Obelia's Rose

Chapter 15

- OBELIA'S ROSE, CHAPTER FIFTEEN, BY VIICERENE.

"YOUR MAJESTY, THE PRINCESS HAS AWOKEN!" Felix said. He ran towards me in a worried manner.

"Princess, can you see me? Do you know who I am?" He asked.

He was sweating like crazy. Tears were engulfing my eyes as I felt a stronger ache in my heart.

"W... Waaaaah...!" I cried. Felix was worried. "Princess...?" 

"Ah... It hurts." I said, trying to fight it back. It does feel that my insides are on fire.

Felix then turned to daddy, who was looking at the magician that is supposed to cure me.

"What should we do, Your Majesty?" He asked. "What do you think you're doing? I told you to heal her." He said.

The magician flinched at his tone. It was cold. Stone cold.

"What... On earth did you do to make her condition worse?" He asked, looking down at the Magician.

Daddy was powerful. "I beg your pardon, Your Majesty, but the Princess's condition has worsened. It is only because she is conscious now that she's feeling the pain

There isn't anything we can do when her mana is leaping to and from her body like this..."

Now, it is daddy's turn to speak. "So I told you to find a solution, and yet you don't have the decency to be ashamed of your incompetence." He said.

He's showing... No mercy. I looked at the Magician kneeling before daddy. He was on the verge of tears. "I b-beg your forgiveness, Your Majesty, but I am the most knowledgeable among the royal magicians-"

"-when it comes to mana abnormalities." He paused. "It is unlikely that another magician will be of help to the Princess at this stage." He said. "Do you wish to die?" Asked daddy. The magician gasped. He kneeled lower.

While I was here, sniffling because my nose was clogged with snot.

Eww. "You have an intricate way of asking to be killed." Daddy said to the magician who was kneeling before him.

"Bring in another magician. And lock him in the dungeon." Daddy said, and two knights were dragging the magician out. "Y-Your Majesty!" He cried. He kept repeating daddy's title, begging for forgiveness.

"If you wish to live, try harder with that pea brain of yours. If you wish to continue to say the same useless things, I'll start cutting off your limbs one by one before I chop your head off." Daddy threatened.

Oh! Just like that queen in that story book. All she could say was: Off with her head!

He then made his way to me. "You're too noisy, go to sleep." He said. Oh, okay. That would be better, but I just woke up.

His hand inched closer and closer to my head.

--- SKIP

Ah. It's the woman that has blonde hair, ruby eyes. I think... I and Athanasia's mother.

Her name is Diana... Yes? And she's the woman that was singing in my dreams. I'll call her fairy lady! She looks... Very pretty.

I almost died today, miss. I coughed up blood while drinking milk with Athy and Daddy. ... But... She was crying. A tear was running down her cheeks.

She gripped onto her pink dress as she cried silently. It was nice if I was able to talk to the fairy lady...

But I could only stand here, staring at her. And these nice dreams end once I turn around, and leave the room she's crying or singing in as if I do not know her.