Ten days from today would be when they would be coming to take her.
And the very thought was eating her away. Pacing back and forth in her chamber in the daytime and out hunting in the nighttime, could not put her mind off of from thinking about it.
Every night, passing by the border of the mirror forest, listening to the beasts howling and the whispers, she could not help but stand still, wondering if she should or should not dive right in.
She has stopped interacting with everyone. She had stopped being in the training field. She had stopped doing everything and anything that involved feeling alive.
Her mother, the Greay Queen noticed it yet she chose to ignore it and intrude being thankful that so far her strong-headed daughter had not taken any steps to ridicule the contract.
And it was enough for her to not care about anything else. If she could successfully summarize it by marrying her daughter off to the young Mortal Prince on the coming tenth day of this month, she would be able to close her eyes with relief after fifteen years of staying awake, even for a bit.
Meanwhile, Lavanya could not stop thinking about her last encounter with the Prince either when they were bidding each other farewell.
The palace was in chaos, preparing for the big day in the coming ten days. The kingdom was on a joyous note after fifteen years of breathing in and out, dreading about the approaching war in the next moment or anytime sooner.
Although not many had really got the chance to see the Princess from close by. Only a few glances when she would ride out to the borders with her expedition team to hunt the monsters escaping out from the Moribund lands.
But dressed in the warrior suit, nobody could tell which one was the Princess. She had stayed away from conducting royal community service.
It was something that the raven-haired vampiress had taken to her liking. Lavanya liked strolling the kingdom streets, going from town to town, village to village doing community service.
She was the familiar face to the kingdom people. A royal vampiress that they knew of, unlike the princess.
"Where is the Princess?"
"I believe in her chambers, my lady!"
The maid replied on the way. Lavanya nodded and headed in the same way. She needed to have a quick and important banter with the Princess before it was too late.
"Im sleeping!"
The Princess shouted, on hearing the constant knock on the door of her chamber. She did not want to meet or talk with anyone.
"Ambrosia, it is me! Lavanya. Open the door. It is an emergency!"
Lavanya resumed hitting her first against the wooden door from the other side. The maid beside her was shaking in fear that she let the lady barge inside and disturb the princess.
"Just take your nonsense to somewhere else, Lavanya. Im not in the mood!"
Ambrosia quickly dismissed her. Her mind was too occupied to even think about anything else or come to know about any other emergency other than the one she was duped into at the moment.
"All I ask is for a moment...you would not like me being here the entire day now would you?
Just a wee moment, that is all I ask for..."
Lavanya pressed and after a few times of insistence, Ambrosia finally gave up and opened the door for her to get inside.
"I tried to stop her..."
The maid looked apologetically at the Princess. Ambrosia dismissed her and Lavanya quickly got inside, closing the door behind her.
"Now what is it?"
Before Ambrosia could complete it, Lavanya interrupted her. And said something that even the Princess was not comprehending about.
"You want to escape?"
"I have a plan. But if you really want to escape then it is the right time because any more moments late, and I believe there would be no way you could do so."
Lavanya continued. Ambrosia was still processing as to why and what made Lavanya come to her aid or think of doing so.
They never shared anything similar even though they were cousins. There was nothing more about it than their relationship.
"I know you must be thinking why I m doing this...but that is not important as per the situation, not more than how successfully we execute the plan...now is it?"
Lavanya tried to draw the Princess's attention back. She could tell that Ambrosia was in deep thinking.
There had not been many instances where she could blindly trust the Raven-haired vampiress or, to begin with, do so.
It had always been Lucia. She was the one who came to her aid if not her father. But neither of them was alive and breathing then.
As Lavanya went on elaborating how they were going to put it into action of making the Princess leave without anyone's notice.
And Ambrosia listened to it silently, not uttering out a single word. It was amazing how much time and thinking, Lavanya must have invested to plan out such a plan.
It only indicated that she had been thinking about it a lot and not just in the nighttime.
"Why?
Why the sudden interest to help me out? "
Ambrosia could not help but ask. She needed to do so. Lavanya expected such a question to be thrown her way.
"Would you ever be able to be gentle with the Prince?"
The counter question made Ambrosia look back. Lavanya continued.
"You will outlive him.
All that he will ever know his whole life would be you...a wife that shares nothing with him, and feels nothing for him.
It is like the kind of life a pet lives...all they would ever know is their owner.
And if that is how things were to go, I would not want that for that humble gentle mortal Prince. "
Lavanya concluded. And she was thankful to have not received any kind counter reply from the Princess.
Only thankful that in the next moonlight, the Princess agreed to follow her plan, writing a letter to the raven-haired vampiress about her decision.
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