“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
The Voice of Nature…it was the first song going to play. It began with sounding the song of birds from the violins and the flutes. The artificial fountain delivered bubbling water and all the attendants were nailed on their seat. Their soul began to be captured into an imaginary world. Airing the room, the imaginations were drawn to small river downing the creek with the splashing water from bathing birds. Waiting for the next… The playing sound of the harps then began to take another breathtaking session. It came like the whispers from the garden of angels. Taking all the breaths from the audiences inside the kingdom’s hall. King Dragon rose to get applauses as his song finished to play. He sighed after faking a wide prideful smile. His eyes were scattering the room, looking for a woman’s figure in a red dress he bought. He returned to his seat next to the hosted King and his Queen, rested his hand on the chin. They were taking seats on the highest row among the o