Chapter Four Across the Border
She had memorized the letter before she had passed through the gate. Dear Lady Kelendry, we are upset to tell you that three days ago enemies from across the border attacked the palace and killed your parents. Our regrets to you. Yuki
She couldn't believe it, but she did know that she was going after those enemies. She knew it was stupid and yet she was doing it. If I survive this I hope to marry Dom she thought off handedly. She rode on until she saw light and stopped beside a small tree to rest.
"Where did she go?" asked Dom shaking. The others didn't open their mouths. At that moment they had been looking for her all morning. "Lord's you won't be finding her at New Hope she said she was on a mission and could only go alone, but she wished me to give you these two things." It was the letter she had been sent and a personal note from her to her friends. They all read it over and over again.
Dear friends and Lord's I know you read the letter as many times as I did so you know what I probably went off to do. I'm not coming back until I've killed at least one of them. DO NOT come after me. You can't drag me off to the infirmary again I won't allow it. Kel
"She cursed well did it again," Lord Wyldon said again, "I won't allow her to do this again." Before Lord Wyldon had said anything again they had all ran to the stables, and were saddling up their horses with food packs already on them. "Where do you think you guys are going?" Lord Raoul said finally. "Where else, after Kel, she'll get herself killed you know that and we know that." He bid them off as they flew out the gate.
When they reached her she was almost across the border resting at a different tree(thatn before). She was asleep and as warm as the sun on a summer's day. Neal immediately started to heal her. "She won't go back," warned Merric intently. The looked at him quizzically. "We'll either have to go with her or force her back to New Hope," Dom said surely.
Kel woke up about an hour after she had fallen asleep only to find Merric, Neal, and Dom peering over her. She got up quickly and was about to run. "Kel think reasonably you're still hurt you need help," Neal said quietly. "I won't go back you can't make me," she said as she fell down onto the ground helplessly silent tears flowing down her face. Dom went over to her and pulled his arms around her. "Kel, I love you and I will be with you forever no matter what you do," he said as she looked up at him. Before he knew it she was crying freely into his tunic. "Dom, he said he'd kill you and the others he made my head feel like it was going to explode while he hurt me. I can still feel it, Dom I go to sleep dreaming about it waking up sweating but not allowed to scream."
Dom just held her as she spoke, he knew the others could hear everything she said. "I needed an excuse to get out of the infirmary. So when I got this letter I had an excuse to get out of the infirmary. It drove me insane getting out at night and finding myself back in the infirmary."