Bonded

Chapter Forty Nine

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Kavya

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We had been late to bed, and even later to rise... Somehow we had managed to fall asleep outside for a little while before we both woke up damp and stiff in the kind of darkness that only happens when the stars cannot seem to shine brightly enough through the cover of the trees to actually illuminate anything... And we had made our way back to the cot we share with little to no speaking, and barely any recognition of how close it was to sunrise other than the scent of possible warmth starting to carry itself in the wind..

When he had finally collapsed together into a bundle of sleep-fueled grogginess there had been little effort made by either one of us to check how far down the fires that warm our hall had crackled to see just how far we were from the morning... But upon waking up, it isn't hard to tell at all from the chill that has overtaken the hearth closest to us that the day has well been started, and that we had missed our chance to go and greet our favorite scholar... Something that unsettles me considering that Ronin and I had cut our time short with him last evening due to needing time to ourselves...

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Ronin

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When I had blinked my eyes open it had been at the behest of my need to relieve myself, but what had kept me awake was how bright and sunny the barracks seem... Not to mention how empty... The only men here the ones I knew were keeping watch and working last night...

I know that there isn't anywhere we are necessarily required to be... But there are places we are currently expected to be...

Like attending to India and our courtship... Getting to know him and showing him just how serious we are in our intentions toward him...

The poor Dear must be so confused... Possibly even heartbroken due to how things must look... The two of us excusing ourselves so early last night and not showing up this far into the day...

That thought is what drives Kavya and I to dress as hurriedly as we can manage to so that we might rush off to find our sweet scholar so that he knows we have not lost interest, barely a word spoken between us as we do our best to try and make ourselves presentable enough to sprint through the castle to find our shared love... The first place we agree to visit being the library where I first spotted him and his stunning eyes...

I just hope we find him there... Even if accidentally startle him like that very first encounter... Just hopefully in a much sweeter way than the first time...