It was about to be midnight, brjstaljh was sleeping like a log of wood on the bed while mother went for a stroll as usual. I stared outside the window, my sleeping robe revealing my tender shoulders. I stared at my tattoos wondering why mine is different from others and what the symbols meant.
When I was born, mother said my tattoos weren't recognized by any of the thirteen elders and were not even found in any scripture in our Kingdom. I was the only one able to form crystals out of my energy, the rest who had normal tattoos could just move water, some flames and the special ones could move souls, i guess I was the most special because only I had those tattoos in the kingdom's history but I was told to keep it a secret for the mean time. I wonder what else I was capable of doing with my abilities.
'I wonder what tomorrow will be like, I said smiling to myself.'
'weirdo! Why are you smiling all by yourself!!'
I turned and saw brjstaljh staring at me with her eyes wide opened.
Go to sleep moron! I told her while snuggling her and covering both of us with the tiger patterned blanket.
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Today wasn't as convincing as I thought it would be, I honestly felt like sleeping all through the day but I couldn't if I wanted.
It was time for breakfast and if you were late you'll definitely miss it unless you were in the king's chamber section, things happen more majestically and more royal-ish there.
I couldn't wait to take a bath so I just went on straight with brjstaljh to get breakfast. It was quite empty, to my surprise.
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I went inside the kitchen with brjstaljh jumping around while I held her hand tight.
'yay more food for us!!' she exclaimed with joy.
There was still a chef in the kitchen, we were standing at a corner watching him put the soft bread in the oven.
'hey! You're not supposed to be here'
He said while closing the oven. He started walking towards us, he bent and pulled my ear,
'Ow! Ow! You're pulling it too hard' I whined
'Did you oversleep again you lazy girl? Didn't your mother wake you up this time korj!' He scolded me.
'Don't even bother to go anymore, you'll only annoy the king. Stay here and bake with me after all you're much of a pro with it already'
'a pro you think?' i chuckled.
'But do you know where everyone is?' I tilted my head in confusion asking. It was strange for everyone to just disappear like that, was it because of what I did last night? Hope father isn't going to make a huge fuss about it today.
Anyways, if that was the case someone would have woken me up from my sleep earlier.
I joined the baker in his cozy kitchen, ready to learn the magic of baking. My little sister, full of mischief, was exploring every treat in sight.
The baker taught me the art of mixing, measuring, and creating perfect pie crusts. Meanwhile, my sister discovered the joy of decorating cupcakes, leaving sprinkles everywhere. The chef was so nice. I really felt like asking a strange question so I did.
'mr chef sir?' I raised my finger pointing upwards
'yes dear' he replied with a cute smile on his bony cheeks.
'mr baker sir, you make delicious cakes and bread everyday right? How come you're not fat'
The Baker laughed with his two hands on his chest forgetting his hands were covered with pink icing staining his white apron.
'My dear, when you do something over and over again, you'll definitely get tired of it someday.'
Brjstaljh woke up from her sugar rush with her hands on her stomach, her stomach grumbled with her face covered with cream and butter ' I don't think I can ever get tired of food and treats' she said
The Baker patted her on the head ' one day you will'.
He said it with such a straight face I wondered if it was the cake he was still talking about.
I heard some distant noise at the dining hall not too far away from the kitchen, I realized that whatever was happening in the castle was over. I waved to the Baker and dragged brjstaljh outside, I didn't have strength to carry her and she would easily burst if I touched her big belly so I just pulled her by the leg.
All the princesses were forming groups while some already formed theirs so I sneaked into one leaving brjstaljh on the floor to regain herself, next time she would think twice before consuming raw dough and icing sugar.
As I was about to squeeze in, another princess who i was close to tapped me on my shoulder and started blurting out a lot of things, before I could properly hear one word a whole group started forming around us.
' can you believe it crjstaljh, I think the queen should have been pardoned at least '
'yeah, you're right' another princess replied her
' I was there too but can you guys just retell everything that happened and where' I said with a low voice while scratching my elbow.
' weren't you there' she said,
' I was but you know I was sleepy during the whole thing, you know hormones and stuff' I spoke awkwardly
The princesses looked at me with a weird face.
' what? I was tired ok.' I said.
' fine, you know the fifth queen right? Her only daughter hjon, you know her right, was accused of stealing the king's armour bracelet. And you know she was married to the second best warrior knight in the kingdom.
There was a search this morning, and the bracelet was found in her room, she later confessed to stealing it for her husband's protection. She said someone was trying to kill him blah blah nonsense.'
' Anyways the king beheaded all four of them' one of them said with energy,
Everyone looked at her strangely.
'the four of them? Sorry imma little lost' I told her scratching the back of my head.
' ughhhh!! Aren't you following up? Hjon, her mother, husband and her daughter were all beheaded this morning' another one said.
'oh ....why her daughter too? She didn't do anything'
' that's just how father works, after all he has many wives and children, even if half of us mysteriously disappeared I don't think he would even be affected.' ryoka said sarcastically from the crowd.
'ryoka!' I hugged her, 'where were you, you literally disappeared from last night's event!'
' i thought you left me for that cute guy, by the way who was he?' she giggled
The princesses in the group diverted their attention to me and started asking weird questions about father's gift so I pulled ryoka out and escaped the crowd somehow, later then I had breakfast with her....oh, and brjstaljh after she was well again.
I also wondered why our room wasn't searched, did they even check our chamber at all? After all the castle has 3 different chambers in the castle so maybe before they could reach us they already found it.