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The Watcher By The River
The water hugged my body and it lulled the bruises and wounds that I have endured yesterday from being beaten up by Matthias. The coldness of the river felt like medication, it was far from the baths that I have taken in the castle but it was enough. The servant and I went to the far side of the river under the shade of a tree; its branches hanged below, the leaves nearly touched the water. It had created a decent cover for us to hide our bodies. Ezekiel went a bit far from us, he took his own time and bathed alone— it was more of a way to give us some private space, after all, we were naked.
We washed our bodies and I saw how the filth was carried by the calm river currents. It was my first time to expose myself to people I didn’t know. William already saw me naked but it was different with him, I trusted him. It was my first time to take a bath with my servant and it made me realized how far my current life was from the one that I once lived. I watched the two children as
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