Colour drained from Wellesley's face. She was scared to even imagine that something might happen to the Prince, to her love and she said in a hurry.
"Your highness, please forgive me. I did not want this, I did not know that something like this would happen you suddenly did that without warning me and I do not know what to do? Are you fine?"
Christopher was not pretending this time and this time he really could have ended up with an injury, had his reaction been delayed even for a moment, but when he saw Wellesley's pale face, he forced himself to calm down and said jokingly,
"You My love get scared easily. I was just joking."
Slowly Wellesley started to calm down and she asked seriously, "you are telling the truth, nothing really happened to you."
"Yes yes, nothing happened to me, I have to go now. If I don't then, Arslan will fall asleep sitting there and the clan leader will be dissatisfed me and I might end up listening to his blabbering"
Wellesley could tell that Christopher was trying to distract her. But now she too could not do anything. She knew that it was her fault. She was the one who reacted wrongly, her inexperience was the only reason this happened, so she decided that next time when both of them do all 'that stuff', she will try her best to satisfy him.
Christopher was about to call Arslan, but before he could, Wellesley turned to him and asked, "your highness are you in short of anything? I mean a magic scroll or anything else that I can help you with."
Looking at Wellesley, he gave a small smile and said, "It seems you are looking for ways to repent your mistake but no, nothing. If you want to, then you can help me, in a few days I am going to do something big and then my elder brother will need your help and you will play the role of a good employee of the imperial family, as the Ministry of Magic and help him, okay."
Before Wellesley could understand what I was saying, I kissed her on forehead one last time and said to her while turning away "for the rest. I will do it myself. But for now, you can the inspection team to that place on time, just like we previously decided."
After talking, I went and stood with Aslam. I took out a teleportation scroll from my storage ring and I wrote the address of the place we had to reach on it and tore it.
A big light came out of that small paper and surrounded us both. Then I saw from the corner of my eyes that Wellesley was looking at me and gave her a smile, Meanwhile the light completely enveloped us, teleporting us.
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Wellesley POV,
Hi, I'm welsly, ministry of magic of the Bluesta Empire one of the strongest in the continent and that's all I have to my name, and just like my name suggest I don't have a family, nor am I a noble, just a commoner, just an ordinary girl coming from the Slums, when I was 15 I had my coming of age ceremony not a grand one, it was just a social service as put by the Church of Akrat, a communal ceremony for all the orphans when they reached their adulthood, I wasn't a believer but still went there hoping to get a day's meal but something changed, I was able to use mana, an ability that was rare in the Empire atleast that's what the nun said, I haven't expecting much knowing people like me didn't have a way to climb the social ladder anyway but to my utter disbelief, The Ministry of magic accepted me into them without discrimination, unlike others, which I am grateful for in a society that is full of inequalities and desparity for commoners, having someone except you as one of them means a lot and I was grateful for that and my years of disaim for the existing social system, all those years of hunger, oppressiveness and inequality were long forgotten with this small gesture and I found myself ready to do anything for the empire. Hypocrite right? I know, but what can I do?
I wasn't someone who was willing to fight for the society or for change in the existing social norms. All I ever wanted in my life was a better life for myself which came in as a form of opportunity from the magic department and I grabbed it.
I thought my life would change for better and it did to some extent. But still some people were the same. They still viewed me as nothing but a commoner they could bully any time they wanted and this continued for a while, In one of those days I found a boy, I was thrown into a lake by the noble kids who visited the palace for an occasion for a banquet, I was advised against wandering around them. But I still entered the palace due to some duties and quite unsurprisingly they found me. I still remembered that day very clearly. It was one of the coldest days of the season and I was practically frezzing from the cold water, I was in desperate need of someone's help, because my magic was
no longer helpful, Magic restrictions devices were placed in the palace, which practically disabled anyone from using magic for the safety of the royal family, in case anyone used it they were practically dead because that could be considered an insult to the royal family.