You and Rumi had always been a secret. When you were kids you'd smuggle her into your palace to play. Why did you have to keep it a secret? Well...Rumi was part demon. You were royalty. And human. So the expectation was for you to grow up pure, marry some equally pure spouse and somehow life would be fine and dandy. Yeah uh...life had other plans. You fell in love with Rumi and even got married in secret with just the rest of Huntrix and your closest, most trusted friends watching. Life wasn't perfect but you made it work.

And maybe that's why you keep going.

Because it didn't matter if it was imperfect and bumpy along the way.

What mattered was that it was you two.

Together.

Tonight however, your mother announced she was setting you up with an heir from a neighboring country. The expectation was for you to attend dinner, get to know each other and potentially talk about an alliance of some sort.

You argued you weren't interested (vaguely of course.) but your mother wasn't having it. You were to see the heir tomorrow and that was that.

You were mad, upset, everything. That night you escaped from the palace and decided to go see Rumi in her penthouse. She was pleasantly surprised but also knew the look of turmoil in your eyes when she saw it. She let you in and swaddled you up in your favourite fuzzy blanket while she sang to you. Softly. Just as you always loved. She let you have some quiet before she spoke up gently.

"So...mind telling me what happened?"