KING IN THE NORTH
chapter 8 stranger

The mara...

I didn't realize I was asleep, my head was dizzy because it wasn't usual to sleep during the day, the sun was tilted towards the afternoon I didn't know if Theo had returned, he was gone from the morning.

I heard Hole shriek, it seemed like it was the noise that woke me up.

Oh hell... I just regained my senses and reflexes when I grabbed the bow that was leaning near the door.

I guess if it was Theo she must have entered the house, I'm not sure if anyone else or maybe someone from the palace was looking for me, or maybe my brain's wild animals started calculating some of the worst possibilities.

I was ready with my bow and arrow, walking out the back door. If that's the palace guard, then I'm finished.

I looked around and there was still no sign of a human presence, except for the hole that was still panicking and swirling wagging its tail.

No one knows what the horse is worried about, there are a lot of wild animals in the forest like this, but I'm used to hunting it, and it seems like wild animals are not my biggest fear this time.

I heard a voice coming from behind, I walked slowly back to settle down with a step slower as I began to be sure where the voice was coming from. It seemed that from the edge of the lake, could it be a deer or a bear that was drinking, I walked quite carefully looking for the gap between the shrub plants on the edge of the lake where I might be able to see it.

Oh my God what am I doing!

"What are you doing Mara? "

She seemed to voice my head and was just as surprised as I was.

Theo was rubbing the back of his horse, wet and almost naked.

"You want to kill me? " Theo reminds me again.

I was conscious and just dropped my bow.

"

"Yes, brown bear," I replied silly.

" .... "

"I'm already going back home," I decided to rush in because finding the man in the shower was really not the experience I'd ever imagined. Although I had previously imagined him swimming bare-chested, but all that was not able to describe what I saw myself with my eyes.

"Why don't you join? "

"Oh no, "impossible, I immediately shook my head.

"It seems like Hole also wants to be bathed."

Oh, of course he meant my horse, I'm afraid the horse is agitated.

I saw Theo was also serious about his words, and left me with no choice but to reject him.

I looked at the hole that was still circling where I was holding it. I don't understand how many days a horse should be bathed????

"Don't tell me you never bathed your horse? "

Bathing a horse really never occurred to me, but it didn't seem to matter, than Theo would have thought I was a freak who didn't know how to bathe a horse.

I pulled the Hole to get into the water, at first it didn't matter but somehow the horse suddenly became panicked and started to craze until it lost control while kicking me with its hind legs. The horse had stepped on my calf before kicking my body back until it bounced. I groaned, it felt like my bones were cracked, I saw Theo immediately jump into my body, pulled me out of the water and I ignored Hole who ran in panic somewhere.