Forbidden Encounter of Snow

A Spirit in the Village?!

I sighed, resting my head on my hand. Today was the day that my parents would allow me to go to one of their royal meetings. I didn't really pay attention too much when one of my teachers in the castle was explaining what these "royal meetings" were, so I didn't really understand too much.

All I knew was that it was important and not a single noble in the area could miss it. "It will decide the fate of the village and citizens!" My teacher had said, slapping a book on the table in front of me to make me pay attention.

I didn't care. I don't think I ever will care. The only thing I did care about was what had happened nine years ago. That's right. I'm seventeen now, but that had only happened recently. My birthday was two weeks ago, on January eighteen. A year or two ago, I figured out what the boy I had met meant. He told me that there was little to no way we were ever going to see each other again.

Ever since those nine, lonely years had passed, I had slowly began to forget what he looked like, and now, I can't even remember his name. "What was it again..?" I mumbled to myself, staring out the window of my room.

My black hair was neatly combed and dangling on my back as my blue bangs drooped in front of my eyes. I was wearing a blue and white formal dress with little slits on the sleeves right above my elbows and up to my shoulder. I was also wearing a golden necklace, bracelet, and other valuable golden jewelery. I sighed while tracing my finger over the golden head ornament that was on my forehead. One of the maids told me that the ornament on my head was a symbol to say that I was the princess here. 

Honestly, I hated these kind of outfits. They were too tight sometimes, too showy sometimes, too heavy sometimes, and too annoying sometimes. Just looking at them made me want to run away and jump off a cliff so I didn't have to wear these horrible clothings.

Also, what kind of moron makes a princess wear something like the dress I have on now, on a cold winter day?! Ever heard of me "catching a cold"?! The people who wanted me to wear this obviously had something wrong with their brains.

I let out a long irritated sigh. Luckily for me, the meeting was inside the castle, so that meant I didn't have to go outside in this very unprotected outfit. Now all I have to do is wait for the guard to knock on my door and take me to the meeting.

Behold! A knock on the door! Halle freaking lujah. Took them long enough. The guard poked his head through the opened door. "Princess Kori? It's time to go to the meeting." He said.

I nodded and got up. "Fine. Lead the way." I replied, walking towards him and out of the room. I added a you lazy slowpoke in my head.

We walked through the halls of the castle's white walls. My feet were starting to ache from wearing these annoying blue high heels, and stepping on the little slits on the marble floor did not help reduce the pain. Gah, I wanna get this over with already!!! I growled inwardly.

After a few minutes, we finally made it to the meeting place. A round big brown table was in the center of the nearly empty room. Chairs with people sitting on them sat directly in front of the table. One chair left. Yay, lucky me... I have to sit next to mom.... I thought in a sarcastic and unenthusiastic manner.

I took my seat next to my mother, who was in a similar outfit as me, only the color was a darker shade of blue and the white was almost like a gray. Almost. She also had gold flower earrings and a golden crown on her head that was studded with beautiful sapphires. 

As soon as I sat down, the meeting began. I didn't pay attention or say anything in response. Just sat there looking like I was listening but deep inside I was bored as hell. "My lord. There has been news that a spirit recently entered the village! The guards are currently in pursuit." One of the nobles, a male in fancy clothing that would take too long to describe, told my father.