Okay, I'll escort you, it's just a few blocks to the palace ah, what I meant was our home!!! Is it okay if I come with you?, I asked politely.
Yes, if it's not a drag!, Elina responded shyly.
No, it's not. I'd be happy to assist you my Lady!
Thank you my good Sir, ah Lady!, Elina said laughing after.
Haha! I am your princess charming, to rescue and protect you!
Hmm… I like the sound of that, Princess Charming! Jaur, do you have something to tell me about you or who you truly are?
Ah, no, well, I wanted to tell you that I'm Princes….
Princess Jaur, your mother is asking for you! You need to come with us, now!, one of the palace guards said authoritatively. Elina's eyes widened and wanted to cry when she had that feeling that Jaur was lying to her.
Elina, please come with me, so I can explain everything. I didn't mean to lie or deceive you. I just didn't know how to tell you that I am the pharaoh's daughter, I explained apologizing.
Okay, I can but I need to buy stuff for dinner and…
I invite you and your father, Sir Undra to join us at dinner. Mother would be so happy to have you I'm sure! Sir Nun please assist Miss Elina to the supermarket and protect them at all cost to be able to come to our dinner engagement later? Alright, I added and advised Nun to do it for my sake.
Yes, your majesty!, Nun cried bowing down to the princess.
See you later, Elina!, I said and kissed her hand then boarded the royal horse Nun brought for me.
Okay!, Elina replied smiling shyly.
At Undra and Elina's stoned-bungalow.
Honey! I know that you like Princess Jaur. But remember that she is royalty. And she is the future queen and pharaoh of Egypt. She is bound to marry a noble or royalty, Undra explained while I was trying mother's old dresses when one of the queen's maids came and gave me a gown for tonight.
Thank you! It is so beautiful! Woah! The gown is blue like the ocean with gold trimmings at its seams, complementing my green eyes. The maid smiled while she helped me put it on. I looked like a real princess and she pulled my hair in a bun, placing a rare jewelry which I didn't want her to. She said that it is princess Jaur's and she is giving me the pearl as a gift.
I smiled and thanked her with a little tear. No one has ever treated me special let alone giving me an expensive gift. Are you ready Miss Elina? Princess Jaur is waiting for you at the palace gates, the maid said looking at me. Father looked at me lovingly. Oh, my daughter! My daughter! A princess!!!!, Undra added and cried with joy. My dear, you look so much like you dear mother, may God bless her soul!, Undra said kissing Elina's hand.
Father, haha, Mother is prettier but thank you! You look dashing yourself!, I said when I saw him with a dark blue suede coat and pants with matching black leather boots that only the rich merchants wear from Mesopotamia.
Nun told us that we will ride the royal horses since Jaur ordered them to assist us in using the animals. They are fat and well-groomed like the horses you read on books. I didn't know that they are even fed with grade-A grass, fruits and vegetables that average citizens of Egypt couldn't even afford to buy or sell. Queen Henshu is loved by the people but not all is in favor of the pharaoh being woman and having relations with women. Several men at the bar sort of loath her for standing against domestic violence on women and pursuing laws on women's rights when all along women are just second class citizens in this period. We don't have a voice in the royal courts or in business establishments or companies headed by men. Women can't be pharaoh and can't be a politician moreover a doctor just enchantresses or priestesses, teachers or representatives of men. This is indeed a man's world and women are just pawns for the taking, for impregnating and lust. How I wish this dirty and absurd mind-set changes. I want to be a doctor someday but how can I when men are the only ones who can go to schools and study politics or medicine. I….
Miss, Princess Jaur summons you!!!, Nun said disrupting my thoughts about women and our rights. Hmm…later then.
Okay, thank you Sir Nun!
The royal courts of Thebes Palace is huge. I thought it's just small when the gates are narrow but tall then the walls consume the space beyond a remarkable and vast gardens with a water way from the Nile River.
Gods of the heavens! It's so beautiful. The palace and everything I am seeing now is made of gold. Wow!!!!, is what I can only say and father looked so little with the palace in front of us towering above us.
Welcome to the palace, visitors! Yuya said gently with his gayest greeting which I already knew that he is different but has an aura of a beautiful lady that I smiled and curtsied in front of him.
I am Yuya, the queen's courtier and butler. I will assist you to the dining area while waiting for the queen and princess Jaur. May I?, he said giving his arm to escort me to the walk way towards the dining room.
Father is escorted by two maids and he is enjoying the beauties who are laughing while he winks at them one by one.
Father!, is what I can only sigh but feeling glad I accepted Jaur's invitation. My gods, this is a once in a lifetime experience that I don't want to miss. And here I am now in one of the grandest palaces and one of most powerful heads of state in the world.