Astor was in the midst of some sword work. He didn't often do it, and thus, it was the thing he often needed the most work on. He much preferred his ax to the smaller flimsy sword. But in some cases it was better, did the trick. And you certainly couldn't walk around the streets of Loren with a freakin ax, sword on the other hand...

But his inner ramblings were cut short when a familiar voice popped up near him. Taking a breath he sheathed his sword and looked towards Miss Navarro. He tried to smile wide, but it just wasn't what it had been the first time they met. "Yep, sweat and tears on this ground here." As usual the librarian looked beautiful, but that wasn't news to anyone with a set of eyes, and he really didn't notice a change in dress.

Ikisina noticed that it wasn't his normal handsome smile that great her, it was still handsome, only a fool wold say his smiles won't. She wanted to walk over to him and takes his hands in hers and say everything okay. to say I love you, i want you. She laugh soft, "Well you was giving that dummy a lesson." She tried to make a joke.

Sina walked over to a Dummy that was near him resting a hand on what is the dummy's shoulder. "How have you been?" She looked down at his hands for a quick second to see how they are before meeting his gaze her eyes were still filled with love for him from the moment they shared in the library kissing, she wish they could be there now.

Laughing Astor nodded his head. "Yah, training can be brutal like that sometimes." Scratching the back of his neck he wasn't trying to be different, but he also wasn't one to start making out with someone in the middle of the training courtyard. Scout could have that honor all to herself.

So as she stepped towards him he stepped back. He had to, not just because having a beautiful woman looking at him with those kind eyes was intoxicating, but that he had done things he could never take back. For a woman that no matter what he wanted would never be his wife and unlike Dresden he wasn't willing to push that line. "Busy of course, all this tension in the air. No more attacks I hope?"

Sina smiled hearing him laugh "Yeah training is heard, I don't envy you a soldier who has to do it regularly." She laughed she did have a training session with Dresden and it was a experience that she won't forget.

However, when he stepped back her smile faded. "No more attacks, but two men are keeping an eye on me friends of that guy who attack me. I had a training season. I was taught how to use a dagger. just for protection." She want him, want to run in his arms and just feel his arms around her. Safe. She know she seen him kill a guy for her but he knows he has a kind heart, loyal.

"Luckily it's what I'm good at." Dragging his boot through the mud he sometimes wondered if the fighter he had become was someone his mother would have been proud of. Probably not, but unfortunately there was no way to know, and that's how it always would be with the Porter woman, seen and not heard or otherwise dead.

Nodding his head, it was good to know that at least him killing the guy had kept them at bay. "Good, that's good." Lorendale would be a better place without so much evil, but it just wasn't realistic. There would always be good and bad, and he just had to strive to be better. To quell the anger that had been bred inside of him. "You should find someone to help you learn how to use your, um, well a special trainer." Her gift had stopped him, so who was to say she couldn't do the same when someone tried to attack her.

Ikisina looked at Astor for a moment seeing him drag his feet across the ground. "I feel safe with you." Might be simple words but it was the words they shared in the library. She know what his the men are known for but that never played on her mind not one bit.

When he mentioned special training. "for my gift. People now know of it Astor, Dresden Drake knows, The lady steward Marchioness Scout Kane knows, Baron Elliot Moore and now the Advisor of law. That where i just been to register the gift." She said softly he know what he was suggesting to help her protect herself if she was to ever get attacked. She scared of thinking of hurting anyone with a dagger let alone with her gift.

"I only used it to help people?"

"I know Ikisina." And he really did know and understand. That didn't mean he planned to close the distance he had put between them. He wouldn't hurt her, but that didn't mean his actions couldn't. And with everyone's eyes watching at the training fields these days he just thought about easier times as well.

Astor nodded his head, not realizing she was being so free with all of the information these days. Like telling others about the attack. "I didn't realize, apologies, I'm glad you felt safe doing so." He had been worried about her, but knew it wasn't his place to constantly be coming around either. "Of course you only have, but there is no harm in learning how to defend yourself." No shame in it either, and he just hoped she understood that.

Sina gives him a warm smile he knows. She didn't want loads people about it. "You know i didn't want to tell anyone of them about my gift," She told him truthfully. The baron she told because she moved into his house and he noticed the bruise on her neck and can't hide the fact. With dresden she was just in a fragil state and the Lady Kane asked her about the attacks and she had to tell her the truth.

She understand that finding a way to defend herself to defend herself more then a dagger will be helpful it be nice to know more gifted to find a way to use her power to defend herself however she doesn't really know a lot of gifted or any who be able to help her in that department. "I promise I will try and look into it." She will try.

She had told him that her gift was a secret. She had told him she wouldn't speak about that night to others. But apparently she had done both. Astor wasn't sure how to feel about that in the slightest. Certainly he held no ill will towards her, the opposite, but it made his thoughts more jumbled and confused. "Right, right, that's why I assumed it was still hush hush."

Nodding his head, Astor smiled, able to breath a slight sigh of relief. "Good, it worries me." Because he couldn't always be around, and her getting hurt seemed like just about the worst thing imaginable at the moment.

She know it was meant to be hush hushed. the look of apology spread across her eyes she was super sorry that she couldn't keep thee incident quiet like once people heard the screams it only really took time till somebody heard about the events. "Is it strange I really want to kiss you so much, like I want to stand on these walls and scream how much I love you. I want to run into your arms but I am a fool." She give a weak laugh.

"you said that we can never be together because of your father and your brothers. but you are not them Astor I love you. I want to be by yourside whn you don't feel strong. You are safe with me." She looked to the wall that goes round the courtyard and she walked over to it and jump onto it with eas and face towards Astor.

"A friend recently told me if you really love somebody than you shouldn't let him go so easily." She become this become this little confident woman. "I love Count Astor Porter." She called out loudly before looking back at him. "I love you. Il ove you, I love you." she repeated it three times.

Astor was more than slightly confused. He thought he had been clear, but apparently his words had fallen on deaf ears. She spoke about love and screaming it out to the world. He wanted her safe and enjoyed the time they had spent together but he recoiled as she mentioned love so many times, eyes darting around the courtyard. She was being reckless, and he was about to mention them stepping away when things changed.

Stepping back as she started to shout there was panic and confusion on his face, not an ounce of a smile left. "I..." Shaking his head Astor had no plans to hurt her but this was something she had done all on her own. She wasn't making him feel safe anymore. "You must have me confused for someone I am not Miss Navarro. I suggest you go."

Turning away he left with a few of his fellow soldiers who jostled him for details. "Some commoner, saved her from a bad situation and apparently she's in love." Looking back towards Ikisina he just wished she hadn't done that. Anything but that. Hurting her emotionally was hard but far better than seeing her dead. And his trust has run out.

[EXIT ASTOR]