11/19

Oh
My
Word
     I cannot believe what the Princess told me. It seems there are adventures after all, mother. I came to her room a little early, as she had requested. When I got there she was reading Anna Karenina. No Joke. She asked me to sit down. Yes, asked. So I sat down, and she told me to keep what she was about to tell me a secret, yada yada, blah blah, all that stuff. I agreed and she told me this.

     Her whole spoiled brat act is just that... an act. She says she hates doing it, that she isn't really like that. She says she cringes every time she gives an order. Naturally, I asked her why she did it & she said it was because she wants the engagement broken off. She explained it like this...
     She longs for Kayn. She says Balren is nice, but it is no home. She says that was her first reason for wanting 'disengagement' (is that a word? It is now!) Secondly, she says that she has never wanted to be a princess. She always wanted to be a writer. She says she grew up thinking that she wouldn't have to be a princess.
     You see Kayn & Balren used to be bitter rivals. But the current rulers got fed up with the fighting, and so decided, early in their reigns, that their (first eligible) first-born children would marry, thus cementing a treaty. The Prince was born, and three years later a princess was born in Kayn. This Princess went missing when she was only 10 months. The Queen and King of Kayn lived in denial, believing she had been taken away for safe-keeping, hidden even from them. But when the Prince reached 21 they realized that the oldest princess wasn't coming back in time (um, yeah...) and so the duty of betrothal fell to the next oldest, Princess Latria. She had grown up being taught that her sister was coming back, so she had not been prepared for being the Crown-Princess.
     She says the only way she can think of getting disengaged, without being thrown in jail, is being a brat. She believes that if she is horrible enough the Prince will let her go. She said she hates it because he is so kind, and he at least tries to be loving, but she continues anyway. I couldn't tell her that he will never let her go, not only for her sake, but for the sake of his (and her) countries. Kicking her out meant the treaty was off, and he would never even dream of that.
     After her shocking revelation we still had to go to lunch. Lunch went by rather uneventfully, except for one bit. The Prince announced to his parents that the wedding, and all its pre-festivities (about a month of parties), was to be held in Kayn. When he said this the Princess stopped with her fork clichefully mid-air and her jaw open. She gasped out a thank you before returning to her character and her food, and the Prince smiled triumphantly.

~Karlie