"Garvey of Runnerspring, what on earth would possess you to jump to these
conclusions?" She demanded.
He spat. "Don't treat me like a child, Mindelan. I am your senior and your better. Don't you dare try to speak to me like that!"
Kel took a step forward and punched him, square in the nose. He fell over, obviously not ready for the attack, and Kel took the moment to talk.
"Look," she said, "no matter what you try, no matter what you attempt, I can beat it, okay? You can try to attack me, I can beat you again. You can try to hurt my feelings, but I don't care. I have had so many people call me a whore or a wench or a slut, or anything of the sort that it just has no meaning anymore. And don't even dare trying to hurt my friends again. I have had just about enough of that."
He growled, but turned and disappeared into the trees.
Kel sighed again. "Why does this always happen?" She muttered. She took a hold of Peachblossom's reins and threw herself onto the horse. "Let's go home, Peachblossom." She said.
Kel knew that this was not a good thing. Could it be that Garvey was what the Chamber had been warning her about? It had mentioned great danger. True, Garvey was a threat to her; she could tell now that he, as with Joren, was willing to use force; but was he really such a major threat? Surely if the Chamber were to bother, it was something big.
But what?
Kel decided that she would cross that bridge when she came to it. Right now, she just wanted to get back to her room to have a bath.
"Keladry!" Someone called. Kel sighed and turned to face them. She really didn't want to deal with another altercation.
"What?" She said.
Yuki stopped in her tracks. "I'm sorry," she blushed. "I didn't realize."
Kel shook her head. "I'm sorry, Yuki. I didn't mean to be rude. I just had a bad day."
The Yamani girl smiled. "Don't worry, Keladry. I understand." She said. "I have had those days as well. I was just going to ask if you wished to come an practice the glaives with us. Princess Shinko and I are training with Lady Alanna. She wishes to prove that glaive work is not as powerful than the sword. Another knight would be wonderful."
Kel smiled. "Thank you, but I must pass your offer. I need to bathe, and I have some work to do."
Yuki gave her a questioning look. "Work?" She asked as Kel backed away.
Kel smiled and opened her arms, backing away. "I'm a knight," she said, grinning. "I always have work."
Yuki laughed. "Very well. I will accept that excuse this time, but never again. Tomorrow, you will come to glaive practice with us. And you will throw the shukusen with us."
Kel sighed. "If I lose any fingers, I hold you completely responsible."
Yuki smiled. "Very well. I guess we shall just get my Neal to throw with us. You do remember last time, do you not?"
Kel winced. "Fine, I will play. I don't want Neal risking his own fingers, and probably his entire hand." She waved to Yuki, already down the hall now, and slipped into her room.
* * * * *
Kel spent almost every day on edge. She had told herself she would deal with the imminent danger when it came too her, but she could not help but be nervous. Dom noticed it one day, when she was sitting in her room with him. He was lying on her bed with a book, she sitting by the window.
"All right, that's it. What's wrong?"
Kel raised her eyebrows and looked at him. "Wrong?"
Dom threw his book to the end of the bed and sat up. "Of course. I can tell when something is wrong, Kel. I know you that well. You are jumpy, you aren't settling at all; you keep glancing around; you always have a weapon in arms reach. I'm not an idiot, Kel."
She put her head in her hands. "I'm sorry. It's just, I was having some trouble. I heard voices."
Dom looked worried. "Kel, is this a problem?" he asked.
Kel smiled weakly. "Not as of yet," she said. "it was the Chamber." He looked almost more worried, but let Kel continue. "I went to the Chamber to get the entire message. It was not in Common tongue. It was in Latin. It said, 'great danger approaches.' And then, of course, I was worried about it."
Dom smiled. "I guess that is all right. I was just worried about you. Promise me you will be careful?"
Kel frowned. "Dom, I was being careful. I was being careful until you said you were worried about me!"
He smiled sheepishly and blushed. "Oops." He said.
Kel stretched out. "I also had a run in with Garvey of Runnerspring." She said lightly. Dom raised an eyebrow. "He is a fellow knight. Two years older than me, or so. He was a friend of Joren of Stone Mountain."
