Runaway Princess

Ⅰ.

-Zuri

"Fine, what do you think Abeni? what should we do?" my father asks making the conversation stop, all eyes turn to my sister and I smile at her encouragingly.

Unrelated but he couldn't speak English and never bothered to learn so he always turned to me or in dire cases my sister for translation when speaking to foreigners.

My siblings and I could speak two languages, English being one of them and the other our kingdom's, so it wasn't a problem.

The problem was that ever since I gave up the throne and passed it to my younger sister he had been treating her coldly and only interacted with her when necessary.

He knew she wouldn't be easy to control like me so he wasn't happy about my decision, but it is what it is,

My decision.

Back to the situation at hand, the foreign men who had skin nearly as white as chalk looked at my sister expectedly and I mentally sigh.

A little back story;

Although our kingdom was hidden there would be a few people trespassing from time to time. Our warriors nearly killed these men till they started rambling and brought out strange equipment.

Our men confiscated the items and brought them to our father, he was about to give out the order for them to be killed like the rest but I stopped him

"We need to talk to the villagers about our..." my sisters voice gets cut off by the commotion going on outside our large meeting hut and our father who had been looking for an excuse to shut my sister up quickly bellowed to the servant at his feet.

"Find out what's going on outside"

"Yes sir" the servant girl rises and steps outside make my sister roll her eyes

The servant walks back in after a minute and addresses our father "Sir, the warriors caught some strange men with weapons by our border, the warriors brought them and askes what should be done"

Chatter between the elders starts but I tune them out, listening to the commotion that went on outside

"Please... negotiate... family... home" Is that English?

As if reading my mind my sister looks at me and whispers "We need to help them"

"I agree but you have to do it" she scrunches her eyebrows at me

"Why"

"You're going to be these people's queen soon, you need to stand up, talk and earn their respect"

"Your still a princess, why don't you..."

"... why do they have to consult me? they aren't the first but will soon be the last, we need to show those foreigners they have no right to let their feet touch out soil"

I give her a pointed look and she rolls her eyes pushing me to act,

"Kill the..."

"Father wait" I say and my father stops mid-order "Yes child?"

"Abeni had something to say" my sister looks at me shocked and sends me a quick glare to which I respond by wriggling my eyebrows

"Father, the foreigners may have something to offer.

We have the upper hand as they are in our land so they can't try anything"

My father frowned at her and I could tell he wanted to refuse but the eager elders faces made him agree, he turns to the servant with masked anger