"My lady."
"My lady."
"My lady."
"Dahlia!"
The sudden voice imdiately jolted awake, I almost slipped from the chair I was seating on. My heart raced as I opened my eyes blinking rapidly to stay focused. I then brushed imaginary dust from my skirts, trying to pretend that I had been awake the entire ti. But my sluggish movents must have betrayed because soone cleared their throat from the corner of the room.
Damn it! I thought to myself as I raised my head up only to find Lady Marina staring at . My cheeks heated with embarrassnt but still I smiled at her but she didn’t return it. Instead, she crossed her arms, her piercing eyes narrowing in displeasure. The air around her was suffocating, heavy with judgnt. Worse, she was not alone. The won of the other great houses stood beside her, poised and graceful, their disapproving eyes on . Their faces ranged from mild amusent to outright scorn.
Yeah I was definitely in trouble now! I thought to myself as I offered another apologetic smile.
"I’m sorry but if I didn’t know any better, it will seem as though we were boring you Princess." Marina said and I didn’t miss the underlying venom in her tone.
"I apologize Lady Marina, it was an oversight one that won’t happen again." I said with a slight bow.
My answer seed to have pleased her because she humd in response. "Well see to it that it doesn’t happen again."
"But of course Lady Marina." I said with a slight bow.
One of the Lady laughed as she picked up her tea cup, "Oh don’t be so harsh on her Marina, I’m sure she is feeling the hormones of the baby."
I almost snorted in response to that because she couldn’t be far from the truth. Naturally, it was better to let her and the rest of the court think my weariness was the result of pregnancy than to own up to having spent the entire previous day lugging water, splitting firewood, and scrubbing floors for peasant households. A princess scrubbing floors? That revelation would have sent Lady Marina into an imdiate faint.
"The princess may be pregnant yes, but that is still no excuse." Marina stated, "We must all uphold our duty in the court, right princess?" She asked with a glint in her eyes as she sipped her tea.
I nodded my head at her, "You are very right Lady Marina_" Bitch! "I’ll be sure to keep that in my mind in further etings, until then I apologize."
Marina nodded her head, no doubt pleased with the way she was getting treated with . She was no doubt relishing in the fact that a princess was apologizing to her a re lady. I have no doubt she took great joy in seeing the way I was treating her and I know the mont I stepped right outside that door, she will be bragging about it to her circle.
"So princess," One of the older won, Lady Agartha wife to Lord Cromwell spoke up, "How does being pregnant feel?"
How is it supposed to feel? "Um pretty normal." I responded reaching for my tea when I felt eyes on .
I glanced up only to see all of them looking at with expectant looks on their faces. They were no doubt waiting for to elaborate further. Clearing my throat, I placed the tea on the table beside .
"Well it’s still in the first trister so I guess I don’t really feel much." I responded with a small smile.
That seed to be what they wanted to hear because they nodded their heads with a thoughtful expression on their face.
"I rember the first ti I was pregnant with my first child_" Another lady spoke up and after that I tuned her out.
I was pretty tired and it was starting to beco a struggle to stay awake. All I wanted to do was just crawl back to my bed back in house. My whole body felt tired after the stress I went through yesterday. Turns out the refugee well hell bent on extracting their revenge one way or another.
After I had gotten on my knees and begged for their forgiveness, they had a eting with the council and in order for to be forgiven, I have to earn their trust by lowering my standards and becoming one of them, sharing in their labor and that required to carry water through the stream, fetching woods to repair roofs and helping the won to prepare food
The work demanded both physical effort and wore down my emotions at the sa ti. People throughout the camp watched with their cold expressions and whispered behind my back in disapproval. To them, I still remained the spoiled princess who had abandoned them during their mont of need even though I had been the one to get them out.
But they didn’t need to know that information, I still intend to earn their forgiveness as the princess and I don’t care if I have to work all day to earn it.
"Dahlia!" Marina’s sharp voice finally pulled out of my thoughts.
I looked up only to find the won staring at again and this ti around, all of them had a mixture of impertinence and disdain on their faces and I already knew I did sothing wrong this ti around.
"Seriously girl, what is on your mind?" Marina asked .
I let out a halfhearted chuckle before wrapping my hands on my belly. "I’m sorry, the hormones that co with this pregnancy is just too much for my young minded self." I said and one of the ladies humd in agreent.
Yeah, that’s good bla it all on the baby! My subconscious whispered at while I just plastered a smile on my face while Marina narrowed her eyes at .
She opened her mouth to speak but before she could, the door opened and Celeste ca in with several servants carrying trays of sweet slling biscuits and just like that the attention was diverted away from which made really happy.
In all my life, I have never been glad to see Celeste who was all smiles as the ladies found soone to turn their attention to. Celeste was all smiles as she ordered the servants to place the trays in front of them.
"Hello ladies, I thought you could use the refreshnts." Celeste stated as she bowed her head.
Marina smiled warmly at her. "Oh but you shouldn’t have to."
And just like that, the attention was shifted away from , but that’s okay! It was what I had wanted anyway! I thought to myself as I stood up from my seat. No one bothered to look up or stop as I stood up from my seat and walked out of the drawing room.
Outside, I t Heather patiently waiting for with a smile on her face. "Finally managed to slip out, my lady?"
"Barely." I responded with an eye roll.
Heather chuckled as she fell into steps right next to . "So are you ready?"
"Honestly, I am not sure about that." I answered her.
"You know you could just tell them that you are the..."
"No!" I shut her down, "No one needs to know that. As the princess, I have my own duty to do so do not try to talk out of it."
Sighing, Heather stared at . "I know, I just worry about you sotis."
"I know." I answered knowing her heart was in the right place, "I will be fine, Heather." I hope!
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