The Warmonger's Runaway Princess

Chapter 9 **Identity Troubles**

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With each spurt of laughter, the man in front of me got more and more of a nastier face and then he threw something at me!

"Had enough!?" He yelled.

I stopped, it didn't happen straight away, but I did, eventually, stop laughing...

"I'm sorry, it's just ironic!" I said in a laughing voice and shrugged.

I was a merchant, then a princess, then a maid, now something else...Wouldn't I be stupid if I didn't find it funny!?

"What's ironic?" He asked in a strange tone of voice.

I smiled at him and shrugged once again, "Life...Life is ironic!"

The man shook his head in irritation and then got up, "Size...Size...Here, put this one."

Clothes got thrown down to the floor and they looked like commoners' clothes. I didn't care...Whatever...

I took them into my hands and then something came into my eyes, to see that the man was washing my face.

Flinching out of his hands, I got up and looked away from him.

"That place there." The man said pointing.

Seeing that I could change, without being seen by him, I did as I was told and redressed.

After coming out, redressed in the commoners' clothes, I looked at the man and he again came closer to me with a cloth to wipe my face, "Ah, it's fine dirty!"

The man chuckled and stated, "It's not often that I get a maid with such a dirty face! Besides, your face is one way of finding out how we can change your identity...So that people won't be able to find you!"

I frowned, "What do you mean?"

The man stepped closer and said, "I am to make a mask to fit you, or that of a veil. To do that, I want to see what type of face you have to make sure I hide whatever I need too!"

Oh...

Letting him clean my face, I started to think that this was a great idea!

If I can hide my face...Then...

"Oh..."

Then I'd be able to leave and...

"My dear lord!"

I'd be able to leave and...

"Princess!"

Looking to the man, to see him get on the ground and become a ball like figure, I frowned, "What?"

"I...I...I'm sorry! What are you doing here!?" The man said, only bringing his head out a bit to say this, before hiding it back near the floor. "How can it be!? The Princess is still...Still Alive!"

"You...You know who I am?" I asked in bewilderment. After all, he was the first one!

"Princess, it is Rodney! When...When you were five, I...I was with your father..."

I blinked and stared at him blankly...Rodney?

Who was that?

"I don't remember you." I bluntly said.

"It is...Never mind, Princess! I was brought into the palace and saw you from a far a few times but never...Never did I think that you are still alive!" He stated, looking back at me now from the floor in complete happiness, "Your Father, lucky, lucky you are still alive!"