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Chapter 2 - THE BEGINNING OF A FRIENDSHIP

At the prince's Palace,the maids took seline to her room and was showed around the place.They were very friendly and sweet,Seline begun her duties on the following day she had to prepare the prince's bath,clothes and breakfast."Greetings your highness," seline greeted.No reply was given at first then the prince ordered her to rise her head,"what your highnesses call me Rowan and tell me your name,"seline was still processing what the prince said then she immediately fell on her knees "I wouldn't dare your highnesses and my name is lily,"she said.The prince said she should call him Rowan when they are not infront of people and the prince continued his daily routine,he went to practice his swordmanship and went to Gabriel after freshening up.Gabriel was busy with his alchemy classes when they arrived and they had to wait for him to finish his class,Rowan talked alot with seline and they had fun with each other.Wherever he went he took seline with him the went to the market,ride horses and painted.The prince started talking about his sister it turned out they had a younger sister,who was the princess of the empire.The princess was born from a maid,who drugged the emperor who was the crown prince at that time.Rowan went on to tell how she was supposed be executed but escaped when the monsters invaded into the place near the execution ground and one year later after the crown prince was crowned king,he received a letter and a picture of a little girl who was supposed to be the King's daughter.It was evident with the silver hair and deep blue ocean eyes,the maid asked for money if they wanted the princess to be safe.The king and the princes all wanted a daughter and a sister so they send money to her everyday but whenever they tried to catch her she could always slip away,now it has been eightteen years has the prince said.It was such a sad thing seline thought,when the sun Was setting they went back to the palace.Everyday they could set out and went to various places to explore and sometimes Gabriel tagged along but he was no fun since he always carried his books along and seline was interested in alchemy too she could always stare at his books and prince Rowan noticed so whenever Gabriel went to his classes if he was not busy he could take seline to Gabriel's classes and she could learn something.Seline was happy and almost forgotten her bad experience with her mother,as days went by she made friends and made alot of present for the princes and her fellow maid.Seline had best friends now,she had two maids who were her friends now.she was no long an outcast now,she had her own room,clothes and decent meals.She even had knight friends she got when accompanying the two princes,who could believe she even had a pet now.A white bunny,who m she called him snowball.Her life has fallen into place now she could do anything when she was with the prince, seline was very curious about the king she has not seen him since she arrived in the palace.Her interest was piqued and asked Prince Rowan about his father when they were outside the palace,"Hey,are you interested in my father now?Am I not handsome enough?"prince Rowan asked. "No,no I didn't mean that,I was just asking."seline protested. Rowan told seline that his father was at the main Palace dealing with national affairs and that he was an workaholic but since there will be a festival in the next ten days he will surely be there so the king will surely be seen there.Seline was anticipating for the day of the ceremony, it was the festival of destiny which was carried every five years.The bustling big markets,everyone was busy planning for the festival especially the palace maids.The gardeners,maid and chefs were very busy,the knights were the most busy people preparing for the festival the security was supposed to be tight now.since there will be many people on the streets and noisy sounds like the fireworks and the sound of the drum beating and singing which may lead to unnecessary attraction of different kind of danger.The training lasted longer nowadays and a group of knights were dispatched very day to patrol the areas around the entire market,palace,the roads which lead to the northern empire and the forests nearby. It has been long since seline went out with the prince or even ride the horses,she really missed the closeness and the adventure they went to."Seline focus stop dilly Dallying and go back to work it will just be two days left for the festival and we will see each other."said seline on the other end prince Rowan was talking to Gabriel "Hey,Gabriel what do you think about lily isn't she such a lovely girl and you know what?"Rowan said"What?"Gabriel asked and Rowan went on saying if the only princess of the empire was still there she would have been the same age as lily but the worst was that they did not even know if she was alive or doing well.Gabriel has been with Rowan since they were young and he was always lonely because the eldest prince was busy helping his father and Rowan rarely met with them or even talked to them that much.If only the princess was here he could have a younger sister to pamper,play,eat together, buying things for her,ride horses,arrange good mentors for her or even read her to bed and if he could he would love to comb her hairs for her thats how much he needed a sister.