I saw the people in the throne room's faces were shocked and angered by what I had said.
"MY DAUGHTER, Do you understand what you just said?" Father was trying to compose.
"Yes, my father."
"If you know what you just said, why do you ask for that?"
"What I remember, Louis always took care of me when I was outside the castle, so it will be great if he will be the knight to escort me."
Mother suddenly spoke "But he is just a commoner, you understand right? That commoners can't become the knight of the kingdom, only knights from nobility can swear oath and royalty to the kingdom."
"But, what if he does not swear oath and royalty to the kingdom, instead to me, he will swear oath and royalty to me, so he will become a part of my k–"
Mother became more angrier "ARE YOU TRYING TO REBEL TO THE KINGDOM, Caroline? From what you said, that you want to make a private army but you are part of the royal family, if you want to make a private army, it indicates that you are planning to rebel to royal family."
"I dare not to do that, my mother. What I want is just an escort knight, and a suitable knight for me, I don't have power for doing that thing to the kingdom." Yet
"YOUR FAVOR UNREASONABLE–"
"My dear, let me talk about this." Father intervened, mother queen speaking, and he looked at her.
"But, my dear, this is beyond the line."
"Yes I know, her favor is beyond the line, but she has a good reason for that, let me talk to her."
"If that is what you want, my dear."
"Thanks, my dear." Father looked at me "Do you know your favor is beyond the line, my daughter?"
"I know, my father."
"I can grant your favor, but…." Father said, made mother and all the brothers were shocked.
"My dear, do you really want to grant her favor"
"Let me talk first, there is a condition for her favor." He looked back at me "For your favor, I will grant it, but there is one condition, that you will be prohibited from taking any royal's knights or kingdom's knights for your private army or your purposes, so your escort from kingdom just that Squire, you can't recruit anyone from the knight army, do you understand?"
"Yes I understand, my father."
"If you understand, you will depart to your own land in a week, you can leave now to prepare for your departure."
"Thanks for granting my selfishness, my father, and I will take my leave from here, see you again, My father, mother, and brothers."
I turned around to the door, and walked toward the door. While I was walking, I could hear mother and brothers having a heated argument with father because of my favor. I just kept walking, and didn't care about their argument. The door was opened by 2 guards, and I walked out of the room. Aalis and Ame stood in front of the door waiting for me.
"You two were waiting all the time for me?"
Aalis answered "Yes, your highness."
"Well, thanks for waiting patiently for me."
Aalis and Ame were confused.
I need to see Louis now, to give him the news.
"Do you guys know where the squire were?"
"If it's squire, I think they will be in a training ground that is for squire only." Aalis said
"The training ground is separated between knight and squire?"
"Yes Your highness"
Even the training ground is separated..
"Can you lead me to the squire training ground?"
"Yes, your highness."
Aalis and Ame led me, and I followed them. In the middle of walking, we passed through the garden that was so big, and training ground for knights.In the knight training ground, all the knights tried practicing so hard, but I didn't see any sweat from them, I knew that all of them from nobility, but you could not questionable their spirit for being knight, they were pretty strong.
Finally we arrived in front of the squire training ground.
"Your highness, in front of us is the training ground, if your highness has an importance at the training ground, your highness can pass it to me, I think it's not appropriate for your highness to come to the training ground." Aalis said..
"Why did you say it's not appropriate for me to come there?"
"Because your highness is a royal family, a royal family stepping foot to commoner training ground is not appropriate for the royal family."
"I will go there, and find a man named Louis."
"But your highness, it's better for you to wait here." It was like Aalis so concerned about me to go there.
"I know you are concerned about me and the rule of society hierarchy, but I will keep insisting on going there."
Aalis took a deep breath "*sigh* Fine, you can go there, but please, your highness keep behind me."
We stepped foot to the training ground, with Aalis and Ame in front, and I followed them. I saw a lot of people were training in this training ground, maybe twice the size of the knight training ground, there were a lot more commoners than nobility. Everyone stared at me, Aalis and Ame just kept walking, I didn't know where they walked to. I saw two people, one of them got paperwork in his hands. Aalis looked at me.
"Your highness, can you wait here with Ame? I will talk to them about Louis."
"Sure, I will wait here."
Aalis walked toward them, while Aalis was trying to talk with them about Louis, I felt the stared from everyone seemed heavier than before. I saw Aalis was talking to them, and she pointed to me while talking. The person who had paperwork in his hands left from the conversation, he seemed trying to find Louis from Aalis order.
Ame grabbed my hands "Your highness, how about we sit there?" Ame pointed to the bench side of the training ground.
"That's a great idea."
I and Aalis walked toward the bench, and sat there. We were waiting at the bench, I looked at Ame, she seemed so energetic and happy. After a few minutes, the person who tried to find Louis came back with Louis. Aalis came with Louis toward me.
"Your highness, Is this the man you find for?"
"Yes…"
A man with blonde hair and green eyes.
"I heard that your highness is searching for me? It's a shame for me that Your highness tried to find me even though your highness stepped a foot in here." Louis bowed his head.
