There was silence inside the room. The brother and sister looked at each other as if they had never met before. None of them knew what next to say. The princess had however already decided on what to do. She loved her brother more than she had been able to express.As she had already said, she could not afford to lose him or her fiancé. So she must stop them from continuing with that plan. To stop them, however, she must do something she would never have liked to do. Scarcely did her brother leave her room than she found herself in her father's bedroom.'You look terribly flushed, Mara,' her father said, 'what is the matter?’'Nothing,' she said, smiling. 'I've only come to make a request.’'Oh, go on my daughter. But don't ask for what you don't deserve.’'Is there anything I won't get from you just for the asking?’'Well, well, well. Of
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