Celestine cleared her throat. She tried to gaze into the eyes of her uncle, she found the spark of rage, starting to flame from the undead ashes.“I am going to submit my nobility.” She paused, turned around and saw King Dragon gasping to hear her statement.‘Good. It’s working. He looks so surprised to hear it.’ Celestine smirked.“We are not bonding again, my king. You can marry King Othello’s daughter as the substitute of my responsibility to marry you.” She talked and stared at King Dragon behind her.King Dragon moved forward and he curled his swollen nose, “Ouch..” he covered it again. But he kept sneezing…King Othello raised his eyebrows as he saw what happened to the comrade king’s nose, his eyes looked so surprised to the extent of bulging on the tip of the nose. “What you mean by it, Princess Celestine?” King Dragon clumsily covered the nose with the handkerchief. Celestine sighed. “I will be a free spirited woman, My King. I won’t be bonded with the engagement an
The burden of silence dropped inside the room.Knight Liam heaved up his chest.“What is your plan?”King Dragon put down his hand from resting on the chin.“I am pretty sure she has ‘ghost’ squad who backups her.”He quoted his fingers at the time he mentioned ‘ghost’ and gazed at the young man.“How about we find it out?”Knight Liam sighed.“The princess, we got information that she has gotten along with an eccentric artist. People call him as ‘Moustache’. Nobody knows the real name of that man. They say the princess perceive him as an uncle for her.”King Dragon half squinted and half scrunched his eyes as the curiosity and the pain blended. His nose got swollen and bulged on its peak.“I ever heard his name.”He seemed to inhale and looked quite eager.“I want you to track how deep their relationship is and one thing you must treasure any information the place where she’s going to move after submitting her nobility. I won’t give her any chances to get away, I will mak
Celestine grinned and pulled her feet out from the water. She turned around to Ersa.“It’s chilling.” She decided to stay aside from the brook water. She put on again her shoes and saw Ersa was giggling when Storm sprinkled the water to her using his forelegs.“Storm, stop it. You make me wet already.” Ersa complained but the horse seemed neighing as he chuckled.“It’s enough. We still have to continue our journey, everybody…” Celestine filled their water buckets with the water from a spring near, under a big tree.Ersa patted the horse’s neck. “Drink some water. You are going to need it.” She whispered in the horse’s ear.Storm kicked off in the water and wiggled his head. He seemed to agree with Ersa.Celestine finished to fulfill the water buckets and watched the two of them.While they let Storm grassing around the brook, they had some cookies and boiled eggs to enjoy as their lunch.“How long will it take there?” Ersa looked at Celestine, stopped munching the butter cooki
Celestine got up and she grabbed her sword. She tried to investigate as she saw a shadow was sneaking behind the bushes.She caught the shadow from behind. She stood not too far from the shadow some kind of a figure of a person with a cloak.She couldn’t see the face of the sneaking figure as the figure tried to kneel on the ground.“Who are you?” She asked.The lean figure turned around, pulling down the hoodie. A specific scent of odor was coming from him. It seemed he had come out from fiery battle…Celestine could see his face under the light of the night. She sighed, put the handle of the sword back.He grinned a smug. “What’s your business to ask?” He turned around again and continued to pick up some dried twigs. He had a quite good looking beyond his smeared face. Some dirts were on his face as he got a long journey, heavy and uneasy road had taken.He smelled some falling leaves. He appeared as the same age with her, he also picked up some falling fruits on the ground
They continued the journey after having a quick breakfast and Storm had enough time for grassing around.As they passed through the campfires of those caravans the night before, all of them had gone. Their campfires were vanished into some ashes.Celestine looked around. She inhaled and asked Storm to walk faster to leave the place.“What happened to them?” Ersa who sat behind her asked.Celestine sighed. “I don’t know. But the strange man last night told me something horrible, we should leave this free land soon before the mid day.” She explained.They had spent three hours for taking a journey. Storm stopped walking. They reached at the small village near of the Wallachian border. It was a small village with some lands of crops.Celestine got down from the horse after Ersa. She tied up Storm under a big tree. It was a little river streaming not far from their place.“You go there! I think there’s a farmer market in that village. Buy something we need for staying in our ne
At the time the sun reached its peak, they arrived at the place The Squad told.There were Moustache and Bridge waiting for Celestine with Ersa to arrive. They stood by a small house with three men repairing some parts of the house. Their horses were grassing around not far from the house.“Welcome, my princess.” Moustache helped Celestine to get down from Storm, after he gave his hand to Ersa.The place was near the entrance of the woods. It was hidden and covered in some shady big trees around. Celestine looked around. It was a small building but it was clean inside. There were two bedrooms, a set of wooden furniture and a fireplace.She took a seat on the long wooden couch. Moustache sat next to her while Bridge instructed some men to fix a place for keeping Storm safe from any beasts.Ersa checked the back part of the house. She put out the stuffs from the bag and put them on the kitchen table. She prepared for them a kind of drink from fruits she bought at the farmers mark
Chirping birds on some branches woke Celestine and Ersa. The day had shifted, the night with horrific tranquility and voices from the woods nearby had gone.The sun penetrated among the shady trees and warm the day from a chilling night before. Celestine and Ersa were taking a walk into the woods. They brought Storm with them to let the horse finding some green fresh grass.Ersa picked up some wild flowers, she also searched for some edible mushrooms or bulbs.Celestine went to river, getting a bucket of fresh water and some fish.“We got enough stocks of food for couple days ahead.” Celestine showed Ersa some fish she had caught.“I also got some bulbs and mushrooms. We can eat soup for our lunch.” Ersa showed her the basket she put on the ground.They saw an apple tree not too far. Ersa was helped by Celestine were picking up some falling apples on the ground. Storm stamped closer and nudged his head to shake the tree. He made some apples falling on the ground. He munche
Knight Liam scurried his steps, the tension looked on his face. He rushed coming into the mansion where King Dragon was staying.“She’s gone?” King Dragon arched his two eyebrows. He frowned his lips. “You mean gone…she’s gone like that??” He swayed his hand in front of himself. The movement of his hand seemed to show something just disappeared like ashes were blown by the wind. His eyes were gazing at the young man standing in front of him Knight Liam sighed before he nodded. “People in the castle also look chaotic, they just be cautious that their princess has gone.”King Dragon curled up his lip. “With that little girl as her female attendant?” he asked in deep curiosity.Knight Liam nodded. He took a seat in front of King Dragon.They had an attendant coming into to serve them some drinks. Some kind of herbal drinks were served on the table.Knight Liam halted his tongue from talking and stared at the back of the female attendant walking away from the room.“May I…?” he to