Heira is crying. Not out of Sadness, but out of Joy. She hugs me and keeps crying, saying thank you over and over.
I don't really know what is going on, but apparently she's quite happy.
"Why are you crying?" I ask her.
"Why, you ask? Well, because I'm finally free! Don't worry. I will tell you someday, you won't need to know now." She says.
"But, I really want to know! Did you hear what we talked about in the Throne Room?"
She shakes her head. "No, not really, but I know for certain that I am free. I can feel it. And it happened a few Minutes after I left the room, so you must be the reason."
I think for a Minute, until I realize that she was probably freed, as she calls it, by me wanting her to take care of me.
"Well, I asked the King if you can take care of me and he agreed, maybe that's why you feel that way..." I talk to her with a bit of concern in my voice. What if the King enslaved her, originally?
Heira shakes her Head and hugs me again, this time even tighter. "You don't need to know anymore. Just... don't think about it, ok?" She looks at me for a Moment and then has a slight expression of Shock in her Face. "Wait, did you just say I should take care of you?"
I nod.
Heira smiles. "I will gladly do that. I will gladly do that!" She repeats these words over and over again, getting more energetic and louder every time she does, until she lifts me up and swings through the Air.
I start to laugh, seems like I'm still a Child after all.
After she let me down again, her crying has stopped and now she only Smiles.
I look at her and we both laugh. She then takes my Hand and we walk for a bit, until realizing that it's easier to fly. So she picks me up and we fly to my new Room.
A few Minutes later, after realizing how big that Palace is, we are finally at my Room. Interestingly, Heira knows where my Room is. But then I look around and see that she sleeps in the Rooms right next to mine.
She looks at me and smiles.
"I guess you haven't got assigned a Room yet, have you?"
I shake my Head.
"Well then, this will be your new Room." She opens the Door and I walk carefully inside.
The Room is large, very large. If it would be a modern House, it would probably be as large as a Large Luxury 6-Star Hotel Room. I mean, look at the Bed! It's huge, almost like a Double Bed, well, maybe it is.
There are even Windows in this Room. And what's more is that the Room isn't covered in Gold or Silver, like the Floors. It actually looks like a Girls Room. It's all pink and stuff!
But why do I get a Girls Ro-? Oh... that's right... I'm a Girl. I've completely forgot already...
But maybe that's why I got so excited over these colors, not that every Girl would like them.
I look at Heira with a wide grin. "Is this really my Room?"
Heira nods proudly. "Yes! Of course this is your Room. Well, actually it was the Room of the Queen, but she passed away, as you probably heard already."
I nod sadly, thinking about how I will probably die of old Age too.
"Why are you so sad? I mean, yes she died, but it was a long time ago."
I look at her and shake my Head. "No, I'm not sad because of her, but because I will probably die of old age too. The King told me."
Heira gasps in Shock. "Wait, does that mean?"
I nod. "Yes, apparently I am even stronger than the King, or at least I will be according to him. So he even made me his Daughter."
Heira looks at me in disbelief, that is until she gets out of her trance and immediately kneels down and bows her Head.
"Why do you suddenly do this? Get up, you're my Caretaker, are you not? Why should you bow to me? Also, you didn't do it until now, when I told you that I'm basically the Princess now, so why do it now, so suddenly?"
She gets up, still in shock. "I'm... I'm sorry..."
I hug her. And pout. "Gosh, don't be that way. Also, you should be the one comforting me, not the other way around!" I giggle and Heira's Mood instantly lightens.
As the Day passes we get to talk a bit more, but she doesn't really tell me anything of importance, since I'm still a Child. As the Day ends, Heira goes to her Room and I go to Bed.
As I fall asleep, there is one Things I realize. This Continent is different from all the others, it's dark, yet beautiful. It's full of live, yet it looks so dark. Although only Vampires and Livestock are living here, we still live like normal Humans, sleeping at Night and being awake at Day. I guess it's because the Sun is missing...
As I think more about the Continent and how I will grow up here, I drift slowly away to sleep.