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ARABELLA POV
When I woke up the next morning, I decided that I would go for a walk around the castle and the Market. After I finished getting ready for the day, with help from a maid Gwen assigned me, I left my room. After a few minutes, I was walking past a window and taking in the view of the castle courtyard, when I ran into something tall and sturdy. I stumbled but was caught by whoever I had run into. When I was steady and on my own feet they let me go, I looked up at whoever had caught me. It was a knight with curly, dark blonde hair and hazel eyes. He bowed and introduced himself as Sir Leon, and I curtsied, and introduced myself.
"Well, Sir Leon, I was just exploring the castle, is there any chance you have time for a tour?" I asked him, as I continued walking down the corridor. He nodded and walked with me. As we walked through the town we were laughing, and he was telling me about the shenanigans my brother had gotten into. I was glad to find someone who knows him and spends so much time around him, and when I had told him who my brother was he seemed a little surprised.
We were walking down yet another corridor, when I remembered that my brother was a knight and wondered if Leon knew him.
"Leon, I was wondering if you knew most of the knights names, and if you knew my brother." I looked at him with my hand still in the crook of his elbow, and he looked back at me.
"Maybe, what is his name? I know almost all of the knights here." He said and I smiled. I quickly told him who my brother was and he stopped walking in shock. "Gwaine!? Your brother's Gwaine?" He asked his eyes wide with surprise. "You two are so different, but I can see the similarities now."
We then continued walking for about an hour. Leon then told me about a meeting with king I should attend. He said it would be about sending a search party to find my brother.
When I walked in, I saw a magnificent, round table surrounded by people. Leon led me to a seat and sat down next to me. A few minutes later the king and queen walked in, everyone stood as they sat down next to me. Gwen smiled at me as Arthur started the meeting.
"Noble knights of Camelot, countrymen, friends, I welcome you to this meeting of the round table. For three long years we have been blessed with peace and prosperity. But now it seems that a shadow has been cast upon our lands. Sir Gwaine set out for Ismir some six weeks ago, with him went three score of our finest men. There has been no word from them since. Sir Elyan led a search party to the wastelands of the north, but he found no trace of Gwaine or his men. It is as if they have vanished from the face of the earth." Everyone looked around at each other sadly, and a few of them looked at me with concern or pity in their eyes. Gwen reached over and put her hand on mine and I smiled at her through the tears that begun to fall.
They finished the meeting a few minutes later and Leon led me back to my chambers telling me that everything would be okay, and that he would let me know when they were leaving to continue searching for my brother. He kissed my hand gently and then left my room,