A Fateful Encounter- Chapter 7
Caim and Manah had laid down in their room. Both were feeling relaxed being in eachother's arms.
"Caim?" Manah asked in a low voice, almost a whisper.
"Yeah?" Caim asked back as he leaned on one elbow to look down at her.
"Do you forgive me for the pian I have caused you?" Manah asked as she felt her heart beat hard.
"I have forgiven you," Caim said as he placed his hand against her cheek. "I had told you earlier that I had felt the same way about you. You had changed alot in the past eightteen years since we first had met in that war." Caim paused as he brushed his thumb against Manah's lips. "How about I show you that I had forgiven you?" He asked smiling.
Manah opened her mouth slightly to let out a shaky breath from his light caress on her lips.
At that moment. Before Manah could get out an answer, or even think of one. Caim had gently pressed his lips to hers. Time seemed to have stopped for them as they had shared their second kiss.
Manah had brought her hand up to rest against Caim's neck. Feeling his pulse was beating as hard as when they had shared their first kiss. But this time her body had moved closer to Caim's body, liking to feel his hard body angainst her soft womanly curves. It had felt so right. To both of them.
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"I guess those worthless soldiers couldn't do their jobs. Maybe I shall have my 'useful servent' go after them." Gismor said in the Clocktower.
What Gismor didn't notice was Eris was outside his chamber. She had left and went to go and talk to Heirarch Seere.
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"Lord Seere?" Eris paused then said knocking on his door. "May I speak with you? I have to tell you something important."
"Come in, Eris." Seere said opening his door. "What's troubling you?" He asked seeing her troubled expression.
"I had overheard General Gismor at the temple of Heaven's Clocktower. He had sent his soldeirs out to attack Nowe and the others." Eris paused then said making an angry fist, "he didn't care if they came back or not. He plans to do the same with me."
"Eris?" Seere asked seeing her hurt expression of Gismor's betrayl.
"Nowe was right all along. And now I beleive everything Nowe had told me about Gismor. About how Gismor poisoned both Oror before sending him to his death before he had fought against the 'one eyed man'. And about how he had poisoned Nowe after we had captured Manah." Eris paused then asked looking at Seere, "is there anyway I can escape from that 'monster'?" Eris asked looking hopefully at Seere.
"There is only one way I can think of. We must go and visit Nowe and the others." Seere said looking at Eris.
"Okay," Eris said leaving with Seere to go and get their horses.
They had left soon afterwards.
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Angelus had looked towards the area of where they had fought against the soldiers as she heard horses approaching.
She had waited until the horses came into view to attack or not. She was about to attack as she saw one of Gismor's soldiers. But held back the attack as she recognized Seere.
Caim and everyone else came out at hearing Angelus' warning.
"Seere," Manah had said seeing her twin brother.
"Eris," Nowe said wondering why she was there.
"I had come to apologize to you Nowe." Eris said as she had gotten off of her horse. "You were right about everything. Gismor was just using us. He had sent his soldiers to attack you guys without even caring wether or not if they had returned. He was going to do the same thing to me. I had gone to ask Lord Seere for his help in escaping that bastard."
"Eris," Nowe paused then asked looking at her. "So you now beleive everything I had said and why we had started fighting against Gismor in the first place?"
"Yes," Eris said nodding her head. "I beleive somewhere inside I had truely beleived everything you told me. But I was too stubborn to ignore my duties as a Knight of the Seal."
"I'm glad you had changed, Eris." Nowe said smiling at his childhood friend.
"Hello Manah," Seere said walking up to her.
"Hi Seere," Manah said not sure on what to think about seeing him again. She was angry at seeing him watching her as she was tied to the stake and about to be burned to death. "Why are you here?"
"I had brought Eris to hopefully protect her against Gismor's deeds." Seere paused then said looking at Manah, "but part of me had really wanted to see you again. After all, you are the only family member I have left."
Manah had turned and gone back inside Caim's castle and went back up to his room.
Seere had seen Caim watch Manah walk back inside the castle and noticed a change in his eyes.
"Lord Caim?" Seere paused then asked as Caim looked towards him. "Are you and Manah friends now? I had thought you had hated her for what happened in the last war?"
"I guess you can say we had overcome our differences," Caim said looking at Seere.
"I see," Seere paused then said smiling at Caim. "I'm glad you guys are friends now."
"I am too." Caim said looking back towards his castle.
Seere wondered what kind of relationship Caim and his sister had. Seere remembered Caim had never looked that way at Manah before. But of course that was because she was a child and his enemy then. But now, Caim and Manah had a different kind of 'relationship', if Seere chosen the right word for their situation at that moment.
Angelus gave out a little laugh watching Seere trying to figure out Caim's and Manah's relationship.
Everyone had gone inside the castle.
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"Eris!" Gismor yelled. "Where in the hell did that woman go?" He had decided to look in her room.
Everything she had was gone. Her spear and everything else in her room were gone. He decided to go and visit Seere to see if he knew anything. But there was a spell of somesorts locking his room. Gismor decided to use a little bit of his power to open the Heirarch's room. It was the same as Eris' room. Empty. No books, clothes, food, weapons. Nothing.
"Where in the hell did they go. Oh well. They were both useless to me. I guess I'll have to take care of that 'dragon child' by myself. Like I do with everything else around here." Gismore said leaving.
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Caim had shown Seere and Eris to two more of the empty rooms in his castle. He had walked back to his room to find Manah sitting on their bed as she looked out the window.
"Are you alright?" Caim asked looking at her as he closed their door.
"I don't know. I'm still angry at Seere even after all of these years. And plus when I was captured by the Knights. He was there to see if I would burn to death." Manah said glaring out the window.
Caim had walked over to where Manah was sitting and had sat down next to her.
"I see," Caim paused then said smiling. "Seere is wondering about our relationship. He has noticed the changes between us. Mainly because of how I watched you walk back inside the castle."
"What did he ask?"
"He asked if we are friends. And I told him we had overcome our differences." Caim said smiling at her.
"I see," Manah said. "I wonder what he would say if he knows of our relationship." Manah asked as she looked at Caim.
"Do you think we should tell him? Or should we let him guess?" Caim asked smiling as he liked the idea of Seere guessing what was going on between him and Manah.
"I want to see if the years had brought wisdom to his brain. I think we should let him guess what our relationship is." Manah said smiling back at Caim.
"Okay," Caim said getting up and began walking towards the door. "I shall prepare dinner for our guests. Since I now have four more people to feed." Caim paused then said smiling back at Manah. "I just had a nice thought."
"What's that?" Manah asked.
"It kinda feels like I have a new family to take care of now," Caim said smiling at Manah.
"I'm glad you feel that way, Caim." Manah said returning the smile.
"So am I," Caim paused then thought to himself. "And maybe I shall have a wife as well."