31 | Let the games begin

"The royal ball is in two days!" Aisha shouted as she burst into the room. Delilah ran into the room with her, and she had a troubled look on her face, but that was not unusual, since everyone else seemed to be panicking about the royal ball and all.

"What! Why! How?" Aliyah shouted and tried to stand up from the bed. Tequila held her back, the last thing that she wanted was for Aliyah to get hurt because of her, again.

"I thought it would not hold this year because we are in mourning for Prince Ali, why is it holding again, and in two days?" Aliyah asked. She sounded very shocked. Tequila had thought that Uthman was a bit crazy for saying that he would hold the ball before, but their reactions now told her that he was even crazier than she initially thought.

"He changed his mind. He said he changed his mind, and it was as a simple as that. When the chief tried to complain, he said it was what minds do, that they change. I cannot believe this," Aisha said. She was walking around the r