Anastasia, Molly, and I have been grieving for 3 days, I kept asking Anastasia where are we? What happened to us? And what happened to Betty's body? She kept rejecting me and said wait for 3 days and all will be explained.
I'm already on my pink dress, freshly bathe even without their help eager to hear the answer to my questions.
Somebody opened the door, I could already tell that it's Anastasia by the scent
"Good morning your highness-"
"Good morning Anastasia, and I told you, Liezel or Lady, it's not like we're not friends"
"Your highness, please sit down"
You stubborn girl
I sat down the chair in front of her comfortably as Molly served us tea
"When we were headed to the banquet, you suddenly got lost, we decided to look for you and split the search, Betty headed to the banquet to see if you were there while Molly and I searched for you in the halls to see if you got lost, but when Betty got to the banquet, she accidentally discovered that the Land of the North, the Southern Kingdom is here to claim you," Anastasia said looking down as she played with the tea
"What? How could she be sure of that?" I put down the cup
"Because, your father, King Leewei of the Southern Kingdom attended your coming of age banquet"
So that's why the banquet was important, it was to celebrate my coming of age, and also, how old am I?
"She saw King Leewei and suspected trouble because he was the one who sent you to the Western Kingdom, and we all suspected it, you were sent there to learn beauty, proper etiquette, manner, history and managing politics, households, and scandals which is what a perfect to be queen or wife would do, even if you were already behave, they still wanted to enhance your skills on an empressing"
Betty is smart
"That really sums it all up"
"But, we were fooled, Betty mistook King Victor of the West Land as King Rataja of the North, so we were running away the wrong direction, it was a trap set by the King, your father, so we would run towards the West and avoid the North"
Father is really clever, I must have at least inherited his wits.
"So, we are in"
"The Western Land!" I stood up from my seat, "It all sums up now, wouldn't give me to the Northern Land because he has a bad relationship with King Rataja, there's no way father would give me to them because it'll be there win and fathers lost for giving a royal blood in the North and it'll make a relationship between to countries if he'd trade me"
"And it would be a greater benefit to trade me to a strong land that has the chances to destroy him and a good benefit for the kingdom to have a peace treaty by sending his daughter" I added
"But the strange thing is, would the East's Western Kingdom benefit as well? You are also the daughter of Queen Rayah" Anastasia wondered
"Your right Anastasia, is this a peace treaty for two?"
"I also assume, I have heard that the East's the Eastern Kingdom has formed an alliance with the East's the Western Kingdom, leaving the Southern Kingdom standing alone for the Northern Kingdom do not want to be involved in the Southern and Westerns Kingdoms fight" Anastasia stated
"And it all ends up me being a package, that father just gives away" I sighed
"I'm so sorry to hear that your highness" Anastasia held my hand trying to comfort me
"It's okay, at least I brought peace for the three countries"
"By the way, have you heard about the Eastern Kingdoms' big news?!" Molly's voice suddenly came out from nowhere that made Anastasia flinch
"God Molly, you almost gave me a heart attack" Anastasia nagged as she patted her chest
"I heard there eldest Princess isn't actually the eldest princess," Molly said as she stole a biscuit from Anastasia's plate
"You just heard Molly, it's not even confirmed" Anastasia shoved her hand away but Molly already picked up five biscuits
"It was rumored she was gifted by the sun itself" Molly gossiped as she shoved more biscuits in her mouth, "It said that her hair was half made out of gold, eyes that are yellow as the sun too, and most surprisingly, she had a pale skin"
Okay, that was weird, she explained it like the baby girl in my dreams.
"Pfft, why would they be surprised if she had pale skin? Isn't that being racist" Okay Liezel don't be too obvious, shut your mouth and just shove tons of biscuits in your mouth to shut yourself
"It was said in the prophecy that 'The the one blessed by the sun, shall be like the soil that you step on the ground, brown and fertile and I don't know what's next"
"Where did you even learn that Molly?" Anastasia asked
"To the Easter nomad that visited our Manor when I was eight"
"When you were right? You can't even remember Northern scriptures why to bother the Easter Land's East Scriptures?"
"First of all, it's not Eastern, and you came from the Western land!" Molly argued
"So?!" Anastasia shouted
It looks like they're about to beat each other up
"Stop it you guys, Betty just passed away and your acting like this when she's gone, how about we do a little tour tomorrow? Nothing bad, just, prepare me a beautiful dress and my favorite Jasmine perfume"
Was I too suspicious
"What are you gonna do your highness?"
Yup, I was too suspicious, and even innocent Molly suspected it
"I just told you, nothing, just a little tour, nothing bad"
Tomorrow is gonna be another pleasant day, I won't let this day waste like last week, I'll cherish my time here
To be continued...