The Ice Queen

Wedding Night Practice

It has already been four nights in the capital, four very difficult nights of living with Tanvik and surviving without Faris.

Tanvik is extremely boring and overwhelming, and he wastes no time in insulting me, and of course I threaten to break his bones again if he goes on like this, maybe this will be a very long or very short marriage, it all depends on who leads it.

As for Faris, we did not have time alone, thank the gods, because if we had, I think we would not have been able to control ourselves, after what happened in the library, we were not alone, and I think that is for the best. There are many witnesses, the last thing we want is for someone to discover us, but if I'm honest it's almost as if he's avoiding me, I understand at some point that he can't draw attention to our situation, but after all that happened I was expecting a little chat or something.

As for our alliances, nothing important, the other nations look at us with disgust, thanks to my dear fiancé and his big mouth, we are the outcasts of the island, from time to time I strike up a conversation with Princess Amu in the library, since she is also interested in magic like me, but beyond a few conversations, nothing interesting.

Except for today, her maid sent mine a letter to meet me in the library in the afternoon, apparently it's an important meeting that I can't miss, I wonder what it can be and honestly there's not much to do on the island if not to interact with my dear husband, so I guess an alliance with the most dangerous nation can't hurt.

As usual, I'm the first to arrive at the library, punctuality is very important to us in the Ice Kingdom, and I'm also very insecure and don't like to make an entrance alone.

But I think I was a little early this time, so I might as well stop by the magic section since I don't have anything to do.

I'm getting pretty good at interpreting all these books, I've memorized them already, but it's easy to learn what it says, but it's hard to really understand what it really means.

It says that in order to be able to control a person's mind you have to insert yourself into that person's soul, or well that's the easiest way to explain it and if I'm honest I don't know where to start, how can someone insert themselves into someone's soul, a soul is not something physical that you can... you know...

This is going to take me more than a few days to figure out.

"Well, it looks like we meet again, little sister," Amu surprises me.

"I'm not used to the term little sister." I laugh, trying to hide my nervousness. I'm trained to be aware of my surroundings, but I guess a princess of the shadows is more than capable of moving with them, I guess she's something like Inti, that's impressive and quite scary.

"Still looking for spells? She tries to overlook the book I'm reading, but I close it before she can. "Aren't you bored?" She asks me.

I shake my head. "I want to research as much as I can, who knows when I can return to the island."

"You're right."

Amu is an interesting person, if you can call her that, after all she is the princess and future heir to the throne of the Kingdom of Shadows, the most feared and mysterious kingdom, and now that I know her I understand why. She is a very difficult person to understand, she never smiles unless she really has to, she can even laugh but won't show any expression on her face, but I like that, it's fun.

As for the rest of the princesses, they ignore me or are very superficial when talking, at least with her I can have interesting conversations, despite not having much contact with the outside world, they have a lot of knowledge about it, so we share the same interests in books, and sadism, the woman is a fan of torture methods, she can spend hours talking about how she would make Eirik suffer if she finds him cheating.