Chapter 32: Smiles
Two days had passed and Lyra couldn't help but worry about her friends as she leaned on the edge of the balcony.
Mordred was sitting on the stone steps, he was holding his dagger, but he was looking up at the balcony. She looked so beautiful in the sun light, he wondered how he didn't notice it before.
He was still certain he had met her somewhere before... She was called the Lost Princess because no one knew where she came from. There were stories that Uther had found her in a basket just a few feet from where Mordred was sitting at that moment, there was a topaz necklace inside but no letter.
He pitied her, not knowing who her parents were. But that was one thing they had in common, Mordred didn't know either.
Lyra saw him gazing at her and she waved at him, and he waved back, a smile on his face.
Arthur and the others had arrived at the Darkling woods.
"You see! I told you we weren't lost!" Arthur said, proudly. Merlin and Morgana exchanged amused glances.
"OK, but how do we know she's there again?" Gwaine asked.
Arthur didn't take his eyes of the distant castle and answered Gwaine's question, "I can feel it."
"Thats reassuring!" Gwaine replied, grumpily.
"We should at least make a plan before we go there." Sefa suggested.
"She's right, Sire." Gaius said.
Arthur nodded. "We'll go at night fall, and only Gwaine, Merlin and I will go. Morgana you can protect Gaius, Sefa and Eira." Everyone agreed.
Lyra decided to go outside. "Mordred." She greeted.
"Lyra. I wanted to ask you something..." Mordred said.
Lyra sat next to him on the steps. "Yes?"
"Do you want to for a ride with me this afternoon?" Lyra smiled and nodded.
Then she remembered her promise. "Where?"
"I was thinking we could go to the meadows." He smiled at her reaction.
"I promised not to leave the castle." She told him.
"If I'm with you it wont matter, will it?" He asked. "Unless you want to remain here?"
She shock her head. "I'll come."
"Good."
Lyra and Mordred 3 awww !
The question is though: Will it last?