"There's this romantic idea that's built up around war. But the pragmatic view is there are tons of people of my generation who have lost their lives, lost their marriages, or lost their health as a consequence of being sent to wars which could have...
Make side stories, I said. It'll be easy, I said. This is fucking 11461 words ffs!
"P-Princess! Please come down, it's dangerous up there!"
Silhouetted from the large castle and beautiful rose garden in a peaceful quiet morning in the royal castle's grounds, an old maid yelled with great concern to a little girl who somehow managed to climb up a tree and sat on one of the branches with an accomplished look on her face.
"Oh, hi miss Helena!" The little girl waved to the maid with a wide mischievous grin.
"Princess!!!" Suddenly, more maids, servants, and some guards flocked to where the little princess was.
"Hahaha!" She giggled without realizing their concerns. "Everyone looks so small from here!"
Everyone became worried once she got more energetic on top of the tree branch. It was then that an old knight with the face of a lion stepped forward to talk to her in a gravelly voice filled with concern.
"Princess Angelica, please come down. It's dangerous, you know? Your parents will scold you if they ever find out."
Hearing the old knight's reasoning, Angelica's grin devolved into a sulk and lied her back against the branch and started swaying her legs, making everyone's hearts sink.
"Uwahhh, sir Leon, you're all boring... I just want to go outside and play." Angelica complained like a child.
If Angel– If I had stopped from there... even with my childish energy back in the day, my eyes would have still been sealed and blinded by ignorance. Ignorant to the whole world, beyond the castle, and beyond Litöw– the country I vowed to thee all worldly things above.
Crack!!!
"Princess!!!"
Just from a crack on the branch, all those on the ground below me screamed in terror as I fall from the tree. That was supposed to be where I either die or cripple my bones and risk the careers of those present before me and scream in terror as they rush me towards the castle's healers and await judgment for their failures.
But then something grabbed me. A soft and magical presence stopped and saved me from that high fall and slowly put me on the ground with my body trembling from that scary moment I have experienced as a child.
"Princess, are you okay?!"
A maid rushed towards me and knelt beside me. Trying to find any injuries. It was the scariest experience I've ever had up until that fateful day. I was just frozen scared. Trying to process with my still immature mind what just happened. Just sitting there with the concerned servants and guards around me.
"Make way for her highness, Queen Catherine!"
When a knight declared that, little me knew that I was busted... again. All the maids, servants, and knights hastily arranged themselves into two lines and formally greeted mother as she stared at me with an unimpressed look... Now that I think about it, she looks like that character in Y/N and Avrora's game. One who was paired with the game version of me. Oh, how wonderful, how tragic... it's like fate decided to make fun of me and opened my already sealed wounds again.
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