Lucy Wickshire

Walter groaned a release as he stared down at a naked Helen under him.

"I'm leaving" he said before she could catch her breath and rolled off her.

"What?!" she panicked and got up in a haste, exposing her bare breast to the cold air. Still, she did not care. She looked to Walter in confusion.

"Where? Why are you telling me now? Am I not going with you?" she asked.

"You are not," was the only answer he gave out of her line up of questions, causing her to frown.

"Why are you not taking me?" she asked softly. Water did not need to look back as he dressed to tell she was about to cry.

"It's work." he answered.

"What work? We are so far away, I followed you across realms and you want to leave me here alone and won't even tell me where you are going?" she fumed only to receive a sharp look from Walter that deflated her anger.

"Dear, when are you coming back?" she grabbed on his sleeves; a change of tactic that caused Walter to pause and look back at her.

"I don't know." he said and she frowned.

"What do by you mean you don't know?"

"Helen, do as Lady Wickshire says. She will take care of you while I'm gone." he said. His words only caused her anger to increase tenfold.

"You are leaving me in the hands of your girl? I'm your wife, Walter. You should share all these things with me, not some girl who has not even reached womanhood!" she said and Walter gave her an odd look, as though he was trying to understand what was going through her head. She understood she was being unreasonable, but she did not care.

He grabbed his coat and made to leave, only then did she realise she was not dressed. She grabbed the bed sheets to cover herself, but he had already left the room. So she made her way to the window to watch for him leaving in the courtyard.

Her maid, Lizzy rushed in. She saw her lady covered with the bed sheet and she turned red at the thought of what they had been doing in here. She had been the only one brought to follow her lady and lord on this journey. She did not even understand what was happening that night men came claiming to be lords from Northern Lan and insisting to see her lady. After rushing over to find the butler while Guard Holden handled them, she was knocked out and woke up later with this crew. She was not sure where she was until she was taken to meet her lady. She, of all people; travelling to other realms? Even as she stood in this room she was yet to believe it.

Helen watched as Walter got on a horse with six others. He looked towards a direction and she followed his eyes to one of the windows. Even though she could not see much from her angle, she was sure of one thing; that was Lady Wickshire's room. After a few seconds, he and the men rode off into the night, leaving behind the figure of Helen looking towards Lucy's room with unhidden anger and a foreign emotion in her eyes, even she did not know was there.