"The squire who died?" Dom said, surprised.
Kel nodded. "He attacked me. Don't worry," she added, "I pulverized him." She smiled. "He called me a whore, a wench, probably everything he could think of. He saw you leave my room after the ball."
Dom blushed profusely. "Sorry about that." He said. "I hardly meant for you to get into trouble."
Kel laughed. "Trouble? Of course not. Dom, I have dealt with this since I was ten years old. I doubt Neal ever told you- goodness, I doubt I ever told him- they ransacked my room, they peed at my doorstep- everything."
Dom laughed. "Poor you." He said.
Kel stood up. "If you're going to insult me, I'm going to have to ask you to leave." She said hotly.
Dom stood up. "Kel, that's not funny."
She grinned. "Of course it is. You just have a horrible sense of humour."
Dom rolled his eyes. He stood up and kissed her. "I will talk to you later, all right?"
Kel nodded. "Later. Of course. I will see you at dinner."
Dom kissed her again. "Don't get into too big of a fight before dinner, okay?"
Kel smiled. "Just leave already."
Kel knew that he had been worried about her, that was true. He had spoken to her about it, something she could never have done. She wished she could have his confidence, his power. She sighed. He would just have to have enough for both of them.
Kel wanted to get out of the palace. She was tired of running into people who didn't approve of her being a knight. It confused her. It had been years now, but all of a sudden, people were doubting her again. She didn't know what it was, but no one had faith in her anymore. She tried avoiding certain people, but sometimes, people she never expected were saying things to her.
"It's because of Garvey. Remember, you told me that he saw you with Dom. They are making assumptions now." Neal said one day at breakfast. "Besides, they have nothing else to do. Now that they don't have Maggur to blame. They cannot blame King Jon for running the war badly, because he won. So they turn to you." He said.
Kel frowned. "Why can they not turn to you?" She said.
Neal laughed. "Because I have done everything correctly. I am just too perfect." He said.
Kel rolled her eyes. "I am just going to talk to someone else. My social life is none of anyone's concern, and I want nothing to do with it."
Neal cocked his head to the side. "You want nothing to do with your social life?" He said.
Kel put her head in her hands. "Please, just promise me that you will leave me alone someday, when everything is lost, and my world falls apart. Promise me that you will just walk away, and not find some way to mock me."
Neal frowned. "You should not joke about that. You, of all women, know that these are serious issues in war. What if one of your friends died? Would you act like that?"
Kel frowned in turn. "I was not joking. And you are not supposed to be the serious one, Neal." Kel shook her head, clearing her thoughts. "Anyway, I just think that it is none of these people's business."
Neal smiled. "Just marry the guy. That will take everything they have on you."
Kel grinned. "Or, you could marry him. That would work better, then I could still have my freedom."
Neal frowned. "I hate you, do you know that, Lady Knight?"
Kel laughed. "Maybe so, Neal, maybe so." She patted him on the shoulder and got up. "I need to do some training."
He nodded. "Okay. I'll see you later."
Kel smiled. "You aren't even going to come and train with me?"
Neal raised an eyebrow. "I am perfectly with an unbruised body, thank you."
Kel left him with his breakfast and went outside. It was a cool, early autumn morning, and there was no one at the tilting ground. Kel was fairly disappointed. She wanted to hit someone. She needed some way to get her energy out, but just tilting against a shield or a ring was not enough for her.
She decided not to ride, but decided upon glaive practice. She trekked back up to her room and picked up her glaive, and in fifteen minutes, she was already gathering a small crowd. As people slowly and reluctantly made their way down to practice, they dallied at the fence to watch her dance.
Kel didn't really like it. she hated to be a spectacle, feeling silly about fighting with air. She would have preferred if someone would come and fight with her, even if it was with sword. But no one came forward. The crowd got smaller as the pages were sent off to practice, but a few squires and knights still watched.
Kel noticed something bright and turquoise in the crowd, and she glanced over. Yuki was standing there, wearing simple breeches and a blouse, the only Yamani costume she wore was the turquoise sash around her waist.
