Chapter 27

VIOLET

I am dumped into the dungeons that are in the basement of this huge castle. In my almost eighteen years of life, I never saw such a place before.

I am indeed a general’s daughter and I have seen many marvellous places, but something about this castle is different.

Perhaps, it’s the walls that seem so spotless that I found myself mindlessly staring at them as I was dragged down the narrow staircase to the basement. Or maybe, the ceiling mesmerised me more.

When they dragged me out of the throne room, I glanced inside for the last time and saw what I had never seem before. The ceiling of the throne room was not plain. It was embellished with jewels of different sparkly colours, all looking like tiny stars shining in the sky and surrounded by those countless stars was a moon right on top of where the King’s throne was.

It was breath—taking. I wish I could look at it a little