Father gestured for me to sit down and so I did as I walked over to a piece of furniture we had to sit with. I didn't know what to think of what they were going to tell me. Anai said I was the Nile Princess which I hadn't fully understood what that meant yet. The word betrothed had come up now and I waited for father to begin.
"Bre, Amelia come here." Father said
My sisters came in the room and sat over by me as they probably had to hear this too. We all looked at each other curious as we had always been together so it made sense that we would learn this together. I still was getting anxious about what they were going to say.
"To start we are royalty." Mother said
"Royalty?" Bre asked
"Yes, you each have titles given to you base on which Goddess blessed you with a gift or if you were born normal then you are just a prince of princess of the land." Father said
"Really?" Bre and Amelia asked excited
"We don't need to go over all the titles right now, but we do need to talk about the one that has been found out." Father said
"Mine?" I asked
"Yes." Father said "You are the Nile Princess, a legend has been passed down for a long time of your birth and what you would bring."
My sisters looked at each other as they placed their hands over their birthmarks. Bre had one on her arm and Amelia had one on her collarbone area. Then they looked at me where we couldn't see any such birthmark on me. I placed my hand on the amulet around my neck.
"Do I have a birthmark?" I asked
"You do." Father said "On your back where it isn't so easy to tell." I wondered why I was different in where my birthmark was, I overheard people talking about birthmarks. How they could be on the face, arms, legs, stomach but the back was such a rare spot to even consider. While I could conceal the mark clearly with my hair it was still a bit worrisome. Father had me stand up as he walked over and he placed his hand right on my back near my left shoulder. I wondered if I was the only one that had a birthmark in such a strange place. I figured father would have more to say but he ended up letting us go on and have a little fun.
Mother had a job for us to do as she had some eggs that needed to be delivered to a close by house. Bre and I offered to go and Amelia wanted to stay home so we went ahead taking the eggs. As we walked we had to keep our hoods up and we knocked on the door. We were surprised when a lady around mother's age answered the doors.
"Hello girls, you must be Azeneth's twins." The lady said
"Yes, mama said you needed some eggs." I said
"Indeed I do." She said accepting the eggs we had for her.
I noticed behind her was a little girl around our age behind her and I waved a little. The girl was a little shy but she waved back and the woman smiled. She pushed her daughter around her and pushed her a little towards us.
"This is Nahla, my daughter. She is around your age and she doesn't have many friends." The lady said
"Hi, I am Britt and this is Bre." I said introducing us
Nahla was very nervous around us but she smiled as she realized we were not meaning her harm. She looked up at her mom who smiled at all of us.
"Well we should get going but Nahla why don't we hang out tomorrow." I said "it was nice meeting you miss." I said to her mom
"My name is Sabina, if you're going to be delivering eggs more often best not be strangers." Sabrina said "Yes, I agree." I said then looked at Nahla "bring your friends, we'd love to meet them."
"Ok see you tomorrow." Nahla said as we waved to her
Bre and I were walking for awhile and I was thinking about what happened in the water. I wondered what Anai wanted to tell me and would I still see her again. I had much to learn about my power that was for sure and I still didn't know who my betrothed was but that was all in due time. I was a child and I didn't need to worry about things. My thoughts were thrown off when I bumped into someone as I saw a girl with a cloak having some bread.
"S-Sorry.." She said before getting up and running off
I wanted to say something but then an adult came over to us and asked if we saw a girl with a cloak and bread. We shook our heads no and of course he didn't think us suspicious since we were always wearing our own cloaks. When he walked away we decided to walk back home.
"Maybe we should have said something to the man." Bre said
"No, something tells me she is stealing to survive." I said
"Well maybe we find a way to make it where she doesn't have to." Bre said
"We are only kids, what can we do?" I asked
My question lingered for a bit but we just walked in where mom and dad was sitting with Akholm and Amelia telling a story. We walked over and sat down as we listened to the story. Then we had dinner before going to bed.
The next morning Bre and I went about the day like we would any other day. Helping with the eggs and dealing with what was needed. I was glad that it seemed to be going so well and when we got the chance after we were done we went to meet with Nahla.
We walked until we saw Nahla with a group of three other girls as we walked over. Nahla was the one who surprised me this time as she hugged me when she saw us. Bre was even surprised by her boldness when it came to the behavior.
"You made it." Nahla said "Of course." I said
"These are my friends Maeve, Hana, Olivia." Nahla said
"Hi." Bre and I said "I am Britt and this is my twin sister Bre."
"Nice to meet you, let us all be friends." Maeve said with her hand out to us
Bre and I were glad to be invited into a group of girls that we could call friends. We realized we didn't have to be alone or work on the ranch all the time.