I opened my eyes and saw I was flying. It was like my soul was separated from my body, I watched everyone in the throne room suddenly panic as I passed out and gathered around my body. My soul keeped flying higher and higher so that I could see the dreadful village near the castle. I realized that not just one village has terrible shape but all the villages in this kingdom were in horrible condition. I was so frightened about the stability and condition of this kingdom.
All sudden I heard a voice.
"So you have come….. Please follow my voice!"
I followed the voice and saw a village to another village in a terrifying condition and It was so distressing. Eventually I had to face a white figure.
"Who are you?" I said with a concerned tone.
"My name is not a necessary, and my kind is not a necess-"
"If you can't provide me with your information, just tell me what you want."
"You.. mortal.. is.. so.. impatient, this is why you mortal do not live longer. You are the mortal that I summoned you to restore this land."
"Summon you said? What happened to my real body?"
"Your real body is fine, the 1 year here equals 1 second in your former world, let me ask you a question, mortal one, do you want to restore this land? Yes or no."
"What will happen if I say no?"
"I will send you back to your former world, mortal one. If you say yes I will send all the information of this world and I will give you a gift in the form of power, a power that you can control all types of spirit."
So, I was the savior of this land, in my life, I never experienced anything like this before. What am I gonna do? Accept it and restore this land or refuse it and go back to my world.
Think…Think….Think….There is no former me anymore, but I will be Caroline and this body will be mine. I was just 33 years old in the previous world and now I take this 15-year-old body, My 4 years old career as civil servant, and now I become a princess. Well, this is a nice adventure, I am just a middle-aged woman who is still single because of my civil servant career. I will leave my Amelia name, and now I will live as Caroline the Princess.
"Mortal one, have you made up your mind?"
"Y..es, let me become this land rescuer and become your savior, champion or apostle. What are you calling it, no matter who you are or what you are? If you said that I am the one, let me accommodate that task. That I will live as princess for this body, I will leave my own name."
"Well, mortal one, I will grant you the power to control spirits, there are a lot of types of spirits in this land, and you will encounter it in your journey to restore this land. Every spirit has a small task for you, if you fulfill the task they will acknowledge you as their master. But let me tell you one thing, mortal one, magic is so rare in this world. If someone knows you can do magic, the kingdom will exploit you, and the people who have magic are people like you. A God or Goddess or even A Demon recognizes someone and gives them power, so you must be careful with these people, they could harm you because of your power."
"Yes, I understand."
Suddenly a lot of white figures surrounded me, and I looked above and there was a bright light.
"If you understand…." all the white figures drawn like a sword of light above me.
"FOR THIS DAY, I the Goddess of Wisdom Saggesse admire you as my champion to restore this land, so be I will grant you the power to control and see spirits, and information about this world even information that mortals don't know and your body memories, You, Mortal one, for now we all the Gods and Goddess will call you Haelend it means my healer and my savior."
A light stun me and I see everything about this land. Corruption, Greedy, Slavery, everything about this land is horrible. The kingdom that my father and my mother of this body reign was the kingdom that created all these things. This information was so overwhelming that I could not handle it anymore, a blank space suddenly appeared.
"This information is overwhelming, but you will encounter this information in your journey. I am the God of Wisdom who will oversee you, hope this land is getting better in your hands."
My body was falling from the sky.
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I open my eyes in this dark place.
"Arghhhhhhhhh" I woke up, looked around and realized that I was in the bedroom.
For a long time, this kingdom faced the same problem again and again but the nobles didn't resolve it, but to make it worse, what the hell they are thinking. This body already sustains all this problem, and why my hands were shaking, my teeth were shivering, it was like I just met a ghost. Maybe this was the reaction of this body that she knew about this kingdom's sin. An old maid came to my room with some cookies and milk. She saw that I had a frightened and worried face, I was covered by a blanket and I was terrified.
"What's the matter, your highness?"
I mumbled with a low tone "What is this? What is this feeling? Is this feeling of being horrible? And why am I here?"
That maid was confused and saw me with a frightened face and my teeth kept shivering. She sat in the bedroom beside me and gently grabbed my hands.
"What do you mean by horrible? What do you mean about your feelings? And what do you mean about your existence?"
I saw her, she had a warm and beautiful smile but was that smile fake? There was a lot of corruption in nobles, so the commoner should be angry. She suddenly gently stroked my hair.
"Is it about your flee from the castle or something else? You are a princess, a Princess must not act like that, a Princess must act tough about everything."
I immediately stood up and burst my thoughts "WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT? IS YOUR SMILE TO ME A LIE? I SAW EVERYTHING ABOUT THIS KINGDOM FROM THE HISTORY OF THIS KINGDOM UNTIL CONDITION OF THIS KINGDOM. Can you at least tell me one truth? IS YOUR SMILE TO ME A LIE? AND IS THIS THE FEELING BEING A PRINCESS? I JUST DON'T UNDERSTAND EVERYTHING."
I saw her face and was shocked by how I acted and how I said it. It was like this was her first time seeing a princess angry. She smiled and lured her hands beside the bed.
"My princess, could you sit down beside me?"
I got down from bed and sat beside her.
"I know that this kingdom still faces a big problem, starving people everywhere and dying people everywhere but when I saw you acting like this, I saw a bright future of this kingdom and future of you. When you said my smile was a lie because you are a princess that is not really true, all the maids in this castle act like they do so they smile with their sincerity because it is you, my princess. We hope that our act of kindness makes you strong and not blind about who you are, and that's working right now when I see you from the entrance of the castle. You handed the towel to your maid, not to you and you saw that your maid was so tired. So there is no lie in our smile for you and we always hope for the best for you."
I gently held her hand with warmful smile "I don't know what to say, all the maids in here aren't part of my family. It's like they are strangers to me but I was wrong from the beginning that they were part of my family all along."
She immediately hugged me "Family is not about bond by blood, maybe I don't have the same blood as your highness, but your highness is like my own daughter, so if you have any problem, you can tell me, your highness."
From that warm hug, I started to cry…..
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After a quiet time,
I saw her leave my room and blow out the candle room "Good night and have a nice dream, my princess."
I held my blanket and stared at the rooftop. But my hand kept shivering, I took off my blanket and lifted my hands, seeing that my hands kept trembling. I pushed my hands to my chest and held it tight. Tears was dropping from my eyes, I lifted my head to the window and laughed with tears dropping.
"Haha,,,, This feeling, this emotion, and this world are not making any sense at all, and why am I laughing and crying at the same time?"
I got up from my bed with my hands still on my chest, walked toward the windows, tears kept dropping step by step as I walked.
Lunar luminance came to my room so bright that it almost covered my room. I opened my windows and leaned my head up, saw the grace of ocean stars with their mother moon fully appeared in the middle of waves that I had never seen before.
I sat beside the windows with shivering hands on her chest and dropping tears. The blowing of night winds relaxed me a bit. Sooner or later I closed my eyes and my hands dropped from my chest until I fell asleep.
An hour later, the earlier maid came to my room to check on me, and saw me sleeping beside the window. The maid saw a beautiful princess with a bright smile, her white hair brightening the room like the brightness of her future. She couldn't say how beautiful what she saw and felt that the princess was the savior of this kingdom. The maid carried me to the bed and lifted the blanket.