Sister of Revolutions and Lies

Chapter Three - The Lone Princess, Cursed To Have No One To Turn To

Artemisia walked down the halls of her brother's home. The princess left Jeremiah in charge for the remaining bit of time. Instead the princess opted to stay in her room, where she spent most of her days staring out to the sky. Slowly, leaning back, she laid in her bead. Eyes staring up blankly at the white ceiling of her bedroom. Turning she Laid on her side. The day passed by, and it wasn't until it was night when Artemisia finally moved. Standing up, she began to walk. Her long black dress trailing after her as she walked through the empty dark halls. Her heart broken as she began to sing.
Singing was one of the few ways the princess could show her true emotions. So, she sang, she sang her heart out as grief ate her away from the inside out, chipping away her carefully crafted mask. "~I had a dream about a burning house. You were stuck inside, I couldn't get you out. I laid beside you and pulled you close. And the two of us went up in smoke.~" She walked, her four dogs trotting after her as the princess clasped her hands tight her. "~Love isn't all that it seems I did you wrong? I'll stay here with you until this dream is gone.~"
    Her eyes screwed shut as she shook. "~I've been sleepwalking, been wandering all night. Trying to take what's lost and broke and make it right. I've been sleepwalking too close to the fire. But it's the only place that I can hold you tight. In this burning house.~" She walked past a fire place, dead. No life left in the halls. Everyone who resided here was either asleep or gone. "~See you at a party and you look the same. I could take you back but people don't ever change. Wish that we could go back in time. I'd be the one you thought you'd find.~"
    She continued forward, until she found herself in the gardens, exactly like the ones on Aries Villa. Her heart broke even more. "~Love isn't all that it seems I did you wrong. I'll stay here with you until this dream is gone.~" Standing a bit taller, she walked towards a table in the middle of the gardens. "~I've been sleepwalking, been wandering all night. Trying to take what's lost and broke and make it right. I've been sleepwalking too close to the fire. But it's the only place that I can hold you tight. In this burning house.~" Her eyes drifted closed as she walked, finger grazing the flowers. "~The flames are getting bigger now. In this burning house. I can hold on to you somehow. In this burning house. Oh, and I don't wanna wake up. In this burning house.~"
Sitting down at a table, she leaned back and her hand reached up to the heavens, her sleeve fell, showing her scarred hands. Artemisia, reached for the stars, for her brothers, for her sister, for her mother. "~And I've been sleepwalking, been wandering all night. Trying to take what's lost and broke and make it right. I've been sleepwalking too close to the fire. But it's the only place that I can hold you tight. In this burning house.~" Her eyes became closed, her hand falling limp beside her. Her head tilted back, eyes drifting closed as she fell asleep. Right there, in the middle of the garden. Her dreams were plagued with better times. Times in which Artemisia was truly, and utterly happy.

It was a few days later and Artemisia was running down the steps, she watched as Euphy fell into Suzaku's arms. She sighed, and came to a stop. "Euphy." She shook her head, then. For the rest of the day, they walked around. After a bit, they stood together in the gallows. Artemisia held Euphemia's hand. She heard something akin to a camera. Turning her head, she narrowed her eyes. Sighing she shook her head as she moved forward. She moved before Suzaku could. "That is enough." Her voice echoed as she stepped between the three Japanese people, and two Britannian. Her eyes looked first to the duo. "What you are doing right now is extremely rude and disrespectful to the Japanese people." The two Britain and glared at her, while the three Japanese stared at her.
"What's it to you, and their elevens." One snapped, the princess ignored him. Turning her gaze to the trio.
"And you three, you could've reacted and treated this a lot be—" They cut her off, and she blinked as they yelled at her. He went to attack her, but Suzaku intersected. Moments later there was a fight, and Euphemia lunged. Intercepting the fight, she lunged as well, grabbing her sister and pulling her to her chest. Shielding her with her own body. She watched as her sister interviewed. Blinking, then sighing, shaking her head. Cordelia was gonna have both their hides for this.