Chapter 5

At first, I cried over my brothers and the life I was leaving behind, but as our journey progressed my sadness transformed into fear. Fear of the unknown, of the life that was ahead of me that I knew nothing about. The uncertainty of my future was too great for my mind to grasp. I was going to become the queen of a place I had never seen before, a foreign land filled with strange people I was supposed to rule.

Of one thing I was certain: I was not at all prepared to become a queen. I lacked the knowledge, the personality, and the strength to be a leader. I was shy by nature and not much of a talker. I also lacked the etiquette pertaining to royalty. Even though I was the niece of a king, I grew up like a commoner and my two years living in the castle didn’t do much to improve my manners. My uncle never allowed me and my brothers to attend royal events, he preferred to keep us in the dark, so I never