At last the day of her return arrived and she waited and waited for Fane to come pick her up.
Yet, he never came, and night did.
"Your Highness, if you still plan on going on foot, its best if we leave now." Her guard told her and she nodded slowly.
She bid her family goodbye and dared not to look at the disappointment in their eyes.
They, too, anticipated meeting him.
She walked with the guards through the market.
She had missed the jolly place and it cheered her up a bit.
She stopped by an ornaments stall and picked up an exquisite peacock feather bookmark and her eyes twinkled at the sight of it.
In her peripheral vision, she saw someone staring at her and she turned around.
The man was quick to turn away but not quick enough, Micah had already seen him and she was already smiling like a fool.
She ran up to him before he could run away,
"Your Highness, I knew you would come."
Fane stared at her with a perplexed expression, like a startled deer.
Micah looped her arms into his, and pulled him to the ornaments stall.
"Is this pretty?" She showed him the bookmark.
He nodded.
"What about that one?" She pointed to another.
He shook his head.
Micah giggled, "Okay, the peacock feather it is."
She walked with her arm looped with his all the way to the castle, she didn't say anything so that he wouldn't be scared away by the pressure to answer.
When they reached her chambers' corridor and they were alone, she stopped and turned to him.
He looked like he was about to leave again and she brought up a hand and he stopped in curiosity.
She was slow as she was just a beginner but she accurately signed to him and said
'I like you.'
'I'm happy that we got married.'
'I hope you can give me a chance.'
Fane's eyes widened and he slowly backed away.
"No, Fane." Micah walked towards him but he turned and walked away.
Micah ran a hand over her face and sat down on the floor.
Despite herself, she found herself smiling.
Today was a small step towards the door to Fane's heart.
He came for her, like she asked, and now he even knew that she knew of his secret.
She got up and went to bed, the next day she would try again, maybe go farther this time.
Because right then, she felt like she could even reach the moon if she tried.