Aelin

Aelin ; chapter 1

As I'm sitting beside the wide window of my room wistfully watching as a bird floats by on a draft of breeze . The bird,gliding in the air . It's feathers glitter under the dimly changing lights of early morning , black and ruffled . It's free and unfettered . Just how I want to be . I lift my face slightly, catching the first of the sun's Ray's on my cheekbones . Watching the sun rise into the sky . It has it's own significance to it . A breeze shifts through the tree branches , dancing along the concrete to where I sit .

Suddenly a knock at the door drives my attention towards it . I hear a familiar voice at the door , it's Peach . My friend . She belongs to one of the richest family in Nyctophilia . Nyctophilia the kingdom ruled by my father . Peach is permitted to come to the castle as nobody dares to talk against me not even the king himself has enough courage . But Peach showing up at this early morning is not at all normal . I snap out of my thoughts as I hear her saying actually shouting

"Mel.....Mel  it's an emergency ."

Hearing those words from her I get up and asked for the door to be opened . As soon as the guards open the door , I see the lonely girl standing in front of me looking terrified, shocked and somewhat traumatised . The girl whom I have always seen cheerful and full of life somehow looks lifeless . She runs towards me before I know she hugs me and....and cries as she utters some words but as she's crying I'm unable to understand what she's saying .

After a quick second she repeats herself

"Your highness is .......is dead "

After hearing what she just said a silence remains in the room . After a while breaking the silence she utters

"She's dead ....she also left you , she's gone forever "

She pulls herself up and starts to walk through the big hallways of the castle I follow her without saying a single word .

The hallways looks magnificent as the sun light hits the glasses of the windows making its reflection on the floors of the hallways . Suddenly she stops as her feets aren't willing to go on . She's too terrified to walk at this moment . Now I take the lead and drag her with me . Stopping at the door of my mothers room . Where only her

body remains as her soul has left of it . Opening the door I saw my father the emperor completely lost •••• staring at the lifeless body of her wife lying in the bed . I take a glance at the body and see her body looking as pale as if could get . She's lying wearing a magnificent white gown . No sign of blood is seen . It's clear she wasn't murdered .

My eyes take a look at her hand by the side of the bed holding a piece of a majestic looking bottle .

Now I know she killed herself . All these pressure of being a queen and all of the secrets of the royal family is too much to handle for her . She has been keeping all this inside her for way too long it has to happened sooner or later .

As I am staring at the lifeless cold body a guard comes and closes the door so that the privacy of the room remains . My attention is now again on the body . Suddenly the door bust open as a tall female figurine walks into the room . She is my sister Thora . As soon as she entered the room all I could hear is her screams . The girl is crying and screaming her lungs out . She calm down after a while of hugging the dead body of mother . But she keeps on saying these few things again and again

"Mother ...why would you leave me ?!"

Everyone here including my sister's guards are just staring at her . She states under her breath

"It feels good without you tho"

She spoke this as quietly as possible but as I stand beside her it was possible for me to hear .

"You were so happy Mother ...why you leave me like this"

Says the girl . I am now staring at my sister very coldly cause mother was clearly not 'Happy',she wasn't in peace it was pretty clear on her face . She couldn't bear more . She only had the 'queen' title and nothing else . How could Thora say that mother was happy . Is Thora that dumb to even understand that !? I'm sure mother is now in heaven . She has suffered enough . Now I am looking at my father . He is still lost in thoughts . He is still staring at his wife's body . As I am observing the room and the people resisting in it , I understand a thing really thoroughly . I have heard this from my childhood that I am heartless as I never cry . Well to be honest I tried that and it didn't make me feel any good and that shit gives you a goddamn headache . I accept the fact that crying helps to get relief from the things you've been holding for too long,the things which give you pains and regrets but still it's a fact that only crying  doesn't show the sadness or pain, sometimes just a quiet blank stare can be the expression of someone being sad . I am like that . I don't cry . My stares have more feelings than crying . My thoughts get interrupted when I see my sister standing up and leaving the room . Any sort of sorrow or pain is now invisible in her pretty little face as if the dead body of the lady isn't her mother anymore . When she reaches the door I can see her smirking . Well ofcourse she is a bitch . Must be enjoying her own mother's dead this soulless bitch . She is not even true to her own self . She got no honesty . I took a glance at Peach . She looks terrified . It's quite normal as she has never seen anyone close to her dying . Now I take her and start to leave the room . As The Emperor calls my name I stop . I tell Peach-

"Go on . I'm fine . Go to home . And be at the funeral , I'll see u there "

Peach nods in agreement and leaves the room . I turn to The Emperor

"Mel , I have to discuss something to you."

"Yes"

"Next day is Thora's crowing ceremony . The level of security isn't faithful enough so I want you to be at the ball "

"I'll be there"

After the conversation ended I leave the room to get dressed for the funeral . As I enter the room a maid has already chosen my dress . I wear the dress and leave for to attend the funeral .