Chapter 4

Walking down the hallway, Daine and Numair were both very excited and a little bit nervous. Numair took Daine's hand and squeezed it gently. She squeezed back, and they both smiled at each other. Raoul and Buri didn't say much, but Daine and Numair understood- all four of them hated getting dressed up and going to court events.

The only reason Raoul and Buri were coming instead of training or practicing was because Daine and Numair had personally asked them to. When they walked into the Throne Room, they all stopped in confusion. No one was in there!

"Um, Raoul, didn't you say that it was in here?" asked Daine.

"Last I heard this was where it was going to be," he gruffly replied.

"Well then it seems to have been moved," remarked Buri with forced cheerfulness injected into her voice.

Then all of a sudden-

"SURPRISE!" yelled King Jonathon, Queen Thayet, Onua, Stephen, and various other court people.

"Numair…did you forget to tell me that your birthday was today?" whispered Daine. "I didn't know that people did things like this at a wedding."

"Not at all; my date of birth is not for a small number of additional months," he whispered back. "I concur, however, that their behavior is quite abnormal."

King Jonathon walked up to Daine and Numair- Raoul and Buri had disappeared into the large crowd.

"Congratulations!" he said.

"What?" asked Numair grumpily. He had been working on a large project intended for Daine once the ceremony was finished, and he wanted to put the finishing touches on it.

"We all know how much everyone hates being cooped up in this big gloomy castle, especially you two, so I moved everything out to some woods north of here."

As he said this, his face broke into a wide grin. "We knew you'd like it a lot more."

Daine gratefully smiled up at him, and everyone started walking out to the outdoor gazebo-type thing Jonathon had put up. The wedding proceeded without a hitch, and Numair and Daine were married happily. After the actual official ceremony, everyone ran back to their chambers to change into normal clothes, and then they all came back to talk to everyone and congratulate the newlyweds.

After being asked where they would be going on their honeymoon about a hundred times, they gave up and told everyone that weren't going anywhere. Jonathon even offered to pay for them to go somewhere exotic, but they insisted that they didn't want to.

"Besides, what would Cloud do if I left?" asked Daine. They were perfectly happy staying there.