Rules To Follow by Mother aka Queen Selene
1) Never open your window or go out into the city
2) Don't talk to any outsiders
3) Don't fall in love with any soldiers
4) Stay in your room at all times
These are the rules I have lived by for 17 years and a half and I still don't know why. My mother is Queen Selene of Aetherasia and my father died when I was born which left me and my mom alone with the maids and butlers and soldiers that guard the castle. As I set my tea down on my table I think back to a day when I was 10 years old and still didn't like it inside because I really wanted to go outside.
Flashback:
"But mum I want to see outside!" I jump up and down on my feet in the kitchen lobby way
Mother bends down and picks me up "It's very dangerous out there and we don't want any bad guys to capture you and kill you"
My eyes bulged "I am never going outside!"
End Of Flashback
I smile as I hear a knock on my bedroom door
I get up and crack it open careful not to make any noise since my mother is down the hall with her door open.
A boy about my age or a little older stands there with his head down and he's holding a notebook with a binding lock around it.
"You left this in the library, Princess" he bows down
I take it from him and our fingers touch as they do I feel an electric shock at my thumb.
He smiles as he stands back up and his eyes seem to change color before he speaks "Have a good night, Princess"
"Wait!" I grab his arm and he stops
"Yes?"
"Take me to the garden, Sir" I tell him
"Your not allowed to go outside or into the courtyard, Your Highness" he frowns
I tug his sleeve "Please, I'm begging you to take me there now"
He sighs "I can try to but we might get caught"
I grab his arm and he leads me from my bedroom to the first floor gardens. He takes my hand and I flinch
"Don't touch me, Sir" I take my hand back
He lets his arm go to his pockets and then we reach the entrance to the gardens. I notice a blue glow from inside the door and deep in the gardens but can't make out exactly what it is. I open the door and walk faster and make it to an area with a guy reading a book with a blue flashing light and as I get closer he looks up from the book.
"Hello" I smile as I sit next to him
He turns to me and his bright blue eye and green eye pierce into mine.
"Are you okay?" I ask
He stares blankly at me and I sigh
"Do you speak English at all?" I try and peak at his book but he closes it back up
"I speak Spanish, why is there a reason you need me?" he arches an eyebrow
I shake my head "No I'm just bored" I start to feel like someone is watching me so I look around at the surroundings and the trees. I spot yellow eyes in the bushes and shrink closer to the guy. A big wolf comes out of the bushes and limps towards me and the guy. The guy see it and smiles "Hi, Julian"
The wolf barks and it pushes it's head up against my hand. I hear a voice in the gardens and my mother comes over to me with a very mad expression.
She grabs me by my arm "What did I tell you?!"
I wince against her hold on my arm "No going outside...."
She basically drags me to the door and she takes a sword from the sheathe at her hip and points it at the guy who helped me.
"Take him to the cells and take the other boy too, along with the weird wolf!" she orders to the other knights
When we get to my room she slams the door and yells at me "That man is gonna be put on the stake if that's what I have to do to teach you a lesson!"
She stomps to the door and locks it on the outside and I fall back on my bed.
I think about the guys and how they seemed to brighten up once they saw me for the first time in a while. The first guy who came to my room had a name tag that said Trent Williamson. The second guy had no name tag so I never got to meet him and know him. I close my eyes and eventually drift to sleep.