It was quite bright when I woke up. It had to be sowhere in the middle of the afternoon or the beginning of the evening.
Late afternoon, I confird.
I had slept for quite a long ti and had not expected that to happen. What had been given to ? How strong was it?
Getting out of the bed the first thing I realized was that Irene was not here. The doubt in my mind grew, had I woken up before I was intended to?
Pushing my feet in the slippers, I moved into the seating area. The silence was sothing I had not enjoyed in a very long ti. Whenever I had woken up It had been at the courtesy of soone. My body had not adjusted to the sleeping timings and it seed like it finally had. I had woken up on my own after a good sleep.
The silence was welcoming and no longer scared like it had done after that night in the snow. If I still closed my eyes today, I could still see how the snow had beco after the question was done with them. I had not closed my eyes until it suddenly ca and took away. That mont was enough what does snow and the entire scenario paste itself into my mind that I would have to rember forever.
A knock ca at the door, making his calls lightly. Was everyone not supposed to be asleep now? I did not ever find anyone in the palace while the sun was out.
It ca again and this ti for my family. It made get up and go towards the door to open it.
"Chiara." I acknowledged her. "Good evening."
"Good evening," she bowed slightly in greeting, "May I co in?"
"Yes, please." I moved away, giving her the space to co inside. The door closed on its own when I left it and then I followed her to the seating area. Chiara was already sitting now and I joined her.
"Is everything alright?" It was the first thing I thought of asking her. It had to be because I could not think of any other reason that would lead her to approach about sothing.
"Yes," She chuckled in light amusent as she answered . "Why would you think sothing would be wrong?"
I was not right then, but I was not going to admit that in front of her. "No reason. How did you know I was awake?"
"I was passing and I heard you walking inside."
"You did?" Oh well, their senses eere sharper than I had realized. "What can I help you with?"
Chiara leaned into the seat and moved to make herself more comfortable. It was going to take ti, whatever she was going to talk about with . I hoped that it was not sothing that I might need soone to help to get out of.
"I have picked up sothing from talking to you and with Marilyn. You made Anastasia your idol when it ca to becoming a queen. Yes?"
"Yes." There was no reason to lie about it. After the passing of my mother, my sister and I were left to find our idols ourselves. It was no doubt that Esetlle had already been trained to beco queen of our country by my mother. I, However, was left to beco one of another who would be trained by the Queen of the kingdom.
Chiara humd. "But she is no longer there and I believe I am the only one who can teach you what you can make of yourself in this journey."
My ears and senses opened up with what I was hearing. This is not what I had expected.
"Tristan’s uncle; Dominique, is his ntor. I can beco yours. I would much rather have Tristan’s mother help you, but she is no longer available for this. If you wish, I can beco a guide you may require."
My eyes lowered to my hands. I was playing with my fingers. "You want to be the Queen of your people?"
"Say what sits in your mind, child."
It took a second to put all my thoughts and then I did. "I was ready to be the Queen of humans. People who were going to choose , no matter what, to represent them and ’I’ chose that but you want to beco the Queen of people whom I have never encountered, never spoken to, and never even heard of in the majority of my life. Even if it was folklore, I was inclined to believe that you did not exist. I have never t your people, so how is it that you expect to represent them, to help them and beco their Queen out of anything and everything else?"
I gulped. "I would be blind in leading them because I would never have an idea of what it is to be like them." Because I did have an idea of the poor in my country. Mother would often take us into the deep slums to make us understand what we were working for and what our goal was supposed to be.
But if it ca to leading people who drank human blood to continue their life and it was going to be the complete opposite of what I had imagined doing as my life duty.
If I had no idea of what I was supposed to do, then it would be Tristan leading them alone and I would just be a trophy Queen by his side, just as Mira was to my father and I refused to beco that.
Tristan leading alone was a thought that stuck in my mind and it weighed there more than anything. "It will not be fair for your nephew to lead everything alone. I want to be a part of his court, I want my decisions to matter but they cannot when I do not know what I am talking about."
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