CHAPTER 𝒮𝐼𝒳 | 𝐵𝒜𝑅𝐸𝐹𝒪𝒪𝒯 𝒞𝐼𝒩𝒟𝐸𝑅𝐸𝐿𝐿𝒜
"𝘖𝘶𝘳 𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘢𝘭 𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘱𝘰𝘯𝘴𝘪𝘣𝘪𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘪𝘴 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘵𝘰 𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘱 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘧𝘶𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦, 𝘣𝘶𝘵 𝘵𝘰 𝘴𝘩𝘢𝘱𝘦 𝘪𝘵. 𝘛𝘰 𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘯𝘦𝘭 𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘥𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘺 𝘪𝘯 𝘩𝘶𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘦 𝘥𝘪𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘶𝘮𝘢 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘴𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯." -𝘈𝘭𝘷𝘪𝘯 𝘛𝘰𝘧𝘧𝘭𝘦𝘳
𝓜ONDAY 𝓝OVEMBER 𝓢IXTEENTH
Attitude. Charisma. Demeanor.
According to Ezra, I have a poor attitude when it comes to talking to other people with different viewpoints than myself. I tend not to judge people, but when someone says something that I do not like - then I vocalize my unpopular opinion in a way that comes across as rude. He also says that my typical demeanor is harsh and unsettling. Rude.
I do not think someone could make that assumption after knowing me for less than two weeks.
No one in this kingdom sugarcoats the truth for others.
Dozens of people were coming into the room and they were having conversations with me. A media trainer sat off to the side and took extremely well documented notes about what I was doing right and wrong. Mostly wrong.
Each person talked with me for a few minutes and promptly left the room immediately afterwards. The media trainer came over and took a seat in front of me when the last person was finished with our conversation. She had pages and pages of notes written down. I did not think I screwed up that badly.
"I understand that you have been studying law since you were in grade school. Your responses are well thought out and concise when thinking politically and legally. However, you need to understand that as the princess and possible future queen, you need to give the same amount of respect to other royalty that you will be delegating with on a daily basis," she explained.
Wow. I did better than I anticipated.
"What if they are passive aggressive towards me?" I asked.
"Defeat them intellectually. If you feel overpowered by the men and women in a conference room, then you must take control of the discussion and bring the focus back to the topic of conversation. Do not let them deviate from the initial topic," she explained.
"So it's like interviewing a witness or even a suspect during a trial," I pondered.
The woman nodded her head. The group of people all came into the room individually. They all started new topics of conversation with me.
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Long May She Reign
Teen FictionNineteen years of being ordinary. Meet Alex Fitz. Born to Ezra and Valentina with the name Alexandra Katerina Fitzgerald. She is a princess completely unaware of that fact. When her younger half brother shows up to make her aware of her royal stat...