Little Town of Torriden (rewriting off Wattpad)

5 ~ Just following orders.

The castle doors were close by as the two grew closer to being inside. Out of nowhere, Estelle started having small flashes of visions. One was of the bodies which were present in the previous vision, while another was of someone whom she had not yet met shooting arrows at a huge mob whilst riding a horse. The person's form changed as they shot a powerful arrow, taking out four targets at once.  The last vision was of her sister in what seemed to be a huge sphere of light in the woods, but these three visions merely repeated and only lasted for a split second at a time. After a few seconds,  Estelle awoke in the town hospital with Annora, Sebastian, Liam, and Kian surrounding her. She noticed the thin sheets that were draped over her, and arms placed on the mattress, sat up to talk to the people around her.

"Wh-what happened?" Estelle asked with tiredness in her voice.

"You passed out. What do you remember?" Kian asked with the slightest hint of worry.

"I was just walking to the castle with Liam, and..." Estelle started to tell the whole story, but contemplated whether or not she should tell them what really happened. Before saying anything else, she made eye contact with Annora then began.

"To be honest, I just remember everything going black, then waking up here. I don't know why I passed out.. maybe it was the food that I ate for breakfast?"

Not making sense of what Estelle was saying, Sebastian responded. "No. That doesn't make sense because we had all eaten the same breakfast. Did you do anything out of the ordinary that you can think of?" He asked calmly.

"I really don't know, to be honest. Maybe it's the corset I was wearing... it was really tight..." Estelle talked slowly and hesitated while answering, knowing that she was lying. Kian and Sebastian didn't look like they were buying it. Maybe they truly believed her, maybe they thought she wasn't worth their time, she didn't know exactly why they didn't ask her any more questions, but sure was thankful for it.

"I'm so sorry about what happened." Liam said with a tone as if he just did something terrible.

Estelle gave a sincere smile. "Don't be sorry, it wasn't your fault." She said, trying to comfort the one who's eyes seemed to be watery.

A few moments passed before Estelle spoke again. "Can I speak with my sister alone, please?" As she asked, Annora looked like she knew why.

"Yes of course. Tell us when you're finished." Sebastian answered, and with that the rest of the group walked out of the hospital room, leaving the sisters to talk in private.

"I lied about why I passed out. I had another vision," Estelle was cut off by Annora.

"What?! What did you see?!"

"It was different then the last one. This time the visions were a split second each, and there were three, one was of this person shooting arrows on her horse, the other one was just like the first one I had, and the last one..." Estelle hesitated.

"What was the last one??" Annora asked in a hurried tone.

"It was, well, you," As Estelle said this, Annora had a confused look on her face. "You were in this, this orb, like a ball of light, and it was in the woods..." the two of them exchanged worried looks, and Annora asked more questions. They had discussions on what the meaning of these visions could have, but were relatively inconclusive.

As time passed, Estelle grew very tired, so Annora eventually let her get some sleep and left the small room.

As Estelle was sleeping and everyone had left, Sebastian was ordered to watch the door. He stood there, aware of everything around him in case any events occurred in which called for his help. Once about an hour passed of standing outside Estelle's hospital room door, he decided to check on her. He made sure to give a quiet knock before carefully opening the door so as to not wake the sleeping girl. Sebastian admired Estelles' beauty as he thought about what might have really happened.

A few moments later, Sebastian heard a clatter of what seemed like glasses breaking. The source of the sharp sound seemed to be coming from a room just down the hall of this one. He immediately drew his sword, grabbing the handle firmly from his waist and bringing it into a position ready to engage, and made sure to keep Estelle in his peripheral vision as he went outside the room to see what had happened.

Sebastian didn't know what to do, whether he should stay with Estelle like he was ordered, or go see what had caused the noise and possibly protect her, like he was commanded. After contemplating, sweat forming on his forehead, he decided that he would stay with Estelle and protect her in case anything came with a harmful intent.

Minutes passed by, and nothing had happened, but he then heard a quiet voice that spoke softly to him. "Sebastian? What are you doing here?"

Sebastian answered with a simple, "following orders, and I heard glass break." Estelle couldn't help but have a small smile on her face, and when Sebastian turned to look at her and saw, he replied maturely. "Father would be disappointed if I didn't protect you, I don't know why you are smiling."

Estelle continued to smile and spoke, almost with a small laugh and smirk, "Well, I just thought that maybe you aren't just work work no emotions."

Sebastian had an offended look on his face, causing the princess to laugh. Looking away before his expression could be seen, he smiled. Although the girl could not see his smile, the overall feeling of being in the small hospital room lightened, but noticing his face, Sebastian fought with his thoughts.
He was just following orders. Nothing more.
Nothing...

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