Chapter 40: Roses for the Remembered

Ruby roamed the castle's vast garden with a pair of scissors in hand. Her basket is filled with crimson roses as she picked the best flowers to dedicate to her grandma and grandpa's grave. Today is the day of their death anniversary and Ruby wanted to bring them flowers and prayers. They weren't truly related by blood but they are certainly related by bond. They were a nice old couple who once saved her from death but they perished because of the cruel hands of fate. Even though she was just a child when it happened, she can still remember every single detail vibrantly.

As a little girl, Ruby was very adventurous. She would sneak out of the house to see the town and play with the other children. Her disappearances would often cause her handmaidens and guards to panic throwing the whole palace into chaos. She would often come home with her expensive dresses in tatters, soiled by dirt invoking the wrath of her governess and handmaidens but it was fine because she was having so m