Chapter 27: Aolis

As soon as I walk into the breakfast room, I’m assaulted.

“How could you! How could you make a mockery of me by making the fields, the forest and the mountains bloom?” Lorelai yells.

“I cannot control my emotions in my sleep, Lorelai.” I say to her.

“Have you no respect for me?” She asks, slapping her hand against my chest.

“Of course, I do. This was not intentional.”

“But thoughts of me never did that.” She scoffs, pointing outside. “And she’s not even here. I know, I asked my guards. She left yesterday and still, I wake to this insult.”

“Lorelai, I did not intend to insult you.”

“How? How Aolis. Explain it to me. How can she have this kind of impact on you when she’s not even here?” By the end, she’s screaming at me.

“Lorelai.” Her mother says, trying to calm her.

“No, mother. I want to know. I want to know how a child has so much power over our Prince.”

“Watch yourself, Lorelai.” I say and my voice has gone hard.

“Or what, Aolis? You’ll leave me at the alter? You’ll embar