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XXXI
XXXI – Cost of the Crown
“Your highness, His Majesty wishes to see you.”
At the present time, Princess Aria, now at age twenty, releases the thick but silky curtains that had been hanging from the large windows in her room and allows it to slip past her fingers like liquid as the reminiscing comes to a sudden halt.
She turns slowly to face her handmaiden, her expression smooth but unreadable–like a carefully crafted mask. It might as well be her second skin.
“He suddenly summoned me,” she noted, “…in his room.”
“Yes, your highness.”
“That has never happened before, has it?” the Princess mused, “Usually, he was the one to come barging into my room...”
Her handmaiden shifted, uneasily.
“…speaking and demanding of things he t
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