Jacques tried to get up. He leaned on one of his arms. His breaths still ran after the horror captivated him.Valentino helped him and brought him a flask of water he got from Celestine. He helped Jacques to take some sips of water.“Thanks…” Jacques whispered as he wiped his lips. He turned his head to Celestine.“Princess Celestine?” He looked at her with his eyes full of surprise and curiosity. He squeezed his eyes and curled up his nose.Celestine nodded. She gulped hard. The silence thudded each mind…leaving some traces blowing into the air. Some questions remained inside the throat, wanted to come out.Valentino raised his two eyebrows and he gazed at the young woman taking a seat next to him with his questioningly stare. “Are you a princess?” he asked in doubtful voice.He saw the young woman hesitantly nodded and her stare turned back to the man who leaning towards him.“How did you come here?” Celestine asked with her curious eyes towards Jacques.Jacques got up and
“Jacques, wake up!” Celestine shook the man’s body, he rested on the same bed with her and inside her bedroom. She hooped off from the bed and ran to the window after trying to wake him up.“We are already in the Hermosa Catolina castle!” She shouted in a surprise to Jacques who just opened his eyes.He looked around and got up instantly from the bed. He wiped off his eyes as he yawned.“Where am I?” He revolved his eyes around the room before turning to Celestine. He found her was standing by the window, putting her big smile on the lips and leaning on her uplifting arms towards the window’s sills.She was taking a long inhale and closed her two eyes. She turned around and looked at him. “In my bedroom.”Jacques hauled his eyebrows. “Your bedroom?” he paused, looked deeply confused, his forehead was curled up and his squeezed eyes looked around.Celestine nodded. “How? Didn’t we spend night in the free land last night?” Jacques asked again.He saw she shrugged. “I don’t kn
The breakfast time was interrupted. Everybody jumped off from the seat in a shock when a big snake fell down from a tree and it was laid down on the table.The snake looked so fierce and kept hissing at every one around her.Valentino exhaled heavily and he swayed her with his hand.The snake fell down to the ground and it slithered away to disappear behind the bushes.“Stop! I don’t want you hiding there. Go disappear and back to your place…” Valentino gazed at the snake.The snake seemed understanding to what Valentino commanding to her. She stopped, stared at Valentino and hissed to him. Valentino opened his clenched fingers and there was a green light coming out from his palm. The light hit the snake. The snake screamed loudly after being hit by the light from Valentino’s palm. It hissed so loud before it really disappeared, eaten by some smokes.Celestine gasped. The pendant on her bracelet was shining brightly.At the same time, inside the Royal Palace of the Sapphire
Moments were running, eaten up by time clicking.Celestine looked down, the floor of the castle where she put her bare feet on appeared so shining. She could see her own reflection. She exhaled heavily.“If I say ‘No’ to him….I am afraid of losing my father in his isolation for good…” she paused, gulped and stared at Valentino helplessly. “It means I lost my kingdom forever, the people of the Sapphire Island Kingdom will lost their beloved king…I don’t want that happens.” She scoffed softly and looked away for seconds.Valentino sighed.“If I agree to take his offering to marry me, I should be ready to lose my dignity as a princess and I become his sixth mistress and…I …” her voice was choked in her throat, she gazed at Jacques and bit her lower lip before turning down her face. She inhaled.Jacques took a deep long inhale. He stared at his lover, the princess who was in dilemmatic situation.“I will embarrassed my people. I am a princess from this majestic kingdom who never b
Valentino was scrutinizing the tax notification letter.“They’re charging you two millions and half…” he changed his sight direction to Celestine.“It’s quite expensive. You think you can collect that amount of money?” He bridged his eyebrows.Celestine shook her head. “We are lucky enough since several days ago there were donations from a kindhearted person. So, we can survive from starvation.”She paused, “We have living stocks. How if we breed them, then sell their products to the market? But, it will take time to do it…” she turned up her face.Valentino sighed. “You should try to negotiate.”She shrugged. “I think I should go there today…” she looked up to Madam Heather. “Start from now, please produce those diaries and not for our own consumption but we release them to the market…”Heather nodded. “I think we can do it.”Valentino nodded and beamed a smug. “Good point to start.”Celestine rose from her seat and went down to the room to get some pieces of paper with
Celestine stopped riding the horse in the front of Moustache’s mansion. She peeked through the hole and found the man was in a ragged costume as usual. She smirked to find him there was busy acting as simply a gardener.“Psssttt…” Celestine tried to get his attention. She stopped and looked around before continuing to speak her password. “I see the ocean is crying and sand is kissing their sadness…” she paused, she smiled widely to see her password attracted the man’s attention.He curled his eyebrows and stared at the hole. He pulled up his black ragged old hat from hiding his face.Celestine continued, “a mermaid’s tail was stuck …” she covered her mouth with hand from laughing.The man got up, speaking to the other men to open the gate. He was waiting on his place.He cleared his throat seeing Celestine entering the gate.“Another considered password, my princess.” His heavy tone of voice commented on Celestine’s password.“Are you leaving your hidden place?” he asked he
