Dark Kingdom

A horrible day

When we get to the throne room the place is abuzz. So much so, that for a moment, I believe everyone actually already knows what happened last night. Then I hear key phrases and latch on to a certain conversations. Pausing in my steps and pretending to be looking at a certain array of flowers

"I heard the Prince and Princess of Magna are to arrive here within a Fortnight, maybe even sooner!" An unfamiliar lady says.

"Why are they coming?" The familiar voice of Lady Muse asks.

"No idea, in fact the King has had it planned for quite some time. Some say it may have to do with Princess Miriam not being married yet, though we all know why she hasn't yet. Poor thing."

 My heart stops beating for a second. Seriously I hear it or rather feel it stop. There is no way. My eyes bug out of my head like a ridiculous black eyed tree frog or maybe a galago.

    Either way if someone were to see me, they would think I was no doubt "Unwell" Per usual and they wouldn't be wrong. I do feel quite ill, just not for the same reason I usually do. There was no possible way my father could be marrying me off, could he?

The doctors said I would be lucky to live more than two more years. Why would you give a dying girl to anyone, and who would want me? It was honestly one of the good things about dying. No marriage alliances with a stranger and no husband to dictate my life.

There was more in it for the person that married me then my father, after all my father never remarried. Only took mistresses, and from them there had surprisingly been no bastard children. Not even a whisper or rumor of any.
   
   So if I were to marry and then die, would my husband get the throne once my father passed away? Even if we had children, they would not be old enough, unless God willing my father didn't die until they came of age. Maybe that's what my father was hoping for as well.

     It's strange thinking of a future I wouldn'tbe a part of. Honestly it makes me unmovingly and impedingly sad. Making thissituation even worse for me as my thoughts take me there. I can do nothingabout this either.

   I'm powerless against the world and time. My fate isn't sealed yet though. I cool my features to look impassive as I step away from theflowers. Though death could not be swayed, people could be.

 If my father invited them, he had more than one reason. I would just have to find out what they are, and if he really had thoughts of married, realign his motives to something else instead.

    Easier said than done but if push came to shove, I could make the prince's life a nightmare while he's here till he leaves with his tail tucked behind his legs and no thoughts of marriage on his mind. I had two weeks till then and have problems today that needed my attention anyways.

    Lady Muse and the other lady she wasspeaking to, notice me and quiet down but I don't even pay them a secondglance. Already moving my thoughts away from their conversation.

    Ivana and Sophine have found respectable mento speak with and Ender is nowhere to be seen. This would be the perfectopportunity to sneak away. I wouldn't get another opportunity like this

After a quick sweep of my eyes around the room to be sure Ender really isn't around and sulking/spying in the shadows anywhere, before I turn, making my way to the exit but there's one person I didn't account for that may have been watching me without me knowing.

 The horribly vile Vivian Grange. Daughter to Aline. I'd hate to bring it up again, but you know, the lady that killed my mother? Sorry, but I'm still not over it. Never will be. The only consolation I have is the fact that Aline was kicked out of court a month after.