Chapter 132: Resounding Yes
The knights always seemed correct in their otherworldly understanding of weather patterns.
When Irene woke up the following morning, the first thing she did was speed to the window to see if their predictions were accurate. As a gasp escaped her lips, they were far more accurate than she could have expected. She was shocked to see that the roof that slanted under her window was covered in over a foot of snow from the drifts that came from the back.
Mastering weather predictions wasn’t something she had mastered yet as well as her father or Sir Gunnar, so she decided to simply take heed to their weather warnings and plan accordingly.
The wool curtains fell from her fingers and she receded back into the room until she was in front of the fire which she crouched in front of for a moment. Again, her father had stacked hard wood in the fire so it was still quite warm despite burning for hours that night.
As she poked the log with a metal poker, she faintly smiled as she reflected on the day prior. Her shoulder was very sore but she felt it was for good reason. However, it had been an afterthought in the evening after Sir Gunnar asked her to be his apprentice.
She hadn’t given the knight a clear answer because, before they bid one another a good night, she said that she would sleep before answering. After all, it was a great leap forward in an apprentice’s career to suddenly be chosen. Sir Gunnar was the knight for all apprentices. For her to be the one most dedicated to helping him was a burden as much as an honor.
She also hoped that, with the way she and Felix were already behaving towards one another, it wouldn’t make it more tense. For the longest time, she thought that it would be Felix that Sir Gunnar chose.
Regardless, Irene knew what she wanted to do. Sir Gunnar was the highest-ranked active knight at that moment. His bothering to make sure she was safe at all was an honor in itself.
With a sigh, she stood up and rolled out her shoulder. Her grandmother said not to remove the bandage but she was dying to see how it looked. It was beautiful when it was covered but she wanted to see what it looked like while it was healing.