The princes and the peasant

Part.2

*Marcus pov*

"Has anyone seen Martinus?" Father asked in the morning when we woke up "no, it seems that he didn't come home last night" I said "do you think that he is okay?" Emma asked "I don't know but let's hope that he just got lost and he will come black soon" mother said "I just hope that he is a alright" I said "he will, he is clever and strong boy, I'm sure he will come back before the night" father said.

*Martinus POV*

I opened my eyes slowly, my head hurt and also did my stomach and well, my leg also hurt, I barely could move it. I looked around, I wasn't at my hose, neither any other house of the village, the room looked too luxurious, but where I was? I tried to sit down, but I was too weak and I had to stay lying down. About twenty minutes later the door of the room opened "oh, I see that you have already woken up, i as worried you wouldn't wake up" she said, wait a second, omg, that's the princess "m...my lady" I stuttered "call me Leah please" she said "b..but you are the princess and I'm just a peasant, I need to show respect" I said a bit confused "maybe I'm the princess and you are a peasant but we are both humans, we are equal, so just call me Leah,I never liked my lady but everybody calls me like that, it's kinda annoying" she said "okay, Leah then" I said "well, what's your name? Or you prefer me to call you hey you" she said and we laughed "I'm Martinus, Martinus Gunnarsen and, well, I guess I'm the palace" I said "yes, you are in the palace" she said "but how did I get here? I was in the forest and now I'm here" I said confused "you don't remember anything?" She asked "no" I said "your horse got scared by a loud noise, you fell and hit your head, your leg is also seriously injured" she said "maybe the hit on my head affected to my memory" I said "probably, well, how do you feel? Does something hurt?" She asked caring "my head and my stomach hurt and my leg hurts as well" I said "okay, you still having a bit of fever" she said putting her hand on my forehead and then she put a wet cloth on it "I'll bring you some food and medicine" she said before leaving. She came back some minutes later with food and water "i'll help you to sit down" she said helping me "wow" I said as she placed the food in front of me "is everything okay?" She asked "yeah, it's just I've never seen so much food just for me" I said "what do you mean?" She asked "we are really poor, we barely can get food, and the few we get we have to somehow prepare it in a way that the five of us can eat something, we barely get enough to survive" I said "oh god, that's horrible" she said "it's what it is, we can't change that but we have survived till now" I said.

After eating something she gave me a pill that calmed down my head and stomach ache "thanks, but I think is should go home" I said "you can't walk, your leg, it will take it a couple of weeks to heal, you need to stay here where a doctor can make sure that you get better" she said "but my family" I said "I will talk with them" she said "thanks" I said "just tell me where you life and I'll go right now" she said "it's a house near the forest, it's about 600 meters away from the village, to the north, it's easy to find" I said "i'll go there, now you need to take rest, i'll leave the pills here, if your head or your stomach start hurting again take another one, you can take one every three hours till it stop hurting" she said "thank you so much" I said "no problem" she said and left

*Leah POV*

"Francis, we are leaving right now, prepare the horses please" I said as I saw him "okay, they will be ready in five minutes my lady" he said "perfect" I said. After a while we where in the village "now 600 meters to the north" I said "it has to be that house, there isn't any other here" Francis said. It was an old house, almost in ruins, I knocked and a woman open it "omg, my lady" she said "please call me Leah" I said "is there anything we can do for you?" She asked "I'm here to talk about Martinus, your son" I said "would you like to come in?" She asked "sure, Francis please stay here making sure that the horses don't leave" I said and I got in "my lady" a man, a boy and a girl said at the same time "please call me Leah" I said again "why we have the honor of this visit?" The man asked "I'm here to talk about your son" I said "Martinus? Is he okay?" The boy asked, he looked just like Martinus, he was provably his twin brother "I was going for a walk in the forest last night, we heard a loud noise, later we saw a horse, the guards calmed it down, we found Martinus some meters away unconscious and we took him to the palace, he woke up some hours ago but he hurt his leg so bad, it will take him some time before he can walk again, till he is fully alright I think that is better if he stays in the palace where a doctor can make sure that he is alright, I would take care of him don't worry" I said "thanks for taking care of our son, it really means a lot" the woman said "you don't need to thank me, and for I can see you need more help" I said looking around "what do you mean?" The man asked "this place, your house, it looks like it's going to fall down at any moment" I said "we know but we barely have enough money to get food, we can't repair the house" the man said "I will help you with that" I said "no, you don't need to" the man said "but I want to, and of course my father has to allow me to, but i'll do my best" I said "how can we pay you for all this?" The man said "you don't need to, you need help and I'm not going to ask you for anything in exchange" I said "thank you so much, you are so kind" the girl said "I'll do anything for the ones who needs help, I will try to convince my father to repair your house, I'll be back in some days with what he had said" I said "thank you so much my la...Leah" the man said "no problem" I said and left