Royals

luna

The sun descends back into the comfort of the night and the moon emerges in its absence. Spending the whole day outside has been extremely pleasant for my mind and soul. New sights have been discovered and I have decided my purpose in this life.

I always thought that I would waste away here, similarly to my mother then die off when heaven came calling my name from the clouds. However, now I see that I have to change this miserable place for me and for everyone whose sole desire isn't to watch their lives pass them by without having a purpose to continue them.

It is what my mum would have wanted, if she was still present to tell me. I must be getting back to the castle. Most disappointingly to my pleasure, I can not stay here forever. I have duties to fulfil as not only a woman, but a princess. My father has arranged for fine suitors to be presented before me, where I will choose a worthy husband.

Along with my father's abusive beliefs on my mothers kind, he most certainly has similar views on me having anything but a husband. He says I need a strong man who will lead the country whilst I rot away in my throne, just like my mother. Just the thought of it has me feeling chained and restricted.

I remain empty with any ideas on how to help myself away from this life that I have been destined for since my mother birthed me. There is no way out. But there has to be. I will not lay resting until I have discovered it.

"Luna, we must be returning, it is forbidden to be out past this hour" I inform her of the rule she already has mind of. "As you wish, miss" she says and climbs up from the dried grass. "I have instructed you not to refer to me as miss, have I not?" "Sorry Elizabeth" she answers sombrely. It gets bewildering, her having to call me miss in the castle but by my birth name when we are alone.

I feel out of place when she calls me miss but it is my fathers orders and he would not have it any other way. He believes that we, being superior to the servants, should at least get the small luxury of being referred to as superiors. It is immensely difficult having my one love as a servant whom is obligated to take orders from thee. But I must live with it.

Luna accompanies me back to the castle and we wait at the enormous doors that sink into the castle's stone walls. I look at her face in the darkness and can just about make out her eyes. Those wonderful, magical eyes. I feel her hand on mine and she pulls it swiftly up to her mouth. Her lips gently brush my skin before she lets it fall back down and return to my side.

I am so captured by her very presence, I am trapped by her and will allow her to further conquer my soul for her own.

The doors open instantaneously and I enter, leaving Luna to sink into the night. She disappears from my sight as I continue into the castle.