Wilting Rose

~Chapter One~

{2020}
It's been 4 days 1 week 3 months and 10 years since I last saw my parents. It's been 3 days 0 weeks and 10 years since they took me to a foster home. It's been 1 year exactly since I became the prince's betrothed.

You might be wondering how a farm girl like me became the prince's betrothed, well... The new family they put me in was a family of servants for one of the high houses.

{high houses are families with power, each has an ability, they are rich and influential. All attend to the choosing. The choosing is when the to be king chooses his wife, pretty simple. Yes I know this still doesn't explain how I was chosen, but hear me out. Daughters from the high houses display their power in an arena, the best and most powerful becomes the heir to the thrones betrothed. The heir is alway male and the betrothed always female, as royalty likes to put it "traditional" or sexiest or homophobic as some would put it but I don't make the rules.}

Yes I know I still haven't told you how I fit into this well here you go. I made someone do something. A vague description i know but it's kinda hard to explain. Basically I made all the queen wanna bees mess up like real bad. No one could use their power, I silenced them. And my eyes, they glowed like amethysts pulled deep from caves full of crystals, silver, gold and riches. Gone was the sapphire blue, instead an amethyst purple replaced it. I, a farmer's daughter had some kind of power.

I gulped, fear was a snake travelling up my spine, it had wrapped it's tail around my stomach and was heading for my heart, my lungs, actually no it already had them. I was petrified. What had I done?
"Who did that?" William demanded. Another gulp. I know what happened now but then. I tapped my foot on the floor, fiddled with my fingers all before I decided to get house Mirane another glass of water. I was just a normal servant, totally normal.

"I said who did that, my daughter is more powerful than all of you and someone has messed up her power she is a master of wind!" William was loosing his temper. I knew before his house had next to no patience but I was lifted of my feet and taken into the sky at how pathetic he was. And wind? That man was utterly stupid, I will make sure he gets out of the meetings when I'm queen. What a strange thing to think. I'm just seventeen, I was 10 last time I had a normal ish life.

Back to my story.

The king rose. Anger boiling of him, steam crawling down his arm; threatening to engulf us all.  I thought that was it for me. Ended by execution, or maybe worse. Lifetime imprisonment, death by hanging, being burnt at the stake the list goes on. At least execution was fast. But I was wrong. The king's eyes scoured the crowd. His eyes locked mine. Another gulp. Another surge of fear. "Whoever did that come here now!" He boomed.

Did I go or not. It wasn't like I could control it. But I had an idea. "My apologies your majesty but I have an idea." I tried my best to protect my voice as much as I could while I walked towards him. " Yes" he replied waiting, also impatiently. God, these rich people and their patience.

{note to self: be patient cause it's soooooo annoying when people aren't}

"Security cameras, you have them right and before you say it yes I know they're is a lot of people here but if you think about it, doesn't someone eyes glow when they are using their ability? Look for that."

The king called for his guards instructing them to search the cameras. Had I messed up? He then nodded his head at me.

"We will accommodate for all of you, I want the find the mystery future queen before you all leave." Surprise flashed across my face. Queen?  If they found me I was going to be queen but I didn't even know how to use my power. I was raised on a farm and then in a ratty old house. A farmer, a servant and now the future queen.