bad the cut is. It is no larger than a paper cut. Ambrose looks at Reginald while doing this. Ambrose then points down the path they appeared from. “Go now. Before I cut your other hand and foot off and make you crawl.” Ambrose forces Reginald to move with the black sword.
Reginald struggles to stand up. While finally on his one foot, he hops off. He is using the branch that Ambrose cut for a crutch. Once he is out of sight, Aida comes out of hiding.
Aida closes her eyes and shakes her head at Ambrose. “What you just did was disgusting and horrible. You truly are emotionless.”
Ambrose walks up to Aida in anger and points his finger in her face. “I told you to run and hide! If you had listened to the order, you would have never witnessed this.”
“Without the sword, you would have never won. You are welcome.” Aida crosses her arms, rolls her eyes, and looks away.
Ambrose’s adrenaline calms, and he begins to slowly breathe. “If you remember, I was made to be emotionless. This is why I do not take your assistance into consideration. Thank you. Another thing to remember, I was raised in war, so this is nothing. But the truth is, you and Gytha have been what people call friends, the only friends I have ever had. Being around you both is changing me and giving me emotion.”
“I cannot tell from what you did to that man,” Aida states.
“I am, even if you are not able to tell.” Ambrose wipes the blood off the sword with what remains of Adrian’s robe. “I do not know if it is a good or bad thing. Back when I was emotionless, I would have killed them both, and Reginald would not be a future threat.”
“Well, in any case, I think it is a good thing. I am sure he will not make the trip.”
“Never underestimate the Sicarius he could be. Not to change the subject,” Ambrose says as he looks around, “but where is Gytha?”
Aida points behind her. “Back where I came from. I told her to hide and wait until I returned.”
Ambrose finds his robe and places it back on. “Then we shall go.”
“Your robe looks like it has about had it. If you do not mind, you should let me touch it up when we get on the ship. Oh, and I tied my horse to a tree not too far from here. We can ride to Gytha.”
“Good idea. This will be better than walking.”
Ambrose hands the sword back to Aida. “I never gave you the proper gratitude. Thank you.”
The two start to walk back to Aida’s horse. Aida looks at Ambrose. “You are welcome.”
They finally reach the horse and ride to Gytha’s location. When they reach the position where Gytha was told to hide, Gytha sees them coming. She springs out from hiding and scares the horse Aida and Ambrose are on. Gytha then realizes how they are on the horse. Gytha giggles. “I never knew you were a woman, Ambrose.”
Ambrose looks at the position he is in. He notices he is holding onto Aida from the rear as woman would do. “Your mom said it was her horse, her rules. I did not want to argue.”
“Ha-ha! You are a woman, Ambrose,” Gytha teases.
Ambrose smiles back at Gytha. Aida jumps off the horse and glances around. “Where did you put your horse, Gytha?”
Gytha looks at her mother with anger and points at some shrubs in the distance. “Over there.”
Ambrose is not sure how to take Gytha’s reaction and tone toward Aida. “Are you all right?”
Gytha crosses her arms and stares down her mother. “I have never been better!”
Aida walks over to the shrub and gets Gytha’s horse. “Ignore her. She’s just a little upset that I left her for a brief moment.”
Gytha fills with more anger from what her mother just mentioned. Gytha takes a hold of her own midlength black hair and starts to have a panic attack. Suddenly, all of the emotions she has been keeping built up inside of herself burst out.
“A little! What do you think would have happened to me if you had not returned? I would just continue.
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