Beom-soo pov:
I was riding on my horse, I closed my eyes as I felt the wind hitting my face as I took a deep breath, not sure if I was ready to for this, how could I, it has been kept a secret for so long.
I could see houses in the distance, indicating that I was almost there, as I neared the town I couldn't help but think this was a wrong idea, but for Lalisa I must. I was there, my sister-in-law's kingdom, many people stared, since they had never seen me, I made a bee-line towards the castle, even though my muscles were aching and begging me to take a rest.
I made it to the gate, the gate guards approached me, ''what might be your business here, sir'', I replied, ''I am here to see the king I have things to say to him that he might be waiting many years to hear if you would let me'', the guards stare thinking, after a moment they replied,'' let us ask our supervisors'', I gave them a solemn nod, one of them left.
The guard returned with another man, just with his posture and the way he walked it was apparent he was of much superior rank, he came up to the front and asked in a hard tone, '' and what exactly is that the king will be dying to hear from you'', a replied with a softly, '' his missing sister'', all three of them gave out a surprised gasp, '' what do you know of the missing princess'', ''I am her brother-in-law'', that made another round of gasp go around, the supervisor whispered something into the guard's ear before asking me, '' how can we know you are not lying'', I could tell you something about your princess that only the king, could know'', at that comment, they let me in, they took my horse, and the supervisor led me in, I looked around it was my first time in a castle, true to the kingdom name, Aurum, which meant ''City of gold'', everything seemed to be gold from the floor to the roof, it was a sight to behold, I was led into a room and just seeing the bed made my musles ache come back aster then ever, i was lest to rest, i was to see theking after a awile.
after taking a well-awaited rest, I stared outside of the window wondering if the family had accepted my brother as their daughter's husband, how different the life of my beautiful nice would have worked out I could just imagine how amazing she would look elegantly dressed, be who she was meant to be, a princess, instead she was in a prison, dressed in god knows what. I was shaken out of my thoughts when I heard a knock on my door, I said a little come in, I was informed by one of the guards that the king had accepted to see me over dinner.
I pulled a hand through my hair hoping to fix the disheveled mess, I was lead to the grand dining room, it was beautifully arranged with thousand of paintings everywhere and a large table in the center of the room, it was already filled with food that looked delicious, at the head of the table was king Hee-Chul, and to his right was his newlywed bride, queen momo, I remember when I had heard the news, everyone was overjoyed at the wedding, especially Lalisa who had wanted them to end up together, well everyone wanted them to end up together ever since they were spotted together on the royal dinner which was held in my homeland last year, Lalisa would be very much overjoyed if she knew they were her uncle and aunt, shell find out soon.
I bowed to both the king and queen, the king waved his hand to his left indicating for me to take a seat there, which I did, I hadn't even sat down before he asked, '' before I ask anything else, how do I know you are who you say are'','' I can tell you something only you and whoever you told would now'', ''and what would that be'', ''your nice's name, Lalisa manoban, you had received a letter informing you about her birth, I was there when it was written'', the king was on the edge of his seat not believing it
without wasting another second he started asking one question after another, I couldn't answer the first one before the next one was asked, I stopped him with my hands and stuttered words, ''before I tell you anything further, I am here regarding our niece, she has been arrested for something she hasn't done, and I request your help in the matter, my magesty, I hope when it is disclosed that she is royalty she would be free and you could help pay for the stolen item'', I said with nervousness, since it was asking a lot for someone you had never met before
''ofcouse of course, Lalisa is my niece just as much she is yours, I would do anything for family'' he said with an expression that I could only say was a mix of pain and happiness, ''I cant wait to see her'', the king said with a sad smile on his face, '' though I must ask, why was she put to jail, what did she do'', there the question I was most worried of, '' well... umm..you see my majesty...'' I was cut off before I could say more, '' please we are family and you are much older then I feel free to call me Heechul'', ''Ummm okay Heechul.. well you see it was quite my fault as I had been sick and Lalisa had been working day and night, you see we are not very Ummm financially fit, I hadn't wanted to burden her with my sickness and soo umm I stole some medicine and was caught... Lalisa took my place in jail'', I said with nervousness and millions of stutters, and then went off on a rant to make my actions more sensible, but I was cut off mid-sentence again,'' just like her mother, she would always take the blame for whenever I would break something'', he said with a smile on his face remembering memories.
''We shall head out on sunrise to get my niece, but for now, let us eat, shall we'', that was not the reaction I was expecting when I would tell him that I was the reason that his niece was in jail because of me, and my face showed that, '' don't worry, I understand, you did what you did because you didn't want to burden your family more than you already had'', I looked with surprise and replied,'' you truly are Lalisa's uncle'', he smiled at me, then we all dug into our dinner, enjoying each other companies, as momo and Heechul told me all about their love story and wedding, I told them that Lalisa would love to hear that, and momo showed a lot of excitement on meeting her, I was sure they would be great friends as they were pretty close in age.
The dinner was terrific, many laughs and stories were shared and I was glad I had done this, however, there was one subject I was hoping to avoid, the death of the princesses.