The Royal Wedding

Chapter 0.8

The musicians' trumpets could be heard from a mile between the royal rooms. They announced the banquet prepared by the Kingdom of the Lapin Islands for the Prince of the Kingdom of Kot. Minji was in his assigned room for his few days that she will find herself staying in the castle.

The guards were behind the door of her room, waiting for her to finish getting ready. Minji had been invited by the king himself to come after a short meeting in the corridors. To be honest, after what had happened with the man's daughter, she felt a little guilty of talking to the father who seemed so happy with his kind presence when instead he did not know that she had tried at their first meeting with his daughter.

Moreover, Hanni did not even give her a minimum nod about the meeting between the royal corridors that ended with a laugh and an announcement from the guards of the kingdom of Kot. Minji's guards were asking for his presence to write the letter to be sent to his father to find out if she had arrived at the princess's reign. She was brought with force and could do nothing but feel that little laughter rumble in his head as soon as her guards dragged her away from the princess. So now she found herself in the room ready for the banquet and with his false protagonist as well as the prince.

She knocked on the door asking to open the room finally catching a glimpse of a little light and sitting the loud music in the castle. She wondered if Hanni was also in the ties. She missed the young girl for some strange reason, She couldn't stay away from her after their meeting. "Do you know where the princess is right now?" Asked Minji around among the guards and servants scattered around the castle but the answer was always the same and was not the solution to his question. The guards did not respond despite knowing who she was.

Minji looked at them from top to bottom as if she was about to see a snake coming out of the ground, wondering how they would allow themselves not to answer her. It was precisely she who was the prince of the kingdom of Lot, the heir to the throne who would have razed even their houses to the ground if they did not obey her question.

"Do I have to send a letter to your general to hear from you?" She asked nervously the girl who seemed about to pull her sword out of the sheath but her hand stopped as soon as she heard the sound of the guards's armor moving.

"We are sorry but we don't know where the princess is," said one to her right, referring to everyone's thoughts in a firm tone. Minji knew very well that endlessly asking where Hanni was was a lost search.

The princesses were sometimes reserved and preferred to take refuge in their rooms before the banquet so as not to drop her so-called beauty into the walls of the castle. But Hanni's beauty was too pure to disappear in one night. Minji had her heart beating inside his ribs like a drum looking for the perfect melody.

She put her hands back on her hips pulling a whipped sigh knowing full well that the guards were not soothsays and were not even seekers. She walked through the corridors. Minji hoped to meet a familiar face but only saw guards and waitresses running back and forth with baskets of clothes and cloths to clean the castle's huge windows. Only then did She meet someone's familiar face. She stood there with a smile on her face as she listened to a nightingale-like chirp.

Those red, soft lips that grew a strong desire to kiss her. How could she be so beautiful from afar? Could it be a magnificent mirage had from her thoughts for the careless of that young girl? Ah, she sighed as soon as she saw that smile turn to her as if she had discovered something she shouldn't have discovered. That little smile was made in a little laugh.

Her eyes closed along with her laughter making a gesture with the hand to get closer to her. Only then did Minji approach the girl in slow steps hoping in the meantime that it was not an illusion. Minji slipped into his frivolous dream of being able to have everything for herself at that moment including that laugh now extinguished by a soft smile.

"Were you looking for me?" Asked Hanni raising his eyebrow with amused viewpoint how Minji was making herself desired with those needy eyes. The so-called prince looked at her from head to toe chasing an expression of wonder without even taking it if her voice had been heard by the girl's ears.

She had changed clothes perhaps because the banquet had then become formal through his presence. She was adorned with wonderful shimmering jewellery that highlighted her porcelain face, her hands were milk white darkened by the long embroidered black gloves that climbed to the elbows.

The dress overall was black and voluminous making the division between his skin and the dress more and more pronounced. "It's going to be some spells, because your beauty makes me blind to the other things around me," Minji said, marveling at Hanni's softness in smiling as if she wasn't dressed like a goddess who came down to the ground.

Minji remained petrified hoping that a scream would not come out of her mouth out of emotion: she could not believe that that girl would become his wife, the deities certainly had a soft spot for her. "You're not bad either, prince," Hanni whispered in embarrassment hoping that despite her dim voice her comment could be heard.

"I know I look like a fool..." Minji continued stepping close to Hanni taking his hand and looking at the window that made the sunset visible in front of them. "But seeing the sunset with you, it's like seeing it the first time in my life," Minji said. Hanni looked at her with dreamed eyes as if she had heard a poem or an oration right next to her ears almost to slide her into an abyss of calm and serenity.

She saw Minji's face with her neighbours that her mind thought of something else before looking away from Minji's lips by moving her eyes to the wide and powerful chest that surrounded her body from behind.

Now she understood how she felt about being loved, she understood why her parents died without one and the other. Not seeing Minji for hours had increased her desire to see her, despite being in the same place. Could she really have died for lack of love?