The guards, including Lian, are guardians who keep me imprisoned. If I fall, if I slip, I die. And others will die because of my failure. As they escort me to the feast, I go over what Thomas has tucked into my head. It's simple, easy to remember, but it still makes me shudder. I was born on the battlefront. This is me, but now I'm trapped and powerless to escape. I feel nauseous just thinking about it. The sentries lead me through a maze of passages in the upper floors of the palace. Like the Garden, the architecture is all marble stone curves, which little by little incline it downwards. Crystals are everywhere, revealing a breathtaking view: the market, the valley and the forests beyond. From this height, I can see the mountains I didn't know rise in the distance and cut the sun with their shadow. ____________ The last two floors are the royal chambers - Lian explains, pointing to a steep spiral corridor. The sun shines brightly and splashes light on us. _____________ The elevator
I survive the feast: I look without seeing, I hear without listening. Even the food, more food than I've ever seen in my life, doesn't taste good in my mouth. I should be filling my belly, enjoying the best meal again, but I can't. I can't even speak when Thomas whispers in his calm, even voice to comfort me: _____________ You are doing well - I try to ignore it. Sitting at the crystal table, I drink a sparkling golden liquid until my head begins to to spin. I feel like a traitor. What is my family having for dinner tonight? Do they know where I am? Or is my mother in tears waiting for me? Instead, I'm trapped in a room full of people who would kill me if they found out the truth. And with the royal family, of course, that the king would kill me if he could, and probably will one day. She turned me inside out, traded ragged wrestler for crown, rags for silk. Yesterday I was a mere commoner and today I am a princess. What else will change? What else will I miss? _____________ Enough
"Don't worry, Nathan and his family are fine, we're finding a way to get you out of here, just follow what they say until we find a safe way." Blacke. The note is short and to the point. My mind races just thinking that I'm going to stay here until they can save me, I let out an irritated sigh, but I have no choice, groaning, I throw the paper back on the nightstand. Soon they change me and I must sleep. The next morning I am awakened by the three maids who enter the room, silent as a breeze. After fifteen minutes of suffering through skin-tight leather pants, a draped dress, and other strange, impossible-to-wear outfits, we decide on the simplest thing I can find in the closet of wonders. Black pants, tight and tight, a dark blue coat with silver buttons, and light gray boots. Despite the shiny hair and heavy makeup, I almost look like myself. Lian waits in front of the door, tapping her foot on the marble floor. _____________ A minute late-she says as soon as I step into the hall.
I didn't have much time to feel alone, someone always comes along to remind me that I'm trapped inside this place. When the maids came to dress me in the morning I feel that something might happen, I don't know what, I just feel, I received notification that my presence in the breakfast room was required. We were halfway through breakfast when the king finally joined us, Celine and the queen and the princes. _____________ I'm late - he comments discreetly, looking at the queen who doesn't answer him. He directs his attention to me, I have the glass halfway to my lips when a noise comes from the hallway. I was surprised by the screams. Throughout my brief time in the palace, I didn't remember a single sound that was even close to being loud. In addition, the sound of the sentries' footsteps, the opening and closing of the huge doors and the clatter of cutlery on plates made a kind of music. It was the most complete chaos. The royal family seems to have figured it all out before we did
The cold I felt at this moment coursed through my muscles, I was in a difficult situation while I was trapped in the palace, but nothing compares to the way these men were treating me from the beginning that they caught me in the palace, they did devastating damage. on the palace walls, several bodies of sentries found themselves dumped on the ground, as I walked being pushed, I couldn't help but feel the tears wanting to fall at that sight, how many fathers of families died here today? How many mothers did not return to their homes? How many children did their families leave? As I walked with my wrists chained, the pain in my chest increased more and more by the second, the man pulling me was becoming more and more dangerous, he looked at me with disdain as he said with a different accent. ______________ If you continue to stare at me, I won't be polite to you. - I showed an irritated face. ______________ Since when is that being polite? - Indago biting my tongue right after, these
The dorm was adequate, when I was taken by Dimitri I thought I would sleep on the floor, there would be no bathroom and I would probably do my business in a bucket or something, however, it was a simple room, with a bed and a small bathroom , nothing like the Palace, but still adequate, I had a shower and then I put on the uniform they left on the bed, the color is red and it has the bird ornament on the chest, just like the one I saw on the uniform of the Katerina during my interrogation, as soon as I felt clean and comfortable, a tray with bread, soup and a juice, was placed on the floor and pushed by my jailer, in this case, Dimitri, I took the food and gladly fed myself after all I spent the whole day without eating, as soon as I was satisfied, I knocked on the door and handed the tray back to him, then I lay in bed looking at the ceiling, I should make a mental plan to escape this place, first I must say that I decided to be placed as a puppet on the throne, because I'm sure that
I always remember the most difficult moments of my life, any normal person would remember the best memories, that is, the happiest, in my case that's not how it works; it is in the difficult moments that I felt most loved and cared for, when my father abandoned me together with my mother I was only six years old, I remember asking my mother why he would leave, so in a calm way and calm, the woman who gave me the world gave me the greatest lesson in love that ever existed in my entire life "Blacke your father left us because you and I are too amazing for him" I didn't understand much at the time but as I went growing up I understood what those words meant, that we were both so good to him that that man couldn't bear to see that and feel inferior, at the time my mother was a lieutenant in the military battalion, she was seen as a model woman, I always made an effort to being a great son, whereas my father, turned into a disgusting drunk, after knocking my mother down the stairs, she rol
I never imagined that I would feel that warm and welcoming feeling that is to like someone again, being in love is one of the noblest feelings that a human being can feel. In addition, he is one of the strongest sensations, capable of doing previously unthinkable things to us. Being in love can mean two extremes: deep happiness or endless sadness. We notice small signs of passion in gestures. Being in love is worrying when the person takes time to get home, it's giving an unexpected surprise and helping on a more difficult day. It's also taking into account your favorite color or favorite food, it's always thinking first about the other and then about yourself. Falling in love is also being happy with the other person's achievements, because there is an inexplicable connection. It's acting with the toughness of a father when she takes some thoughtless and inconsequential action. It's the difficulty of sleeping without feeling the person you love by your side. It's controlling your ner