Many eyes looked upon Lili as she stood in the pool with her right fist in the air. The peoples faces held many expressions of which disbelief and confusion were the most common.
Some who knew Lili and the previously unmoving state of her hand were in disbelief at the sight. They couldn't quite believe it, Lili had managed to close her hand into a little fist, it was as if her hand and fingers were fully healed now.
But others not knowing any of this just felt confused as they looked upon the little girl, not knowing what she was going on about. What was so great about her, other than her looks that was, this part the holy old men could at least understand.
Then the moment of silence broke as a girlish voice yelled out to Lili. "You liar, your hand was never broken, now was it? I bet you've just been trying to gain our sympathies by acting like it was!"
To Lili these words were like an electrical shock, which made her immediately turn towards Princess Eadlin who was the one to say the words. Unlike before the girl didn't look so hot, with all her bandages, but damn what the fuck was she going on about now? Without much thought Lili yelled back. "No I didn't!"
To this Eadlin merely crossed her arms, huffed at her and said. "Did too!"
Offence levels growing within herself, Lili said. "Did not!"
Arms on her sexy hips Eadlin said. "Did too!"
Lili couldn't believe what she was hearing. Were they seriously doing the did not, did too argument with one another like some children?
Damn how had it come to this, had she truly become a little girl not only in body but in her mind as well? I mean seriously, how could she stoop so low as to argue like this. Damn this bitch, why couldn't she just shut up and believe her? She was like totally ruining everything.
This was supposed to be her protagonist moment, the moment where she reveals her holy healing powers to the world, in a way that it seems like it was all thanks to god or something like that.
Like so the church would then make her Into a holy Saint or something like that. She would not get burned at the stake for being a witch and she would live a long and happy life. But honestly she didn't really know what she was doing. The whole idea had just spontaneously come to her, when she had been told about the baptism. But damn this bitch was definitely not making her life any easier.
Oh how she wanted to say something bad to this princess, but no she was not a bitch like she was, no, she was a grown man in her past and a little girl here, and she would act as such.
Calming her mind Lili quickly thought of a reasonable response and said. "Don't bull shit me Eadlin. If I heard my hand and fingers cracking and breaking against your thick head, then you must have heard it also. I mean even Sir Jack heard it, right?"
Surprisingly saying the words bull shit, seemed to confuse Eadlin greatly as it did the others standing around the princess. Glancing backwards Lili looked to Jack for support, but the man immediately hung his head low and remained quiet. Wait what, was he seriously not going to back her in this argument against the princess? Sure she was his bosses daughter and all that, but come on, where is this dudes honor?
Then from the corner of her eye, Lili saw the princess Eadlin smirking at her. Damn she felt mad, she wanted to say something like you ain't no sister of mine or something, but Eadlin was faster and spoke first. "See, even Sir Jack knows that you are a liar, and for that I cannot forgive you. Sir Jack take her back to the Princes room and make sure that she stays there, until I say otherwise."
Eyes wide in disbelief, Lili protested. "No way, that's not fair. Your falsely imprisoning me again, you can't do that, its not fair. I want a lawyer or at least give me a time on how long I'm gonna be there for."
Hearing this Eadlins smirk only grew wider, but before she could speak again Queen Wilda stepped in front of Eadlin and said. "Enough, we are in the house of the lord. I will not have you two make a mockery of this holy place with your banter."
For a moment hope returned to Lilis little heart until the Queen looked to Jack and said. "Sir Jack take Lili to her room and do as Eadlin said. I will have to have a word with them both after this."
Once more Lili felt her hopes shatter and heart sink into sadness. The Queen looked to Eadlin and began to rebuke her, but Lili didn't care, she felt defeated.
Like a small wet doll, Lili was then picked up by Jack. He didn't even look at her as he carried her out of the pool and away from the royal family.
