1. My Lady's Chamber


    Date: 8/9/2015, Categories: Historical, Author: Annamagique, Rating: , Source: LushStories

    definite requirements and it was hard to be formal in court and informal when we were alone. I just hoped I would not embarrass either of us with a slip of the tongue at the wrong moment. For a while we sat in silence which was broken only when I inquired: “Do you miss your family, Isabel?” “Oh yes, Anna. Very much, but this is how life is. What about you?” “Yes, I do. I miss my sisters most of all.” “You never mention them. Why is that?” “Because they are dead. They all three got sick and died before any of them reached ten years of age. “I am sorry, Anna, I did not know.” How could she know, she was just a child in another country. “I have no sisters,” she said after a few moments, “but I have two brothers. Both Knights. Older than me.” I waited but there was no more. She moved closer to me and put her head on my shoulder. I hadn’t thought about my sisters for many years but now I could see them clearly as if it was just yesterday and not twenty five years ago. Lifting my arm absent mindedly I placed it around her shoulders and held her close to me, resting my head on hers. Over the past year she had become like the sister I no longer had. After a while, Lady Isabel lifted her head causing me to do the same. I looked into her beautiful green eyes then she leaned forwards and kissed me! I was shocked! I had never been kissed in such a way by a woman before and the dismay I must have shown stopped Isabel in her tracks. She put her had to her mouth then said: “Anna, I am so ...
    sorry!” She jumped to her feet and ran into the woods. “My Lady! Wait!” I shouted after her as I too jumped to my feet, “Isabel! Come back!” and I chased after her into the forest. “Isabel, wait, please!” I shouted as I ran, “Where are you? It’s alright!” I tripped as my long velvet dress snagged in the undergrowth and I fell, hitting my head on a tree as I went down. How long I lay there I did not know but as I awoke the sun was low in the sky and the shadows were long. It was already beginning to get dark under the canopy. My head hurt and I had a small trickle of dried blood on my face. I pulled myself to my feet but I felt woozy and sick and had no idea where I was or in which direction the castle lay. I worked out which way I had been running from the angle at which I was laying and began to walk slowly and carefully back the way I had run. I seemed to walk for hours but I could not find the clearing and the sun was now dipping below the horizon. I froze. Was that a wolf howling? A rustle behind me made me turn but I could see nothing. I didn’t know which way to go now. I was lost and very frightened! The throbbing in my head was getting worse and the sound of the blood rushing through my ears was much louder now. The forest around me seemed to closing in, stifling me and the trees swaying and hissing. Darkness enveloped me and I remembered no more. When I opened my eyes I couldn’t make out where I was. I was laying on a bed of hay, looking up at what seemed to be a canopy ...
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