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Chapter 8

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Aurora couldn't stop thinking about what had happened with Lancelot and she felt a little sorry for how she had left him, again, but what did he expect? That she could just give him everything? She had to take things slow, she had only "known" him for two days for crying out loud.

Aurora was amazed how much had happened and she was nervous of what was to come. How she would handle this whole affair with Lancelot without her sister.

Her head would explode with all those things in her head being unsaid. She leaned her head against the wall by the window and stretched out her legs.
She had spent the day locked away in her room, spending time with her sister, comforting and helping Sarah plan her new life. Her sister were to be married in two months and it was a lot to be planned. Sarah wanted to be married in Britain, and then after the ceremony return to Normandy with her new husband, to her new home.

"I know he isn't that rich but he has described his home and it sounds beautiful." Her sister had said to her, glowing.

"Well then, let's hope he isn't exaggerating." Aurora said and laughed at her sisters frightened appearance.

"Don't misunderstand me sister." Sarah said, "I love him, but I can't live on a farm!" Her horrified look amusing Aurora. She knew Sarah didn't mean anything by it, she was just young.

The day went by rather slowly after the funeral and Aurora was beginning to feel bored and she could no longer think about her and Lancelot's kiss earlier.

Sarah to were fidgeting all the time and starting to get on her nerves. She decided to take Sarah to the marketplace and look at some fabrics for the wedding dress. She didn't want to be mean but she hoped this would shut her sister up for a little while the fresh air would also be good for Aurora.

Sarah was so full of energy and so happy when they looked at fabric after fabric and Aurora couldn't help but smile, her annoyance slipping away.

Sarah suddenly got a grim expression on her face and turned to Aurora.

"Sister?"

"Yes?" Aurora answered and looked at different fabrics.

"Perhaps we should look for fabric another day and not this day." Aurora stopped with was she was doing and looked at her sister.

"You mean because of our father?" Aurora wondered.

"Yes." Sarah answered. "In Rome we would have to grieve half a year before ever think about planning new events."

Aurora twined her arm under her sisters.

"Sarah, this is you future we are planning, and I can not think of a better day to celebrate life." she smiled.

"I guess you are right." Sarah said and smiled, "I sure am glad that we are not in Rome right now, or I would not have the chance to do this."

"I am glade for you sister." Aurora said while Sarah smiled an walked over to salesgirl to discuss hems and colors.

Aurora walked around at the marketplace gazing at different items and cloths. The town were so alive today and the weather was warm yet fresh. She liked the fresh air, it made her mind clear.

"Look sister!" Sarah came up behind her with a child's eagerness and showed her a white fabric which was very beautiful.

"Its beautiful" Aurora said smiling while Sarah continued to explain her plans for her dress, but Auroras smile faded when she recognized someone she knew in the crowd.

Lancelot were standing with Tristan and Gawain at the blacksmiths, probably sharping their weapons or buying new.

She stared at him for a while, so mesmerized by him, his way to move, his way to talk that she forget everything that happened around here. The time simply stopped.

He suddenly turned his head and retrieved her gaze. His features became dark and his smile faded.

He is mad , Aurora thought. Tristan and Gawain turned their heads to, following Lancelot's gaze, she couldn't have looked away faster then she did.

Suddenly she was afraid that he would walk to her, I can't do this now, she thought and started to return to her full senses. I must get away before he comes here, she thought.

"...anyway, do you remember mother's wedding dress?"

"What?" Aurora asked, her concentration coming back to the present.

Sarah looked at her puzzled. " Haven't you been listening?" She asked.

"I," Aurora watched as Lancelot seemed to start walking towards her, or was she imagining it?

"I am sorry Sarah but we have to go." She said before dragging Sarah away from the marketplace.

"Where are we going?" Sarah wondered.

Aurora looked after somewhere to hide and saw an alley at their right. "Follow me" she said, running to the ally.

"What are you doing?" Sarah asked laughing. "We are not kids anymore!"

Aurora started to watch the road to see if Lancelot had followed them. Then she finally saw him. He seemed frustrated and his facial features were stern. She felt sorry for him, runing away from him once again, but she couldn't talk to him right now.

She sighed and continued to stare at him.

"Were you, no we" Sarah corrected herself, "hiding from Lancelot?" She asked, after following Auroras gaze.

Aurora turned her head and she felt her face become a little red under her sisters scrutinizing look

"Well," she began, "It is complicating" . She finally said.

"Has something happened between you two?" Sarah asked.

Aurora thought for a second to lie but that, she thought it would be pointless. Her sister could smell a lie coming from her.

"Like I said, it is complicating", she said once again while taking a huge breath. Lancelot had begun to walk back, leaving the cost clear for them. No time to loose.

"Wait" Sarah said with a determined tone.

"We are not leaving this alley before you tell me what is going on!" She demanded.

"Oh, once again you are being difficult." Aurora said smiling at her sister.

