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It is the next day Elizabeth had woken up the sun was rising .She pulled the rope hanging by her bedside and her maid Emily and nanny Elise came in they greeted her by saying "Good morning princess blessings to the first star of the kingdom "."Come we need to get you ready for her majesty the moon of the empire's funeral "."May her soul rest in peace in heaven ".So Elizabeth got up took a bath wore a Black dress and got ready and went to have breakfast .
When she arrived at the dinning hall she saw that her father was also there also dressed in black .clothing..So she greeted him "Good morning father blessings to the sun of the kingdom ".To which her father replied "Good morning to you too Rose "."Come let's have breakfast your mother's funeral will begin in a few hours". After that they had a quiet breakfast .After they were done they went to the hall where the funeral was held which was a few hours away from the castle they arrived at the hall and after them soon rest of the nobility of the kingdom started arriving too .
They all payed their respects to the queen Annabeth.Elizabeth saw that her mother was dressed in beautiful white fine clothing and covered in jewels .She looked so beautiful and at peace like she was just asleep after everyone had arrived they said their prayers and prayed for their now late queen .Outside the funeral hall all of the kingdom's population was present and they all also prayed and payed their respects to the queen .Soon after that the funeral procession went through the kingdom to the imperial mausoleum where the queen was buried .After which they all returned to funeral hall where a feast was set up where they all dined expressed their condolences to the king for the queen's death and prayed for her again .A national mourning was held for the queen for a whole month during which any kind of celebration was not held in the coming next month .Elizabeth exercised daily though she wore only black clothing because she was mourning for her mother she also memorised all the books she could find on herbology .Now she could identify all the different herbs she had read about and she was also learning how to make medicine with the imperial physician doctor Liam Evans too.She had also started learning how to fight with a wooden sword and now captain Refan had told her "she needed a sparring partner ".
So captain Refan had introduced his son Aryan Callahan to her who was standing beside him .Will become her sparring partner when she first met the boy he greeted her by saying "good morning princess blessings to the first star of the kingdom ".to which Elizabeth replies "may lord god bless you as well ".after that they started sparring together and just in a few weeks she made a lot of progress now she was able hold her own against aryan the boy had red hair like his father and blue eyes and when she would manage to push him backwards .he would always say "you have gotten better princess but you still haven't defeated me yet ". You need to pay more attention to where you are attacking and pay attention to your opponents moves "."So you can effectively counter attack ".After that they started sparring again .Now Elizabeth would even spar in the evening with other knights in training and while doing so she would wear weights on her arms legs and shoulders so she could get better faster and soon all her hard work paid off. After all that gruesome training now after eleven months she was even more agile and stronger now she could use a real sword and even defeat Aryan .Now she could finally start sparring with captain Refan and join knights in subjugating the monsters that attacked the kingdom's border from time to time .Today was her first time joining the knights in subjugating the monsters that attacked the border the monster they were going to subjugate was a seven headed venomous black serpent so everyone had to be very careful .A little bit of carelessness could cost a lot of lives .So they took shape in a triangular formation and started attacking the monster .They had to make sure to cut its fourth head first because that would slow down the monster's reaction time so Elizabeth did that after that she helped rest of the knights in cutting the rest of the six heads and soon the monster was killed .Then she tended to the wounded. She used the new hemostatic medicine she had developed that helped with stopping the bleeding immediately .
So that there were no casualties and she was also praised by captain Refan and her father for her achievement in battle and helping the injured she also organised a group of doctors to make hemostatic medicine to supply to the knights and other hospitals in the empire she is now nine years old and killian is now one years old and soon his first birthday banquet and her ninth birthday banquet is going to be held she and killian share the same birthday. She has to prepare everything after consulting with father but now she's tired and she is going to go take a bath change out of her armour eat her dinner and go to sleep . There's a lot that needs to done tomorrow so she goes to her room and tells Emily to "R eady the bath so she can take a bath ".Soon the is ready she strips her self of her armour and clothes steps inside the warm herbal water .Let's the water wash away her exhaustion she can feel herself melting and soon Emily comes ask to scrub her body and and wash her hair which she lets Emily do after which Elizabeth feels rejuvenated so she rinses herself with clean water dries herself and changes in to comfortable clothing goes to the dining hall eats dinner comes back to her room and goes to sleep.