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pace up much more, erasing the distance that lingered between the two of them.
                  “I am so sorry about that, Magdalene.” Lily said, apologizing and erasing the last bit of distance that was between the two of them. “Something caught my attention and caused my eyes to drift away towards it instead of being focused on following you.”
                  “It is quite all right, my lady.” Magdalene maintained a motherly vibe about her as she spoke to her with her head slightly bent and possessing a smile to it. “You are in a new place, and it is understandable that you might feel a little uneasy or curious of your surroundings.”
                  “It is not that…”
                  “What is the issue then?”
                  “Well…I saw Daniel heading in a direction with his advisor, and he looked really serious…and upset about something. Do you think…that I-“
                  “You have no need to be concerned with what Lord Willows has on his mind, my lady, and I am sure that it is not because of something you might have said or done. There is no reason why you should worry about such matters.”
                  Even though Lily wanted Magdalene’s words to ease the tension away from her mind, she couldn’t help but feel something was indeed fixing to happen and it involved her.
                  She managed to give a nod of her head to the middle aged woman that reminded her so much of her mother back in the woodland area. Her eyes watched Magdalene’s stare soften a bit while she listened to her speaking up.
                  “Very well then…If you will follow me this way then, I will show you to your room and start your bath for you.”
                  Lily watched Daniel’s maid take a few steps away from her before she looked back down the stairs. There was an intense unsettling need to go, and see what was troubling her host, as well as erase this tension from her that had started to wash over her entire body.
                  Everything is okay…Nothing is wrong…There is no reason for me to be worried.
                  She told herself those words over and over, silently, to herself as her body started to move away from the top of the very steps she had just climbed, and headed down the long stretch of hallway in the direction of where Magdalene was leading her in.
     
     
     
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                  Daniel moved around a corridor in his lavish home with his eyes locking in on a set of black double doors at the end of a hallway that was lit by two rows of torches. His piercing emerald green eyes had a fierce expression of frustration and anger lingering on the surface of them. As he kept on moving, he listened to the sounds of his advisor struggling to move at the pace he was moving at due to his weight, and his voice coming out in a similar tone that showed how much he was struggling.
                  “My lord…” Richard said. His voice came out of his mouth a bit soft and short of breath. “My lord, what has troubled you so?”
                  “You are about to find out, Richard.” Daniel replied, seriously. “You are about to find out…”
                  Having spoken to his advisor with a razor sharp, firm voice, Daniel lifted his hands up to have his palms facing outward, and grabbed onto the double doors black door knobs in a fluid, single motion. He pulled them wide open, and walked himself right across the arched entranceway. He moved himself across the floor made out of onyx crystals to where a large window stood with black drapes hanging from the top of his ten foot tall ceiling to the floor in front of his feet. His hands grabbed onto the separate