"I am your little sister, it is what I was born to do". Sarah said with humor in her eyes. "Now, tell me".

"We kissed." Aurora blurted out.

"You what?" Sarah said with a surprised look on her face.

"You heard me." Aurora said grimacing at her sister.

"When did this happened?"

"Before" Aurora said, "after the funeral."

"Well, Sarah said smiling. " I was afraid Cleo was poor but you certainly win this competition." Sarah rolled her eyes.

"Sarah!" Aurora said shaking her head while smiling.

"What? You know I am not serious."

"Yes." Aurora said smiling at Sarah's innocent face. "Your are as innocent as an angel."

Sarah smiled at this and looked quite happy. They were silent for a moment and walked slowly through the town.

Aurora was thinking about Lancelot and her feelings towards him, and if she even had any.

"What will you do?" Sarah asked as she looked at Aurora's profile.

"I don't know." Aurora answered honestly.

Sarah suddenly began to laugh.

"What is so funny know?" Aurora wondered with a perplexed look on her face.

"Oh, I just thought about what father would have said if he had seen this, I marrying Cleo and you, rumbling around with the most infamous sarmation knight!" Sarah said laughing.

"I am not rumbling around with Lancelot!"

" Well," Sarah said with amused eyes as they reached the castle, "we will see about that."

They were supposed to eat in the great hall that night with Arthur and the knights to honor her father.

Aurora though, would rather had stayed in her room, trying to recover form everything that had happened. Her father and of course Lancelot.

What should she do? She thought. She had to admit to herself, she started to have feelings for him and she was certainly attracted to him.

She sighed turning around to lie on her right side of her body on the bed, looking out the window.

It was Autumn so the weather was fresh and there were not a cloud in the sky. It was dark outside

now, the stars shining over the land of Britain.

Aurora started to feel like home here, but it wasn't her home. It didn't belong to her, it belonged to the woads. Lancelot had claimed that she was safe here. She laughed, actually no one was safe here at the farthest outpost of Rome, especially not her, a roman which was quite ironical when you thought about it.

Suddenly fear gripped her heart. Her father had died, decapitated after fighting the woads. Her father had rarely been fighting but Lancelot, she inhaled a large breath, he was out there all the time fighting the woads.

She sat up suddenly and tried to calm her heart from racing out of control.

Damn it! She thought standing up, pacing back and forth in her room.

Why did she have to go and become infatuated in him! IN him! Everyone knew Lancelot was a womanizer, she knew it too!

But she thought, stopping herself, he had showed her a different side, and she was the one who had been running away from him, three times! Not the other way around.

I can't dwell on this anymore, I got to distract myself, Aurora thought.

"Sarah?". She said walking to the door which made their room connected to each other.

"Yes?", was Sarah's response.

"We should go to dinner now".

"Now?" Sarah said opening the door. She had the most ridiculous braids in her hair.

"What are you doing sister?" Aurora laughed.

Sarah only muttered something about Aurora being spoiled and went to sit in front her mirror.

"Spoiled?" Aurora said following her sister.

"Yes, you already have curly hair", Sarah said. "But people like me have to go to extreme lengths to be pretty."

Aurora walked up behind her sister, starting to lose all those braids.

"You are pretty, my darling baby sister." Aurora said kissing Sarah on her cheek.

"Aurora" Sarah wiped of her cheek. "I don't want Lancelot's saliva all over my face, it is enough you have it!"

Aurora gasped at her sister statement;" My my", Aurora slightly pulled in one of Sarah's braids making her squirm. "You certainly are not a baby anymore" she added.

"No I am not." Sarah said with a matter of fact tone "I am seventeen and I am about to be married." Sarah held her chin high watching her reflection in the mirror.

"How can we forget?" Aurora murmured to herself and rolled her eyes.

They helped each other to finish Sarah's hair and when they just had finished they heard a knock on the door.

"It is probably Arthur." Aurora said walking back to her own room. It was indeed Arthur who had come to collect them to dinner.

"Are you ready?"

"Yes" Aurora said, " or perhaps not the princess in there." she added while gesturing at Sarah's room.

"Aurora, I heard you!". Sarah screamed from the next room.

Arthur and Aurora simply smiled at each other.

When they arrived at the great hall the food were already on the table and the knights were waiting for them. All knights, except for one.

"Is Lancelot not coming?" Sarah asked Arthur.

"No, someone had to deliver a message to the Lord Teius." Arthur said and then he smiled and looked at them both. "I said to him this could wait to tomorrow but he was most urgent to get it delivered to night".

Sarah simply raised her eyebrows and looked at Aurora who tried to look away.

"He wanted me to know he wished to be here but this matter was to important to postpone", Arthur continued.

"Ah, well. He is utterly.." Sarah looked at Aurora,"..forgiven" she said with smile.

Aurora had a frown on her face and her thoughts were entirely somewhere else.

"Don't you agree sister?"

"Yes", Aurora agreed, "He certainly is".