Princess Rayka was sitting in front of her mirror while her hand maid was combing her hair, her hand maid Maya said "milady your hair is so long, soft and beautiful"
"Hmmm is that why you take so much time in combing it" rayka replied with a smile
Maya eyes brighten "my lady you know I so much enjoy making your hair and this oil Princess Lillian gifted you is so nice for your hair"
"Yes" rayka replies has she remember her lovely sister
"I should also get her a gift very soon"
"Yes my lady, my lady there is something I want to talk to you about" maya suddenly look a little nervous
Princess Rayka stood up after maya was done combing her hair, she turn to her and asked "what is it maya"
"My lady I..."
They were interrupted by the knock at the door
"Come in"
A guard came in, he bow and informed" greetings your highness, the king has asked for you to join the rest of the family members for dinner"
Rayka frown because she doesn't like joining the family for any kind of meal, aside from her father and younger sister, she doesn't like to be in the presence of the other family members cause their conversation never end well, but she couldn't disobey the king.
She signed "ok I will be right there" she said to the guard and he left
"Why doesn't father always wants me to have dinner with people who despise me"
"Maybe his not doing it for others but himself, maybe he wants to spend some time with you to catch up, the king hasn't visited you for a while now because he has been very busy, i had our neighboring kingdoms are trying to wage war upon us"
Rayka was shock to hear this "is this true?"
"Yes your highness I got this information from a reliable source" maya smiled as if she had done something great.
Rayka smirk "you mean you got the information from your lover soldier"
Maya eyes widened has she blush, she quickly rebuke it.. "he is not my lover"
"Yet" Rayka replied teasing
Maya quickly brought them back to the subject.. "the king is trying to handle this issue as soon as possible without going to war with the other kingdoms, war is never a good thing there are too many lives lost" maya signed sadly,
though she has never experience war, she has had stories about it and they are all horrible.
A look of worried appeared on princess rayka beautiful face, she said "i will talk to my father about it" she was surprise she just found out something this important about the kingdom from her maid, she wonder why her father never spoke about it to her.
At the dinner hall
Immediately Rayka enter the dinner hall there was tension in air, Queen Erica and princess Anaya glared at her, Rayka sign internally 'this again'.
She bow to her father and step mother "good evening father" king Edward smile and nodded at her,
She also bow to the queen "good evening mother" queen Erica ignore her and Rayka ignore Anaya who was glaring at her, she smile at her younger sister Lillian whom also smile back at her only to receive a glare from her mother.
Rayka sat down and her father asked her.. "how have you been my dear child, I'm sorry I haven't had chance to visit you and your sisters, have been so busy lately"
"I understand father, the kingdom comes first" she gave him a lovely smile.