A/N: Kinda short though. And yeah, Alanna will be a lady and a knight. As always, thanks to buttons7 for beta reading this chapter
Chapter Four
Alanna stopped in her tracks. "Great Goddess!" she whispered, horrified.
"Uncle?" Jon slowly sat up, wincing in pain. He looked at Alanna and smiled shyly.
"Jon, this is Alanna," his uncle said to him, "She's going to heal your wounds"
Alanna knelt beside Jon. "I can't believe it," she said quietly, beginning healing him. The Duke watched them and smiled. He knew that the two children would get along, maybe even learn to love one another.
"I know what you're going through, Highness," Alanna whispered to Jon. "My father abused me too. That's why I came to the Palace. To get away from him"
"Does he starve you?"
Alanna nodded, finished. "He starves me, forced me to do all the cleaning, and every other thing he could think of"
"He hurts my mother too," Jon said in a soft voice. Looking at Alanna, he told her, "And it's Jon"
The two smiled at each other.
"Did you finish yet?" Gary and Raoul walked in. Alanna nodded, standing.
"I'll have a servant get a room ready for you," the Duke told her. Alanna smiled.