Prince of RAVENTHORE |•KTH•|

13. Longing

Sometimes we feel so connected to a character that their emotions become ours, their pain becomes ours, their happiness becomes ours.

That is what Princess Y/N has been feeling since their performance ended.

The pain in her chest.

The sounds of the Anklets were tingling in the royal corridor as the Princess was marching towards her chamber. Her steps were slow as her orbs were gazing out at the moonless night.

The same moonless night of the princess and the commoner before their separation.

Y/N knows the pain will fade away by tomorrow, she won't feel anything. It was only an act she played but perhaps she portrayed the emotions so strongly that it left a pain inside her, for the tragic ending of the characters.

It wasn't a simple ache, but it was pain which was bothering her.

The princess stops in her tracks and stands closer to a pillar as a cold wind sways her hair and her hanfu.

Her palm flies towards her chest as she caresses it but the pain isn't fading.

Her eyes lifted up at the dark night sky.

How tragic it must be to lose someone you love? How unbearable pain that must be.

The Princess's expressions turned into something painful, her eyebrows creased together in sadness, her lips turned down, the glint in her beautiful orbs was absent.

Y/N closed her eyes, her palm still placed on her chest where her heart was beating inside.

She felt the cold breeze caressing her cheeks and hair. The Princess focuses on the peaceful quietness around her. The pain was there but she felt oddly calm now as if something in the breeze was whispering sweet nothings to her bothered heart.

Y/N opened her eyes and at a distance on her right she felt someone's presence.

So the Princess mindlessly turned her head and her breath hitched without her knowing when her eyes met those charcoal and sharp orbs looking at her from a very distance.

Y/N's heart went back to being bothered but it was a different kind of bother this time.

Prince Taehyung didn't avert his gaze even after she looked at him. Or can it be said even after getting caught staring? But the Prince wouldn't like to phrase it like this.

Y/N felt her chest being pierced brutally but the pain was different from earlier. Her heart picked up its pace, she felt it because she was still holding her chest so Y/N flew her hand down to her sides.

The longer the Princess stared back her eyes turned so softer, looking at Taehyung, she felt something bubbling inside her in a form of need to be closer in his presence to get away from the pain inside her.

As if Everything would be fine being with him.

As if only his presence is soothing for her pain.

The Princess's eyes turned into something longing without her knowing.

It was good that the Prince was distant enough to not know what her eyes were reflecting.

Taehyung was initially standing alone when the tingling of anklets reached him, he saw the sorrow on that familiar face and When that pair of eyes met his, Taehyung couldn't look away.

There was a small garden on the right of the corridor in which there was only darkness, there was no moon to provide silvery light tonight. There were clouds because the stars were also not visible. Only the flambeaux were there on the wall of the royal corridor.