Agatha felt a large pit in her stomach as her heart began to restlessly race, she was getting closer and closer toward the Phivian Empire. Riding the ship on the calmed waters, she began to think of why her father placed her on a ship heading somewhere she didn't know and never heard of. Being so drowned in her own thoughts left her distracted from her current environment, that she didn't notice the sea's water banging against the boat as the sky began so thunder and emit loud cries. A panicked expression painted her face. She was already so worried about her father's decision to send her off without any warning, then suddenly the captain shouted telling everyone to grab on to something, Agatha felt her heart sink down to her stomach ,she grabbed on the ship pillar, beside her a child came and grabbed the pillar, the child hair was dark brown ,and his eyes were odd , the child had a eye patch on his left eye and his right eye was coloured black ,she shook her head, her thoughts was running wild about what will happen, well she drown? Well she return back fine and safe? While she was drowned with her own thoughts, the boat began to go sharp right and left , everything was on the boat was going with the waves, some boxes flew out of the boat from ,suddenly a large wave that sent many boxes off the ship, the child's hand slipped and he started heading to the water, Agatha looked at the child and grabbed his hand and dragged him to her ,the child's eye patch fell revealing the Sclera coloured black and the iris and pupil white ,she gasped , he looked at her and made a shh sign with his hand ,she looked at a barrel that was flying towards them , she went in front of him and covered him with her body ,it hit her hard and she fell unconscious.
When Rin imagined meeting her mate she did not expect their first meeting to be of him wounded and kneeling in her father's throne room slowly dying. What was more shocking was how she healed him without a second thought because she couldn't bear his pain and even going as far as kissing him slightly forgetting everyone in the room including her father who did not look in anyway pleased.
She is torn between two sides. The right one blurred in-between them both. Each holding a consequence she just might not be ready to face.
Her father who is grooming her to be exactly like him, a merciless tyrant.
Or
Her mate who wants her to forsake all she's ever known and in doing so choose him and his people, the rebels.
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'Rin I care about you. The moment you let them conquer your mind from something as weak as your heart you have already lost. They will use that spymaster to dethrone me and once they do that they will disgard you for your blood relation to me. Understand. I have to protect you Rin even if it hurts you. You're my little girl.'
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Written for the open novella contest 2021.
Longlisted for the open novella contest 2021.