A New Day
Belle stood on the balcony that was connected to her and Andrian's room, her emotions were a rampaging storm within her but none would know that by looking at her. In fact Margret was looking at her and she shook her head sadly.
The mistress had not spoken a word to anyone since she had come home four nights ago after her return from the Maiden's Forest with Scott and no one knew why...though Margret was starting to get her ideas.
The new master had not been home in that time either, true he was a busy man with being a Healer but a glimpse of him was heard of, but the last four days not even that had happened. And Margret was beginning to wonder if Andrian was the source of Belle's withdrawal.
Marget took in her appearance and again shook her head. The girl's long raven hair hung lose around her blowing softly in the warm spring air. Her eyes seemed hollow and yet stormy at the same time. She wore only her black silk night gown that flowed about her legs rather elegantly with the small straps and low neck line. She even seemed paler as the sun shown down on her and in four days Marget could tell the girl was thin from the food sent back to the kitchen every time it was taken up to the room.
Finally Marget marched up and looked at Belle, "All right miss, I have no clue as to what has happened though I can guess...but let me tell you now I will not stand by and let you waist away. Now you will march in there and bathe, dress and eat what I brought you and then you will march down stairs and go for a good ride on one of your beasts, do you hear me?"
Belle turned, shaken from her thoughts and at the end of Margret's speech gave a small smile for the first time in days. She had actually just been thinking the same thing to herself, she couldn't waist away just because she had seen Andy in the arms of Sophia.
"All right Margret, I am going." And after kissing the woman on the cheek she did just that.
She was coming down the stairs when she heard the front door bell ring and stopped on the stairs and watched as Marget got the door.