<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 looked up into Leon's eyes as his hand had settled on her cheek. He seemed to feel legitimately sorry for her troubles, but she still was unsure how to feel about the man. She was too tired to contemplate his personality and character, but his words had offered a little bit of comfort that she didn't know she had needed. He was right, it was best that she knew rather than go through her whole life being unable to explain her mother's death or her father's violent tendencies.<br/><br/>He soon pulled away from her, going over to Yakari to give him a light slap on the cheek and then began to head out, reminding them to lock the door. Yakari had stood after him, doing as Leon had suggested and fastening both locks the door had. Amena waited until Yakari was turned around and facing her before she spoke,<span style="color: #BF0000">"The Queen no longer trusts me and neither does Edward....but I remain in her service. I suppose I have you to thank for that," </span>she said softly. She was clearly more bothered by losing the trust of Edward than the Queen, as she had been far closer to Edward than she had ever been with Ines. She viewed Edward as her father and it hurt to know that she had disappointed him so greatly.<br/><span style="color: #BF0000"><br/>"I don't regret it though,"</span>she admitted. She hadn't been able to say it to Ines and Edward as she feared they would take it the wrong way. She was happy she married Yakari. Perhaps they could have gone about it a better way, but what was done was done and she was still very content in her decision to marry him. He was a good man and able to think far more clearly than her in emotional times. They complimented each other well, she thought.<br/><span style="color: #BF0000"><br/>"I don't think you'll like me though, after this..."</span>she muttered quietly and mostly to herself, thinking about how she would have to return to her stern ways. She couldn't let anyone think that she was any weaker than they might have seen her today. Most could attribute it to Sir Robert's presence, but there was no sense in remaining in pieces. Surely the news of her mother's killer was the last bit of devastating information she could get. Now it was simply time to sew herself back together and continue on. She had her tears and she wanted to be done with them this day. She just worried what it would do to Yakari to see her in such a state of being. Of course she wouldn't be that way in private with him, and she'd likely soften just the slightest in his presence, but over all she could not go about the way she had during the day. It was unbecoming and she needed people to remain at the distance she had originally set.