Chapter 38 : Entrance

A Chapter by CatKr

When she walked ut of her bedroom behind her father, a little smile played around her lips.

Without her mother noticing, she had secured a belt with hidden weapons on her thigh.
In these last months when her father had too much to do with his duties as a king and she lied to her mother

about self-studies or endurance training, she instructed her squad to start teaching her little assassin tricks as to

protect herself
without attracting and attention.

At first, they started teaching her stealth techniques since it was unlikely that she would ever be without protection ,
so her main focus was to get out of danger to let others handle it for her.

She started training to jump long distances and worked on her foot techniques.
One of her least favorite workouts was the circle training.
There she drew two circles closely next to each other and then started sidestepping from one circle in the other.
Her instructors just loved to let her do this workout since it was one of the few that did not jeopardize her safety.

Of course, they also taught small weapon mastery. Hence the belt with hidden weapons on her thigh right now.
They gave her little throw knives and placed a target 5 meters away from her.
When she could hit the middle of the target 5 times in a row, the target would be moved farther away.
At this point in time, she could already hit the center of a target which was 10 meters away 4 times in a row.

Her dress was tailored as an a-line and so her bodies were very tight but from her waist down it spread like a bell. So not even her fathers
keen eyes that inspected her from top to bottom could see the outline of the weapons.

But she knew that this evening could not be resolved with a dagger in the back of her enemies.
No today was her debut in society, so she had to be extremely careful as to how much information she exposed and
wich role she decided to play in society.

The day before, she had a long talk with her mother and they decided that she would play the role of the

neglected little princess
which made a great effort to learn etiquette lessons from her mother to please her.
Emerthelil would act as if she was concerned about her appearance and her future prospects as a pawn in

her father's power struggles.
At the end of the wedding, Emerthelil would then act as if she was very proud of her daughter's behavior and praise her to other
participants as a wonderful bride candidate.

In that setting, Spera did not have to act as a dumb child but she also could maintain a certain distance to her parents and make
others take pity in her if she needed them to.
She knew that her mother wanted her to resort to her boyish ways and force her to give up training, but

she found the need to
protect her family greater than the need for a good appearance.

"Presenting King and Queen as well as the crown princess of Praestolatio.
King Mesanth the fierce, Queen Emerthelil of the Nature and crown princess Speraenya."

After her total annihilation of Lidiana, the name stuck with my mother. The servants that saw her in her rage-moments testified to seeing her effortlessly controlling nature at her will.
After a while, the title "of the Nature" stuck with the image of my mother and a year later she was always introduced with that title.
Spera remembered the first time that she was introduced with that title. Even her professional mother

stopped in her tracks and
looked like she wanted to run away. The whole event over she looked like she would run away. After that day, she looked herself up
in her room and did not come out of it for more than three days. Nobody knew what happened, only that

after the three days Mesanth
entered her room and ordered a renovation of the whole room. The workers had to sign a contract which

forbid them from sharing any
information about what they saw in that room.
Since then, every time she was called by that name Emerthelil would twitch a bit and Mesanths whole face

would blanch for a moment.
Even Spera never had the courage to ask.

As she walked down the stairs behind her parents, like her mother thought her, the room started to buzz with many silent whispers that
filled the room.

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