Chapter 2

A few days have gone by and now, I'm ready to go looking around the kingdom. My number one priority is to find that person who carried me in their arms in my final moments, and I guess who also burned down the palace. Let's try searching the whole palace first then other places.

After hours in the palace, I continued to search the next day in the village and the day after, near the lake and docks. Even after searching for days, I still couldn't find anyone him. Where in the h*ll is he? I can't find him anywhere in the whole kingdom! Well, I'm exhausted of searching, I'm just gonna rest in my room and have a quick nap.

Afterwards, I went to my room and yeah, slept for a few minutes.

"Princess Zyra! The crown prince has requested for your presence in the throne room! He also requested that you will arrive there in 10 minutes and that you put on an outfit that'll give a good impression" said a guard outside my room door, he then left after saying that as I heard marching fading away by the second.

Why is he requesting me to put on a good outfit? Are there guests coming over? Barely anyone comes, well they often do but normally they don't ask for my presence, What is he up to..

Subsequently, I picked a good enough dress and had a few maids help with makeup and hair. Afterwards, I went to the throne room to see a quite a lot of people.

"Hey babe, do you still remember the other kingdom that's just nearby? They came to our kingdom to visit, try chatting to some of them" said Arzhel, while mid-drinking with, i assume the princes in their kingdom.

I soon sit down beside Arzhel and yeah, just sat there minding my own business while he's just chugging down wine at this point.

"Hello Madam, you must Arzhel's girlfriend. Let me introduce myself, the name's Barett Oswald, nice to meet you" said the person across from Arzhel.

Wait, I think I recognize their name before I died, who was he again... Ah right, he got brutally killed in a war. From what I have heard before, he got shot from an arrow while hunting for food at night near the camps by the opposing kingdom, but I dont think that's what it seems to be. Why did the opposing kingdom shoot just him and not the other veterans that are in the camps? More suspicious is that, Why didn't anyone come to help him since it was near the camp? They would've heard him scream when he was shot, Something isn't adding up, the whole death seems fishy now.

"Hello? Miss? Are you alright?" said Barett, waving his hand infront of my face.

"𝑂ℎ 𝑦𝑒𝑠, 𝐼'𝑚 𝑎𝑙𝑟𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡, 𝑛𝑖𝑐𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑚𝑒𝑒𝑡 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑡𝑜𝑜, 𝑚𝑦 𝑛𝑎𝑚𝑒 𝑖𝑠 𝑍𝑦𝑟𝑎 𝐶𝑦𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑙𝑙𝑒, 𝐼 ℎ𝑜𝑝𝑒 𝑦𝑜𝑢 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑎 𝑝𝑙𝑒𝑎𝑠𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑦 ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒. 𝑆𝑜... 𝐻𝑜𝑤 𝑑𝑖𝑑 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝐴𝑟𝑧ℎ𝑒𝑙 𝑚𝑒𝑒𝑡?"

"It's kinda a long story but to sum it up, we've been best friends since childhood. Our parents have been close before we were born so after we were, they just kinda made us play together as kids and now, we're still the best of friends. I still remembered how much he used to fight a lot back then with my brother. Haha, they even cried just because our mother keeps scolding them for fighting against each other, what good old days they were" said Barett slightly dazed out but still grinning from ear to ear.

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