28 Acquaintance

Despite her attempt at intimidating the knight into letting her join the squires, he did not relent.

"Your highness, I'm sorry but we cannot allow this. The knights have a duty to protect the kingdom and for them to be able to carry out this duty, they have to train without interruption." He regretfully turned her down.

Although she badly wanted to train, she wouldn't gain anything by making enemies out of the knights. So she gave up and returned to the castle. She would try to talk one of them into training her later.

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That evening after dinner, she followed him to discuss what she had found out from her interaction with Constance. He had realized that she was behind him but he didn't say anything until they were near the garden.

"The moon is going to be beautiful tonight, don't you think?" He spoke.

"Yes it is." She agreed even though she didn't know much about the moon, nor could she predict how beautiful it was going to be.