Quiet...

that was what she enjoyed, the peacefulness of silence... the only sounds being the birds and the breeze, she held a rose in her hand... inspecting it before throwing it into the fountain amongst many other wilted roses... she was soon to be married to a man she had never met, and was supposed to call him her 'husband' and 'lover' it disgusted her

As she picked another rose, and another... and a another... she was suddenly interrupted by a ruckus down in the village... she looked down, there she could see a ship was docking, one she had never seen before... she hoped it was a knight in shining armor who's come to take her away from this un-kind world... just like in the story books she had so deeply fell in love with... she found herself in a world of imagination, imaging a strong man taking her away... a man she truly loved, her rough callused hands gripping tightly onto the iron bars of the garden fence

Thats when a rough voice made itself known behind her “Ana…” It spoke, her father… the all knowing king of SeaSide Harbor… “Your ’husband’ is here…”

A few minutes later, she found herself waiting outside the gates next to her father and a few guards… she watched as a carriage approached and stopped in-front of them, she watched as a grizzly looking man stepped out and approached her, her heart froze… she’d have to marry him?- that’s what she thought until the man simply walked past her and to her father… she’d looked confused… that’s when she spotted another figure step out of the carriage, highlighted by the evening sun…

She knew what would happen if she refused this boy… sent him away like the others before him… she’s simply be- be sold to the highest bidding kingdom… and used as an truce treaty or simply a gift of peace… as most royal woman who couldn’t find a husband were