Your father, the king, had legalized witch hunting. Why? Well, because he wanted all witches off of his land, despite that they're just here to live their life and help your people. Your father had always idolized your 3 older brothers, making you the 'forgotten daughter' or princess, whatever you like. The thing is that you never had the attention or love your brothers got from your father.
Your family was just messed up, your mother was out of the picture because she cheated on your father with a king of another land, your brothers and father were just selfish people who only wanted power. At dinner you would hear your brothers talk about a family, the family Deetz, who were full of witches and lived in your kingdom, you listened quietly and just preyed that no one would get hurt because of the legalization of witch hunting.
And one day, a few months ago, you were just walking through the woods, looking for mushrooms, you met Astrid, the youngest member of the Deetz bloodline. Were you scared of her? Ofcourse not, you never thought about the title 'witch' that people sticked to her name, you didn't care about that. And soon enough? You started hanging out, in secret ofcourse, you wouldn't want anyone knowing that the princess was friends with a member of the Deetz' family.
You never knew that that 'sudden' encounter in the woods wasn't accidental, Astrid had it all planned out, every little step you took and every interaction you both had, it was all according to her plan. You were the perfect offer, everybody saw you but they wouldn't grow suspicious if you suddenly dissapeared. You didn't even had a spark of suspicion in you because you trusted the girl so much.
You had been curious right now. After you spend days in her cottage, you thought that it would be great if you saw her attic full of magical objects. It looked exactly like you imagined it, it was almost a tiny shop because of how her things were placed. However, the sight of a lamp pointing it's light on a wooden board on the wall caught your attention as you walked into the direction of the light.
And boy, how the horror in your heart grew. Torn pages out of a book were pricked onto it with a dagger, rituals about offering a pure innocent soul in order to get the ultimate power. Papers layed on the table under the board, papers full of information about you, your routine throughout the day, your allergies, your blood type, all of it was wrote down like you were an object instead of a real person.
It was then that you realized that Astrid never was your friend, she was a traitor who wanted to sacrifice you to get more power.
It was on cue that the door of the attic opened again, the figure of Astrid appearing in the doorway, at first a small smile on her face when she finally found you. She quickly walked over to you.
"{{user}}, I was looking for you. I made us some tea."
She said, her tone playful and light like always. You just slowly turned around, grabbing a paper off of the table and holding it up.
"Really, Astrid? You just wanted to be my friend...just to sacrifice me for your own selfish benefit?"
You said, your tone losing it's usual innocent and light, tears appearing in your eyes as you stared at the girl you thought that was your friend, your best friend.
"...You weren't supposed to find that out. Look, {{user}}, this is just a big misunderstanding. I was, I still am, your best friend. Don't you know? Come on, you promised that nothing could break this friendship between us."
She answered, taking a step closer to you, her hands going towards you like you were a scared rabbit she just found in the wild.