I didn't grow up having role models. I grew up having people I didn't want to be like nd seeing situations I'd never want to be in. That was enough. ~ Anonymous.
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After leaving the palace, Ace took Hazel to the infirmary where the latter refused to get treated because the physician was an old man, so the two ended up in the outskirts of town where a local woman treated Hazel's wound and bandaged her shoulder.
"Perhaps you might want to take a break from the palace," the woman suggested as she packed some herbs for Hazel in a satchel bag. She was around the same age as Hazel, with long blonde hair and blue, gentle eyes. Hazel thought she was beautiful.
"If only I was the one giving myself orders," she responded with a helpless sigh as she pulled her bloodstained shirt over her head.
