Everdog: Tale of the First Female Knight

Chapter 29 - Farewell to Walden

Standing in the Park's manor, a noble lady stood in the one of the vacant corridors waiting for her attending servant. Her legs were becoming numb and she was growing more impatient.

"How long do I have to wait?" The lady complained under her breathe.

A female servant and a doctor paced towards the noble lady. When the lady saw the two, she quickly got into her elegant posture and placed her hands respectfully in front of her.

"Lady Naomi, this is doctor who treated the earl." The female servant explained to her lady.

The doctor greeted the noble lady.

"Milady wants to know how the earl's condition is?" The female servant asked the doctor.

"Lady Naomi, the earl is suffering from a minor concussion. He will make a full recovery after some rest. Ye don't have to worry."

The noble lady gestured her servant to bribe the doctor with a few shiny silver coins. If anything happens to the earl, the lady wanted to be the first to hear about it. The doctor bowed and quickly left.

"It is fortunate that the first earl didn't get harmed. Who would've expected the first earl to protect the second earl with his whole body?" The female servant said.

The noble lady glared at her gabby servant.

"Sorry, milady." The humble servant apologized.

Lady Naomi anxiously gripped the fabric of her dress and tramped down the corridors. To her, it didn't make sense that the earls grew even closer after the game. For a moment, she thought that without any interventions, the relationship between the earls will start to grow apart. Little did she know that the first earl cared so much for the second earl.

"Milady, where are ye going? Ye father told me to take ye to ye room." The female servant reminded her lady.

The servant's words went through one ear and out the other. The noble lady loathed the good for nothing brother of the earl with repugnance. Who was he to get in her way?

From a distance, Lady Naomi spotted the second earl in the cemetery. What was a commoner doing inside the manor's grave? Only those who were family to Lord Kendryk and of noble blood could be buried in manor's cemetery. Who could the peasant be paying respects to?

The servant cautioned the lady from behind as her lady fearlessly entered the cemetery. "Milady, ye can't enter there."

Eavesdropping, the noble lady heard the lad addressing its mother and father. Weren't the lad's family from the peasantry class? Why was the lad's family buried in the manor's cemetery?

"Greetings, Lord Everin."

Stopped in amid of speaking, the earl stood up. He wondered how much the lady heard from his conversation with his parents.

"This is a restricted area. You are not allowed to be in here." The second earl sternly told the noble lady.

The earl stood in front of the tombstone blocking the noble lady's vision.

"I wanted to pay my respects to the deceased." She said and stepped closer stealing a glimpse of the lad family's name. "...the Fawn family...,"

It was just as her father said, the lad was a commoner with no name.

"Naomi, leave while I am being nice." The second earl warned the lady.

"How rude of ye to call milady by her first name?" The female servant scolded the lad for being rude.

Rude? If the two had any common sense, they wouldn't be showing their faces. A grimace appeared on the lady's face.

"How could Lord Kendryk allow ye parents to be buried at the manor?"