Tale of the Dark Hills | Jeongmin/ BangTwice Fantasy

The Destined Bride

Princess Jeongyeon is pacing towards her room, partly covering her face with a scarf, ignoring the confused and curious glances, the maids and servants are throwing at her. While crossing the courtyard, she feels a strong masculin grip on her wrist and the princess, in reflex, shrugs the hand off her, pushing him to the ground. When she looks at him, Jeongyeon finds a flabbergasted Taehyung on the floor.

"You scared me !!", Jeongyeon exhales.

"You were out last night?",Taehyung stands up and starts dusting off the his clothes.

Jeongyeon goes speechless for a moment, she feels nervous, she doesn't know why. Taehyung knows everything about whatever she is going through right now. In fact, he knows more than even Nayeon, at this stage. Still, she is unwilling to admit it or talk anything about last night. And this unwillingness piques her irritation. She unexpectedly gets annoyed at Nayeon, her sister for snitching on. Jeongyeon tightens her jaw and replies Taehyung with a question instead,

"Nayeon told you?"

"Does it matter?", Tae raises his brows.

"I am not feeling well Oraboni. I want to rest", when she proceeds to her room, Taehyung tries to stop the princess.

"How dare you, Kim Tae Hyung? Don't forget I am a princess",Jeongyeon's abnormally gruffy voice flusters Taehyung, he loosens the grip on her and retreats.

Something....something is odd. Something is changed.

Jeongyeon, collapses on her bed, her head is spinning, mind is in a mess. She feels scared....scared of everyone, scared of that voice, scared of herself, scared of the Jeongyeon she had met last night on the other side of the mirror. Something is eating up her slowly, she fears that, that Jeongyeon is starting to conquer her body, soul and mind slowly.

Kim Taehyung, finally makes his mind to spill everything about the younger princess to King Yoo. The princess is behaving weird since last couple of days and it doesn't look like a good sign to him. Taehyung is now questioning his and Nayeon's decision to remain silent about it all along. He still hopes it's not too late.
Outside the King's palace, when he asks permission to meet the King, the royal guards tell him to wait as the King is already busy with some important guests. Taehyung doesn't mind to wait, he is determined to inform everything this time. The young man casually asks the guards,

"Who are the guests?"

"Oh.. two priests from Holy mountain", the mention of Holy Mountains, gets Taehyung interested about the meeting, conducted inside.

Instead of waiting Taehyung strides towards the balcony on the second floor. He takes the advantage of being the son of the defence minister and a commander to access over there. Taehyung never has faced any restriction inside the palace as everyone knows that the King and Queen treat him as their own child. Reaching at the balcony, he runs towards the north corner, jumps over the fence.Balancing his weight carefully on the slim parapet, he takes small small steps to reach the window. If he slips now, not only he will break two three bones but also may end up in a very embarrassing situation. However, the one only great Kim Taehyung manages to reach the window and try to overhear. But, the people inside are talking in a very low voice, Taehyung can barely make anything out of it. He then tries to peek inside to catch a glimpse of those men, from the Holy mountains. He can recognize one of them, the older looking one, the man did visit King the last month. The other man is older than Taehyung, yet he is not that old, he may be in his late twenties or early thirties. Though he can't understand clearly, it's quite evident that King Yoo and the older priest is involved in a heated argument, while the younger one is trying pacify them. King Yoo, unable to control his rage, raise his voice, making it audible to Taehyung,