Chapter 4
The guest
Sophitia hears a knock on her door, so she goes to answer it. When she opens the door, she sees her sister holding onto a man, clad in armour, bleeding badly from his leg. "Cassy? What happened, and who is this?" Siegfried collapsed on her couch in her front room, "This is Siegfried, he saved me from being raped and…" Sophitia look up quickly at her "From what?" Cassandra shook her head "Let me finish, he saved me, but he got injured, can you help him or not sis?" She looked at this knight… she had seen him somewhere before, but she just cannot remember his face. She shakes her head. "I'll do my best sis… but you have been through a lot, you head to bed, ill take care of him…" Cassandra hugs her sister then heads to bed.
Sophitia looks at Siegfried and says "I recognise you… have we met before?" Siegfried looked at her and said "We may have some time ago, I don't care to remember about my past though…" She applies some bandages to his leg, "I see… well, I'm Sophitia Alexandra, Mr?" He lets out a sigh… "Siegfried Schatuffen" She looked at him "That's a nice name… now this may hurt a little" She pressed on the wound, Siegfried screwed up his face and tried not to yell out in pain, she then finished bandaging him up. She tried to converse with him further "I am sure that I recognise you from somewhere… are you sure we haven't met before?"
Siegfried tried not to tell her what he knew "We may have… but I'm surprised you recognise someone such as me, I am just a knight" She shot her head up "Not all knights are so handsome…" she realised what she was saying, she turned her head away quickly "I'm sorry!" Siegfried just laughed, "Don't worry about it, thank you for the compliment though" he let out a relaxing sigh "T'has been a while since I have spent time in the company of women… I'm not sure how to act" he started to laugh. "I will be staying at an inn then?" he asked her. Sophitia shook her head, "You may sleep here" pointing towards the sofa "Goodnight sir knight" She walked into the other room, looking back in the doorway to see him taking of his chest plate. She shakes her head and goes to bed, her husband already asleep.
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Cassandra awoke early this morning, she had totally forgot that she had a guest when she walked into the bathroom to see Siegfried showering, she couldn't help but stare at him, he soon noticed her and he grabbed a towel quickly and shouts "Do you mind! I'm trying to shower here!" Cassandra turned around quickly "I-I'm so sorry! I was not aware you where in here!" She had gone red… he was in quite good shape, then again, you had to be to become a knight, even more so lifting a sword like his around all the time, she couldn't get the picture of him out of he head "Well, you are now! So if you don't mind!" She left the room quickly. Sophitia was walking towards her, "What are you so happy about…" Sophitia asked her sister "oh… n-nothing..." Cassandra walked off quickly, trying to hide her face. Sophitia just realised what had just gone on, she just shook her head, then as a joke, opened the door herself, without looking, all she heard was "Do I have to tell you too?" She closed the door and laughed.
Siegfried came out of the bathroom and walked into a spare room to get changed. Cassandra was talking to Sophitia in the next room "So, what did you talk about last night then sis?" Cassandra asked curiously "I was trying to learn more about him... it bothers me why I can recognise him, but can't remember him…" Sophitia started pacing, Cassandra they says "Well… the sooner he leaves, the sooner things get back to normal…" Sophitia looks at her sister "He saved your life! You shouldn't talk about him like…"
They see him walking out with his bag and his sword, Rothron shouts to him "Where are you going sir knight?" Siegfried turns around and says "I have outstayed my welcome… I thank you for healing me, but I really must be going…" Sophitia nudges Cassandra insinuating her to talk to him, Cassandra chased after him "Siegfried!" he turned around to see her, Cassandra came up to him "I thank you for saving me… that night…" There was an awkward silence Siegfried just nodded and continued walking. Cassandra had a feeling that she needed to say something else, but she didn't know what, she just grunted, and ran back to the house.