat.
The woman Kel saw, was a delicate noble lady with silky hair and small shoulders. She eyed Kel with curiosity as Kel said hi to Cleon. A bout a minuet later, Tobe entered the room and sat next to Kel. She smiled at him. Cleon was watching her as she spoke with Dom.
Dom was not the happiest of men that day in the mess. He kept catching Cleon looking at Kel, and He kept dropping little hints with signs from the way he himself looked at her. At one point he mentioned his uncomfortable feeling to Kel.
"I just think he is planning something." He hissed in her ear.
"His wife is here." She reminded him. Kel stood up and Dom followed. They left the hall together.
"I love you." She reminded him.
"I know." He said.
"I never really was in love with him." She said. Dom eyed her mischievously.
"Prove it." He told her. She proved it to him by kissing him. When they broke off she eyed him.
"Your just as bad as my lord." He chuckled as she said it.
"That's the beauty of him though, isn't it?"
They went to sleep again arm in arm. And when they woke up, both never could feel happier than they did at that moment. Today was Neal's wedding
END OF CHAPPIE!
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