Prince of RAVENTHORE |•KTH•|

5. Ethereal beauty

~Ruwana Kingdom

In the enclosed garden of the royal princess eight big drums were placed in a circle with some distance between them.

A pair of bare feet steps on the cold grass, the beautiful pair of anklets make tingling sounds as the feet move forward. The small bells attached to the beautiful gold anklets tingle even more when they're removed from the feet as Princess y/n takes off her anklets and places them aside on a wooden table.

The next thing that gets taken off from the princess is her long white robe, she folds it and keeps it next to her anklets.

Her bare shoulders get exposed to the chilled wind but her chest stays tightly covered in the cream cloth tucked inside her long white warrior trousers. Y/N ties her long brown-black hair into a bun with a stick.

Nobody is allowed to see the princess in this state where her sheer beauty is exposed to daylight except her personal maid who's responsible to her. The guards don't stay near the royal princess chamber's area unless it's an emergency.

Y/N unfolds two pieces of long white cloth and dips their ends into the small bucket of water before squeezing them to take the excess water out.

She then walks inside the circle made by the drums and blind folds herself with a red cloth before jerking open the long white cloth in her both hands and they half lay on the soft grass.

The princess wraps one fold of both pair of cloth around her palms tightly while taking her left leg behind, lifting her left folded arm up, her body leans a little but stays in a very firm posture.

Y/N stays in the same posture for a moment before spinning and the very first loud thud vibrates in the open air as the wet piece of cloth slaps a drum behind the princess.

The Princess spins again, the white cloth flaunts itself in the air elegantly with her before slapping another drum producing a different sound. Soon a series of different drum sounds started booming in the garden, not only in the garden but the air carried the rhythms with it outside the chamber areas of the princess.

The servants walking in the palace stopped doing their work the moment they heard drums being beaten and they knew it's their Royal Princess practicing.

Y/N couldn't see anything but her cloth made each of the drums to produce rhythms. When she was sure she had beat all of the eight drums once, she halted her actions and stood straight.

Suddenly it's all silent around the princess, she lowers her head, tho she couldn't see but she could hear and feel some steps approaching. The princess tightens her hold on both the pair of cloth, her all attention on just her hearing and as soon as she hears the first bell falling over a drum and producing a ting sound, Y/N turns around sharply, spinning her cloth in the air and it slaps the accurate drum.

Now it all depends on her hearing ability and her agility as more bells started falling on different drums and once again all the maids standing there were astonished how elegantly their princess moved, the white pieces of cloth spinning around her in the air, not missing any of the drums.

Each blow, each beat is so thundering. Y/n moves fiercely, eyes covered but with a deep frown, forehead covered in small beads of sweat, some short tresses of hair flying close to her lips, those two pieces of cloth moving as if they're swords, their hits so sharp.

No matter how many times the maids witness the princess practicing it, it always stuns them to the core. That honey skin beauty moving in white clothes, it swells their chests with mesmerization.

It's a kind of traditional martial art which is practiced by royal females of Ruwana. The white piece of cloth is used as a sword, drums are the target, the princess should control the cloth's movement while blindfolded, the years of practice makes the cloth hit sharply as a sword.