Okay, chapter three of this ittle series; Kel's Situations. This one was submitted by Mrs. Dom Masbolle.

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Cloud Gazing

Kel/Thom (Alanna's son)

And I quote:

"maybe Kel's group or Kel gets hurt on their way to the Ocean, and
they have to stop at pirates swoop where Thom the heir is currently helping
his parents...

then i dunno, Kel has a moment of weakness, and goes into the forest to be
alone... then sparks fly...

oh, and if this did inspire you to write a chapter, please have Thom be like
George in personality, someone who loves life and is funny!"

-Mrs. Dom Masbolle

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Great, wounded.

Raoul and I, and of course, Third Company, had been seeing a caravan off on the coast and had been ambushed. Stupid little raiders hoping to take us, they were so badly trained I almost felt bad killing them, almost.

One I saw, was a mere eleven year old boy, I had faltered and he had grinned and lunged forwards and pierced me with his sword.

I ran him through and felt so ashamed for letting him hurt me. I had faltered, faltered! I didn't need the Own's stern glances or Raoul's angry and disappointed telling-off to know I had done wrong. I showed weakness to the enemy, I had let them get an advantage.

So here I was, stuck at Pirate's Swoop, The Lioness's home, the only place where a guest isin't allowed to see its host because she might 'influence' me. And to make it worse, stuck here because I had made a stupid, stupid mistake. I was furious with myself to make the least.

I walked outside to clear my thoughts.

I slowly made my way into the forest and sank down at the base of a trunk to think. Everybody had been pretty angry with me and I had been angry with myself so much lately that I'd hardly eaten. Actually, some people were starting to take pity on me, I don't need their pity!

I heard a rustling of leaves behind me and sprang to my feet.

An infectious laugh surrounded me, I grinned as I saw Sir Alanna's son; Thom, coming towards me.

In one hand he had a stack of sliced bread.

He grinned back at me, he was after all a fellow squire, he had around the same age as me.

"Always alert?" He offered.

"you know it." then my smile faltered thinking back at the fight; "Well not always..." I sighed.

He looked at me pointedly and invited me to sit. I sat gingerly and he passed me a couple of slices of bread.

I quirked an eyebrow at him; "You haven't been eating properly, you need to keep your energy up."

I shook my head at his folly and bit into the bread. I scarfed it down finding I was quite hungry.

"See?" He asked with a smile.

I smiled back and ate the second slice of bread.

"You shouldn't take it so hard on yourself, many would've done the same thing in your place many still will, hell, I probably would have..." he trailed off.

I looked at him seriously; "Oh really?"

"Yes." he said surely.

"Besides, you learn from your mistakes, nobody's perfect. this way you probably won't falter during a more important battle. Plus you got off easily, it was barely a scratch."

"Enough for me to have been quarantined to Pirates Swoop."

"Think of it this way, at least you got to meet me." I laughed.

"Yes, I could think of it that way, but I thought I was supposed to be thinking on the bright side of things..." I smiled teasingly. He put on a mock hurt expression and punched me lightly on the arm.

"I feel like I've known you for a long time.." He looked at the sky as if thinking back.

I shot him a puzzled look: "What do you mean?"

"Oh, it's just, my mother talked a lot about you.."

"Really?" That took me by surprise, I didn't know theb Lioness cared. I said as much.

He raised his eyebrows in a shocked expression: "Of course she cares a lot! You will be the second Lady Knight after all."

"So sure I'll survive eleven year old warriors while I'm a squire?"

"Yes." he said in mock-seriousness.

We sat there chatting for a while. Then we found a clearing and had a few friendly spars. We were pretty much equal with a blade.

Exhausted I sat down, he sat down beside me and slowly we finished off our supply of bread.

We laid down and looked at the light blue sy, sprinkled with clouds.

"It's such a beautiful day out."

I nodded my agreement.

"Hey! That looks like a Lioness!" I pointed to a cloud that did indeed look like a Lioness.

He grinned from beside me; "Hey, yes it does."

We kept staring at the clouds and making a few odd comments along the way.

"That looks like the Lioness's son kissing a beautiful young lady." He commented.

"What?" I looked upwards and saw nothing of the sort. I turned to look at him and saw that he was a lot closer than before.

His lips timidly found mine. A blasting sensation tingled in the pit of my stomach. I deepened the kiss and my head felt like it was about to explode. All of my senses mingled, I smelled the sweet lilac scent of his hair I lost myself in the depths of his eyes, I heard the happy chirping of the birds as if right in my ears. He deepened the kiss further and I found my way on top of him. We just kissed feeling one with the environment around us. Everything felt so peaceful, so beautiful, so right. Our clothes billowed in the small breeze that surrounded us, our lips parted for small seconds to breathe and found themselves attached again. I felt so helpless as I surrendered to my emotions.

The sky was so blue, the grass so green, the wind blew just perfect, the sounds were so lovely and the smells lingered on everything. I didn't know up from down, right from left, I didn' know earth from sky. All I knew was Thom of Pirates Swoop.

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Both so caught up with the other, neither saw The Lioness and The Giant Killer walking into the clearing in search of them.

"Oh." was all Alanna could manage.

Raoul looked disbelievingly at his squire and then at Alanna. Then laughed quietly, so as not to announce their arrival. They quietly slunk back into the covers of the trees.

"They grow up so fast." Alanna looked wistfully at her son, who was now very close to being a man.

"It feels as if the other day I had asked Kel to be myu squire, I've barely seen the years pass, and yet soon she'll be leaving." Raoul added sagely.

Alanna smiled suddenly; "I am so happy it's her!"

Raoul barked a laugh and the two made their way back to pirates Swoop.

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--In George's study--

Alanna and Raoul walked in to the study to find Baron George and his (and Alanna's daughter) Aly there, poured over a coded message.

"George, you'll never guess what we just saw." Alanna sounded like a little child.

Raoul grinned at his long time companion's demeanor.

George lifted an eyebrow.

"Thom's got a girl." Her grin widened. Suddenly Aly was grinning as well, very interested.
"Really?" his caught George's attention. Then he looked at Raoul as though seeing him for the first time.

"Oh no-"

"Oh yes." Alanna interrupted him.

"My son was kissing the lady squire."

Aly rubbed her hands together a mischievous glint in her eyes;

"This is going to be fun."

Her mother looked at her and grinned just as evilly; "Yes, this definitely will be."

Raoul and George just looked at each other and started laughing.

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Meanwhile outside I was oblivious to the world still wrapped in thom's arms I stared kinto the sky, not really seeing it. I stared back at Thom, my heart suddenly feeling a lot warmer. My world looking a lot brighter, my dream a lot less impossible, my life a lot less hard, now that there was someone beside me.

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Thank you to Mrs. Dom Masbolle for the idea. Hope it was something like what you wanted. I canm remake it if you want even though personally I thought it wasn't bad. I actually quite like it, even if it was a lot longer than the other two...

Thom isn't that funny in this chapter but hopefully I described him as someone who is...

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xxTunstall Chickxx