“How deep will your people go?” Prince Elton suddenly asked David.
David sighed and scratched his head, “They are loyal, no need to ask.”
“Then tell them to search even more, to find something to stop the engagement.” Prince Elton was then looking at David. “Father won’t be driven away by money for something small, it must be something that would ruin reputation or them having nothing left to their name!”
David raised his eyebrows at the Prince, “Having nothing is already in motion, Your Highness. Leonard severely depended upon Cid very much for business, if we could just keep an eye on the business, it should show a steady decline now that Cid has gone.”
The Prince also raised his eyebrows, “…You have too much faith in your friend!”
David scoffed, “And you not enough…He’s your friend too…Don’t forget!”
Prince Elton ughed and shook his head, “If we could wait a month, that would be better, but the ball is held tomorrow.”
“Engagements can be broken, Your Highness.” David stated smugly.
The Prince gave some thought to this, while staring at the horizon, “…My sister will not be at fault, but it still won’t look good for her.”
Putting hands to the back of his head, David sighed, “Cid won’t care, he will still marry her!”
The Prince hit David with his empty hand, “Who is to say that Cid can have my sister!?”
Laughing at the Prince, David backed away from him, “Then you will tolerate her being sad?”
“She will have me, there will be no need to be sad!” The Prince decred.
“You really don’t know what love is do you?” David stated with his hands up in surrender.
The Prince stood still again and clenched his free hand by his side, “I know what can be achieved without it!”
Shaking his head, David looked at the Prince, “Perhaps it is something that you need to see up close or go through yourself to understand it then. I pity you, Your Highness, that you have not been able to know to any extent what someone may do for love.”
The Prince frowned, “I have achieved enough, traveled and will bring peace and prosperity to the kingdom. Love makes people stupid and so I think it would be wrong for me to go through it.”
“Whatever, young Prince!” David said, putting his hands down, only to be hit again by the Prince.
“You’ve become quite disobedient!” The Prince stated openly, kicking David lightly behind the knee and seeing David fall, only to roll away from him.
“Your Highness, please forgive me…” David stated zily, as he got up and kept a distance away.
Lifting a hand and waving it in annoyance, the Prince frowned, “Away with you!”
David smirked and shrugged, “See you tomorrow at the ball.”
Prince Elton watched as his friend David left and sighed. It looks like the engagement will have to continue for now. They will still have to find a decent reason to stop the marriage before the wedding takes pce though.
Looking at the pace, to a certain area, Prince Elton’s eyes fshed with disgust.
He had to not only stop this wedding but stop his father from being the King of this country!
With children becoming sves and being hidden away, working with little sleep and food, there had to be something there that was connected to the King!
Even if there wasn’t, he was going to stop it! He knew about them now, nearly finding the base with just a few more days, then he was going to use the army to go and free them!
In the time that he had left, before freeing those poor children, he was looking for a pce to hold them that would be big enough and even found a business that would provide food and water. Since he was going to use the business’s pastries and bread for the ball, to hopefully give the business more customers in return, the business had relented in giving a helping hand to gift some food for a short period of time.
Not only this, but Prince Elton had a loyal companion within the authorities to already start searching for parents who had missing children. Some of those poor children might be able to go back home, yet…Prince Elton was sure, some wouldn’t even be from the capital…Which meant that a wider search needed to be done, and names needed to be found!
It was only one job that he was in the middle of right now…
Yes, Prince Elton had pns!
He had pns to expose those doing things illegally, he had pns to broaden their kingdoms horizons, knowing himself that they were behind in technology, and also on top of all that, work the nd better.
They wasted too many things, and didn’t pn, making the kingdom easier to invade and that was not something that the Prince wanted to continue to see!
He was determined! Determined to be a better King then that of his Father!
***
Woman with formal gowns, draped down to their feet, exited their carriages, walking up the pace steps and holding onto a man’s or brother’s arms. Males would wear top notch clothing that made them look elegant and gentlemanly. Pace servants helped carriages move forward, their job being ever repetitive throughout the whole afternoon and evening.
It was, after all, a big event!
Not only were the people able to enter into the pace, but it was a celebration over a person of the royal family becoming engaged!
Music fluttered around the ball area, to four open areas around it and lots of food and drinks were there as well, and that of a dancefloor.
Many went up to the newly engaged couple, who were standing at the front, yet there was a faraway look in one set of eyes.
She hardly knew how things had come to this point…
How had she become engaged so quickly to someone that wasn’t Cid? How had it come to a point where there were weeks in between times that she had seen that one person?
It didn’t make sense to her and she had fallen into a daze, not knowing how to deal with the current situation.
There had been no choice, and she knew now that her marriage was mostly done for money. She had tried once to stop the engagement, only to be yelled out and scolded to a point that she nearly had to kneel.
Then, on top of that, she seemed to feel at a loss for courage. So…She was here, not feeling the want to fight anymore. What would she be fighting for if she did fight?
The person that she wanted to be with was gone. The person she wanted to be with had accepted this fate like he was happy for her.
Should she really just accept it then? Accept marrying a person that she had no feelings for? Should she accept that she may not even see the man that she missed so much again?
…How had it come to this?
“Princess.”
Princess Bethany nodded absentmindedly, to someone taking her hand and kissing it. So many had done this already…
The women would curtsy, the men would kiss her hand.
This really was the second time she had so many people that were giving her attention yet…She felt nothing…
“Princess.”
Ah, this one was a woman.
In her eyes, she saw the woman curtsy and then slowly walk away.
Is that woman…Has she been so desote before like her?
What about this man, did he say goodbye to a friend of his and watched her marry someone else?
“Princess.”
Princess Bethany tried not to sigh and act improper, lifting her hand to the next gentleman.
Did this man come across Cid? Did he see him somewhere?
A loud noise was heard, and the Princess watched as her betrothed ughed happily and walked inside, leaving her behind. He was even talking so openly to a woman that looked like she was happy to be beside him. Seeing her look back to smirk didn’t even do anything to the Princess as she got herself ready to leave.
Will this be my life from now on? Left behind and even pced as less important than another…
“Princess…”
A certain voice, a certain…
Turning slightly and looking up to the man coming up the stairs, Princess Bethany lost her sudden curiosity and slowly turned back to walk into the pace…She wished it to be so. She wished it was him.
Yet, even if it was him…That person…What would she do?
She would be happy, happy that he was safe and sound. But…What’s the point of even thinking of this?
Trying to forget a certain person’s voice, along with their face, Princess Bethany walked into the ballroom.
Unknowingly, Princess Bethany had been right, and it had indeed been Cid’s voice! As Cid had been on the other side of her, closer than that of the other gentleman that had been walking up the stairs.
He had just about been ready to come before her, to take her hand, when she had walked into the ball room, but he came to a still…
He had seen her now. She had been right there in front of him…
As much as he thought he fulfilled his request on seeing the pretty Princess, his legs carried him in further into the ballroom, as his eyes continued to watch her from behind…
Yes, he has missed her! Missed her compining and fidgeting! Missed her pying up in men’s clothing and ughing! He had missed finding her hiding around some corner like a scared, little rabbit!
Perhaps that was why he followed her in, having thought previously that one look would have been enough to go back home afterwards…Because…Princess Bethany was not ughing, she was not compining…
It was wrong…
Cid knew it was wrong, she was so different like this that he swallowed in frustration.
