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The Altundral Princess

Chapter 18

Beven's point of view

With an empty heart, I step inside the room and walk over to her lifeless body; I can't stop the tears that fall she can't be dead; she just can't be.

My steps echo in the bare room; it seems to take me forever to reach her, my heart fills with dread the closer I get to her. Deliah's pale skin is now deathly white, with a shaking hand I reach over to take hold of her hand. Her skin is icy cold to the touch; there is no sign of life. I lean over her still form as my tears fall. How will I live without her? She is my life.

"I love you Deliah Blue, I always have and I always will," I whisper as my tears fall onto her pale skin.

The King and Queen come into the room. Haltranian holds his wife as she cries in his arms.

" nooooo, my baby."

They both make there way over to the platform to hold their daughter's lifeless body.

The Queen lies next to her daughter and pulls her into her arms as she cries, the rest of the people enter the r