Kel stopped her dance and waved for Yuki to come and practice with her. The girl grinned and slipped under the fence. She had her glaive with her, and Kel knew that she was there to practice as well.
They started a dance together, and Kel felt more comfortable. She was tired, though, and Yuki was going to get the better of her soon. They kept score, and Kel barely beat Yuki.
They decided to stop after half an hour. They bowed to each other. "Good match, Yuki." Kel said. She grinned. "8 hits to 7. Very close indeed."
Yuki shrugged. One of those hits was not quite fair." She said.
Kel laughed. "Excuse me? Be a good sport, will you?"
Yuki gave her a hug. "I'm going to wash up, I will talk to you later."
Kel smiled. "Goodbye."
Yuki walked off towards the palace, and Kel went to the nearby well to get some water. She was parched. She had been exercising for an hour, and she was parched.
"Well, that was entertaining." Kel looked up. Dom was grinning down at her.
Kel smiled. "Good morning." She said. "what are you doing down here?"
He grinned. "I came to practice, but I got sidetracked, along with almost everyone else who came down here. I was watching you."
Kel smiled. "that's nice." She said.
"Shall we walk?"
Kel nodded and walked with him. She looked down, wondering what he was going to do.
"Kel, I have been thinking." He said.
She looked up. "About what?"
He shrugged. "Everything, really. War, my position, being here, you." He glanced at her, and she him, then they both looked down. "I was thinking, maybe it isn't so great, being here. I mean, I like being in the Own, and I don't mind fighting for the Crown, but I would just like a change some day."
Kel smiled. "Won't you get bored?"
Dom frowned. "Kel, I'm serious."
She nodded. "I know. So am I. think about it, how boring have these past few months been? Mine has been terribly boring. Not when I was with you, of course." She added quickly. "But still, would you not miss it all? The long trips with your friends, the exhilaration of the battle, the time at the camps. It is amazing. You know that."
Dom nodded. "I realize that. But war is not the kind of excitement that lasts forever. It's like going away. You would love to see the world, other countries, but that does not mean that you never want to go home."
She nodded. "So you are saying you are going to quit the Own and go home?" She said quietly.
Dom shook his head quickly. "No, not at all!" He said. "I'm just saying, I'm not going to want to do it forever. Someday I'm going to want to settle down. I want a family, which I cannot have until I quit the Own. I'm just saying it will be one day, a long time from now."
Kel smiled. "Dom, why exactly are you saying this to me?"
He shrugged again, looking incredibly nervous. "Because I thought, in a few years, you know, you might want to come with me."
Kel blushed profusely. "Dom, I'm not sure. That's a lot."
He nodded. "I know. That's why I'm telling you now. I just wanted you to know. So you didn't fall in love with anyone else, I guess."
Kel put her hand on his arm. "Dom, I won't fall in love with anyone else for some time. Don't worry." She kissed him. "Now, before we walk any farther, I need a shower."
He smiled. "I love you, Kel. I will see you for lunch, all right?"
Kel nodded and kissed him again. "Bye."
She jogged back up to her room, feeling tears come to her eyes. She ran straight into her room and slammed the door, falling back against it and falling to the floor. How could Dom have said that? Everything had been so simple that morning, but now, now it seemed like nothing in her world made sense. Dom had essentially asked her to marry him, but had told her to wait for him. Did she want to do that? Did she want to do nothing all her life, just waiting, hoping that Dom would et bored of war and come and be with her?
She didn't want that. She didn't want the short end of that particular stick.
She decided to just have her bath and deal with her emotions later.
And deal with how to say no to Dom.
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Sorry I took so long. Just so you all know, this chapter is not very good. It's really, really boring. Very few people mentioned Garvey when I asked about the people, but he was really the only one who made any sense, as much as I could remember. If there are any discrepancies in his story that any of you know about, please tell me.
Dream Wall: I'm having writers block all around. It's going to be a while until my next chapter in either of these stories. This one, or Good Things Come to Those Who Wait.
Rootless Californian: helpful... thanks. Yes, it was the Chamber. I thought that was fairly obvious, but I guess not.
