To Be A Duchess
I looked back at the Queen, posture now straight but my face not fixed, I replied to her, “But Your Majesty, there are also cons in this situation. Please, I think it would really be better to not have a banquet at all and just, have a meeting of some sorts and award me from there.”
The Queen, no longer bearing her small smile, all became serious as her eyes looked at me as if she was dissecting me from afar, her lips in a thin line as she levelled her face to me and asked, :Care to tell me what are the cons then?” she was intimidating, that is for sure, she was making me feel nervous so much so that I almost trembled. I had faced wars and was subjected into a cross fire when I was Reine---