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@Moonie !
Things were moving too fast,
she thought even the carriage was moving too fast, as her back and legs were aching while they jostled over every bump in the road. But it seemed her fate was sealed, and her father was even there himself to see it done, having left his poisonously angered wife, Melora, behind.
Though any other time she would have adored sharing the privacy of the carriage with her father- for she loved him dearly, in a much different way than she did her mother; but this journey, as long as it was, was a solemn one that had her gnawing internally. She had always dreamed of her wedding day, one full of sun and a charming husband. She supposed, had it been decades earlier...
Her husband would be at a more appropriate and sought after age... But she could not shake the feeling that it was all just so disbelievable! To think- the man she was to marry...
It was like marrying her own father! And tot hink of the wedding night....
She paled, her stomach dropping. It would be like bedding her father-a nd that was not a thought she had ever conceived! Her mind was in tangles as the castle appeared on the horizon, and soon her palms grew warm with anxious sweat.
"Aella.. you alright?"
Her father's words broke her from her thoughts as she turned to him. She opened her lips to speak- but what could she say?
"Don't be too nervous. We all knew this day would come... Just... don't be too angry with me, please." He reached out for her hand, and took it, gently squeezing it before continuing to say, "Your... mother is already madder than hell with me." Though he smiled sympathetically about it, it was brief. He moved a hand to brush her hair from her face.
"Aella..."
It looked as if she were about to cry. Perhaps she did, but the events moved far too quickly than she'dve like, and soon found herself being escorted into the very castle of Orchy.
Yes.. things were moving so fast that the moment she was announced and her husband to be came into view-
She fainted right into her father's arms.