At the prince's chamber. The prince came out nakedly from the bathtub that he had been sitting in for some minutes, he collected a long towel from the male servant that was standing beside the bathtub and used it to wrap his body. He sat down on the bed, stretched his leg on a small curved wood and waiting for the male servants to take care for him.
The male servants that was in the room with him were three in number and they had become his personal maids, it was his chamber that they used to be and provides anything he needs for him. Ha-Neul too was in the room with them, standing at the entrance door, wearing army's uniform and with his sword inside his pocket. He was Prince's guard and also his friend at the same time; he was chooses by the King for him to be guarding him around and makes sure he safe so as time goes on they become friends and makes it far from ordinary guard.
"You will be served immediately you get to the living room my Prince" One of the servant standing and just assisting others said. Prince didn't say a word just looking at them.
"Ha-Neul! My sister will arrived today and I can't wait to see her, I have really miss her even I don't know how I will suffer if she gone finally!" Prince said and Ha-Neul just giggles from where he was.
"I just can't wait to see her!" he removed his legs from the crafted wood and stood up.
"Same here my Prince!" Ha-Neul said with low voice. The Prince faced his back to the servant, he wore the cloth for him from behind, and he adjusted it everywhere by himself and leaving the room. The guards at the door opened the door for them and coming out.
"Are you going to the living room now to have your breakfast?" Ha-Neul asked they got down to the compound and stopped walking.
"No! I want to go and see Thaniya first!" He replied, Ha-Neul too wanted to see Thaniya before and he had been looking for a way to do that but he couldn't leave the Prince so he was happy to hear that.
"Okay! Let go then, she will be in her room, I think" He said with low voice and two of them continued walking. He likes Thaniya but just trying to hind his own away from everyone including Thaniya.
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Thaniya was looking at herself from the mirror hanged on the wall at the maid's room and checking how fit and beautiful the maid's cloth was on her body. The cloth was short gown just got to her kneels and had a long tin ropes used as a design on it. Thaniya's uniform was blue and white in colour and that was the same colour for others except form their head which was blue-black but the same pattern and the same design.
Thaniya took her eye away from the mirror, turned back and facing the Head of the maids. She looked at her from head to toes as she turned to her and with a smile on her face.
"Wow! This is so lovely! It really fit you, it be like already made!" The head said with smile and Thaniya just smiled, putting her hands beside her and standing like a student at the front of her teacher.
"Let go to the kitchen and introduced you to others!" She looked at Thaniya again, turned back and leaving the room. Thaniya too followed her and walking behind her.
Sound of the door closed. The Prince and Ha-Neul came out from Thaniya's room after checking everywhere in the room but couldn't find her. Two of them got down from the guest's chamber, thinking of where she could be or went to when a maid passed beside them.
"Stop! Where is Thaniya?" The Prince stopped the maid with loud voice.
"The lady from the jungle! That is who he is asking for!" Ha-Neul explained better.
"Head and Choon-Hee came to take her to the Queen an hour ago, I don't know if they are still there or at somewhere else. My Prince!" The maid replied.
"Mother! Called her, you can go" The maid bow a little and leaving the place. The prince looked at Ha-Neul for few minutes and faced back.
"Let go to mother!" He continued walking and two of the walking beside each other.
"What did she call her for, she has never like her!" Prince said with low voice but Ha-Neul didn't say anything just keeps walking.
Thaniya, Maid, prince and Ha-Neul jammed each other at the T-junction that leads to the kitchen, Queen's chamber and the King's chamber. The prince and Ha-Neul were surprised as they saw the maid's uniform on Thaniya's body and looking at her with a great surprise.
"What is this? What is a maid's uniform doing on her body? What does this mean?" Prince asked with loud voice.
"It's the order by the Queen! My prince, said she should join us" The maid replied.
"This is not right now! I didn't bring her to become a palace's maid now!" Said with loud voice.
"Prince! I think there is nothing wrong with that. We just saved her life from the wild animals that she has been with in the jungle, not that she is here for a purpose, so it will good for her to just be. Even now she will be able to relate and know more about people!'" Ha-Neul said.
"I am okay with this my Prince, thank you!" Thaniya said with low voice.
"Fine!, I have checked you in your room, how are you? And you, where are you taking her to?"
"To just introduced her to other and show how something!" The head of the maid replied.
"After that! Thaniya I will like to talk to you" Said with smile and Thaniya just shook her head. The maid bow for the Prince and her and Thaniya leaving them, the Prince was looking at Thaniya's back and smiling with likes and love showed all over him.
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Sound of horses riding into the palace and the two horses were attached to a carriage. The men on the horses were wearing guard's clothes and the lady inside the carriage was the Princess. She was wearing a very lovely, beautiful and very quality dragon's wrapper and putting a small transparent hat on her head and packed her long hair up and using the hat to cover it.
The men stopped riding the horse and two of them got down, the man at the right hand side went to the carriage, shifted the curtain and talking to the Princess that they had arrived. The princess didn't say anything just getting down from the carriage and the man supported her to get down; the Princess's face was looking like someone that was happy at all from where she was coming from.
