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Her eyes still wide open but now pink from crying. Selene stood closest to the cell door with her injured fists on either side. The cell was dark and empty and it smelled of sweat and sick effects, she had to hold her breathe severally as the wind would blow in through the high windows and circulate the foul smell. It was no doubt the day for the trial. She had heard the murmurs and failed attempt of escape from the Riverlands as they were led to the empty hall. The room wasn't as dark when the early morning shafts streamed in, she could see where the mound of hay was which smelled urine and the marshland receptacle that sat at the other corner of the room. Selene had learnt that her angry yells would only wear her voice out and her pounding on the bar ended her up with wounded knuckles. With cognizance veritably much alert to her girding, Selene was quick to descry the approaching steps. She backed down from the door and shielded her sensitive eyes as the door opened. The nurse stood
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The man bowed and let go of her arms, making her back into the near wall. " See that the men are training" Edgar said to the guard who did not need a reprise as he hastily walked out still, I could kill you" Edgar said as he turned to the hallway," If you wish to end you life so much. Selene swallowed at his serious tone and felt her legs shake. She wished she'd noway see him again, he still dared of taking her life after that night. maybe she was just naive to see it further than a bare night of thrill or perhaps the Lord was inhuman. " Do I've to drag you?" Edgar asked irritably Selene only also realised he'd been staying on her. She took slow way towards him, doubtful of what was going on. " You only incense me Child. Have you lost your legs?" He bellowed Selene went back to the wall, his tone as loud and threatening. She goggled at his angry eyes as he assessed her. Her gown felt short no matter how long she wore them and she felt her hands subconsciously go to hold them do
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The massive room was just as large as the throne room if not larger. The long blockish table before her had a fine furry table mat on it. It's print that of a barracuda. Selene gulped, allowing ho meant skins had been used to make similar large cloth, perhaps Sol had no further barracuda now. Selene took another bite of the apple pie, it was mellow, she knew not if her mama 's superior form made the pie taste like lime water or her appetite was none existent. The events of the former night she was certain would not wear off so fluently. She had noway been one to cry, she had countlessly challenged her father, when ever her quality or the safety of dear Mia was in jeopardy she had spoken out, anything to defend herself and her family. But the Lord made her weep like an child, she cursed the veritably moon that shone the day she kissed the Lord on that deck. That sounded to awake what flirter part of her was alive. Her unfaithful body was an epitome of treason, despite her fears and w
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The little queen sat nearly to Selene. Selene had her left hand slung over her shoulder as they both ate. She so wished she could put the child in her belly so they would come one, also and also alone would she worry lower of her. The oat before her tasted sweeter than she knew oats to be. Who ever was in the royal kitchen Selene was cettain had an issue with temperance. The lord sat at the table, his eyes on her though she was unintentional to look up, his aspect was burning enough to be felt. He cleared his throat fleetly and placed the heavier than normal chopstick on his server. " A nanny had been assigned to the queen. More if you aren't constantly bothering of her weal" Edgar stated and watched the queen nearly. He could see her relief as well as distrust " She has relatively taken a relish to Mrs Diana, she has been placed in her care for now" he added trying to assure her. Selene only jounced. Of course Mia was a gentle child. She could fluently grow fonder of anyone, her
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His meal made him glare. What little meat he'd on his impertinence had gone completely. His eyes had prominent dark rings and he completely looked sicker than he liked to admit. The once days had drained him, mapping out strategies, conniving, colluding, he'd to be active in the recruiting of new members. He heeded as the sound of rushing water came from his marshland room. His chamber he'd made certain linked directly to the boundaries of his home. Of course his step family was no trouble, her careless brutality amongst the businesses amounted little to him, he'd better enenmies. He knew any trouble intended on him would go through the frontal gate which led first to the north sect of the structure which was his chamber. But if any trouble came from this lair also it was aimed at his retainers or his men and he wanted to meet first with it. He'd severally gotten petty stealers that still prayed mercy in his dungeon and of course the queen. He'd caught the queen and saved her doubly i
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The sounds of chinking essence woke Edgar over. He moaned at the pang in his neck as he lifted his face go the window. His drapes were pulled up. He could not flash back letting them down the former night. He had not meant to sleep at all. He was just resting his mind, allowing on all life had taken and offered when the webs of sleep caught him. He'd seen her, burning, going, screaming, leaving him alone in this cold loveless earth. Edgar stilled at the memory, he hadn't been asleep. No, sleep had left him when the youthful queen had held him in her soft little arms till he no more stressed the dark, till he no more wept for his last nut. Till he was contentedly sleeping. He cringed at the vulnerability he'd let her see. He was noway suitable to suppose of Monique without being lost in a hole of pain and wrathfulness. She did not earn to die, she was too kind, too innocent, too beautiful. Just like the termagant that helped him to sleep after his worried agony. No doubt she was awake,
