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Post by PeroxidePirate on Feb 4, 2010 3:59:08 GMT 10
Title: Understanding Rating: PG Length: about 240 words Competitor: Uline of Hannalof Round/Fight: 1/H Summary: Keeping secrets has not been good for Kel's character.
“Uline!” Kel said, startled. Her voice – low, for a woman's, but obviously female – echoed through the halls of the temple dormatory. “What are you doing here?”
Uline looked down at her slippers, smooth pink silk on the rough flagstone floor, and wondered how to explain. Kel's feet were bare.
She couldn't say, I just had to see you. Not when all of Corus was treating the woman knight like a side-show attraction. But it was the truth.
“I wanted to tell you I understand.”
Kel laughed bitterly. “How could you?”
“No, I don't understand what it's like to be you,” Uline hastily explained. “But I understand why...” She swallowed, then tried again. “I understand the why of everything that happened... and didn't... between us.” I want to know what could happen now.
“I owe you an apology.” Kel's voice dropped into the familiar, serious whisper in which Page Keldan had once spoken promises of love. “No boy – no man – could resist you. What else could I do?”
Uline froze, realization dawning. “That's all I was to you? Part of the disguise?”
“Of course.” Kel straightened her shoulders, oblivious to the way her shape filled the undyed tunic she wore. “What kind of unnatural creature do you think I am?”
“I see,” Uline said softly.
She blinked away tears as she left the temple grounds.
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Post by max on Feb 4, 2010 7:44:56 GMT 10
Oh that's sad But good. But so sad.
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