Thread: Free Hearts (Angelic and Ruphhausin)

That day was rather warm and Kathleen was sitting in the schoolhouse that she owned and taught in grading some papers. She was actually the only teacher in the settlement, so most of the time her work was certainly cut out for herself. She had to deal with children of all ages in the settlement, though, most of them actually loved her. Most of them thought very highly of her and she had been one of the very fortunate few women who knew enough about the subjects that children needed to learn in order to be able to teach. She had never been born of a rich family like most of the women in society in England. Most of them were in Court and dealing with such things that she would honestly never know. She had never been put out in society to be accepted or taken by a man for his wife. It had never really bothered her that much, so it wasn't that hard to imagine that she really didn't care. It didn't matter much to her at all that she would never be a courtier. There was so much that came with that that she was truly happy being just what she was. Although, she was one of the few women in the settlement who had the looks that she did and it wasn't very weird that she got offers from men that wanted her hand in marriage. Though, it never seemed quite right for her to do so. She looked a lot younger than she actually was. She was about 25 years old and most thought her to be a young woman in her teens. She found that rather flattering, but it just wasn't the truth. She was not that young, but she was very much so flattered that men thought her to be that young. It was very much a good compliment to her. Though, those kinds of things didn't matter to her when she had children to be teaching and papers to grade. Kathleen had beautiful golden hair that was almost close to being white because it was such a pale color. She also had equally pale skin that was soft as butter and some of the smoothest skin that most men probably would ever be able to touch. Her eyes were equally as stunning as her pale and beautiful hair and skin. She had emerald eyes that were a very light green that they looked like they belonged to some kind of exotic wildcat of the jungle. Her body was mostly hidden beneath the dresses, but she had a slim body that had svelty curves on her body. Her dresses were normally made of cotton and whatever material she could afford to buy with her funds. She was lucky that she was even getting paid by a English man who was paying her to teach the children. That was the only reason that she had come out here to this wild land. She was unknowing that day of the excitement outside as she sat there in a pink cotton dress with light bits of lace across it and it was long sleeved so that it left barely anything bared to anyone's eyes. Her neck and a bit of her chest was revealed, but other than that, nothing was showing besides her hands. Her hands were delicate and soft. They were long fingered, but beautifully slender like the rest of her body. She wore glasses that were classy and fit her as she sat there in the schoolhouse reading over papers and grading them accordingly for one of her English classes. She had on a shawl that was wrapped around her arms and her beautifully pale hair was mostly down except for half of it or a little than half that was pinned up a bit. It made her look younger, but that was never her intent and a woman her age didn't have to worry about such things like appropriate manners and such. She was older and the rules didn't quite apply to her because of the fact that she was out in a wild land that had still yet to be developed. Though, if she were honest with herself, she didn't really think much of the fact that the land she lived in was wild. It was really quite a beautiful land and she was sure that she could love the land if it stayed the same. She loved to take walks at times in the forest and just watch the deer and their babies run around the forest. It always made her think of her own children that she hoped to have one day, but she doubted that she really would. It was rather upsetting that she wouldn't have her own babies one day, but she was sure that she couldn't support such a thing now a days anyways. Kathleen sighed as she looked up from the paper that she was grading and saw that it was quite cloudy outside and she was sure that winter must just be around the corner. They would get snow, of course, and she was always thrilled about such prospects because she loved the snow. Though, she wasn't very prepared to go out into the snow with her shoes being what they were, so that wasn't going to be a possibility, but she rather liked watching it fall and stick the ground and turn everything in a wonderland of white. She knew that the children loved those times and most of the time, she didn't teach during the days that it snowed so bad that the children couldn't walk from their homes. She took off her glasses as she stood up and walked over to the window. That was when she noticed that people were gathered for some reason and she thought that it must be the Indians from this land. She sighed and shook her head as she headed outside, pulling the shawl around her slender arms more.