Not a Slave!!!

Chapter 3

*Bhairavi Pov*

"Your apparel!" I heard the maid uttering the words entering the cell.

"Place them there." I mumbled not glancing at her.

"His highness is wanting to present you before the Kingdom at the nightfall. Please wear this apparel." She pleaded and I stood up after releasing a sigh.

"I will." I assured her and changed my attire before moving back into the cell.

"Your afternoon meals, Princess." She returned after a few hours of time.

"This much?" I questioned her with a frown, looking at the huge varieties of food.

"There is a feast before you get presented, Princess. His highness wants it to be eaten by you before anyone else consumes it." She replied.

I fisted my hands before consuming each of it and lay down on the floor. If he wants to be executed infront of his people, then I can only fulfill his wish without a fail.

"These are the people of Palmar?" I asked the maid when she took me outside the cell towards the front of the people already present with terrified looks.

"Yes! Many people left the Kingdom after his highness took over the throne." She replied in a whisper.

"Then why are you still here?" I questioned her frowning.

"I do not have any family left. What will I do with running away from here and get myself stabilized in a new place with no hope?" She questioned back sighing.

"I give you my word to go to my Kingdom whenever you wish to." I mumbled holding her hand.

"I will be here for you, Princess." She mumbled back before making me stand before the people who have only fear looks but not a single smile on anyone.

"Why are they terrified?" I questioned her frowning.

"They are thinking that he called for them to punish them again for taxes or for something else." She replied giving me a pity smile.

"He is a monster." I mumbled glancing around to find any soldier holding a sword to take it from him.

But suddenly I felt myself losing a step with wooziness and the maid gave her hand to make me stand with stable. I shook my head, but the feeling of ground knocked off from my feet is not leaving me.

"My people, you all are summoned here to know some great news." I heard Ramsey's voice but I couldn't watch anything in clear.

Cutting off his words I heard a small battle cry making my head blast more. Maid took me back towards the dungeon when we heard the soldiers fighting a war with someone else in the middle of the stage.

"What... is... happening?" I asked her trying to breath and also trying to feel the sense regarding what is going on around us.

"A war has broken out." She whispered and we suddenly saw that all the prisoners are getting released from the cells.

"Princess!" I heard the familiar voice and turned to see the man who came here to rescue me yesterday.

"Is it from our Kingdom?" I asked him frowning.

"No Princess! We never cry for a war without a proclamation to the enemy." He replied and I nodded before letting both of them drag me away from the dungeons too feeling the dizziness embracing me more by passing of each second.