Ladyla: uh, I really have no idea who he is, so I won't go with that. But thank you anyway! Don't worry, I don't like killing her friends, unless it makes a big difference to the story. And I have no reason for it.
Wake-Robin: Latin is fun, except that I suck at it. Oh well!
Kore Yan: No, you misunderstood. I am sorry, it doesn't really work in print, but it's sort of like, oh, give me a second- you know how its funny sometimes when someone is trying to explain something and is talking and then just runs away and it's really funny? I think they did it on the Simpsons, or possibly Family Guy- I can't remember, my friends and I have been doing it for such a long time that I don't remember where it is from. Anyway, I changed it slightly, so that instead of running away, I just tell them to shut up and leave me alone...okay, this explanation makes no sense, because it's hard to explain. I'm just going to give up while I'm ahead, and hope that you get it that I'm just an idiot. And why did you ask if I am a guy?
Tanydwr: Thank you, that's who I thought it was, but I really was not sure at all. Yeah, he's definitely a sergeant.
Sal: I have heard that he reformed. And besides, the Bazhir have always struck me as being very calm, and not that impulsive. But I could be wrong, and probably am.
PsychoLioness13: thanks, I've gotten Zahir a lot.
Anonymous: stop that. I realize that I sometimes have mistakes, but they are really rare! I promise!
AJ 4EVA: I doubt I will, but...
Legofiance: maybe, maybe not...
Kelly Masbolle: glad you like it.
Rubber Duck: Why is that funny? I was just wondering, because of your spelling, because I didn't know that you spell like that in Australia, though it makes sense that you do. I honestly think that you were the only person who said Garvey, which I found very strange, because as far as I know, he is the most obvious choice. Quinden didn't seem that serious in Lady Knight, he just seemed really annoying. I don't really want to use fathers, because I don't know their characters very well.
Lady of Masbolle: fun. Maybe I will put him in later, but right now, just Garvey.
Pinky: so many people have said him!
Me: oops, that's two for Garvey!
"If they ever come up with a Swashbuckling School, I think one of the courses should be Laughing, Then Jumping Off Something."
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He spat. "Don't treat me like a child, Mindelan. I am your senior and your better. Don't you dare try to speak to me like that!"
Kel took a step forward and punched him, square in the nose. He fell over, obviously not ready for the attack, and Kel took the moment to talk.
"Look," she said, "no matter what you try, no matter what you attempt, I can beat it, okay? You can try to attack me, I can beat you again. You can try to hurt my feelings, but I don't care. I have had so many people call me a whore or a wench or a slut, or anything of the sort that it just has no meaning anymore. And don't even dare trying to hurt my friends again. I have had just about enough of that."
He growled, but turned and disappeared into the trees.
Kel sighed again. "Why does this always happen?" She muttered. She took a hold of Peachblossom's reins and threw herself onto the horse. "Let's go home, Peachblossom." She said.
Kel knew that this was not a good thing. Could it be that Garvey was what the Chamber had been warning her about? It had mentioned great danger. True, Garvey was a threat to her; she could tell now that he, as with Joren, was willing to use force; but was he really such a major threat? Surely if the Chamber were to bother, it was something big.
But what?
Kel decided that she would cross that bridge when she came to it. Right now, she just wanted to get back to her room to have a bath.
"Keladry!" Someone called. Kel sighed and turned to face them. She really didn't want to deal with another altercation.
"What?" She said.
Yuki stopped in her tracks. "I'm sorry," she blushed. "I didn't realize."
Kel shook her head. "I'm sorry, Yuki. I didn't mean to be rude. I just had a bad day."
The Yamani girl smiled. "Don't worry, Keladry. I understand." She said. "I have had those days as well. I was just going to ask if you wished to come an practice the glaives with us. Princess Shinko and I are training with Lady Alanna. She wishes to prove that glaive work is not as powerful than the sword. Another knight would be wonderful."
Kel smiled. "Thank you, but I must pass your offer. I need to bathe, and I have some work to do."
Yuki gave her a questioning look. "Work?" She asked as Kel backed away.
