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“I suppose we should get going . We’re a ways away from the edge of the kingdom, and it’s almost dusk . ”
    “So?”
    “It’s dangerous to travel after sunset . ”
    I couldn’t help but giggle a little . “Maybe for you, but not for me . ”
    I started for the edge of the clearing, pushing some branches out of the way so I could duck under . When I didn’t hear any footsteps behind me, I turned around, finding the man in the same spot I had left him in . “Are you coming?”
    “Where are you going?” He asked, head cocked to the side .
    “To the edge of the kingdom . Where are you going?”
    He chuckled . “I have a feeling you’re going to be a handful, aren’t you?”
    “I’ve been told that I can cause some difficulty . ”
    He smiled, and I waited until he was out of the clearing walking by me to return the smile . It took me a moment, but it wasn’t long before I realized that the anxiety in my stomach had practically disappeared, my senses settling . It was strange, because it usually took much longer for my senses to warm up to someone, to give me the green light that they were okay . I wondered silently whether I should be worried or relieved, but I didn’t think on it for too long . Instead, I reveled in the joyful peace that I hadn’t felt since my mother’s passing .
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
    Chapter 6
Huntsman
     
    I wondered how she was able to stay so calm . After all, I had just told her that I was sent by her father and sister to kill her . She didn’t even wince . Quite the contrary, she actually was expecting it! She had been surprised that it had taken her father so long to finally get the courage to actually do it .
    She definitely wasn’t typical .
    I took the time during the quiet walk to assess my companion . Out of the corner of my eye, I got a fairly good look at her . Her brown-red curls were tied back from her neck with a yellow ribbon, a few strands finding their way out of the tie . Cognac, almond-shaped eyes were shining bright, taking in every part of the path around us . Her pale skin was a striking contrast to my sun-tanned tone, and her bow-shaped lips were just slightly lop-sided, giving her smile a youthful glee .
    “How can you be so…… . ” She stopped walking, waiting for me to finish . “At peace with this?”
    “What do you mean?”
    I almost laughed when she cocked her head to the side . “Not even twelve hours ago, I was sent to kidnap and kill you, and yet you come with me willingly . ”
    She shrugged and kept walking . “I suppose that I think if you really wanted to kill me, it wouldn’t matter where we are, whether in the clearing or at your cottage . But, I’m not afraid of you, I don’t have any bad signals coming from you . ”
    “What do you mean, signals?”
    She sighed . “When I was seven, my mother took me to a healer, just outside of the town . I had been hearing animals talk to me, hearing words in the wind and the trees . It started when I was three, but I never really thought about it until I got a little older . Once I started communicating back with the voices I heard, my father had started to worry . ”
    “Why would he worry? He doesn’t seem to care about you . ”
    She gave me a small smile, a faraway look in her eyes . “He hasn’t always been that way . Before my mother died, when I was a child, he cared . But, he had started to fear I had lost my mind, so he made my mother take me to a healer . I couldn’t go to a normal physician in town, because then the entire kingdom would know that the kings daughter is mental . We went to a lady named Fabiana, she was known throughout the kingdom for her healing powers . ”
    “I know Fabiana, she’s a good lady . ”
    She nodded . “That she is . She helped me realize that I wasn’t crazy, but gifted . I had the ability to speak with nature . Animals, the wind, plants and