Sacrifice for the Crown

Chapter 1

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Her body started shivering from the cold air but she kept running unflinching. The cold air came in contrast with the hot tears on her cheeks, her flaxen hair moved towards every direction and kept getting caught on the branches of the trees.

This can't be happening to me, she thought, mother said that this is my duty and I shouldn't event dare to object. But why?

Her thoughts were cut short from the sound of leaves rustling from deep into the forest. It must be one of the animals that live here, but her mind couldn't rest, what if it's not an animal, she instantly started having second thoughts about her escape. Which one is worse, get eaten by a wild animal or get married to someone you don't event know? The second of course, why am I even thinking about it? That's it then, I can't go back and if I move forward I may get chased by an animal at the very best.

Her mind decided that it was time to move but her body seemed to be scared to even move a finger.

At that very moment she heard someone calling her name and thinking she was delusional from running that fast she ignored it. Then she heard it again and again each time sounding louder and closer than the last.

" Andromeda... Are you here?" Startled she looked around with hopes of detecting it's origin. Nothing. There was no one around. That gave her an eerie feeling, she felt something she couldn't explain.

Unfortunately as her mouth opened, starting to form words came the sad realization that the voice calling her name belonged to Lazarus, her mothers right hand and best scouter of them all.

He was standing right in-front of her with his face forming a frown that made it even uglier than it already was.

"Andromeda I found you at last, are you out of your mind? Your mother is furious right now and if I were you I would start preparing an excuse." He said with his crispy voice which revealed his tiredness, capturing her arm at the same time.

"Get your hands off me!!!" she demanded trying to free her self from his strong grip, he on the other side formed a smirk that made her skin form goosebumps.

"What is it ? Why are you looking at me like that?" by the time she formed these words his smirk became intense laughter.

"You thought that you would escape your fate little princess? Well guess what....It's not that easy!!! And when we get back to the palace your mother will punish you" He said while she was now desperately trying to hold back her tears. Not now, she thought, he will never see me weak.

"Now, are you going to cooperate or you'll make me carry you?" he said idly. 

She had already been humiliated so in order to save the little pride that she was left with she decided to compromise to his orders. 

"Good girl. Alright then I was prudential enough to fetch two horses instead of one. You see I in comparison to you, know what I'm doing." The words came out of his mouth with a hint of pride and maybe arrogance.

His place was to serve her, and as a man with no title he had no right to speak to her in that manner but her mother valued him way more than her own daughter and ended up spending the whole day with him, laughing, drinking and they often disappeared to her majesty's chambers for hours, whilst she only saw Andromeda during dinner time. 

They kept riding silently for the next two hours at the least....

Author's note: Changes may occur as I'm constantly trying to improve the first chapters....