Wayward (Prince Arthur x Oc)

Chapter 2: In which Miss Edda learns about a curse

Edda let out a startled shout and so did the human. She tried to swing at them, but missed and stumbled right into them as an effect. She could feel how large the persons body was, which did not help her growing panic over the situation.

"Who are you!? What are you doing in here!? How did you get in here!?" She said as she tried to back away from him.

"Calm down it's me!" The man shouted back in an oddly familiar voice.

"Who!!!??? I don't remember letting in a grown man into my house!!!" She started searching with her hands for something to protect herself with.

"It's me Arthur!!!"

"Do you think I'm an idiot!? You may sound somewhat like him, but you are clearly not a dwarf!!" She backed, and almost tripped into the fire place. Her hand found the fire stick above it, and pointed it at the darkness.

"I'm not a dwarf right now, but I am him!"

There was a bit of clarity in Edda's head as she smacked the fire stick against the fire place, which started a magical fire that threw light over the room.

"If you won't tell me I'll just have to see for myself-" She looked to where the man seemingly had been mere seconds ago, and there stood Arthur, the dwarf.

"What." Was the only thing she could utter as she searched for any sign of the human man she very clearly had felt, who she had touched. She couldn't see him anywhere.

"Oh finally, you've calmed down." Arthur seemed to let out a sigh of relief.

Edda felt like she was going insane. "Where did he- He was right there? What the?" She stumbled back against the fireplace.

"Hey, you okay?" Arthur took a step forward with his hands held up. "You don't have to be scared I'm not going to hurt you."

She was barely listening as her head slowly put the pieces together.

"That was you, wasn't it?" She said as she looked at him again. "How?"

"Well, long story short, I used to be this big, strong, or well stronger than now, and incredible hero, that you may or may not have heard of, and now I'm not that," he took a pause after looking down at himself. "And I wasn't green."

"That explains absolutely nothing," she leaned forward dragging a hand through her hair, trying to sort her thoughts. "Is it like some sort of curse? But then why were you clearly not a dwarf just now?"

"Curse is definitely what I would call it." Arthur seemed to scowl a bit as he thought about it.

"It can't be the fact that it's night can it? Because it's still night right now. Then why-"

"Hey, Hey, Hey! Calm down, this is my curse to deal with, you don't need to worry about the details." He scurried up to her his hands up as of to calm her down.

She slid down to sit on the floor, while breathing deeply.
"Sorry," she said looking at him "I'm not usually like this, the last week has just been very overwhelming, and you have to admit that it's pretty confusing and scary to just bump into what seemed to be a large burglar in the middle of the night."

"You thought I was a burglar?" Arthur said, looking absolutely horrified.

"Well, yeah. What would you think if you suddenly bumped into a person you for sure knew wasn't supposed to be there? Hell, you could have been some sort of murderer for all I knew." She tried make her words sound less harsh by speaking in a softer tone but she wasn't sure if it was working.

Arthur's eyes were wide as he looked at her, seemingly unsure how to deal with what she had said.

"Look," she steadied herself against the fireplace, "I think we're both a bit out of it right now, also I'm really thirsty, so let me put on some tea. I have this type that does wonders for bad nerves."