The Female Soldier [EDITING]

Chapter 4

Eurielle entered the stables feeling so so many eyes on her. She kept her head down, blushing furiously. Making her way to a vacant stable, and went about unsaddling Antitroph, and putting him inside. She turned around to catch the stable boys eyeing her. Upon seeing her silver eyes on them they turn away. This is starting to get weird..she thought, shivering. Then set a silver coin on the table, and leaving the stables.

Even walking around the camp she felt the eyes of others on her. What is going on? She thought, beginning to panic again. Why do they keep looking at me? Do I still look like a girl..? Oh no one of them is walking up to me! "I didn't expect a pretty boy, to be here. Aren't you supposed to be at home? Manicuring your nails or applying a mud mask?" A gruff man says to her, others burst out laughing.

Pretty..boy? Did he just call me a pretty boy? Despite not even being a boy Eurielle could feel her anger start its course. Because somehow being attractive made one weak. "So that's why you were all staring at me?" She asks visibly shaking with anger. The man before her mistook it for fear, and grins sleezily "Aww are you scared?" He asks, then bursts out laughing. She balled her hands into fists. Getting ready to strike him, "Listen here-"

A familiar deep voice tumbled through the camp, "What in the hell is going on?!" Eurielle turned her head to see the last person she had expected to see. "C-Captain!" the men kneel before the young man who had been in her family tavern the night before. Captain!? He's a captain?!

Eurielle couldn't believe what she was hearing. The captain in question was looking over the men who had been teasing her earlier, narrowing his sharp eyes. He said: "I don't tolerate any form of putting each other down, here in this camp. You are all going to war there's no time for trivial things such as that on the battle field you are all equal, here you are equal act like it!" The men cower before him. Are they really all afraid of him? She thought, wondering what in the hell he did to earn this reputation.

Eurielle continued looking at him with her wide silver eyes. The captain feeling eyes on him, turned to her, and his mouth opened wide nearly dropping the scrolls he was carrying. "You!" He cried pointing at her. Eurielle froze, her eyes glued to him in surprise. He couldn't have recognized her right? The captain grabbed her arm, and began to drag the poor girl away. Forcing her to follow him, she tried in vain to untangle herself from his vice like grip, but it resulted in his squeezing tighter, making Eurielle gasp in pain. He brought her to a tent, dropping the scrolls onto a desk, before shoving her into a chair.

Eurielle gasped, as her back hits the chair painfully, the flesh beneath her clothes beginning to throb. "You! What are you doing here?!" He nearly screamed making her flinch in fear. Did he really recognize me?

"Y-you act if you know me.." she replied pulling at her collar, playing stupid was better than admitting it flat out besides..he could've mistaken her for someone else..right? Someone like him surely must have met many people. Eurielle massaged her wrist which had turned an angry red. Thanks to the captains rough treatment earlier. He narrowed his almond shaped eyes at her, and reached out to grab her chin, pulling her face inches from his. So close she could feel his warm breath on her lips causing her to blush. God did this man not know the meaning of 'personal space?' In a matter of two days he had broken her bubble twice. "I'd recognize a beautiful face like yours anywhere" he whispered to her. That statement caught Eurielle off guard for a moment.

He did recognize her. Gods Eurielle wanted to throw herself off a building at this point. She began to panic, shoving him away, and standing up. Tears shone in her eyes. "It's none of your business if I'm here or not, the only thing I ask of you is to keep this a secret between us" She was so close to crying, she had been caught in less than a day, and by this man no less. He glared at her grabbing her waist to pull her closer to him. "Oh, no. No, no, no. Dear, are you forgetting something? You are a woman you shouldn't be here in the first place the battle field is no place for a-"