August,1519.
t has been four years from the tragic death of my mother and I am fourteen years old.
My father has remarried several times and has about fifty concubines since her death but none of them can match the rare beauty of my mother's, I pray and weep for her every day ,although it seems as if she didn't exist for anyone but me after her funeral. He pays little to no attention to me and frankly I think he's still offended about me hitting him,the only time he talks about me ,not to me is when he announces that girls should be seen and not heard.Meanwhile an arranged marriage between my uncle , yes my uncle, and I is under preparation.It may seem absurd that I willl have to marry a man who is my elder by forty years,but it is my duty as princess and it must be done. What wouldn't I give be poor but still have my mother a father who pays attention to me and not having to be married to my ancient uncle.These thoughts continue to whirl through my head as my tutor ,who is currently lecturing me on how to be a good wife,I decide to change the subject.
"Could you teach me how to write?,I ask her with the utmost confidence
- Why would you want to know that?You will not become a scribe later.
-I know but atleast that way I can distract myself from the wedding."
I think that deep down inside she pitied me so she told me that she would teach me with the one condition that my father musn't know. I nodded my head , but I wasn't worried since my father has been recently occupied with his "magic mirror" . Apparently he can tell the future with it and what he sees startles him.He says that he sees strange men dressed in a shiny metal that are coming in a floating cloud on the water that will arrive here soon .But enough about my father and his ridiculous mirror,my tutor whose name was Patli taught me the different symbols of the alphabet and by the end of the day I could write a whole paragraph.I was so excited that when she had left I started writing stories ,where I wasn't a princess anymore, and I was free,free to do anything that I wanted to and there was no one to stop me.
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