“Don’t you dare to argue what I am telling you, Celestine…” King Dragon looked at the young woman who was standing in front of him. He could see the flames burning inside her eyes…flames of anger. “You are not my king. I don’t have to submit to any words coming out from your royal mouth…” Celestine hissed. Her lips were tightly clenched. Her stare at him was so intense without any blinks a second as she gritted her teeth. Their eyes were locked and both of them were standing with each of hands clenched. King Dragon smirked bit that it appeared to sneer in cynical expression. “You want to see my power right to your eyes, huh…?” He tried to grab the wrist of the woman with appearance like a noble woman. “Don’t you dare touching me, a princess of this kingdom!” Celestine snapped with flying off the handle to the hand of King Dragon from touching her. King Dragon laughed. “Don’t touch me???” He paused, created a haze of silence within them. His gaze was eating piece by
Storm stopped running as they reached the border between the Sapphire Island Kingdom and the Wallachian kingdom. He marched along the path under the shady big trees to a hidden mansion among the woods. Celestine got down and walked along with the horse next to her, standing in the front of wall gate with a small hole to peek inside or outside. The mansion was captured as an abandoned castle, sturdy building with rambled plants on its wall. It was hidden among the high shady trees, appearing like a pearl inside its muddy shell. A man with ragged clothes was standing in the front of gate after Celestine knocked the gate three knocks with pause. “Who are you?” He peeked out. Celestine beamed at him. “The shadow from the east coming out, the haze of silence will be disappeared behind…Smoky mountains have their rules as well as the stormy hearts…” she peeked inside. Telling him those magic words, turning around to see whether there was or not someone following her. She
Celestine stopped riding the horse in the front of Moustache’s mansion. She peeked through the hole and found the man was in a ragged costume as usual. She smirked to find him there was busy acting as simply a gardener.“Psssttt…” Celestine tried to get his attention. She stopped and looked around before continuing to speak her password. “I see the ocean is crying and sand is kissing their sadness…” she paused, she smiled widely to see her password attracted the man’s attention.He curled his eyebrows and stared at the hole. He pulled up his black ragged old hat from hiding his face.Celestine continued, “a mermaid’s tail was stuck …” she covered her mouth with hand from laughing.The man got up, speaking to the other men to open the gate. He was waiting on his place.He cleared his throat seeing Celestine entering the gate.“Another considered password, my princess.” His heavy tone of voice commented on Celestine’s password.“Are you leaving your hidden place?” he asked he
Valentino was scrutinizing the tax notification letter.“They’re charging you two millions and half…” he changed his sight direction to Celestine.“It’s quite expensive. You think you can collect that amount of money?” He bridged his eyebrows.Celestine shook her head. “We are lucky enough since several days ago there were donations from a kindhearted person. So, we can survive from starvation.”She paused, “We have living stocks. How if we breed them, then sell their products to the market? But, it will take time to do it…” she turned up her face.Valentino sighed. “You should try to negotiate.”She shrugged. “I think I should go there today…” she looked up to Madam Heather. “Start from now, please produce those diaries and not for our own consumption but we release them to the market…”Heather nodded. “I think we can do it.”Valentino nodded and beamed a smug. “Good point to start.”Celestine rose from her seat and went down to the room to get some pieces of paper with
Moments were running, eaten up by time clicking.Celestine looked down, the floor of the castle where she put her bare feet on appeared so shining. She could see her own reflection. She exhaled heavily.“If I say ‘No’ to him….I am afraid of losing my father in his isolation for good…” she paused, gulped and stared at Valentino helplessly. “It means I lost my kingdom forever, the people of the Sapphire Island Kingdom will lost their beloved king…I don’t want that happens.” She scoffed softly and looked away for seconds.Valentino sighed.“If I agree to take his offering to marry me, I should be ready to lose my dignity as a princess and I become his sixth mistress and…I …” her voice was choked in her throat, she gazed at Jacques and bit her lower lip before turning down her face. She inhaled.Jacques took a deep long inhale. He stared at his lover, the princess who was in dilemmatic situation.“I will embarrassed my people. I am a princess from this majestic kingdom who never b