"It's not your fault Louis, raise your head."
Louis raised his head..
"It's because of my selfishness to come here, and I have an important matter to talk about with the three of you. Can we talk in my room?" I looked to Louis and approached him "Before we go to my room, Louis, can you bring a sword along with you?"
"Right away, your highness."
Louis went to the side of the training ground, where all the weapons and shields were stored. After a few minutes, he was back.
So we went to my room with Louis. Squire training ground and castle were separate far away, so Louis' presence in the castle was a strange thing. In the way of went to my room, a lot of servants and staffs stared to Louis. Their staring seemed to be about why a commoner in the castle. Their staring made me uncomfortable. Finally we arrived in front of my room, I saw Louis seemed to be nervous..
We entered my room..I immediately sat on the couch.
"Let's talk about it on the couch, you three can sit there." I pointed to the couch in front of me.
The three of them seemed didn't want to sit there "Your highness, It's inappropriate for us to sit as level as your highness." Aalis said.
"It's alright, just sit there…"
Louis spoke "What just said by this girl, it's right, your highness, we can't just sit the same as your highness."
It made me Irritated "Just sit there, it's an order then…"
"But your high—" Aalis tried to make a reason..
"IT'S AN ORDER!" I hated it but I just raised my voice to them.
Finally they wanted to sit there, so they were face to face with me.
"So do the three of you know why you are here?"
The three of them answered in the same time "No, Your highness"
"Maybe Louis doesn't know, before I went to the training ground, I had an audience with the king, the queen and the princes in the throne room, this matter is important to you three…"
I saw they were nervous about what I wanted to say.
"The king ordered me to oversee a small fief, the fief name is Chambery–…"
Aalis and Ame seemed startled by what I had said.
"I will depart to Chambery in a week, and I made 2 favors to the king, the favors are about you three. The first one is Aalis and Ame become my personal maids because you two are from there so you will come with me to Chambery, do you two have an objection about this??"I looked at Aalis and Ame..
Aalis and Ame seemed uncertain what to do.
"I will not force you two, if you two don't want to go, it's okay.."
Ame grabbed Aalis's hand tightly…from what I saw, it seemed they have history between them with Chambery.
Aalis looked at her sister's face and stroked her sister's cheeks, after that she looked to me "We will follow your highness."
I smiled "Thank you…." I changed my face to Louis "The other favor is the special favor, it is about you Louis.."
"About me, Your Highness?"
"You will become a knight…"
The three of them were shocked about what I had said, especially Louis, his face seemed didn't believe what I had said.
Aalis was surprised "Your highness, what your highness just said was true? Because Knight is from nobility, and Mr Louis seems not from nobility." She looked at Louis "Mr Louis you need to say somethi–" Aalis looked at Louis's face that his face was astounded.
"LOUIS!" I tried to call him "LOUIS!"
"Y…es, You.r Highness…" Finally, he was back..
"This opportunity, do you want to take it or not?"
"Your Highness, this opportunity is so great to me, but is it right for me to become a knight?"
"It's alright for you to become a knight, but you will not become a knight of this kingdom…"
"Wait, if I will not become the knight of this kingdom, which knight will I become?" Louis was surprised.
"You will become my knight, so you will swear an oath under my name…"
Aalis and Louis were stunned
"Your Highness, is your highness's act a treason? Your highness tries to make an army beside the royal army, it will act as rebellion and treason." Louis said.
"What have you said like what the queen said. First the queen was shocked and denied this favor, but the king granted my favor, and it had a condition for this favor.'
"What is that condition?, Your Highness?" Aalis asked
"The condition is I was prohibited to recruit or gather knights or army from the royal army, so I will gather the army from outside, the first one is you Louis." I lent my right hand to Louis "Do you want to become my knight?".
He reached my right hand and kissed my right hand. "My name Louis will become your knight, Your Highness."
After I heard his answer, we stood up from the couch, we processed the process of knighting, Louis kneeled in front of me and he gave his sword to me with his two hands, I received his sword, and moved his sword to his right shoulder and left shoulder.
"LOUIS, I receive your royalty and your swear to me, from today and onwards, you will become my sword, my shield and my subject. As you become my subject, your act will reflect as my act, your mistake will be my mistake, your sin will be my sin, do you understand?"
Louis was still kneeling, and he lifted his head and looked at me "This Louis understands, your highness."
"I shall give you the first order from me as you have already become my knight."
"This knight shall receive all your highness order."
"The first order from me is you will recruit some people that you think are talented and trusted, no matter what background these people are, if you think they are talented and trusted, bring them to me, I will give you a week before we depart for this order."
"This knight understands your highness order and will accomplish it with your highness expectation."
"I can't wait for your accomplishment, you can leave and start this order.."
Louis walked out of the room…
…
3 days later, a rumor about the princess knighted a commoner spread in the royal castle, and the wind blew out to the royal capital. The noble faction was uneasy about the rumor, but the people of the royal capital seemed to like to talk about it a lot. With this rumor, I felt worried about Louis, that the knights would harass Louis a lot because of his status.