Wura sneezed as she walked out of her office. She wondered if she was coming down with a cold, or some sort of flu, either way she did not want to get sick any time soon.
She looked up at the sky, the clouds were dark signaling that it was about to rain. She decided to quickly get to her tent, she knew that Nora would be waiting for her there.
As she made her way through the camp, she could not help but allow her mind to wander to places she did not want to go. For one, she definitely should not be thinking about Mero, but she could not help it, she knew that even though he did not show it, he felt really bad for how terrible things ended between he and Nora.
He felt guilty as well, the only difference was he did not care if he felt guilty because he was honest with himself, and he loved her, she hated that he actually had strong feelings for her. If only the feelings between them was just a fling it would be easier to move on.
But the more she saw him, the more she spoke to him the more she was convinced that it was not a fling, or at least for Mero it was not. He clearly stated that he regretted nothing and that he still loved her.
And there was poor Nora who was suffering right now because of her poor choices. She felt like she should not have been selfish, so selfish to the point that she allowed herself to get involved with Mero.
As she walked through the camp she absentmindedly responded to the several greetings she had received, her mind was too occupied at the moment, she felt mentally and physically drained. She wondered how people with dire secrets could keep it all to themselves without feeling this weak and drained from doing so.
At this point she just wanted to eat and go straight to sleep to forget.
Wura let out a sigh as she entered into her tent, she was met with Nora smiling happily as her as she had just finished serving Wura's dinner.
"My queen, you are back, welcome back." said Nora as she smiled and gave Wura a hug.
"Thank you Nora." said Wura as she smiled and hugged Nora. She did not know why, but ever since Nora had returned she had been more affectionate with her than before.
Wura thought it felt nice that Nora was much more comfortable hugging her without asking for permission, but she felt really guilty ever single time Nora hugged her and looked at her with so much love and affection, she felt like a betrayer.
"You must be starving my queen, I have already served your dinner and I prepared you a warm bath, would you like to eat first and bathe later or bathe now and eat first?" asked Nora.
Wura was silent, she could see that Nora had kept herself really busy today. Her room was spotless, her dinner was served, and her bath was prepared just the way she liked it.
"Do you know how much I love you Nora?" asked Wura, Nora laughed knowing fully well that Wura was just joking around.
"I know my queen, but that was not what I asked, what would you like to do first?" she asked.
"You know what, I am going to take a nice warm bath because I feel so cold right now." replied Wura.
"Alright my queen." said Nora as she smiled and helped Wura get undressed.
Wura felt her skin tingle as she dipped into the hot water. This truly felt relaxing just what she needed to calm down her nerves.
"Oh Nora, I do not know if your hands are special but none of the other maids can prepare a nice bath like you do." cooed Wura as she closed her eyes.
"Oh my queen that is not true, I am sure that they try their best, you are probably just used to the way I do it." replied Nora as she giggled.
"And the way you do it is simply the best." replied Wura as Nora laughed, she missed this, being with Wura, helping her, taking care of her. For Nora, there was nothing more fulfilling, call it being too content but she could see her life continuing like this in the future.
"Would you like me to wash your hair my queen?" Nora asked.
"Oh yes please Nora, you do not know how annoyed I have been for the past few days, and my hair has been really itchy." said Wura as Nora proceeded to massage her scalp.
"I can see that my queen, and you feel really tense, like there is something causing you stress." said Nora.
"Oh you can say that again Nora, I am in so much strain right now, physically and emotionally." replied Wura sighing.
"And why is that?"
Wura felt herself pause, she was about to say something that would be inappropriate at the moment.
"Oh you know, just all the stress with these stupid threats of war." she said, her eyes wide open as she winced, she did not want to lie, but she had to.
"Ahh, I know my queen, that is all very stressful." replied Nora.
"Yes."
"I truly do admire you my queen, you are so strong, strong enough to handle everything thrown your way. You are always honest, you are so trusting and loving and most of all you deal in truth. If there was someone in this world that I would like to be like, it would be you my queen." said Nora.
Wura felt like crying, she was very relieved that Nora was behind her right now and could not see the tears forming in her eyes. She did not deserve all those words of praise, she was a very wicked person, the worst.
"Nora... you do not mean all those things, I mean... we are all human beings, imperfections are bound to exist." said Wura.
"I know that my queen, but you seem to grow through your imperfections and work on improving yourself." said Nora causing Wura to turn to her drastically, the water in the bath almost splashing out.
"Nora, I need to tell you something..." said Wura, her eyes serious and yet pained.
"Alright, my queen, what is it?" asked Nora, she could see the seriousness present in her eyes.
"Nora, I need you to forgive me, because I did something unforgivable." Wura began, she had already started crying.
"Wait my queen, wait, what are you talking about?" asked Nora, she was confused and worried at the same time, she had never seen Wura just start crying out of the blue without a valid reason.
"Nora, just promise me that you won't stay angry with me forever, because I know I would if you were the one that did what I did." said Wura as she began to sob.
"Oh my queen, what are you talking about? Please relax, calm down, stop crying." Nora pleaded as she did not know what to do, Wura looked like a sobbing mess and she just kept on asking for her forgiveness.
"My queen, there is nothing you could ever do to cause me to be upset with you for the rest of my life. I promise you." said Nora, she could see that whatever it was that Wura had on her heart was causing her so much pain, and she would rather that she did not stress herself even further.
"You know what my queen, whatever is it you have to say to me, I have already forgiven you, truly I have, it does not matter what it is, I have forgiven you, so please stop crying, please." said Nora as Wura sniffed.
"Really?" she asked as Nora nodded.
"But I should really tell you what it is." said Wura.
"It does not matter, whatever it is, I have already forgiven you, just please do not cry again alright?" she asked as Wura sniffed and nodded.
"Alright, thank you Nora, you do not know how much I cherish you, truly, I love you so much and I am sorry for hurting you." said Wura.
"I know my queen, I know." replied Nora as she smiled.
"Do you feel better now?" asked Nora as Wura nodded.
"Would you like to get out of the bath now?" she asked as Wura nodded, feeling like such a disappointment, she did not even have the courage to tell Nora face to face what she needed forgiveness for.
Maybe deep down she knew that Nora would be so accepting and forgiving that she would not allow her to confess the right way.
"Alright, here." said Nora as she wrapped Wura in a cloth to get dry.
"It is alright my queen, everything is alright, there is no need to overwhelm yourself even more." said Nora as she gave Wura a hug and smiled.