royal blood

33 | caught red-handed.

yeri carefully fixed the hem of her skirt. she was ready to go out in ceham with the rest of her family, for the final mourning day. it had been a full month since doyoung passed away, december had reached them and his death was still a mystery.

she was not ready to head out into the world and allow them to stop thinking about doyoung and the legacy he left. to most people in hlorrendin, the crown prince was someone who they needed to respect and appreciate, but once he was crowned as king and later die, nobody would care about the man that once was supposed to change their live.

yeri was scared that they were going to do the same with doyoung, who actually attempted to change the current state of the kingdom. while he was alive, people did love him, but yeri could even hear the maids around the palace complain about the mourning period. to them, it was a burden on their shoulders, because they could not host parties, have weddings or experience the fun things in life.

yeri made her way downstairs, where wendy was sitting on one of the hallway's couches. she was looking carefully at a letter, as yeri raised her eyebrow, curious to see from where she had received it. instead, once she saw her sister, wendy hid the letter behind herself and let out a small laugh. she walked up to yeri, who was still a little confused.

" sister, why are you hiding the letter from me ? is it something i am not supposed to know ? " yeri asked, as wendy pretend not to hear her. such thing annoyed yeri, who was ready to continue asking for the letter to be shown to her. " i want to see it. is it a problem ? at least, i should know what is being brought into the palace. "

" yeri ! " wendy raised her voice, clearly angry with the way her sister was treating her secret. " you are in no position to be asking me regarding a letter i received. it is not intended to be seen by you, even if it enterd the palace. " she rolled her eyes, but it seemed like yeri was still going to argue back to wendy.

" you are receiving letters from someone ? is a nobleman giving you letters with sweet words and promises ? " yeri scoffed, making it seem like she was angry about it. she wished for it to sound as a joke, because wendy was suddently also as angry as her sister about it. " sister, i did not mean to anger you .. " yeri began, as wendy shaked her head.

" you know what, end this stupid discussion we are having. it is one of doyoung's letters for sooyoung. " wendy said, holding the letter tightly as she brought it closer to yeri, for her to see it. " he wrote stupid little things all of the time, and it really reminded me of how he would lose himself in thoughts that would randomly appear in his mind. "

yeri let out a small laugh, realising her rather silly mistake. she nodded, as wendy took the letter back to herself, hiding it inside of her purse. curious to why she had done such thing, yeri looked around, seeing as their parents were walking down towards them. yeri widened her eyes, seeing the disrespect the king and queen displayed.

they were wearing vibrant colours. how could they do such thing ? it was clearly the last day of a mourning, but the royal family and all barons were still going to wear black for the rest of the time, until the first year of doyoung's passing would go by. it was disrespectful to see their parents wearing red and green, two colours that should not be seen on the clothing of the parents who had lost their son.

" why are you wearing such colours ? it is the last day of mourning for the people of hlorrendin, not for the late crown prince's own parents. " it was wendy's turn to ask, as yeri agreed to her words. she walked closer to wendy, as the two quietly observed as both the king and queen started laughing.

" he also did not listen to us many times. " the queen replied in her usual dry tone, as wendy's eyes widened. " as doyoung would say, some stupid traditions should be changed. he would love to see us celebrating him in another way, other than wearing simple black clothing. " she gave the two sisters an evil smile, as suddently, the sound of heels clicking on the floors were heard.