Zhi Rui looked form the window, the sun slowly made himself clear in the sky.
The come of age rite, the royal siblings will go through today is a blessing rite. It needs offering and people must paint themselves with yellow and white.
it was a whole day of travel to the neutral city.
Zhi Rui looked at her empty bed. Sandworm and Blue-amethyst invited themselves on the night before but Zhi Rui rejected them, even Han Lee who she had a small crush on offered to sleep with her instead. But Zhi Rui rejected him too.
The rejection of her own desires birthed a heart desire to sleep with him.
Zhi Rui remembered thinking more than twenty reasons she should just do it with him and they were all reasonable and correct. But even after completely convincing herself and truly believing her own reason. She didn't move from her bed.
