Women of Adoth

Lana (Part 2)

Lana could have sworn she watched her father grow smaller and smaller and they sailed away for hours. She knew in her heart she couldn't see him after about a half an hour, but she did not dare take her eyes off him. She feared that if she removed her eyes from where he was, she would never be able to see him again.

"LANA!" Luiz shouted. The jest scared Lana and caused her to take her eyes off the point she was staring at off in the horizon. She desperately tried to find it as Luiz laughed like a fool.

"Luiz! Father said to protect me, not to scare me to death!" She screamed in her brother's face. Sometimes she hated him and his lack of respect for her.

"Father told me to be a father to you while he cannot. So we need to have a chat. Father to daughter."

"Stop, Luiz."

"Lana, you know how a wedding goes in Nabril right?"

"Yes, first you accept the engagement, then you marry in the king's feast hall, then the feast begins, and then everyone leaves and goes to sleep happy in celebration."

Giggling, Luiz pestered his sister, "Lana, you forgot a step."

"What?"

"You forgot the most important step of the marriage."

"Oh. You mean the bedding-"

"Yes, I mean the bedding. Do you even know what that means?"

"Well of course I do. The wife pleases the husband and vise versa in hope of the wife becoming pregnant."

A huge mischievous smile came across Luiz face. For a moment, his dark hair covered his eyes, making him look very eerie, scaring Lana.

"Prince Lucas, he's older than you. He will know what he is doing. And you don't have any experience."

"Luiz, that isn't your business. I will learn over time, or my new husband will teach me."

"And if he doesn't like you?"

"I will be his wife. He has to like me."

"You're so small, with no tits. You have pretty long hair and nice eyes, but if you don't know how to please your prince, he will forget about your pretty hair and eyes and leave you."

"But I will be queen. That can't happen. He can't pick a different queen because I can't please him."

"Oh, sweet Lana. You are just so innocent. Watch and learn, my daughter."

"Stop acting as though you are my father. You are nothing such."

"Sweet Lana, you need to rest. Your future husband will want to see you beautiful and with energy, not tired and ugly."

"Fine then, goodnight."

"Sleep sweetly, sweet Lana. Your prince won't be letting you sleep so nicely soon enough."

With a shudder, Lana left Luiz's presence and tucked herself in for sleep on the rocking ship. And that night, she dreamt of meeting Prince Lucas, and him casting her aside, calling her ugly and of impure blood.