faes went back to her castle. the royal palace was made of lots of small castles, each belonging to a certain person or served as an official building. the main official building though was at the center and was also the place where her father lived.
surrounding it were the smaller official castles and then training areas, library, etc. and then came the residential area of the royals. each royal was given a castle to them her mother, sister brother and she herself had one whole castle to herself. the building was made up of stone and concrete and was painted pink! faes frowned as she glanced at the pink building and the people going in and out of it glancing at her curiously. they didn't even bother to greet her! their princess!
faes ignored those stares for now and took a look at the garden, at least it was not decorated in pink and had lots of plants, thankfully of various variety, if there were only pink plants she would have destroyed this place until now.
"you highness?" eli was also frowning and squirming uncomfortably from all the stares. well they were all eye catching as all her companions were charming. currently though only eli, gray and robin were with her.
still the servants of the castle were eyeing them curiously.
"ignore them, let's go inside" faes was uncomfortable too but she had to deal with this sooner or later; [sooner was better than later]
just as they entered the castle they were greeted by another wave of pink. there were pink flags hanging on the wall, the flowers in the vase were pink, the carpets were pink, even the sofa set and curtains were pink.
[i should just burn it all] faes glared at the pink objects.
"excuse me!" just as she was going to burn all those pinks, a voice sounded. it belonged to a middle aged lady who was wearing pink dress. a very frilly and lace covered revealing pink dress.
"who are you and how dare you enter this castle without permission? don't you know this castle belongs to her royal highness second princess of kingdom altai? get out!" the lady spoke as she was frowning and eyeing them. gray had already stood in front of her to keep her safe while eli and robin exchanged worried and displeased glances.
"lady, this here is her royal highness princess faes monesterio von altai, if you don't even recognize your lord how dare you work in her palace, and who are you?" eli spoke in a cold tone.
"her? princess faes? heh! what a joke?" the lady glanced at faes and narrowed her eyes.
"faes is a small stupid girl. she wears dumb clothes and always carry around a little teddy. she don't even know how to talk properly! how can she be faes?" the lady spoke making faes sigh.
"you don't believe me? then go ahead and call your princess." faes glared at the lady. she remembered this was the head maid of this castle named martha.
she was the main reason faes was beaten up and misunderstood. this lady here always mistreated faes and even gave her disgusting food to eat.
"how can i disturb my princess just because you ask me to? who are you? get lost" Martha glared at them but did not attack because gray was standing there wearing his knight uniform looking intimidating.
"you dare talk like that to your princess?" another voice sounded followed by a few sets of footsteps.
faes turned around to glance at the newcomers. it was alex and nia with their guards and aide.
both of them have seemed to have heard everything and were glaring at Martha.
"your highness!" Martha grew flustered as she bowed. faes was thankful that she at least recognized the other two royal kids.
"Martha, you have served my sister ever since she was born, yet you couldn't even recognize her anymore after she was away for a while? and is that how you treat others?" alex glared at Martha who shook her head nervously
"your highness, it's not that. its just i was surprised because her highness had companions, and was not wearing a pink dress" Martha spoke. faes glared at her.
[bitch, if i don't wear pink i am not a princess? what dipshit logic was that?]
"just because i don't wear pink does not mean i am not myself!" faes spoke in a cold tone making everyone turn towards her.
"yes princess faes" Martha nodded and gulped when she met faes eyes but she still did not give the necessary respect.
"and that's her royal highness princess faes to you, i am not your friend or relative to speak that casually to me. call each and every servant, maid, guard, butler, everyone who works and lives in my castle here now. if they are not here in five minutes then they can forget about working here anymore" faes glared at Martha who nodded and left.
"thank you bother alex, sister nia!" faes turned to the two. the two kids were still frowning. displeased
"is that how these guys normally behaved with you? is that why you ran away?" alex asked without beating around the bush. making faes sigh.
"no, they did not treat me like that" faes shook her head but before the two kids relaxed she dropped the bomb named reality on them
"they treated me worse than that. and yes that is one of the reason i left." faes met her sibling's eyes as the later turned shocked.
"what do you mean worse?" nia asked
"do you really want to know?" faes asked in return.
alex and nia exchanged glances before nodding.
it seem like faes had to speak the truth. it was time anyways~
"then lets talk while sitting" faes turned towards the sofa, despite it being pink they currently had no other choice.
once seated faes began her summary, though creating a barrier around the three of them. yes, she did not include eli gray and robin.
"when i was here, you guys gave me everything you though i would like. i am thankful for that but have you ever asked what i wanted? what i needed?"
"still that was tolerable, the behavior of my family turned dismissal as if they didn't care about what i spoke or do. the servants began to treat me badly. at that time i was naive, at first i didn't recognize it but as it went on the treatment went worse.
do you know i hate the colour pink?
i lived as a prisoner in this place. my bedroom was luxurious sure but it was old. the dresses you gave me were merely for decoration, the jewelry i haven't even seen them properly before they were taken away by the maids. the clothes too, other than a few sets they too were taken away. the gifts you guys gave me were snatched away from me. i was given food worse than a beggar's, when i asked to study books i was told that i was a waste and couldn't learn how to read.
when i asked about magic, i was called useless
when i asked to learn fighting and using weapons, i was beaten up.
do you know what i did? i complained to my family. i told them i was being mistreated, i was getting beaten up. but what did they do?
what did you do?
you heard the servants, who labelled me as a spoiled dumb and useless princess. they told you that they were even being mistreated by me!
when you guys came to visit me, they would dress me up and put lots of makeup to make me look ugly and cover up the bruises. when you left i was thrown in the room aboundened.
in winter, i didn't had a proper shawl to cover myself up, i got sick with high fever but no one gave me medicine. in summer i didn't even had cool water to drink.
as the time grew i began hating each and every one here. why? because it wasn't love anymore; they simply wanted to discard me. there were even times i was almost raped! i was told to do work, cleaning, washing dishes, watering the plants. i did almost everything while the servants enjoyed the luxury as if they were royals.
i can't stand the disrespect and humiliation anymore hence i left. this place wasn't a home to me but a form of hell.
today i am here to take my revenge"
faes finished. she was angry, and can even feel tears forming in her eyes but she didn't cry. oh it wasn't her time to cry anymore but it was time to make other's cry.
she observed alex and nia. they were stunned speechless. both had tears in their eyes and were deeply thinking about something.
when faes glanced around and noticed the servants gathered she knew it was time to deal with them. she stood up,
"i would show them how a spoiled royal princess can be, with a twist. i have forgiven the royal family but as for these servants, they will be begging for death when i am done with them"