<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/>The news that Melina had brought her was devastating. She had always viewed her father a bit violent, but never had imagined he would rape someone. It was even worse to know now who had killed her mother, who had left her with an abusive childhood and nothing much else. She had lived an entire life with bruises because of a singular sin that had snowballed into murder. She felt more hate for her father than ever before in that moment.<br/><br/><span style="color: #FFBF00"><span style="font-style: italic">“Nevertheless I promised you to come up with an amount for the belongings of Sir Hagener. He will pay 1500 gold for it. We will organise the money tomorrow morning and before you don't have it, I won't tell Robert of Hagener,"</span></span>Melina said as she straightened her posture. Amena wasn't sure what to say as the feeling of hate and guilt began to weigh upon her heavier than ever.<span style="color: #BF0000"> "Thank you, Melina...I...I have to go now, I'm sorry..." </span>she said, her voice quiet and hesitant. There were no more words that needed to be said. All Amena knew was she couldn't stand there and look into Melina's face any longer, couldn't listen to her words any longer. She needed to have time to think.<br/><br/>She quickly retreated back into the room, shutting and locking the door behind her. It was likely a little rude, but she wasn't sure she would be able to stomach anymore conversation with Lady Melina and her deceptively innocent face. Her eyes had once more filled with tears and she slowly made her way across the room to a chair, refusing to let those tears fall. She had done enough crying today and none of those droplets had done a damn thing to help her.<br/><br/>Sir Hagener thought she was her deceased mother, a testament of how much she really did look like Anne. Clearly Amena had taken on all of Anne's physical traits, yet none of her personality--not that she knew what Anne was like. Most of the stories she had heard had been about her mother's gruesome and senseless death...but it wasn't so senseless to her murderer. Poor Anne, her only fault had ever been in loving Robert, just as Amena's only fault had ever been to be his daughter. She looked up to Yakari with as neutral of a face as possible in effort to control her turbulent emotions,<span style="color: #BF0000"> "She says that Hagener has offered 1500 gold for his items and that she will bring the money to us tomorrow...afterwards, she will inform my father of Hagener's guilt in my mother's death..."</span>Amena did not have to say much more, as all likely knew that it meant Robert would kill Hagener and there would be nothing done that could stop it.<br/><br/>She felt torn about the situation. She loved her father deeply, but he had always been such a cruel man. There were times she was so sure he loved her, and others where she didn't understand why he let her live. It hurt to know that he father had raped a woman and had ultimately caused the terrible chain of events to occur. Before she had been able to forgive him for every grievance, to blame the murder of her mother on her father's actions--but now...now she knew it was her father's actions that had ultimately brought them to their house of tragedy. She only hoped that Hagener's death would soften her father's heart--but even still, she wasn't sure she could ever look at him with a soft eye again knowing his secret history.