Kel smiled and opened her arms, backing away. "I'm a knight," she said, grinning. "I always have work."
Yuki laughed. "Very well. I will accept that excuse this time, but never again. Tomorrow, you will come to glaive practice with us. And you will throw the shukusen with us."
Kel sighed. "If I lose any fingers, I hold you completely responsible."
Yuki smiled. "Very well. I guess we shall just get my Neal to throw with us. You do remember last time, do you not?"
Kel winced. "Fine, I will play. I don't want Neal risking his own fingers, and probably his entire hand." She waved to Yuki, already down the hall now, and slipped into her room.
* * * * *
Kel spent almost every day on edge. She had told herself she would deal with the imminent danger when it came too her, but she could not help but be nervous. Dom noticed it one day, when she was sitting in her room with him. He was lying on her bed with a book, she sitting by the window.
"All right, that's it. What's wrong?"
Kel raised her eyebrows and looked at him. "Wrong?"
Dom threw his book to the end of the bed and sat up. "Of course. I can tell when something is wrong, Kel. I know you that well. You are jumpy, you aren't settling at all; you keep glancing around; you always have a weapon in arms reach. I'm not an idiot, Kel."
She put her head in her hands. "I'm sorry. It's just, I was having some trouble. I heard voices."
Dom looked worried. "Kel, is this a problem?" he asked.
Kel smiled weakly. "Not as of yet," she said. "it was the Chamber." He looked almost more worried, but let Kel continue. "I went to the Chamber to get the entire message. It was not in Common tongue. It was in Latin. It said, 'great danger approaches.' And then, of course, I was worried about it."
Dom smiled. "I guess that is all right. I was just worried about you. Promise me you will be careful?"
Kel frowned. "Dom, I was being careful. I was being careful until you said you were worried about me!"
He smiled sheepishly and blushed. "Oops." He said.
Kel stretched out. "I also had a run in with Garvey of Runnerspring." She said lightly. Dom raised an eyebrow. "He is a fellow knight. Two years older than me, or so. He was a friend of Joren of Stone Mountain."
"The squire who died?" Dom said, surprised.
Kel nodded. "He attacked me. Don't worry," she added, "I pulverized him." She smiled. "He called me a whore, a wench, probably everything he could think of. He saw you leave my room after the ball."
Dom blushed profusely. "Sorry about that." He said. "I hardly meant for you to get into trouble."
Kel laughed. "Trouble? Of course not. Dom, I have dealt with this since I was ten years old. I doubt Neal ever told you- goodness, I doubt I ever told him- they ransacked my room, they peed at my doorstep- everything."
Dom laughed. "Poor you." He said.
Kel stood up. "If you're going to insult me, I'm going to have to ask you to leave." She said hotly.
Dom stood up. "Kel, that's not funny."
She grinned. "Of course it is. You just have a horrible sense of humour."
Dom rolled his eyes. He stood up and kissed her. "I will talk to you later, all right?"
Kel nodded. "Later. Of course. I will see you at dinner."
Dom kissed her again. "Don't get into too big of a fight before dinner, okay?"
Kel smiled. "Just leave already."
Kel knew that he had been worried about her, that was true. He had spoken to her about it, something she could never have done. She wished she could have his confidence, his power. She sighed. He would just have to have enough for both of them.
Kel wanted to get out of the palace. She was tired of running into people who didn't approve of her being a knight. It confused her. It had been years now, but all of a sudden, people were doubting her again. She didn't know what it was, but no one had faith in her anymore. She tried avoiding certain people, but sometimes, people she never expected were saying things to her.
"It's because of Garvey. Remember, you told me that he saw you with Dom. They are making assumptions now." Neal said one day at breakfast. "Besides, they have nothing else to do. Now that they don't have Maggur to blame. They cannot blame King Jon for running the war badly, because he won. So they turn to you." He said.
Kel frowned. "Why can they not turn to you?" She said.
Neal laughed. "Because I have done everything correctly. I am just too perfect." He said.
Kel rolled her eyes. "I am just going to talk to someone else. My social life is none of anyone's concern, and I want nothing to do with it."
