The Tempest Sea by Robin D. Mahle

Author:Robin D. Mahle [Mahle, Robin D.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-11-29T16:00:00+00:00

The Princess

“Highness,” the voice was laced with exasperation. “Wherever you’re hiding, you may as well come out. Your mother has declared your punishment will only increase with each hour the staff spends looking for you.”

The Princess could hear her governess’s typically-impatient tones echoing off the walls outside the vent she had situated herself in. She couldn’t see the speaker, though, through the steeply slanted slats.

“She deserves it, if you ask me.” This voice sounded younger. A lesser servant, the Princess guessed.

“Hush. Someone will hear you,” a third woman admonished.

“No one who heard me would disagree. The entire queendom knows what an unconscionable brat the youngest princess is. Thank HiLa’s memory she’ll never be queen.”

The Princess’s cheeks heated with anger, but she wouldn’t reveal her hiding spot just to put the woman in her place. Especially since she could hardly argue. She knew what the Levelian people thought of her, what her own mother thought. The queen herself could have overheard the woman and she likely would not have been punished.

The only person who ever stood up for her was —

“Is that a thought you care to repeat to me, Privus JoCelyn?” Auntie SuEllen’s voice resounded through the halls.

“Captain, I was only saying —”

“The question was rhetorical. I heard exactly what you said. You would be wise not to say it again, here or anywhere else, unless your burning desire to scrub latrines for the next decade outweighs your good sense.”

Every woman who worked in the castle was part of the Legion, headed up by Captain Emery. SuEllen had nearly as much power as the queen herself. All that mattered to the Princess, though, was that her aunt had defended her at all. Not to say she didn’t feel a surge of satisfaction at the stuttering and backpedaling that ensued.

“I will take over the search now. On with you three.”

“Yes, Captain.”

The Princess must have missed the nearing of her Aunt’s footsteps in the resulting clatter of boots on the tiled hallway. The next thing she knew, the vent she was leaning against wrenched open and she unceremoniously spilled onto the floor. Captain Emery was looking down on her, wry amusement lifting her ordinarily-stern features.

“Oh, PeNelope. What am I going to do with you?”

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