In frustration Lili shook her little fist at this traitor to display her displeasure. The man could have made her look like a true protagonist, but instead he had decided to take the easy route and just do what that bitch wanted. Even the second princess Aileen had not been of any use, she just held mister bear in her arms and watched it all happen with wonder in her curious young eyes.
Defeated and humiliated, Lili hung like a wet rag in Jack's hold as he carried her. But before leaving the cathedral and entering the pouring rain outside, Lili took one last glance back towards Jesus and noticed the old bishop still standing in the pool.
Why was he still there, did he stink that bad or something? No that wasn't it, he wasn't bathing. The man looked more like he had just won the lottery or something, His eyes were fixated on the pool as if it were gold, or maybe he was just a narcissist and liked to really look at his own reflection. The other priests on the other hand just seemed confused as they looked upon the bishop who stood in the pool.
***
Later that day after being tossed back on her bed to continue her already three week long house arrest the Queen had finally come to Pay her a visit.
Immediately she began questioning her on her supposed childish behaviour in the church and her supposed fake healing. Lili wanted to tell the queen everything, but didn't dare to do so.
She instead remained quiet and apologised for stepping out of line, and so she received a hard spanking session. Then before leaving the Queen left Lili with a warning to not mention the words, bull shit ever again, especially while at church.
After that Grandma Linn came to visit her with a few maids alongside her. With wide eyes Lili watched as the maids brought in a bunch of stuff into her room from painting sets, make-up sets, sewing sets, a bunch of paper and books about socialising, basic economics and something about babies.
Apparently she was not only to learn the basics of reading and writing, but also the use of all these things. According to Grandma Linn, a bed maid needed to learn all these things, so that she could not only attract the Princes interest, but also to be of use to the main wife.
But what really confused Lili were the rules Grandma Linn told her. Apparently she really had to learn the distinction between the main wife and the secondary women in the Princes harem.
Secondly she was to remain humble and calm, she was to never allow herself to become jealous no matter how much the Prince might neglect her.
Third, she was not to monopolize the Prince and shouldn't form any deep attachments to him as that could become troublesome.
Fourth, she was to always keep in mind the hierarchy and that there was going to be a set rotation on who got to sleep with the Prince and when.
Honestly Lili had no complaints about any of these, so called rules or whatever. She really just couldn't understand what any of them had to do with her? Was she seriously expected to sleep in the same bed as the Prince, but why? But then again it really wasn't a big deal to her, after all she had already slept in the beds of two different boys, so she really didn't see how this was going to be any different to that.
And so the mostly tedious and boring lessons began and then ended with another hard spanking from grandma Linn. Apparently she too really didn't like her attitude in the church today, plus she also didn't find the words, bull shit to be proper at all.
And once more in this life Lili was made to submit and bow in apology. Really at this point Lili couldn't help but feel like her bowing her head to different people had become a bit too much of a habit. Honestly submitting to so many people in this life didn't feel good at all, oh how she wished that she could be her own boss for once and not need to bow to no-one. Of course she didn't wish to make anyone else bow to her, she just really would like to go back to modern standards where people were mostly at least somewhat equal.
In her past she bowed her head to no man or woman and didn't say no words like sorry to anyone. Back in her past she was a real man, back then people were even afraid to so much as just look at his massive frame. Damn she was big back then and a man, so that was kind of cool.
Oh how she was starting to miss those times again. Here it seemed like no matter how much she tried to pout at people or look mad, nobody was ever intimidated by her. And worst of all no-one except the girls, and maybe the old man Sir John Bell took her seriously.
With these thoughts in mind Lili finished up her daily light stone making chores and went to bed. But before falling asleep she did try to practice making an angry face in front of the mirror a few times.
But sadly the result was just as she expected it to be. It was just cute. Basically no matter what face she tried to make, she just couldn't make herself look serious, she just looked cute or adorable most of the time, or maybe silly, but that was it.
And so with an adorable look of disappointment on her face, Lili fell asleep.