Dawn of the new era

Chapter 5

The next day. In the main entrance way in the castle presently resides the young prince and his mother. "Mother, offer i may, to the wish of mine, for the kindness of the kind man and girl." The young prince looks lively upwards towards her. "Understood dear, you want to thank those generous town folks very well." The mother gives him a pleasant smile. "Do you have of the request i had to made?" The young prince looks on in wonder. "Yes i do, now show your best manners, you must always present yourself properly." The mother reminds him and hands the item she had in her hands to the boy who readily accepts it. "Worry you need not i will always, now gardens i shall be waiting please inform of the arrival." The young prince exciting announces. "Ill thank the man in your stead so dont concern yourself with him, ill inform the guards at once to invite the guest as well." The mother reasures the boy. "Thank you mother of mine!" The young prince happily thanks her. "Ill be off now, take care." The mother warmly tells him before making her way off.       

The young girl from the other day stands in front of the castle door, alongside her mother whom she holds hands with gently. A guard stands boldly in front of them acting as there escort, he gestures for the gate to open and they proceed through making sure not to fall behind the castle guard leading the way, as the young girl followes close behind with her mother, she instinctively looks from side to side absorbing this rare scenery that hardly any citizen gets the privilege to see, her eyes curiously look on in awe at the beautiful sights and her gaze fixates on the enormous castle in front of her, there home isnt even a fraction of the castle before them, her mother notices her viewing the surroundings overwhelmingly in an inquisitive manner, the woman shows a jubilant smile at her innocent child. "Keep looking around without observing where your walking  and you'll end up falling down." The woman slightly tightens her grip on the girls hand that catches her attention, the warmth of the womans hand fills the girl with ease and calms her mind. "Sorry i forgot, looking at everything here its different from our house in the centeral distinct, to think peoples live in a place like this i feel better with you here with me." The young girl walks right alongside her mother now with a cheerful smile. "Its a big place, why are we here?" The young girl questions curiously. "The royal family personally requested for you, its the highest honor not many get the distinct honor of being able to make your present in front of them, remember to show your best manners, be polite and show your greatest respect." The woman reminds her with a pleased smile. "Yes, i will be sure to." The young girl reasures her.                 

"We arrived." The guard boldly states and they head inside the guard follows behind as they enter inside the castle, now the prince mother spots them and makes her way over. "Greetings! Thank you both for arriving on short notice." The prince mother proceeds to explain the situation to them. "Y-your highness wants to see me?" The young girl timidly ask quietly hiding behind her mother. "Your being disrespectful, you need to talk clear and stand up straight." The woman looks down at her child, the prince mother folds the bottom of her kimono and kneels down in front of the girl hiding behind her mother and offers her a gentle smile. "Now than dont worry its no problem, he is awaiting your arrival in the kingdom gardens, would you go see him?" The prince mother kindly ask while still on the floor, the girl hesitant to separate from her mother stands unmoved. "Dont be so shy, the young highness wishes to see you its a great honor, you been talking about him since you first saw him." The woman softly encourages the girl who looks away in embarrassment. "Im curtain he would be pleased to see you." The prince mother reasures her in a friendly manner. "O-Okay ill go see him." The young girl nervously agrees. "Very well please escort her to the castle gardens." The prince mother now starts to get up from the floor she had been kneeling on and announces to the guard who was still present he escorts her to the destination.          

"You have an adorable daughter." The prince mother comments with a friendly smile. "Thank you very much, shes extremely shy towards anyone other than me, shes always been frail so she hasnt had a chance to interact with peoples often shes only seven and yet she does everything the best she can in her own way." The woman proudly conveys her thoughts to the prince mother. "Seeing her up close shes a kindhearted girl, it was very generous of her to help my dear, as a noble he doesnt get a chance to interact with others up close either." The prince mothers shows her gratitude. "I look forward to the young highness becoming the next king, im sure he will make a grand kingdom." The woman offers her praise as well. "Indeed i wish to see such as sight as well." The prince mother looks on with downcast eyes.       

The guard and the girl reach the gardens he stands silent to keep watch and the girl becomes captivated by the sight of young prince under a lone cherry blossom tree in solitude, surrounded by the beautiful flowers dazzlingly in many colors, as she closes her distance and walkes down the pathway toward him she reaches him and in a soft quite tone. "G-greetings.. your highness." The girl shyly hides behind the sleeve of her dress, the prince hears a gentle voice and turns to see who it is and examines her presences. "The rare pink of the hair you, have it be the same you are the girl who be so kind as to help such as i the other given time." The young prince bows his head respectfully and offers a friendly smile to her. "An honor it is to be giving a chance of this for the meeting we had again." The young prince joyfully states she gets embarrassed. "N-no.. Im  greatly honored.. For your invite." The girl timidly tries to clear the misunderstanding averting her gaze els where, she notices his right hand is clutched and she uncontrollably starts to blush.       

With her gaze not paying attention to where she is standing, she instinctively takes a step backwards from the sudden acknowledgement from the prince and steps on her long dress causing her to trips and fall backwards onto the rough ground, the prince looks at her with a worrisome expression and takes a step forward positioning himself in front of her, now abashed by the scene she just caused in front of him hesitate and unable to bring herself to look at the prince, now she looks down with demure eyes. "I-im sorry for this sight." The girl sheepishly imparts her words to him as her sits on the ground, the prince leans down and offers her a hand up. "Worry yourself with not, are you to be hurt at all? Accept the hand i have to give it a shame yes for the dress as white and pretty to get of the dirty." The young prince caring awaits an answer with his hand still out to help her up, she sees this and decides to accept. "T-thank you.. Your highness.. im not hurt." The girl gently accepts with a warm smile and the prince leans over and as he helps her up from the ground with his left hand she becomes increasingly close to him.                

Unable to avert her gaze from such a close proximity she notices and for the first time looks at the young prince bright, arctic, blue eyes that are captivating as though its drawing her in, she notices a part of a symbol under his left eye, but cant tell what it is as part of his shoulder length hair covers part of his left eye. "W-what is that symbol on your face?" The girl ask in an inquisitive tone as she leans closer to get a better view, completely forgetting about her shyness the prince lets go of her hand and moves his midnight blue hair to the side out of his face with his left hand, a cherry blossom tattoo can be seen under his left eye. "Symbol as this, can be only for the family of royalty." The young prince explains and lets his hair fall lose again and gives her a joyous smile, in that moment he just now realizes how close she is to him and in discomfort takes a step back.                

"Its so pretty." The girl engrossed with the tattoo complements it. "The words you have, im happy to hear of them." The young prince happily accept the kind praise. "I remember, i had not shown to you the thanks of mine from the day of past for i was in a hurry and left accept i do hope for." The young prince opens his right hand and offers her the gift he had requested to give to her. "A gift..? I can accept such a thing.. im not worth it." The girl hesitantly declines. "If can not you accept because of titles and ranks, than a command i shall call of this." The young prince content with the outcome and beams her a smile. "I-i... Cant go against a word from the royal family, Thank you..Truly." The girl accepts the gift from the prince and observes it in her hand. "H-how lovely.. Its the flower hairpin i was looking at the other day but couldnt get." The girl carefully puts the decorated flower hairpin in her long pink, slightly wavey hair, the hairpin is set on the top left side of head."It looks the most beauty on you." The young prince innocently offers his honest feeling."T-thank you.. I love it!" The girl for the first time smiles wholeheartedly, not restricting herself from shyness or there difference in ranks, the prince seeing her honest feeling cant help but feel ecstatic by how much she liked the gift.