Neal cocked his head to the side. "You want nothing to do with your social life?" He said.
Kel put her head in her hands. "Please, just promise me that you will leave me alone someday, when everything is lost, and my world falls apart. Promise me that you will just walk away, and not find some way to mock me."
Neal frowned. "You should not joke about that. You, of all women, know that these are serious issues in war. What if one of your friends died? Would you act like that?"
Kel frowned in turn. "I was not joking. And you are not supposed to be the serious one, Neal." Kel shook her head, clearing her thoughts. "Anyway, I just think that it is none of these people's business."
Neal smiled. "Just marry the guy. That will take everything they have on you."
Kel grinned. "Or, you could marry him. That would work better, then I could still have my freedom."
Neal frowned. "I hate you, do you know that, Lady Knight?"
Kel laughed. "Maybe so, Neal, maybe so." She patted him on the shoulder and got up. "I need to do some training."
He nodded. "Okay. I'll see you later."
Kel smiled. "You aren't even going to come and train with me?"
Neal raised an eyebrow. "I am perfectly with an unbruised body, thank you."
Kel left him with his breakfast and went outside. It was a cool, early autumn morning, and there was no one at the tilting ground. Kel was fairly disappointed. She wanted to hit someone. She needed some way to get her energy out, but just tilting against a shield or a ring was not enough for her.
She decided not to ride, but decided upon glaive practice. She trekked back up to her room and picked up her glaive, and in fifteen minutes, she was already gathering a small crowd. As people slowly and reluctantly made their way down to practice, they dallied at the fence to watch her dance.
Kel didn't really like it. she hated to be a spectacle, feeling silly about fighting with air. She would have preferred if someone would come and fight with her, even if it was with sword. But no one came forward. The crowd got smaller as the pages were sent off to practice, but a few squires and knights still watched.
Kel noticed something bright and turquoise in the crowd, and she glanced over. Yuki was standing there, wearing simple breeches and a blouse, the only Yamani costume she wore was the turquoise sash around her waist.
Kel stopped her dance and waved for Yuki to come and practice with her. The girl grinned and slipped under the fence. She had her glaive with her, and Kel knew that she was there to practice as well.
They started a dance together, and Kel felt more comfortable. She was tired, though, and Yuki was going to get the better of her soon. They kept score, and Kel barely beat Yuki.
They decided to stop after half an hour. They bowed to each other. "Good match, Yuki." Kel said. She grinned. "8 hits to 7. Very close indeed."
Yuki shrugged. One of those hits was not quite fair." She said.
Kel laughed. "Excuse me? Be a good sport, will you?"
Yuki gave her a hug. "I'm going to wash up, I will talk to you later."
Kel smiled. "Goodbye."
Yuki walked off towards the palace, and Kel went to the nearby well to get some water. She was parched. She had been exercising for an hour, and she was parched.
"Well, that was entertaining." Kel looked up. Dom was grinning down at her.
Kel smiled. "Good morning." She said. "what are you doing down here?"
He grinned. "I came to practice, but I got sidetracked, along with almost everyone else who came down here. I was watching you."
Kel smiled. "that's nice." She said.
"Shall we walk?"
Kel nodded and walked with him. She looked down, wondering what he was going to do.
"Kel, I have been thinking." He said.
She looked up. "About what?"
He shrugged. "Everything, really. War, my position, being here, you." He glanced at her, and she him, then they both looked down. "I was thinking, maybe it isn't so great, being here. I mean, I like being in the Own, and I don't mind fighting for the Crown, but I would just like a change some day."
Kel smiled. "Won't you get bored?"
Dom frowned. "Kel, I'm serious."
She nodded. "I know. So am I. think about it, how boring have these past few months been? Mine has been terribly boring. Not when I was with you, of course." She added quickly. "But still, would you not miss it all? The long trips with your friends, the exhilaration of the battle, the time at the camps. It is amazing. You know that."
Dom nodded. "I realize that. But war is not the kind of excitement that lasts forever. It's like going away. You would love to see the world, other countries, but that does not mean that you never want to go home."
She nodded. "So you are saying you are going to quit the Own and go home?" She said quietly.
