ɪ ʟᴏᴠᴇ ʏᴏᴜ ꜱᴏ ★ Acotar

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They were riding in the chalky forest, the snow and frozed leaves crunching beneath the feet of their animals. It was calm and quiet except for the occasional murmur between them.  They were riding to the ancient tree, a sacred place in the winter court where many High Priestesses come to their bidding. And Kallista as the perfect face of the ice court princess was as religious as they came going to the tree to part to the gods and the mother every weekend.

After some minutes they finally arrived to their destination, the beautiful ashen tree stood tall in the white pure snow, it was the biggest tree in the whole forest so it was majestic when looked at. The trunk of the three was ash color and had carvings of an old language all over it, and the leaves so white and soft that could pass as pale feathers. They went to a stop in front of the ancestral tree and tied the reinds of their companions to a nearby branch.

Kallista walked towards the tree each step with lightness, happy to be in one of her favorite places that brought her comfort, when she arrived near the trunk she touched it with her fingertips amd then sat on the floor with her back in the trunk and closed her eyes, right now she was in her world and nothing could touch her.

What felt like minutes after peaceful dreaming, she started to get flashing scenes or memories, there was a woman wih red hair, a party, blood, a pointed crown, and a ring with an eye. The princess woke up with a gasp in alarm at all the fast and perturbating flashes, her brother turns to look at her worried.

"Are you okay?" He asked with furrower eyebrows.

"fine, just a strange dream" She replied while grabbing her head with her hand feeling a headache coming, she stood up and went to Opal, she opened one of her satchels and took out an apple to give Opal.

After a couple of hours they decided to head back to the winter castle, Kallista brought Opal to her place in the stables and stayed with her for a bit longer. When she got to her room she was in lucid state, the blonde princess was still thinking of the strange dream she had in the lonely tree, she was trying to figure them out.

Red Hair

Blood

Pointy Crown

Ring with an eye

This things didn't make any sense, but Kallista was feeling tired so she decided to stop her thoughts and go to sleep it was pretty late after all. So as she fell asleep in her feather filled bed, she closed her eyes and let her mind enter the land of dreams.

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A knock woke her up from her slumber. Alara entered the silent room quickly and crossed her arms when she reached the foot of her bed.

"I heard someone went riding" Alara spoke with a raised eyebrow.

"Well you see, it's a funny story really..." Kallista muttered nervously.

"mhm" Alara hummed with a blank look on her face, Kallista awkawrdly smile. Suddenly Alara was by her side hitting her over the head. "I told you to stay on bed!" Alara scolded.

"I know, I just felt so useless" Kallista complained while rubbing her head.

"Yeah, yeah anyways that's not the only reason i'm here , your father is back and he requested the presence of you and Kallias" Alara informed, while removing Kallistas covers.

"Father is back?" Kallista asked standing up from her bed and going to her closet to change.

"Yes, he arrived yesterday night, you were already asleep" Alara replied going with her to the closet. She grabbed a sky blue dress with long puffed sleeves with silver embroided flowers and did her hair with braids on top and the rest down her back.

Kallista quickly made her way to the throne room after saying goodbye to Alara, when she arrived two guards opened the heavy doors for her. She always loved the elegance and arquitecture of the throne room, the glass windows were arched going from the ceiling to the floor, the floor that shined like they were millions of opal stones in it, pillars at the two sides of the room each carefully placed, the enchanting white marmol throne, however the thing that Kallista liked the most was the crystal dome that the throne room had instead of ceiling, it was the perfect combination, when the glaring sun came through the glass the light would reflect on the shiny floor making it look like a you were walking in thousands of stars.

Her brother was already there when she arrived and her father was sitting in his throne looking as regal as any High Lord, looking through parchment scrolls.

"You called for me father?" Kallista questioned when she arrived walking towards the throne and going to a stop besides her brother.

"Yes, there's some things I would like to tell both of you" He replied putting the scrolls away. "There's something coming, we do not know what it is, but the High Lord Day says something is starting to feel wrong, so if there's war coming I want you two to be preparated, from this week to next you Kallista are going to start training defense and to you Kallias i'm going to double your hours of training to be High Lord" Their father said with solemn look on his face, both siblings were shocked at this revelation.

"But I thought everything was good again" Kallias whispered his voice full of worry, what would happen this time? he doesn't know but he knows that he has to protect the people he cares about and if that means sacrificing hours of sleep he would definitely do it. Kallista on the other hand was speechless, she was thinking maybe this new revelation of secrets has something to do with the dreams she had on the tree.

"What about the meeting? it sounds like a serious matter and the meeting is a week and half away" Kallista asked trying to keep herself from worrying.

"They had changed it to the end of this week, on court of day" Her father replied smiling a little when he saw a little relax appear on his daughters face when he mentioned the court of day. "You both can go now, i'll see you at dinner" He said when his childrens walked to the door.

"see you later father" they replied. When they got out of the throne room they started to think what does the future holds for them?

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