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Drabble 6 : Little princess will grow up.

When she heard of princess Eleanor for the first time, the young Lilith felt one feeling : indifference. She didn't want to marry the king, according to rumors (and his own portrait), it was someone monstrous physically speaking, and disgusting.

An ogre, in the true meaning of the term.

So his daughter didn't interest her, and even by knowing that her mother had been human, the first idea she had about her was the one of a child, watchable at least, or worst, an ogress, as her father, or something between the two of them.

A profound disgust as bitterness took the young woman when she learned her fate.

She was sold, there was no other name to call her situation.

This is why her first encounter with the princess wasn't the thing that scared her the most or that she she waited for. What terrified her, it was the king and his reputation. And what she would have to do to satisfy him.

Lilith never really liked men, but her future husband just almost made her entirely hate them.

Leaving the carriage, the future queen (it was the only good thing of this story) looked nowhere, full of boredom, shivering in advance as she saw the king's look. A deep feeling of disgust, the one that took her some months ago, took her again, and she looked at another place.

He was even more disgusting as she saw it, or imagined, and she tried to see something or someone else more likeable to see.

And then she saw a woman with dark hairs, in a beautiful blue dress, someone who wasn't entirely a woman, and still a child, according to the age she seemed to be. But she was magnificent.

For a moment, the future young queen believed (and strongly hoped) that this person was a servant. This one could help her be used to this place, and maybe even distract her when her husband would not be there.

(No, she had no remorse by thinking she could cheat on him with another woman. He would probably do it, so it didn't matter.)

But the rich outfit wore by the young woman made her understand she was wrong, and the queen told to herself that she seemed to be one of the nobles of the castle, it must be.

When the king told her who the woman was, her heart swerved.

Because at no moment she would have thought that this young woman could be the princess. She was too beautiful for that !

But she then let her surprise go, and, as by convenience and to be polite toward the princess, she gave her a superb smile, to which the child replied.

Lilith was still looking at her, before she remembered that her previous thought should never come back to her mind again.

She was the princess, the king's daughter, the one who was supposed to stay "pure" until she was married.

(Lilith had an ironic smile, thinking about it. In a strict point of view, she wasn't any more, not with what the servants of the castle "taught" her before she left. She didn't want the king of be her first time. And he would probably not notice it. But it wouldn't stop her from suffering during this night.)

She wouldn't touch her, couldn't, never, and at that moment, she realized how her life would be a real hell if she didn't bury all these thoughts, and she did it.

(Or tried to.)

In fact, she was as queen Phaedra, who, just after her wedding fell in love with the one she should have never loved, her step-son.

(It wasn't love, not yet, but it would happen.

Just as pain too.)

And she still didn't know that, as the queen from this tragedy, she would try to kill the one she loved so she would destroy this love.

But the queen was still far from these thoughts, far from this terrible realization that she would make later, one day, the fact that the princess wasn't a child any more.

She tried to reassure herself, after all, the princess wasn't an adult.

Yes, but, her reason reminded her, worried, one day she will.

Yes, one day, little princess will grow up.