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Selene jolted awake, her eyes snappily searching the slightly dark corners of her chamber. What had woken her, she allowed , completely worried. Was it Mia, had her fever returned? Did she get harmed by a perambulator? Or perhaps she just demanded a walk in the theater . Selene took another deep breathe, trying to be positive. The valve on the door came again and Selene heaved a shriek. It was Nina, no mistrustfulness trying to fix her bath and whatever she demanded that morning. She slipped out of bed and went to the bedside table where a heavy tableware key tied to a blue strip laid independently. She turned the door clump after the click of the key could be heard and pulled open the heavy door. There stood the Lord, his eyes so openly combing over her frame till it landed in her bossom which was slightly covered by the see through v- neck night dress. Selene rushed to the bed in a less subtle manner and pulled on her mask. " What are you doing then?" Selene asked " I see you
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The stern man looked worse than stern. His disguise was stiff as rosewood. What further could he give, did he have to butcher his kin with his own hands to keep her? He saw himself a man of character, he did not renege pledges. He did not drop promises. He'd sworn to cover the girl till she was no more or maybe him no more. One and nine decades after his woman 's departure, he still felt bond to that deathbed oath. He still saw the child as alive and that made him responsible. " Do you reevaluate this?" the Governess asked with a moue Far from it. I only suppose how well you're manipulative" he wrangle disrespectfully " I see" she replied with a smile. One that held pledge and the stern man was familiar with. " All you need is to offer him this bone advice, which if you do relatively well will be the last. also I will leave her to you. I keep to my words" Tue queen said " What if they fail and are all taken?" he asked " Oh they will not. Don't underrate your adversary" The nurse
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Love came in strange times, in strange forms. Edgar goggled at the now fat woman on his bed, her belly swollen with his seed. He smiled, he couldn't relatively call her a child presently. But in his eyes she was still a child, despite her size. " You're back!" She yelled and rushed to him, pushing a coprolite in ceremoniously and clumsily down. " Easy now darling so you do not hurt yourselves" he smiled meaningfully and hugged her. Her frame filling his hands. She was beautiful. " Did you get my grapes? The imported bones ?" She asked as she seized his sachel and dug in madly. She lowered and looked up at him, coming up with shanks and ointments and everything she did not need. " It's not outside, don't tell me you forgot again" she pouted " Are you telling me my woman isn't happy to see me but her grapes" he asked " You're of no use my Lord" she replied and left the bag on the bottom, moving to her hair bunch where she was stitching an unattractive crooked pattern. " Isee.y
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Selene sat on the rustic seat close to the pine tree. There was a mat laid before her. A dish of egg and veal sat in the plate. There was a mug of mice smelling wine and the knight by her side beamed The youthful handsome knight smiled at the queen and took her hand in his, placing a small kiss there. She had been more open to love after her fire at Kiro and with her resoluteness to not be alone, she would began seeing the youthful knight she met in city weeks agone . Her heart didn't quack when he was with her like it did for the Lord but. Selene lowered at her own studies and scolded herself. " It's a nice place" Selene said with a smile. She was relaxed, at peace and comfortable with a nice man, she reminded herself snappily. " It's my haven. I set up it times ago when I first came a royal legionnaire" the knight replied with a fascinating smile. Selene jounced " Come" the man said and led her to the mat, sitting there himself and folding his legs before him. He took a chops
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Edgar goggled at her hair. It had been trolled and pulled up. The healer behind her held her hair as she voided her stomach into a pot by the corner of the roof. He'd slept exhausted. nearly like a dead body. The cold roof calming him and blarneying him to sleep further. But his mind upset. He wasn't at peace, he demanded to see Selene. As he opened the roof delirium, he met the healer forcing a mug to her mouth. She drank and rippled, evacuating her mouth into the pot. A condiment was handed her and she masticated sluggishly. A virgin smell now filling the roof. " My Lord" the healer bowed " How is she" he questioned " She'll heal. Her body is fighting a important catholicon" the healer replied " How long?" Edgar asked " She has too important of it in her, we can only supplicate she fights if out, if she feeds and drinks her drug she has a better chance" she answered Edgar jounced. The healer curtsied and left the roof. The bed the child laid was advanced, beaters had b
