Dream a little, Dream of me

You had a speech, you're speechless, love slipped beyond of your reaches

Lilliana was back in the winter court. And she was talking to Kallias.
"Please. Take me with you, I'll stay away and nobody will know I'm your sister."
"I can't."
"You can't or you won't." Lilliana said
"Look, Lilliana I...you should stay here." Kallias said
"Please Brother."
"I can't."
"Please." She pleaded
"Why don't you what to stay here? In the band camps it's uncomfortable." Kallias said
"I can't stay here any longer."
"Why?"
"Mother doesn't like me."
"Lilliana stop making excuses."
"Im not making anything up Kallias, do you know why you don't see me around much-
"Mum said you don't like hanging around and so you stay up."
"It's a lie-
"Maybe if you weren't so keen on putting dirt on mum's reputation I would have you around more."
"You don't mean that." She said and clutched her scarred hand.
It had been years since Flora had stabbed her hand.
"Do I look like I'm lying?"
"Why do you hate me so much?" She asked him
"I don't hate you but I'd rather you not be annoying me all the time.
"You know what Kallias? Go burn in Hell for all I care you little fucker." She said and turned away ignoring Kallias' disappointed look.
She then stomped all the way to her room when she noticed her mother outside the room beside Flora who was stirring something in a glass of milk. She then crept back and ran downstairs to the kitchen.
She then swiped off a cloak and heavy wool skirt with a shirt and a shawl. It was as plain as she could get.
She hurriedly changed in an empty room and dumped her clothes in a hearth in the kitchen. And she escaped through a staircase tunnel and ended up in the stables.
She pulled the shawl around herself. And covered her pale hair. She peeped into stalls and looked for her horse but the mare wasn't present. She snuck into one of the stalls and jumped over the wall and then slipped.
And surprisingly landed on someone.
She looked at the person, her eyes wide and mortified. A boy looked back at her. His dark blue eyes shining.
She smiled sheepishly and stood up brushing her skirt and extended her hand to the fallen boy.
He took it and pulled himself up.
"Watch where you're going." He said
"Of course." She said
He then turned around to walk away and she didn't know why she blurted it then.
"What is your name?"
"Aleksander ."
"Nice name." She said
He turned around to look at her.
"What about you?" He asked tilting his head
"Lilliana." She said
"Nice name." There was a small smile on his face.
"So Aleksander." She said
"Yes?"
"Can I tag along?"
"Uh sure."
"Thank you." She murmured
He nodded and then held up a carton and handed it to her and despite not moving much she managed the weight.
"Where are we taking these?"
"To a bar." He said
"Oh."
"Yes oh, now come on lady." He said
She then helped him take the crates and the two walked along the icy pavements. They shouldered the weight of the massive boxes and quietly made their way. After an hour, they arrived at the bar. Aleksander led her to the back door and they walked in from the back and arrived and he placed the crates down. Then he took the ones from her and put them down as well.
"Thank you." He said
"Of course." She said
"Not to offend you but is that shawl important?" He asked
"What?"
"You're hiding your face slightly, so is it a matter of maidenly covering." He said awkwardly fidgeting.
"No..no." She said
"Well then may I?" He said
She nodded.
He then slowly removed the shawl around her hair.
She smiled at him.
"You're..you're-
"Lovely to make your acquaintance." She said
His jaw went slack, eyes wide.
"You look like you saw a ghost." She said
"I..I..you-
"Come on, I'm not that ugly."
"You are not ugly." He said
"That's the spirit." She said with a grin on her face.
"Why are you smiling? I could abduct you, you're worth a lot to the high lord." He said
"I wish." She muttered
"I'm just shocked."
"Why? Can't I go about frolicking?"
"You can." He said flustered
"Then? Stop looking so flustered I promise I won't have my way with you."
He went red.
She grinned even more wildly
"You look cute, all red and flustered." She added and watching him look even more flushed and flustered. It was like he was going to melt.
He bit his lip and looked her over.
And then her stomach grumbled.
She smiled sheepishly
"I'm famished."
"I got that." Aleksander said and grabbed her hand and pulled her in through a set of double doors, they then entered the hall and he grabbed a woman.
"Aleksander." She said her smile wide
"Nona." He greeted her cheerily
"And who's the lovely lady?" She said and turned to look at her and then her eyes widened with realisation and she looked back at him with some panic in her eyes.
"Aleksander-
Her voice faltered
"Please, I'm not going to kill anyone or of anything. I just want to eat." She said quietly
"Yes princess-
"Lilliana." She corrected and flashed the lady a kind smile
She nodded and then turned to Aleksander.
"Well, then the ordinary."
"Yes." He said
She nodded and left.
"Who was that?" She asked him as she shrugged her shawl back on.
"My grandmother." He said
"Oh."
"Yes Oh." He muttered
"Don't sulk, I'm not that bad of a company." She said elbowing him
He frowned
"You're not bad company but if I'm caught with you, you'll go home and I'll be thrown in a cell." He said
"Well then we can stay stealthy."
"Just don't get me killed and we'll be fine." Aleksander said and sat down on the stool beside the table.
She sat down beside him.
"I'm bored." She said after a minute
"Sure."
"No, I actually am bored."
"You shouldn't be."
"Why?"
"Because I'm here and I'm a pretty face enough to keep you entertained." He said
"Oh narcissist much." She murmured
"Oh shut it."
"I royally wont shut up."
"Well your choice." He said
She stuck out her tongue
"You're royally irritating." Aleksander said.
"I am not."
And then Nona brought a plate of spaghetti, ale and hot bread.
And then they gobbled down the food and chatted like old friends and also bickered gaming a few unneeded glances.
And soon enough they were drunk and dancing among the people in the pub who loudly played fiddle and flutes and sung in merry joy.
After that the two drunkenly made their way out of the pub falling on each other. Aleksander had a bottle in his hand, taking swigs at moments and an arm around her waist keeping Lilliana close and warm as he described his first impression of Kallias making faces and waving his bottle around.
Occasionally she would too take a sip or two laughing at his attempts of looking like Kallias, his soft blonde hair moving with the song of the wind as the breeze fluttered by in soft notes. Aleksander's dark blue eyes were glinting with mischief and his laugh was a beautiful note in the melody of the cold, soft, gust of wind.
If she could have gotten drunk on his laugh every night, she would.
The two looked happy, the girl with a wild grin on her face, laughing at the boy who made her giggle and want to dream. And the boy who glanced at the girl every then and now to make sure she was real and not just his dream.
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Ok so hello people, we'll be visiting Lilliana's past for a while and just saying, that the timeline will be slightly confusing but in her first flashback she was 8-9 now in this one she's at least a quarter century old which in digits is 25. So I'll see that after the flashbacks I'll make a timeline for understanding. Anyways and also between every flashback we have a week, in the meanwhile they'll be chapters of Eris and co' shenanigans. We'll have Zane and Isabella spying and Sirius and Eris bickering but in this sense that, I'll post the chapters weekly but the flashback chapters in Prythian's time is also weekly. Like I posted the last flashback chapter and now this one but she is suffering from these every day, it means these are the important flashbacks. Lilliana's mental health is bad and she's hallucinating so these are the flashbacks she is most haunted by. And keep in mind she's in that 'lavish' room and crying. So almost two weeks have passed since she came into the spring court.
Ima make a timeline below.

Came to the spring court- half a year/6months
Got married-two weeks
Came to the spring court- almost two weeks
Flashback 1- eight years old
Flashback 2- twenty five years old.

Up till now.