Moonlight encounter

The starry night was beautiful, the wind blows gently and she could smell the sweet fragrance of flowers. She was floating on the surface of the Lac, only wearing her negligee. 'I was right, by coming here. I feel a lot better and the Lac is indeed relaxing and really beautiful, it kind of look like a large and spacious fountain. This help me forget about all the unpleasant thought and about him...I was planning to tell him that I will be leaving tomorrow but after I saw that, I was taken aback.' She sank deep in the water while those thought went through her mind. She clasped her arms around her legs and tried to clear her mind in the deed water of the Lac.

At the same time, Francis came to the Lac and removed his shirt before diving in the water. He came back to the surface after a while and swim a little before leaving his body float on the surface. Eleanor had her eyes shut, so she didn't pay attention to the intruder. She swam beneath the water and went toward the cascade. As Francis was thinking about the nobles he went to kill before returning to the palace, he feel like laughing at their pleading face, 'they dared to try to assassinate me and kill a lot of innocent peoples in the attempt, and they still had the nerve to ask for forgiveness. tch...They were really shameless, and I can understand now under whom the poor commoners were ruled at Oasius. Their king didn't care as long as he got the taxation money. I did this change so that they wouldn't have to suffer any longer.' As he was absent minded while thinking about unpleasant thing. He hear waters splashing near the cascade, it was a little far so when he looked at where the noise was coming from, he could only see the silhouette of a woman. It was a little dark so he didn't see who it was, and got annoyed at the thought that yet another woman tried to seduce him. But the fact that this place was forbiden to anyone other than him made him even more angry, 'what the heck, they really found the best moment to annoy me. Since this person went as far as to disturb me.....they surely have the courage to witstand what will follow' After he thought that, he shouted,

"Hey, You there, what the hell are you doing here?"

Eleanor was near the cascade, sitting on a sculted rock, she let the water flow on her. 'It feel great, now I feel better. But still there was something that troubled me, at that time when we were in the carriage, the vision I saw was out of my will....Until now the queen of Eilhem only taught me how to use my power when I deliberately wanted to see something, but not about this kind of unexpected vision. I have to figure what this mean...' While she was lost in thought, a voice shouted not far from her.

Surprised at the fact that another person was there, she lost her balance and fell while screaming,

"Kyaa...."

The water splashed, he saw the woman fell in the water then he swam in a heartbeat toward her and helped her back to the surface. That's when he saw the intruding woman's face. 'Eleanor?!' he let her breath and swept the hair stuck on her face and looked at her.

"Are you okay?! What are you doing here...I was looking for you all night long."

After she saw that the man that shouted was Francis her eyes widened in surprise. ' Why did it have to be him of all person....I don't want to see him now...no, I don't want to see him ever again.' She averted eyes and said,

"Why did you bother to look for me?"

"Why are you avoiding me?" He said with exasperation.

"...." She bit her lower lips and didn't utter a word.

He took her chin and made her face him, that annoyed her because he often did this to her by force as if she was his. In anger she parted from his grasp and said,

"Don't touch me, I am not a person you can use or kiss as much as you want like you did with the others." she crossed her arms over her breasts because she was wearing almost nothing. And glared at him with cold eyes, she was angry, hurt and humiliated by him and never did he apologize.

"Eleanor...about what happened in the terrace, I didn't mean to do that. I was just angry because..."

"You don't need to explain whatever you do with others your majesty. After all like you told me, you do it once in a while with any woman, isn't it?...so, It is your business. Who am I, to ask for a reason."

"I am sorry Lea, I didn't mean what I told you that night....I was just annoyed because you said that...."

"I said what? and do not call me like that you don't deserve it."

'If I said it, it is like admiting that I am attracted to her....' He looked at her thin shoulder and beautiful pouting lips while been lost in thought 'Why do I even need to maintain my dignity, when a real man must admit the truth when facing it.'

"That you kissed another man...." He finally uttered with a troubled expression.

"Sigh,.....That night, you didn't even let me finish what I was saying. I did kiss Elias but that happened while we were kid, it is my first time with a man..."

"Who is this Elias?" He said, with a relieved expression at her answer.

"A childhood friend, but this doesn't excuse your behavior since my stay in the palace."

"that's true." He approached her and continued,

"I was wrong..."

"Do you even know what you did wrong?"

"For shouting at you, at the dining hall, kissing you without your consent, twice on top of that and finally showing you something I regretted the moment I did it."

She looked at him dumbfounded, she didn't expect this prideful man to admit his wrong like that. Seeing her without reaction, he got closer and lightly touched her cheek. In her blue eyes, he saw confuseness and astonishment. Then, with a light laugh he said,

"What? Even an arrogant emperor like me know how to say sorry."

"Yeah...I can see that. But what shocked me even more is that....you,...were you jealous at all those moments?"

"I....first let's get out of the water." He said while trying to cover his embarrassed face.

They sat by the tree standing beside the Lac, there was a basket containing napkins and water to drink. The maids always prepared them since the emperor often came to swim at the Lac.