Chapter 12
"If you are a spy and this whole time you have been double-crossing me when I have been kind to you, remember that I will find a way to kill you. Thankfully, that will never happen because you and I are friends, right?" She glanced to her side at Cyrus.
"Of course. One day I will tell you my life story and I promise you, I don’t plan to hurt you. You are very kind, princess."
"I told you to call me by my name when we are alone. Everyone else calls me princess. I like to hear my name every once in a while," said Amelia.
"Noted. Can I ask you a question, Amelia?" He took his eyes off of their surroundings to look at her.
"Go ahead. I have nothing better to do," she replied, bored with looking outside already.
"Why do you keep going against your father when you know he is going to find some way to torment you? No matter what you do right, he doesn’t acknowledge it and scolds you for the way you speak to him. Why haven’t you given up yet?" Cyrus asked what was on his mind for a while after observing her.
"I started off as the obedient child yearning for her father’s attention and you know what that got me, nothing. Just days repeating themselves where I sat like a doll listening to him say things I didn’t agree with but I kept my mouth shut. What was the point of living like that? I don’t care how much he might try to torment me, I prefer to speak up about what I don’t like. I really hate being told to sit pretty and keep quiet."
"I will say it is entertaining for me to watch you go toe to toe with your father each time the two of you run into each other. My people would love you for that," said Cyrus. It was interesting to see firsthand that the Blackwells weren’t as perfect as they portrayed themselves to be.
"Glad that it entertains someone. The coachman is taking the trail to head to the border. Mr. Crook is a liar. My father would have never been so close to the border when the northern king currently wants his head but it is true the village this way supplies a lot of crops to us. What have you heard about the fight at the border?" Amelia used Cyrus’s skills to listen to the news of the war from the warriors returning to share the news with her father.
"It has been a good fight from each side but the last update was king Killian killing a lot of your men. I don’t know what else has happened since then. I don’t think the war has reached the side we are going to as yet but I will keep an eye out," Cyrus went back to looking outside the carriage.
He had spectacular eyesight that outmatched the guards in the Blackwell castle.