For hours now I have sat in this study, reading and absorbing the vast information stored here... I learn of my new powers and begin to decifer my new role here... Though, even in the midst of all that i have to accomplish, my mind still wanders to visions of her.... How badly i wish i could talk to her and tell her how i feel.. I decide, generally be weak in language, that perhaps a written testament from me would do my feelings justice best... I sit down again and put quill to paper...

"Milady Valkierra,
My dearest Knight, thank you again for all that you have done for me.. With patience and virtue, you have led me down the path to becomin a knight me self.. I have learned from your words and actions the meanings of duty, and family and love.. Without you here, I would surely be lost in my endeavour, and lonely without a good friend..
However, somethin has been on me mind now fer sometime... Perhaps these thoughts are ill timed, as i am sure now that your dedk is covered in letters from worthy fellers seekin yer love... Yet i feel that i must send you yet another scroll to read..
I know that there are many here that have much more history with you than I, and i know that they as well are of greater skills and age and knowledge than I... Despite these things that i know to be true, I know what i feel nonetheless... You have become more to me than my knight, and i wish to become more to you than yer squire.. All of our memories, the times we have talked and the places we have travelled together, are the memories that i hold most dear to my heart.. there are many who would be yer champion Milady, and i know some may indeed be worthy of that honour than I, nonetheless....
I needed to tell you that i have loved you for a long time now... Without you i feel lost in this world.. In manners of gifts and the more material things of this world, I can indeed offer you little... What i know i can offer you is my unwavering devotion to you and a love like you have never known.. I swear to you now, Tunare be my witness, i love now and will forever.. you and no other... I only ask that i be given a chance to prove myself to you Milady... I will forever love you, and honor and protect you...Tho little has been said of it, I now pledge the same vow of love and honor for yer daughter Haelae... She will always be close to my heart... And i will always be there for her as I will be for you... I know, again, that this may be ill timed.. and i wish i had the way to tell these things to you... but as we woodland folk are weak with words, i thought this best.. I know i have much to learn, and much growing to do yet, but I love you more now than anything is this world, and as i grow, so will my love for you and Lil Haelae..Please consider me...

I do ask tho that i may have a token of you to carry with me on my travels through this land.. I cannot always be with you as i so deeply desire, but it would indeed be grand to carry a part of you with me, as i carry you in my heart...

I love you Milady, just give me the chance to show you, and you will not be let down.. I swear it..

With love,
Wildwynd
Your Devout Squire and Champion"

I rise from my wrtitin and wonder if this has truley done justice.. I wander out into the hall, and ask the page there of the Lady's wherebouts.... she says she las saw lady Valkierra in the garden...
I make my way there, and arrive just a dusks falls, the sun lightin the skys in hues of orange and red... i approach lady Val, and say unto her...
"please read this Milady", as i hand her the scroll...
She looks at me perplexingly, as i smile... she opens the seal and begins to read... Nervously, i turn from her, to watch the last glimpse of the sun fall below the horizon, anxiously awaitin her to speak..

As I read the words written upon the scroll from Wild, me hands begin to tremble. Noticing that he has turned his baack to allow me the privacy of reading alone, I slip over to the pond where I sit to quell my shaking. I sit facing his back and from time to time find myself looking at him over the parchment. I can tell by the writing that this must have taken him some time to pen, and many times it looks as though he wanted to say more, but couldn't find the words to fill in the spaces. The meaning behind the letter did manage to touch a place in my heart, for upon it's completion, I found neccesary to wipe away the silent tears that had gently slid down my cheek.
I rose quietly from my spot near the pond just as the sun was lowering itself. I walked silently to him and gathered myself. Placing my hand upon his shoulder, I pushed my embroidered hanky into his hand and whispered into his ear. "Wild, I will consider thee. Go now, take what I have given you, remember me always." With that I lightly kissed his ear before turning quickly and heading inside.