Here is chapter ten, hope it is to your satisfaction:)
Chapter ten
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Time passes by so fast, without us ever having the chance to understand or grasp what is happening. We find ourselves looking back at our lives, wondering how we suddenly are standing at the edge of the cliff, but a mere step from death.
The flowers blossom and die.
The sun rises and sets.
Seasons goes by.
But the pain of losing the sun after a day, the flowers after the summer and a season after its time is due, is lessened because we know it or them will return to us once more.
But a human life, a human life can not be resurrected once death has its cold hand wrapped around it.
We live and we die.
We live and we die.
We live.
We live and that is the most important thing of all.
Life is the greatest gift, but there is one thing which can compare and compete with the gift of life.
The gift of love.
Aurora stopped writing and looked at the wall in front of her. "Are you writing again?" Sarah asked walking in with a dress and laid it on Aurora's bed. She put both hands on her hips and walked to Aurora's side.
"Can I read what you are writing?" Sarah asked leaning over to see what had been written.
"No!" Aurora snapped the paper in front of her sister and stood up, while Sarah gave her an annoyed look and sighed.
"I just hope your speech will be as good as your poetry." She said pointing at the paper Aurora had in her hand. "Oh wait, I haven't read anything you have written!" Sarah snorted.
Aurora smiled. "It is only scrabbles, nothing important."
"So it isn't love letters to Lancelot?"
"No!" Aurora said blushing and walked to her bed watching the dress Sarah had put there.
Sarah smirked. "Good, cause I am not sure he can read." She said with a raised eyebrow, earning a pillow to be thrown at her head.
"Sarah, I am most certain Lancelot can read.." Aurora said, "and write." She added. Sarah touched her head and said something Aurora couldn't hear.
"So." Aurora said gesturing to the dress on her bed letting the argument drop. "Is this for me or you?"
"You". Sarah said picking the dress up and holding it in front of Aurora.
The dress was blue. It was not draped like many of her other dresses. It had an under dress which was made out of silk and over it was a shier fabric which was embroiled with pearls and silver thread. It was tight over her chest and stomach and then flowed like water down her legs.
"I used some of your inheritance do make it, but it was worth it, don't you think?" Sarah said smiling.
"It was." Aurora said mesmerized.
"Well, I am just glad the seamstress was able to finish both our dresses before the wedding."
Aurora was broken from her trance and starred at her sister. "The wedding?"
Sarah looked at her "My wedding remember?"
Aurora shook her head. "Yes , of course." she said smiling. "I just thought about that it is already you wedding and.."
"..that means Arthur and the knights have been away for over a month."
"Yes" Aurora said.
"He will come back sister".
"Mhee" Aurora said going to stand in front of the window looking for black figures on the horizon. "Well now, lets see your wedding dress." Aurora said pushing away her thoughts, turning around.
"Actually, there are some seems left so the seamstress have it still but you will see it on my weddingday."
"You think you can manage without my opinion?" Aurora asked.
"Well I manage pretty good with you dress."
Aurora laughed and stroked the fabric of the blue dress."Yes you did." She agreed.
"My wedding is in five days time".
Aurora snapped up her head and watched her sister with a new expression, Sarah to had changed her features as well.
Aurora swallowed.
"I know."
"And after the wedding." Sarah continued watching Aurora.
"You will leave." Aurora finished.
They both stood there, watching each other not knowing what to say. Aurora broke the silence. "I truly hope you will find happiness."
Sarah had tears running down her cheeks by now. "I will." She responded quietly with a smile on her lips.
Aurora walked p to her sister and hugged her, Sarah hugged her back. "It will be hard to separate from you." Aurora whispered.
"Yes.." Sarah held on more tightly. "For me to sister." She added.
Aurora let go of her sister to stand before her and look at her. She wiped away some of the tears on her cheek.
Aurora smiled. "Gosh, you make me feel old, getting married already." Aurora stroke her sister hair, brushing it away from her face. "I too should be married by now."
Sarah laughed as a response. "You are only 21." Sarah said. "It is I who are starting early." She smiled.