The breakfast time was interrupted. Everybody jumped off from the seat in a shock when a big snake fell down from a tree and it was laid down on the table.The snake looked so fierce and kept hissing at every one around her.Valentino exhaled heavily and he swayed her with his hand.The snake fell down to the ground and it slithered away to disappear behind the bushes.“Stop! I don’t want you hiding there. Go disappear and back to your place…” Valentino gazed at the snake.The snake seemed understanding to what Valentino commanding to her. She stopped, stared at Valentino and hissed to him. Valentino opened his clenched fingers and there was a green light coming out from his palm. The light hit the snake. The snake screamed loudly after being hit by the light from Valentino’s palm. It hissed so loud before it really disappeared, eaten by some smokes.Celestine gasped. The pendant on her bracelet was shining brightly.At the same time, inside the Royal Palace of the Sapphire
“Jacques, wake up!” Celestine shook the man’s body, he rested on the same bed with her and inside her bedroom. She hooped off from the bed and ran to the window after trying to wake him up.“We are already in the Hermosa Catolina castle!” She shouted in a surprise to Jacques who just opened his eyes.He looked around and got up instantly from the bed. He wiped off his eyes as he yawned.“Where am I?” He revolved his eyes around the room before turning to Celestine. He found her was standing by the window, putting her big smile on the lips and leaning on her uplifting arms towards the window’s sills.She was taking a long inhale and closed her two eyes. She turned around and looked at him. “In my bedroom.”Jacques hauled his eyebrows. “Your bedroom?” he paused, looked deeply confused, his forehead was curled up and his squeezed eyes looked around.Celestine nodded. “How? Didn’t we spend night in the free land last night?” Jacques asked again.He saw she shrugged. “I don’t kn
Jacques tried to get up. He leaned on one of his arms. His breaths still ran after the horror captivated him.Valentino helped him and brought him a flask of water he got from Celestine. He helped Jacques to take some sips of water.“Thanks…” Jacques whispered as he wiped his lips. He turned his head to Celestine.“Princess Celestine?” He looked at her with his eyes full of surprise and curiosity. He squeezed his eyes and curled up his nose.Celestine nodded. She gulped hard. The silence thudded each mind…leaving some traces blowing into the air. Some questions remained inside the throat, wanted to come out.Valentino raised his two eyebrows and he gazed at the young woman taking a seat next to him with his questioningly stare. “Are you a princess?” he asked in doubtful voice.He saw the young woman hesitantly nodded and her stare turned back to the man who leaning towards him.“How did you come here?” Celestine asked with her curious eyes towards Jacques.Jacques got up and
Celestine stepped forward and she sheathed her swords. Some creaking sounds as if something was walking on some scattered dried twigs and branches on the ground. She kept waiting for something to come approach. It held tension, she felt her blood streaming faster in her vessels, her heartbeats thudded so faster than they were before. She bit her lips and gripped her sword tightly. A shadow of a man sneaked out from the hedges in front of her. Celestine gasped. She kept waiting. “You again?!” she hissed as a young man came out behind the hedges. His face was quite familiar…and his unfamiliar scent too. Valentino sneered and brushed off the prickets of bushes. “Good evening…” he tried to be nice with a greeting smirk. He stood in front of her eyes. He looked around and found out some crumbles and apple remains on the ground. “Any food?” He curled up his lip. He stared at her with his gloomy begging eyes. He scoffed and raised his one of eyebrows. Celestine s
Morning reached at the boundaries of the Wallachian and the Kernelithium kingdom. Under the laws between two kingdoms, inside the forbidden woods where Celestine and Ersa were hiding themselves from either king Dragon’s men or King Othello’s men.Storm was waiting outside the house, they prepared to go to the near village for getting some errands.They stopped at the village where people welcomed them warmly as they did some days ago.“This is a favorite dish for breakfast in this village.” A man in his around forties served them the dishes, some berries with some boiled eggs, served with fermented pickles and cheese bread. He brought also two glasses of cold goat milk. He introduced himself as Edgar, the owner of the restaurant where Ersa and Celestine were taking their breakfast.Ersa widened her eyes as she took a spoon of breakfast meal into her mouth. “Good combination. Thank you, Sir.”The man beamed at them, leaving the two for enjoying their breakfast while Storm got his
Fog started to fall, strolling down the valley and wrapping the land underneath.Hermosa Catolina was sunk in its silent smoky night. The chilling air began to take control into the building and people living inside the castle. Making to shiver human bodies, causing people with some bones failed to move under its uneasy coldness.All the people were resting on their beds, sinking their mindful thinking heads into the thick blankets. Only some men were being in charge of guarding the castle’s front gate from the balcony, they could spread their sights as like the eagles observing the surroundings.“You have any ideas where Princess Celestine and Ersa are hiding?” A young soldier man asked to his more mature man with beard. He sucked a deep breath and at the time, he breathed out and opened his mouth, some breathing air coming out.His friend turned his head and grabbed a flask of fermented drink to warm his body from the cold night. “You think they’re hiding?” he handed the young m