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The House keeper ran from dining hall, where she had been looking, when she heard the shouts. She was breathing hard when she found the two Youths in the main hall, both of them dripping wet.
“Aislin Miare Temes! We’ve been about the Whole castle a’ lookin’ for yee, and now look at yee dripping muddy water all along me cleanly scrubbed floors. Oh, yee’ll be a hearing from yer aither about this ‘un.” The housekeeper, Kelly O’Shauncy’s face was red by the time she finished, and she took a long needed breath, as she looked thankfully at Kian.
“Why Kian, we weren’t expecting yee till t’morrow, but thank the Lord yee came when yee did, or none of us would o’ found her till morning, and by then she’d be dead in this weather.” The house keeper called for blankets, for the young ones, and a stable boy, to put a way the young lord’s horse.
Kian was long in bed, when he heard the lord Temes visit Aislin’s chambers; there was some whispering and a little crying, but nothing out of the normal for a father scolding a naughty child. A short time after the crying had stopped the lord Temes’ candle light passed Kian’s door. After a few moments Kian was almost a sleep, but a little knock at his door woke him completely, he looked at the door, but no light from a candle illuminated the floor. He rose from his bed and walked with his bare feet on the cold stone floor, until he reached the door. He pulled it open and in the light from the dying fire her saw it was Aislin with tears trailing down her cheeks. She did not look at him but went strait to his bed, pulled the sheets up to her chin and fell asleep.
Kian a little drowsy but not unused to this, closed his door and went back to his bed.
He made certain that Aislin was well covered, then lay down and turned to watch her sleep.
“She’s a sweet child. The boy thought to himself as he drifted slowly back to sleep.
Kian was two years older than Aislin, who would celebrate her tenth birthday on the morrow.
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