"Yes well, I guess no one can plan the affairs of once heart."
"No, that's why you are in love in a poor but heroic knight." Sarah responded.
"Oh, I don't know about love," Aurora said walking away from her sister, "yet" she added turning to look at her sister, but continued to the window.
"I think you will be happy too." Sarah said watching her sister back.
At this statement Aurora started to laugh. "Well, nothing is certain. It is Lancelot whom we are speaking of, who knows if he is able to make due with only ONE woman in his life."
"Well, it is you after all."
Aurora nodded and took a deep breath.
"I just hope I could see him riding up for these fields." She looked down at her feet. "I would know he was safe then."
Suddenly they heard the horn which was a signal the knights had arrived. Aurora gave her sister a perplexed look. "But" she said. " I haven't seen them on the fields. They should have come this way."
" I guess they didn't." Sarah said smiling.
Aurora stood silent for a moment trying to think about the situation.
"What are you waiting for?" Sarah yelled at her laughing. "Go! Now!"
Aurora looked at her before she bolted to the door trying to run as fast as she could through the corridors of the castle. When she reached the courtyard, she could see them. She counted them to see if they were all alive and they where.
She let go of the air she had hold in her lungs. Then she spotted him, covered with dirt and blood and he looked exhausted. Lancelot turned to look at her, their gazes meeting each other.
Her mind became blank and all she could think of was to not run to him, right then and there and kiss him. She, however, manage to contain herself, but only by excusing herself. She could not stay here anymore she thought. I must breath! Runing back into the castle, she didn't stop until she was standing in a corner and sliding down the stonewall beginning to cry. All the feelings she had put aside during this last month aroused to the surface. Her love, her fears, her thoughts in the middle of the night wondering if he was safe, how he was doing.
She didn't notice the steps which had been following her neither the shadow which were now upon her.
He was there.
He took her in his arms and she didn't want to let go. He soothed her, wiped away her tears with his hands and his lips. She didn't care about the blood which stained her dress or the dirt. "You came back." she said looking at him.
"I said nothing would stop me from coming back to you." He smiled kissing her forehead. She laughed and hugged him again.
"So" Lancelot said smirking. "I guess you have had time to think?"
"Yes." Aurora said- "Or, I mean no." She shrugged her shoulders making Lancelot look at her with a stern eye. "So, you don't know how you feel yet?" He wondered keeping his voice cool.
She bit her lip and took a deep breath. "Well." She began. "I think I always knew, right away." She looked down at her feet adding quietly,"But it was hard accepting those feelings."
She thought Lancelot would be pleased by her answer but she had been far to naive. Lancelot looked happy at first because she had finally acknowledge that she had feelings for him but he didn't like the idea of her trying to ignore them. Aurora knew something was wrong when she saw the way he looked at her. She didn't know what she had said wrong until he repeated it.
"Why would you ignore your feelings towards me?" He enquired, his voice now losing the coolness it had have mere seconds ago.
"Lancelot, it is not as it sounds."
"It isn't?, I think is!" He said letting her go and she felt cold without his arms around her.
"Please Lancelot." She pleaded. "It just took a little time for me to figure things out, can't we just move on now? Please?" He sighed and looked at her. "Answer the question Aurora." Lancelot demanded.
"Because you are Lancelot! You are a wild knight from an eastern country far away from here." She sighed and leaned on the stonewall. "And I am a roman. A roman who have obligations, not mention the fact that you actually consider my people to be your enemy."
"You are afraid." He murmured as if it was an accusation.
"Yes, I am. For heavens sake, you have even slept with my maid!"
"And I said I was sorry!" He exclaimed. "It just figures to me why you tried so hard to ignore your feelings towards me."
"Yeah, cause you did everything to show yours." She looked at him angrily. "You know what the problem is Lancelot?"
He gave her a bored look.
"You stupid pride!" She blurted out. "It is okay for you to sleep around to test me! But I can't doubt my feelings toward the most infamous womanizer in Rome!"
He looked at her with saddened eyes.
"I think." He said. "That I will never be good enough for you!" And then he walked away and Aurora didn't stop him.