398 Sticky Situation 6

In another servant room, the newly arrived Healers were working on Sienna's injuries.

"Ow!" Sienna slapped one of the their hand away, "Be careful! Are you trying to hurt me even more!"

"Yes, Miss Sienna." They had to disinfection over forty cuts on her body without the use of the clan's honey, as there is a shortage. The only medicine left to use is herb medicine, which takes longer time to heal wounds and stings.

While they were cleaning her wounds and treated her bruises. The female servants, who helped her into the room, couldn't help themselves to whisper amongst themselves.

"Did you see what she was wearing?"

"I know…"

"One can only tell what she was up to dress like that in the Prince's bathroom."

All the servants and guards in the courtyard, especially the healers since they needed to treat all her wounds, had seen Sienna's torn attire. Though she was able to get a change of clothes, her appearance when she left the bathroom had plenty of the tongue wagging and men blushing before looking away.

Hearing the gossip from the servants just outside the door, made Sienna grow angrier at the Healers.

"Ouch! That hurts!"

"S-sorry...Miss Sienna." The healer was finally able to patch up the last cut of her body. Happy to be done with her work, the healer left the room immediately afterwards.

Waiting until the women left before she walked over to the only mirror in the room, Sienna took a really good look at herself.

Covered in bandages and herb medicine, she thought back to the fight in the Prince's bathroom.

She had nearly died at the hands of Mikaela, When did she get so strong?

*Knock* *Knock*

"Miss Sienna…?" A servant called from the other side of the door.

"What!?"

"Lord Mano wants you to come to the drawing room."

Sh*t! I forgot about him…

"Okay, I'll be soon."

"Yes, Miss Sienna." The servant left, leaving her to panic inside the room by herself.

Remembering to toss the items, she pattied her pockets but forgot that she changed clothes and left the comm blocking device in them.

Damnit! She hoped the servants threw them away without looking through the pockets.

With no other choice she had to leave the room hoping her mistake wouldn't come to bite her in the ass. Exiting the room, she made her way through the courtyard.

Feeling self conscious from everyone's stares, she hurried around the corner and climbed the stairs, walking into the drawing room.

"Sienna, take a seat…" Mano gestured to the side.

Turning her head, she didn't noticed her mother presence in the room until her father pointed at the empty chair next to her.

"Sienna! Are you okay? What happened to you!?" Seeing all the bandages covering her daughter's body, Delju never though that Sienna would be this badly hurt from their scheme.

"Mother…" Sienna started weeping once she saw her mother's worried face.

"Everyone take a seat." Mano didn't care for the sob scene the two women were putting on. He wanted to get to the bottom of this tonight.

Once everyone was seated, Mano looked around at his family.

"So? Who wants to go first?"

When silence was all that greeted him, he turned his attention to his older daughter, "Care to explain why you are not in your bed, but here at the Prince's quarters...dressed as you were?"

"I d-don't know, father...I can't remember what happened after I went to bed tonight. All I know, is that woke up in Prince Ailwin's arms and Mikaela was attacking me…" Letting a couple of tears leak from her eyes, she made herself appeared wronged and bullied.

"In Prince Ailwin's arms…? What does that mean, Sienna?" Mano loathed the thought of his daughters fighting over a prince...again. He looked at Lady Delju, who had a nervous look in her eyes.

"Father...like I said, I can't remember… Maybe, Prince Ailwin can explain."

Ailwin had been staring at Mikaela since that time he entered the room. He wanted to get a clear look at her face, but she would turn her head to look his way.

*Clears Throat*

"Prince Ailwin…?" Mano had to call him to answer Sienna's inquiry.

"Huh?… Um, sorry Lord Mano... What did you say?" Ailwin asked, embarrassed by his behavior.

"Sienna said she doesn't know how she woke up in your arms… Can you explain?"

Glancing around the room, Ailwin saw his three guards that were manning the front gate earlier tonight standing at the end of the room, "You three come forward."

The three out of the four guards step in front of Lord Mano and Prince Ailwin, waiting for their Commander's orders.

"Tell Lord Mano what happened." After ordering his men, Ailwin went back to staring at Mikaela.

"Yes, sir."

"Lord Mano, the young miss over here, " Pointing at Sienna, "...arrived at this courtyard's front gate  dressed in her night gown. She continuously tried to walk into the residence despite your urging and warnings for her to return home."

Mano looked over at Sienna and Lady Delju, who palms have long grown sweaty.

"After a while of trying to physically stop her, our steward surmised that she was sleepwalking."

"Sleepwalking?" Mano questioned.

"Yes, sir. We can't say for sure, but she wouldn't respond to any of our words. Plus…*Cough*...the young miss was in her night gown. Why else would she be out like that?"

"Yes, why else… *Sigh* Please, continue."

"En… Our steward thought it would best to ask Prince Ailwin on what we should do... However, when the Commander arrive, the young miss here charged at him like a wild beast."

The three guards, as if Mano needed more detailed picture on what happened, went on to demonstrate what Sienna did to Ailwin.

"She grabbed onto him like a raspberry-furred koala." Sienna sat feeling mortified by the soldier description of her behavior.

"Raspberry-furred koala…?"

"Yes, sir...You know those red furry creatures that are cute to look at, but when they grab onto you, you'll have to cut your arm off to get them to let go...heh...It's was quite funny, if you think about it…" The soldier chuckled.

"What happened afterwards?" Mano was not smiling hearing about his daughter's actions.