the Emperor and the Princess

prologue

She stared at the wall for a long while, lost in her thought of the wide-open space that were just behind her outside the window shrouded in a mysterious fog like rain. She was lonely in this tower 24/7 day by day, yet singing allowed her to be free.

"Maybe one day when I'm free the gods will take me away."
"Maybe if I can stay away a star will show me the way."

She sang the lyrics as if the playful chorus was sung during the time of day when the sun has a ring around it and the petals of cherry blossoms in spring rain down on you like a thousand tiny tears.

"Shine on me, my face."
"Take me away from this sad place, and trade my secrets for freedom."
"Take my hand and let's go."
"Towards the freedoms place."

She made this little world to herself, looking behind her towards the open window, looking into the thunderous distance and let her imagination fly, past her logical normal world!

She shouted into the night, "the calming winds have cast upon my face a thousand immobile tears." It's the saying she used to hear when she could be down from the tower she was placed in.

She miraculously escaped a fire when she was 3 and since then she'd been locked up. The rain she controls, but the fire within her soul, she does not. The flame that did not hurt her back then was something she couldn't describe, it was as warm as the sun on your face, but as cool as water running over your hands. It was a special day, her 3rd Birthday when it all began to begin.

"I call the winds,"
"Will they listen to my prayers,"
"And take away my love for the earth,"
"To spread with all that hears my voice,"
"And tackle their hearts."
"Be with me forever more, together."

She sang with all the power within herself, the rain and wind listened to her beckoning call and began to twirl and make the trees outside sway.

The day for her to begin again was today her 18th Birthday. She sat on the windowsill still looking outside, but keeping a mindful eye on the fact that the assassins would come any day now to kill her once and for all.

Keeping watch was all she's been doing recently and it's getting tiring. Day by day, at night as well, no one was coming or ever will to rescue her, just kill. It's a time for succession to the emperors' throne and being a magical princess she is, it's her duty to marry, and being the youngest one of 4 sibling sisters, it's her obligation.

"The emperor is a boy the age of 12, or so the maids say. He has black hair and blue eyes, and he's conquered the most of the entire world. The only way that he can rule the whole world is if he could marry the 'girl with rain', if only it wasn't me."