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The sun came after the cold night. The Kiro soldiers had surrendered sluggishly. Some that defied killed without delay. Edgar had discovered that the high rank patricians were all trampers. All had been killed, burnt by the mountain with the townies watching dolefully. The townies had been too eager to accept his rulership. utmost empty with torn dresses and worn shoes. Indeed the oldest elder had thanked him for coming to" save" them. The sun was over when Edgar was ready to leave. He'd shoot further men to secure his new fiefdom, just in case any was willing to mutiny against the new leadership. Edgar was ready to leave. He demanded to return your his area first. His men were sick now, their faces grim with dirt and empty looking. He moved to the room that his family and the child slept. Alexandra was awake. " Family" he conceded and moved to the child. He shook her awake and settled her as she shocked " What did they do to you?" He asked in a gentle tale. "She.they.I
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The loud voices of his men came from below his window. He had not slept a wink. His muscles sore from fighting his men all might. In the moon light. They patrolled the fields and boundaries till dusk. No legionnaire slept. They should be ready. Edgar sat on his window pane. He endured to draw blood. That of the Kiro king. long since he'd felt the excitement of a raw battle. Of force and a good fight. Not conquering weak townlets. He could taste the war on his lingo. Men would fall, but Kiro would be no more. He'd purify the land if the council couldn't. He would. He would. The pest would come a story. History told to children to avoid the night. He'd make sure of it The morning air was sticky. patches of snow drifted onto his room from the open window. His fire place raging. reflecting his feelings. The manor house was quiet. The maids and man retainers watching quietly as he and the soldiers fought all night. They knew. They knew battle was upon them. He'd heard the wails of
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This was a phenomenon. One that want as awful. Edgar goggled down at the men that knelt before him Should they be guillotined or hung? He contemplated. It was noon. The sky lustrously. The room colder. Empty. Where was the child? Where was his family? Edgar turned to the red cloaked men still with the Sol emblem. " How could she have been taken without your knowing?" He asked " The lady was in her chamber. She had retired for the day. It's the morning that her hand demoiselle blazoned her missing, out steed stolen with a carriage. Her Chambers ruined" the man said with a bow How weak were his men? Indeed his men had been there, at the lair. Tarrying the night in shifts. Nothing should have gotten past them and it didn't. No bone saw his family leave. They must have known the manor house enough to steal her down so still. Was she alive at all? Alexandra would have fought, would have woken the entire palace with her riots. He knew his family that much. Six parties were trans
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There was a fair girl. Her hair as white was the sun. Her eyes a blue sparkle that reminded her of her won father. The girl smiled happily. Playing with the woman next to her. A stark replica. Her mama . There was a boundary, one as thin as air that kept her out, all her trouble and cries to join the reunion unproductive. The aged woman turned to her and gestured. Smiling at her sorely. Selene woke with a jolt. Her unhappiness following her from the dream world. She could still feel the burning wrathfulness. How could they leave her? She sat on her bed for a nanosecond. Stretching her stiff branches and yawning. She could smell fresh cutlet all the way from her room. The royal kitchen last in the hall. She swung her legs over the bed and left for the restroom. Eager to submerge in the warm water. The morning was cold. The room colder as the fire had long turned to smoking coals. Selene undressed herself precipitously and buried herself in the warm pot. The scent of lavender gen
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When Selene eventually woke. She was spooked, hysterical the morning would bring reality. That the Lord would leave her cold and unwanted. Alone. " What makes you sad so early child" came the hard voice Selene couldn't hide her smile. She threw her hands over the Lord that sat but her bed. Naked " Do you have a want to not walk again?" He asked as her soft body pressed to him. Arousing hia inextinguishable passion Selene turned pink and pulled down " My Lord" she said " Call me Edgar while we remain alone child" he said " I'm not a child" Selene snapped angrily, the name had come endless " You are, you haven't seen the layoffs I've or nearly the summer. You're a babe. A child" the Lord replied and pulled her to him. stroking her hair. " Do you wish to break your fast in bed?" He asked "No.my Lord.I.the retainers, they would speak ofthis.of us" she stammered " They should. I've awaited long enough to have you" the Lord replied Selene lowered at him fondly " solicitude not.
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There's someone for everyone. Selene could flash back her mama 's stylish friend always said Where was her someone? In all the death and fear. Where was her someone. Selene opened her eyes. To see the sun, the face the world. She had passed outon.on the Lord. He'd come for her. She had watched through vague eyes as heslew.adead.what it was she was not sure. But he'd killed it again. transferred it to the grave yet again. It had turned someone differently. A youthful girl with unheroic hair and rotting skin. A clear mark of the pest. " What worries you" came the voice at her side. Selene jerked down. Her eyes settling on the Lord by her side She looked into his eyes. The dark balls brimmed with life. Experience. Wariness and worry. Was he bothered over her? She was certain this was the Sol king. stable. Alive. His eyes didn't stay into perpetuity nor did her ignore her. He was by her bedside. Selene pulled down, unintentional to let him see how glad that she was he was back to