Dom shook his head quickly. "No, not at all!" He said. "I'm just saying, I'm not going to want to do it forever. Someday I'm going to want to settle down. I want a family, which I cannot have until I quit the Own. I'm just saying it will be one day, a long time from now."
Kel smiled. "Dom, why exactly are you saying this to me?"
He shrugged again, looking incredibly nervous. "Because I thought, in a few years, you know, you might want to come with me."
Kel blushed profusely. "Dom, I'm not sure. That's a lot."
He nodded. "I know. That's why I'm telling you now. I just wanted you to know. So you didn't fall in love with anyone else, I guess."
Kel put her hand on his arm. "Dom, I won't fall in love with anyone else for some time. Don't worry." She kissed him. "Now, before we walk any farther, I need a shower."
He smiled. "I love you, Kel. I will see you for lunch, all right?"
Kel nodded and kissed him again. "Bye."
She jogged back up to her room, feeling tears come to her eyes. She ran straight into her room and slammed the door, falling back against it and falling to the floor. How could Dom have said that? Everything had been so simple that morning, but now, now it seemed like nothing in her world made sense. Dom had essentially asked her to marry him, but had told her to wait for him. Did she want to do that? Did she want to do nothing all her life, just waiting, hoping that Dom would et bored of war and come and be with her?
She didn't want that. She didn't want the short end of that particular stick.
She decided to just have her bath and deal with her emotions later.
And deal with how to say no to Dom.
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Sorry I took so long. Just so you all know, this chapter is not very good. It's really, really boring. Very few people mentioned Garvey when I asked about the people, but he was really the only one who made any sense, as much as I could remember. If there are any discrepancies in his story that any of you know about, please tell me.
Dream Wall: I'm having writers block all around. It's going to be a while until my next chapter in either of these stories. This one, or Good Things Come to Those Who Wait.
Rootless Californian: helpful... thanks. Yes, it was the Chamber. I thought that was fairly obvious, but I guess not.
Ladyla: uh, I really have no idea who he is, so I won't go with that. But thank you anyway! Don't worry, I don't like killing her friends, unless it makes a big difference to the story. And I have no reason for it.
Wake-Robin: Latin is fun, except that I suck at it. Oh well!
Kore Yan: No, you misunderstood. I am sorry, it doesn't really work in print, but it's sort of like, oh, give me a second- you know how its funny sometimes when someone is trying to explain something and is talking and then just runs away and it's really funny? I think they did it on the Simpsons, or possibly Family Guy- I can't remember, my friends and I have been doing it for such a long time that I don't remember where it is from. Anyway, I changed it slightly, so that instead of running away, I just tell them to shut up and leave me alone...okay, this explanation makes no sense, because it's hard to explain. I'm just going to give up while I'm ahead, and hope that you get it that I'm just an idiot. And why did you ask if I am a guy?
Tanydwr: Thank you, that's who I thought it was, but I really was not sure at all. Yeah, he's definitely a sergeant.
Sal: I have heard that he reformed. And besides, the Bazhir have always struck me as being very calm, and not that impulsive. But I could be wrong, and probably am.
PsychoLioness13: thanks, I've gotten Zahir a lot.
Anonymous: stop that. I realize that I sometimes have mistakes, but they are really rare! I promise!
AJ 4EVA: I doubt I will, but...
Legofiance: maybe, maybe not...
Kelly Masbolle: glad you like it.
Rubber Duck: Why is that funny? I was just wondering, because of your spelling, because I didn't know that you spell like that in Australia, though it makes sense that you do. I honestly think that you were the only person who said Garvey, which I found very strange, because as far as I know, he is the most obvious choice. Quinden didn't seem that serious in Lady Knight, he just seemed really annoying. I don't really want to use fathers, because I don't know their characters very well.
Lady of Masbolle: fun. Maybe I will put him in later, but right now, just Garvey.
Pinky: so many people have said him!
Me: oops, that's two for Garvey!
"If they ever come up with a Swashbuckling School, I think one of the courses should be Laughing, Then Jumping Off Something."
-unolimbo