The rest of the story

Saying that, she leaves the tent heading towards the main tent she strides angrily across the dirt path of the square. Everyone sees her walking, the people begin to smile at her and then start to speak but do not when they see the look on her face. She reaches the main tent and walks in as the Village Elders are talking among themselves. Rhiannon growls as she enters the room coming to a stop where she is standing next to her grandfather at the table where they are seated, "I don't know what is going on here, However you four are going to stop doing what your doing, before you do something you will regret and I mean right NOW! Gwynn has a right to be happy away from this damn place and if anyone has, a say about it is I. I want him where he is for now; do NOT interfere in what is happening with him...you will not like what happens if you do." As she stops to take a breath, she slowly looks around the room. There are others here, people she does not recognize, then as she quickly realizes she has interrupted something that looks important "Oh I'm sorry to have interrupted I didn't realize that the four of you were not alone, I will come back another time to finish this discussion with you".

Her grandfather stands up and pulls out the chair next to him as he beckons to her, "Come my child sit next to me, you were about to be summoned. You should be here for this meeting. One of you should be here anyway, and since Gwynn is, busy. You need to be here since it concerns you and your family!"

"Me? What are you discussing that would concern me or mine? Oh wait I bet I can tell you...your discussing my husband aren't you. Well I said what I had to say when I walked in the room about that and you would all be well advised to heed my warning." Her eyes flashing angrily as her grandfather pulls her into the chair next to him.

Rhia's grandmother speaks softly, "Child calm yourself, this has to do with you and not Gwynn. That discussion was earlier in the day and we will tell you all about it later, so calm yourself and listen."

Rhia sits down and leans back in the chair, looking around the table recognizing some of the faces but not others. Wondering what brought them all here. Moreover, why they are discussing her? Thinking to herself, 'what have I done now?' thinking back over the last few days and weeks. She shakes her head and comes back from her thoughts to pay attention at the table. She leans forward to hear what the people at the table were saying.

Gwynn's grandmother stands up, everyone's attention shifting down the table to her, "You came here to see who she is, and what she has become, and well she stood before you, the woman and leader she has become. Then she also told you her opinion. She told you what she would do and I know she will. However, that conversation is for another time. Right now, we need to tell her what we want of her. For Rhiannon has the right to know. Your Realm trained her and she has done everything you've ever asked, up till the time she met my grandson." She pauses looking around the table. "That day was a glorious day for our people as the realms became one. She took you on, telling you that she would do as she wished and became one of our leaders between the two realms. I am proud of Rhiannon for those actions. Now she has to make another hard decision in her life. Rhiannon, they have come to ask you to give up something that means more to you than life itself. I turn it over to their leader, Ice Hunter." She sits down looking pointedly at Rhia, as if she is trying to tell her something.

The man at the end of the table stands, an older man wrapped in furs, with graying temples. He leans forward with his hands on the table, looking at her, and starts to speak, "You do not remember me. I see it in your eyes and on your face. But you should." He leans up and steps out from the table and slowly starts to walk around the table to where she is sitting. "Many years ago you came into our Realm and when you left you took something with you. You came to our part of the realm to learn and while you were there, a young man fell in love with you. That young man was my son; you bewitched him with your beauty and you took his soul. When I heard you had come here and took your place as one of the leaders of these Realms. I knew then that I had to do something about what had happened all those years ago. I came here to make it right, for when you left our realm you left taking my son's soul away with you, after that he died inside, and not long afterwards, he left us never to return. I wanted you to hurt as we did that day. I want your daughter the one called Ice."