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Crystal walked over to Maen softly. She looked around. She wasn't sure what they were looking for.
"What is it we are looking for Maen?" Crystal asked lightly as she continued to survey her surroundings. The men were talking, making her feel uneasy. She didn't exactly like it when they looked like they were conspiring together. It made her feel as if they had a scheme or a dangerous plan of their own in their minds and possibly at work. She didn't know any of them and she wasn't sure how much they knew each other.
Yet she felt she could trust Atharen. She stopped the thought once again. The only person she could trust was Maen, the leader of this motley crew. This company of quest seekers for justice and revenge. How odd it was to gather such shady people for a mission such as this, yet she understood what Maen had done it. She would have done the same thing if when her father and her love, Arthur, had died. She would have if her father hadn't been so demanding and kept her at home with her overly protective nanny.
Crystal and Maen had a lot in common. They were a similar type of women. They weren't like the others, they weren't stuck up. Yes they were of higher standings, but both acted like any normal human should. It was one of the reasons Crystal trusted Maen so. Crystal had met a lot of higher standing women before, but all had thought so highly of whom they had married and what they had, but Maen was exactly like her in the aspect of not truly caring about the standings of society or social status.
Crystal wouldn't admit in a million years that she was semi-similar to other women in the thought process of finding a man attractive and even falling for him. She wouldn't admit that Atharen had captured her thoughts. Possibly even her heart in time, but it was just a silly crush that was pulsing through her. Why she had no idea, it wasn't as if she even truly knew him. Yet, there was something about him, his eyes perhaps, that made her feel this way. Yet again she shook away the thoughts. She didn't want to think this way, not on this mission. She had many other things to do then try to ponder the unponderable. She had to be wary of several of the other men in the company as well as protect Maen. She also had to make sure that her reflects didn't falter, that she was on guard at all times and at all places. Even when she felt even remotely safe. It wasn't the time nor the place to be thinking such thoughts and she wasn't going to entertain them until the quest was finally over.
As she promised this in her heart she began to wonder how she could even keep this promise. She had promised herself that when she met Arthur, but she couldn't keep that promise either. She sighed inwardly and decided she would have to deal with the feelings and thoughts as they came. It would be easier then breaking another promise to protect her own heart.
She stood, waiting for Maen's response as she continued to watch her surroundings.
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