"Welcome back my Princess!" Choon-Hee said with smile as she ran to her. She looked at the guards that came with her when she didn't see her smiling back at her.
"Where is father? In his chamber?" That was the first word she utter out and said with low voice.
"The King is having meeting with the elders and there with your cousin as well my Princess!" Choon-Hee replied her.
"Okay! To my room, need a bath before anything!" She held the two edges of the gown that she was wearing on and climbing the staircase up, the long down was rolling with her and Choon-Hee followed her going to her room together.
Sound of the door opened by a maid and entered the kitchen were the Head and Thaniya were introducing her to others. Thaniya was standing beside the Head of the Maids when others were standing at the front of them.
"Thaniya! Will just be helping you with firewood every morning that is her own work except if I have another work to give her!" She was talking when the maid got to the front of her.
"Our head, the Princess as arrived and need you for her bath!" She said with respect.
"Okay! Thaniya let us go so that you will be learning more from there!"
"And please be fast with the Princess's food" Talked to other maids and leaving the kitchen with Thaniya.
Choon-Hee was in the Princess's bedroom and she had been preparing the bathing water for her inside the bathtub, add skin care oils inside the water and other treatment that she could needs. The Princess was sitting on the bed and Choon-Hee.
Sound of the door and closed, the head of the maids and Thaniya entered the room.
"I greet you my Princess! Welcome back to the Kingdom" Head of the maids bow as she greeted, Thaniya just greeted her normal and looking at her. The Princess was normal in stature, very beautiful and white in complexion. She was the same age with Thaniya, they were both twenty years.
"Who is she?" Princess asked with low voice.
"Her name is Thaniya! She was rescued by the Prince and other armies from a jungle and brought her here, just arrived yesterday and now she has been among the maids. My Princess" Replied and bow.
"It's time to come and bath my Princess!" Choon-Hee said.
"Okay! Welcome to the palace Thaniya!" Said with low voice and offing her cloth.
The head of the maids and Choon-Hee were shocked as they saw different scars on the Princess's body and which were not there before she gone. Thaniya too was looking at it and thinking what could happen to her there.
"What is going on?" Princess said as she entered into the bathtub, the maids took their eyes away from that and walked closed to her and started bathing for her. Thaniya was just standing at the same spot and watching what they were doing.
After few minutes. Princess came out from the bathtub, put her legs on the foot mat on the floor and collected the towel from Choon-Hee, going back to her bed. She sat down on the bed, head of the maid knelt down with her and massaging oils on her smooth and clear skin.
Choon-Hee took another long and beautiful gown to them, Princess collected it from her hand and wearing it. Head of the maids assisted her to adjust it, went to her back and helped her to treat her hair. Removed the band, copped it to the back for her and oil it.
The princess looked at herself again in the mirror and left the place, head of the maids put the mirror down on the table and leading her out. Thaniya and Choon-Hee were walking behind them and leaving the bedroom going to the living room.
The guards at the entrance to the living room's door greeted her and opened the door for her. They had set the table with different foods and fruit for her; the maids including Thaniya stepped back as she sat down and standing far from her. They saw the door opened again and the Queen entering.
"Just heard that you have arrived! Welcome back my Princess!" Queen said as she got to where she was and two of them hugged each other.
"Wow! You are looking fresh and more beautiful my daughter!" Queen said with smiles and sat down opposite to her.
"I don't think I can marry that Man!" She said with low voice.
"What kind of a talk is that? Your father should not hear that" Queen said loudly. None of the servant were hearing their conversations except from Thaniya.
"That guy is a monster! I can't marry him except if you want me dead!" She complained bitterly.
"Getting married to him, do you know what that will bring to this kingdom? It will add to the power of this Kingdom and to Jae-Hwa's family as well. What happened between you and him?"
"He is insane! Not normal. How can a reasonable man said what he enjoyed most is painful sex, if you look at my body now its full with different scars!" Said loudly and with anger.
"That can't stop you for not getting marry to him!" Princess looked at her mother.
"After getting my married to him, if you see you can't cope again then kill him and be the Queen!"
"What Mom! What is now the reason of getting marriage to him from the first instance, if you are advising me now to kill him or one of us should later die? That is not right!"
"Listen to me! Don't you know the honor that is there to be the ruler of a kingdom, it's when you married to him that you can be the Queen. So if you see you can't take it anymore, kill him and become the Queen. Forever the throne as become yours!" Princess shook her head.
"I can't believe what I am hearing from you Mo--------"Queen stopped her with loud voice.
"This is not what you will tell your father, brother or anybody. I am telling you how to become a strong woman. Be just a Queen under a man is not like be the crown Queen on your own. In this kind of situation you will go for the higher thing not to just jeopardies everything!" The Queen was very a dangerous woman.
"Be a strong woman my daughter! Marry him for the throne not for marriage or love!" She faced her daughter very well and said with low voice. The Princess didn't even know what to say.