The next morning. when I woke up, I headed straight for the window to look at the sky. Fortunately, there

was no cloud in sight. Today, it seemed, I would escape my punishment.

One of these days, however, my luck would run out and I would be forced to kneel in the storm and hope

my body was strong enough to take it.

Elva and I dressed for the day, and hand in hand, we exited our room to head down to breakfast. Just

outside of the room, we were greeted by Mark.

“Piper, Elva.” He turned toward the two guards standing behind him. “From now on, these two will be

personally assigned to you.”

Their uniforms were more or less similar to other guards I’d seen, except these ones had green trim

around their cuffs.

“They are a part of Prince Nicholas’s personal guard,” Mark explained. “You will also find that others on

this floor have been replaced, though these two will be outside your door at all times if you need them.”

The two gave me soft nods. They seemed nice enough, much nicer than my previous guards. And if they

Nicholas, then I had little reason to

fond of Elva. I believed him when

safe. Really, that was

Mark dropped to one

for the things that happened to you, Elva. But I can vow to you that it will never happen

on, you

looked

and your mom or Prince

Do you

me. At my nod,

his feet.

cort your

be sick,

down a lot since the day before, she still seemed nervous, especially around

guards, Mark included.

in their outfits were lost on her. She saw them all as the

and pushed her out of

to trust them

were loudly

had been banned from the gardens before I had gone out there. The Queen, it seemed,

of her punishing in

made it onto television, thank goodness. However,

not mean the

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