𝐁𝐔𝐍𝐃𝐀 𝐓𝐎𝐖𝐍: [genshin scenarios]

𝗃𝖾𝖺𝗇 | 𝗍𝗁𝗋𝗈𝗎𝗀𝗁 𝗍𝗁𝖾 𝖽𝖺𝗇𝖽𝖾𝗅𝗂𝗈𝗇𝗌 [𝙤]

𝗌𝗅𝗈𝗐𝖻𝗎𝗋𝗇 | 𝖺𝗇𝗀𝗌𝗍?

𝗆𝖾𝖽𝗂𝖾𝗏𝖺𝗅 𝖺𝗎

[ 𝙩𝙝𝙧𝙤𝙪𝙜𝙝 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙙𝙖𝙣𝙙𝙚𝙡𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨 ]

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I was younger then, naive, weak, and little. I grew up wealthy, rich and loved by many in the land that my father ruled.

He was a king, My mother; a queen, and I; a princess.

Unlike other children that played outside and laughed away, I spent my childhood trapped inside the palace walls studying and perfecting everything that a princess can do. I danced my feet off and read all the books in the castle library over and over again. My maids would come to tend to my every need and desire. I had special tutors who taught me everything about everything.

The sun would wake me up every morning when it would shine through the slits of my canvas curtains and I would open my eyes to the yellow hue that the sun left on whatever it shined its majestic light on.

By breakfast, I'd be out in the castle walls that were adorned with paintings and the armour of knights. Once in a while, I'd run into the steel figures that towered above me. I recall disliking the amour that lined that hallway because of their intimidating demeanor and the dark wooden beams that support the ceiling of my home, but then again, as a child, I disliked most things that didn't appeal to me.

Then I would sit down on a chair that accompanied a large, long, dark oak table along with long benches that stood still on either side and eat my breakfast. Alone. Not even my mother would accompany me. All I had was a meal prepared for me, a long table, and nothing else.
I didn't like this life. It was rather boring and empty. Trapped in a world where all you had to do was follow the rules, listen to what you were told, and obey everything that was appointed to you. Of course, I was just a child who knew nothing more than to obey my parent's wishes.

What I didn't know was that all of that would change eventually.

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The scent of my father still floats around my memory. I can still bask in the moment of that day when I left the castle hand in hand with my father. His warm hands were scuffed with calluses connected with my cold ones. The streets were still lined with cobble stone back then as they are today.

That day, we had set off to visit the town. For me, that was the very first time. Father had said that I had to learn the customs of the kingdom before finding a suiter when I had become of age.

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The years went by fast since that day and by the time I knew it, I was seventeen. I remember staring out the window of my chamber basking in the fresh air that blew in and out.
The wind had a certain chill to that day. Maybe it was a good omen?

My eyes scanned the field that lay flat before me. Not that far away was my father, who was appointing the new junior knights around my age.

None of them really caught my eye, most were just young scuffed up boys, some were born from a family of nobility, some were commoners who lived inside the land's borders, and a few were boys who had been unlucky enough to be born into a peasant family.

Then I saw her. A girl.

I examined her figure. Her cheeks wore a red hue and her freckles dotted her skin. She had a button nose and her lips were tinted a soft red. Her eyebrows arched perfectly above her ocean eyes. Her body was flawlessly chiselled.