The sound of the orchestra starts to play, and an evildoer looking like an angel came from backstage wearing a fluffy white dress.
The people rose from their seats and even the Queen and King that were in the guest of honor balcony shared a beautiful smile and a kind of elegant applause.
The darling little child had the little magic device to amplify the voice in her hand, of course, an invention of Wizard Druon, with 90% of the skill of Assistant Druon, and 100% idea of Anne.
"Good evening, honored guests," the little girl began to say, her cute voice was a shot of sweetness to every single guest of the venue.
"I want to thank every one of you for coming tonight with your most beautiful attires to congratulate my mom…"
The Queen took the hand of the King strongly, her eyes were wide and a tear was beginning to show up.
"And I am very happy that many of you are participating in the contests, it means a lot to me."
Again a row of applause.
"I want to share with you a little something I just learn…
Two words, in fact, Endurance and Faith, those that my teacher tried to teach me, she said that I have to have endurance when my mom doesn't want me to eat that many cakes…
And Faith in Moira, for her to be better at baking cakes and for her to help me pass them through the window… just kidding… *cough*
but also, my tutor, Mrs. Tate, wanted to teach me a story, a legend of our country. I told her that I already read it, but she told me it, either way, she said:
Anne, Endurance, and Faith are words that represent our history, especially the mighty hero of the very first years of our Kingdom that founded the first city and later called it Lith. No one believed that he would ever do that incredible achievement in just a few years, but his people had faith in him and in his incredible endurance.
Then not many years passed when the same hero guided the lost people in the middle of the desert. They were just walking like nomads without direction, and he turned them into a stable town. What a great hero! Then not much later, the small town became the dreamland for many other lost people.
No one believed him at first, but only his family and friends had faith in him. He endured the brutality of the weather, the horrible remarks and harsh criticisms of the neighboring towns, and the constant attempts against his life and his people's lives. But he endured… however, the hardest part was the endurance on the faith.
They believe that the mighty hero was… a man, when the one, the hero that made all those amazing things was… a woman."
The town exploded in applause as they knew well the legend of their country.
"We have wizards… kind of strange wizards that we consider national treasures… more likely national free paid workers for the sake of humanity, whose of them wouldn't want that greatest honor."
"We have knights… those enduring people that love to protect the many in this country and… of course, serve as good watchers of our city and the wizards that like to escape."
"We have nobles… those that make politics, good people, the finest kind, congratulate yourselves, come on, we all love nobles… they are the funniest people of them all. And I have to say the nobles of Lith are truly remarkable, they give jobs to our people and help create policies to make Lith prosperous, just and free… though, their most outstanding achievement is, of course, that they are super entertaining… the 'Whisper Lady' [a weekly publication of the High-Class life of Lith] is my every day dote of laugh… and for that, thank you, thank you so much all of you. I hope you have more wonderful life stories. I want to read them all. And… on that note, Madame Lu, you are the greatest joke… *cough* dress designer. "
"And then we have commoners, but I don't like to call them that, but chefs, doctors, housekeepers, drivers, gardeners, detectives, people who like to play in the park with their children, people who like to walk their dogs and live in peace in this beautiful Lith of us… sigh the simple life."
"But what would we ever have without the ones that ensured to keep our life as it is, peaceful.
The Dukes and Ministers… I don't have many things to say about them… they need a lot of work… sigh… but we love them too.
But most importantly, the ones on that seat over there right now,"
She signaled to the balcony and waved a hand.
"Mommy, you are my hero."
The applause didn't wait for Anne to step away from the platform. Then she made a small bow and went away, however, the Queen was already in tears.
"She… she called me mommy, she called me mommy."
"…"
The King looked at his wife, now he knew the true gift for the night.
'That smart evildoer did it, tch…' he had already stolen the gift from her hands, his dear nephew that was permitted to come out from the Academy, even though the rules didn't allow it. He was to make an appearance tonight on the call of Anne, but the King managed to steal the little boy from her hands.
However, now… the Queen's heart was stolen.