<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 125%; line-height: 116%;"><span style="color: #BF0000"><span style="font-weight: bold">House of Cadell<br/>Lady in Waiting</span></span></span><br/><br/><a class="postlink" href="http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130430235600/wiki-amistad/es/images/thumb/0/02/Scarlet_by_skipta-d5h1tgb.jpg/180px-Scarlet_by_skipta-d5h1tgb.jpg">[ img ]</a><br/><br/><span style="font-size: 150%; line-height: 116%;"><span style="color: #BF0000"><span style="text-decoration: underline">Lady Amena Aeide</span></span></span></div><br/><br/>Amena resisted the urge to cover herself when Yakari mentioned her scars. His words were comforting, but still they did not make her scars feel any less ugly to her. She had long ago accepted them as a part of her, but they were pieces that she did not desire to look upon. She supposed, then, that is was good that Yakari did not mind them--because while she refused to look at herself, he did the exact opposite and focused on every part of her.<br/><br/>She said nothing though, choosing to focus on her hands as she pulled them back into her lap. It was then Yakari spoke about Edward.<span style="color: #BF0000">"Perhaps you are right, but I think Edward likes you a great deal more than you give yourself credit for---I am optimistic in this regard..." </span>she said, averting her eyes and picking at a piece of thread on the covers. She desperately hoped that Edward like Yakari more than Yakari assumed.<br/><br/><span style="color: #BF0000">"Edward is a very honest man--I do not know him to have any skeletons and I believe that if he did not like you, he simply would have said it. I know he is disappointed in us both, but he's made that clear--he never said he disliked you. I think if he had disliked you he would have been far more angry at me,"</span>her reasoning, at least to her own ears, was sound. She had never known Edward to have any secrets or to have ever lied. She trusted him with her life. Then again, she also didn't know about the whore Edward frequented--always believing him to be very faithful to his wife.<br/><br/><span style="color: #BF0000">"I should probably get ready to go. There is much to be done today at the castle..."</span>Amena said as she looked at Yakari once more. It was then she remembered Leon and she chewed on her lip.<span style="color: #BF0000"> "Yakari...I hope that I do not offend you by saying so..."</span>she paused for a moment, clearly concerned about hurting Yakari,<span style="color: #BF0000"> "but I don't trust Leon...I am very worried about what he might be up to. What if that gift of his was a way to attempt some sort of alliance--to bring it in later and demand our loyalty for his gift?" </span>While Amena may have sounded paranoid, it wasn't too far off the mark of what someone might try. She had seen men do things for others in a seemingly sudden kind heart, only to discover that they would use that favor as leverage later on.