Pigeon Faced

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Three days had gone by in a blink and Renai had not been conscious of it. The taste of freedom absorbed her mind so much that she couldn’t keep a count on days. It was just last night when one of her chambermaids mentioned it to her. She was so drawn to the sense of independence that everything felt meaningless, just the solitude that she wanted was what she knew at time.

Though she hadn’t explored much of this enormous place as she had spent most of her time in her chambers. No one was here to judge her. She could do whatever she wanted. Go wherever she desired within her bubble. Swirl, jump or crawl, nobody would care. From early morning baths to playing hide and seek with her chambermaids who she considered more friends to midnight stargazing or dancing in her indoor-chamber-garden. There had been so much peace in those three days that she could trade her whole life for living in it some more. She was given four more days and then life would be back to testing.

She didn’t want