Victorias first instinct was just to dismiss her wild idea. Diego Zorro?
If that was the case Diego would have told her! They were best friends weren't they? And beside, Diego loathed confrontation. He was a quiet man whom never attracted any attention, preferring to walk around in the corners and would do anything he could to distract the attention away from himself.
Zorro was a good man, but if he had a major flaw it certainly was his cockiness and his way of showing off. Often it seemed like he did it just for the attention, the way he would laugh and tease his enemies. It was an endearing trait, but also rather foolish.
Diego Zorro? No, just no! NO! How-ever, now that Victoria had gained the thought it just refused to leave her! She tried to dismiss it but it just kept coming back and as a result Victoria became extremely distracted for the rest of the day.
So much so that she almost poured a kilo of salt into her cake batter thinking it was sugar, only stopped in the last second by her kitchen help.
Astounded Victoria looked at what she had done, and the jar of salt in her hands.
"Are you okay Victoria?" Anna asked in a worried voice.
"Of course!" Victoria exclaimed with a big wide fake grin on her lips. "Why wouldn't I be? Things are great."
Anna blinked astounded and Victoria suddenly realized she was probably looking like a madman thusly she tore her eyes away.
"Okay then." Anna commented as she backed away a few steps. "I'll just… Go check on the costumers." she said and vanished out of the kitchen leaving Victoria whom exhaled deeply.
Things were not over though, one thing was Victorias muddled mind while she had work to do. the other was after the tavern was closed and she had nothing to do at all! Victoria tried to go for a walk, but her mind kept distracting her.
As she came back to the tavern, Victoria suddenly decided it was time to mop the floor in spite of it having been mopped only a few days ago. Still, mopped the tavern floor she did and by the time she was done her body was exhausted, but seemingly her mind was not.
And it became worse as Victoria finally went to bed and she just laid there with wide open eyes looking up at the ceiling and her head would not let her sleep!
Why couldn't she just let this go! She trusted Diego and she trusted Zorro, if they were the same person surely Diego would have told her!
At least that's what Victoria would like to believe.
It would explain a lot though. Diego had a habit of mysteriously disappearing and then re-appearing when you least expected it.
He was often very tired, and he was one of the few people not to happy about even talking about Zorro.
But Zorro was a master swordsman and Diego could barely hold his own in a honest fight… That is unless that was just what he wanted everyone to believe.
Victoria swallowed as she turned to her side and wrapped her arms around her pillow holding it close.
It really would explain his decline in energy. Living a double life like that would have to be really hard. Both physically and mentally, Victoria couldn't even imagine what that would be like. Always having to pretend, every single second of the day. Was that what Zorro had to go through? No matter what his true identity was?
Victoria turned around again so she laid on her back looking up at the ceiling. It was easy to get angry at Diego, he always seemed to mysteriously vanish whenever he was needed the most, whenever there was trouble.
And ones he came back his apologies would be abysmal at best, it had been so easy to assume that either he was to big of a coward to do anything or he just didn't care.
But then there were instances where it seemed like Diego cared more than anybody, he would fight long and hard and then suddenly…. Vanish and let Zorro do the last bit of the work taking all the glory for himself.
Now that Victoria thought about it, that wasn't nice at all! Sure, Diego hadn't been riding around on the most beautiful stallion in the world making a show for the people. But without his influence many of Zorro's greatest achievements hadn't even been possible.
But why did it then never look like Diego was upset about that? Ones an issue was resolved he would put on this mask of indifference and act like he didn't even care.
Victoria swallowed, one thing was for sure. Even if Diego wasn't Zorro, he was most certainly working with Zorro. Closely even. That was the only possible explanation.
Still, the likelihood of Diego being Zorro…. That suddenly seemed much more likely than what Victoria had anticipated.
It was to early to jump to conclusions though, all Victoria could do for now was to observe.
She was going to observe both Zorro and Diego much more closely than she had before, she would not be able to get any prober rest before her mind had been sat at ease. It was simple as that.