THE Knight's Hidden Princess

I knew there was something more to Branderson but I just didn’t expect it to be tied to me. No wonder he was so hesitant to speak to me. Seeing my face must have been nothing but a trigger to him. My father had attacked his kingdom on the day of his daughter’s wedding. He had taken an army and launched an attack on Branderson who wasn’t prepared. He lost and my father had killed everyone including his daughter’s husband. He had then killed his daughter right in front of him even though he surrendered, my father made sure to wipe everything that belonged to him. His daughter had also been around my age when she had been brutally murdered.

The day that was supposed to be the happiest day for both father and daughter turned out to be nothing but a nightmare. It was a wonder how Branderson was able to look at me without getting vengeance for what happened. It didn’t help that Reagan had been the one to also lead the army, a man I was married to and started a family with, a man that robbed his daughter off the chance of ever having the same.

But now I was stuck here with him, I bet he thought of it as some sort of karma with me, although there was something inside of me that told me that wasn’t the case with him. I’ve been around lot of people who wanted vengeance based on the crimes my father committed and Branderson wasn’t like that.

I also do not think I can be around him. While he may not act like he wants my head on a pike or wants to smother me in my sleep, I can’t bear to look at him. It feels like I have a lot of blood on my hand. The people my father killed are just too much and I never even stopped to consider the amount of people that Reagan might have killed.

Not by choice, I know he was acting on my father’s orders but that doesn’t make it any less better.

So I decided to steer clear away of Branderson. I couldn’t look at him, not after everything I just learned. Sometimes I wonder when my father’s sin will end, except there was no end to it. I’ve been told that my father’s sin weren’t my own but how do I move forward when I feel like the sin is constantly hovering over me? It doesn’t matter where I go, I will always meet someone from his past. Someone that he had wronged and I am stuck figuring out how to get redemption from those people. Which was part of the reason I became the black knight in the first place, except the way I see it there’s no redemption at all. It doesn’t matter what I do, his sins are too big for me to just wash away.

Being here, I suppose is an opportunity from the gods, the only way I can seek the redemption I truly needed was by getting all these people out of this place once and for all and I was going to be doing it without Branderson’s help. The only thing I was going to rely on was few friends and my wits.

I gazed around only to see the soldiers watching us closely as we worked. They were watching to ensure that no one tries anything foolish, me in particular. Too bad I wasn’t too good at doing what anyone tells me to do. With that said, I continued my work like I was supposed to do. I continued to push round the while trying to avoid the whip the soldier was busy lashing out so we could work faster.

I calculated the time the whip was just going to strike and just when the soldier was going to strike, I purposely slowed my steps. The whip lashed out at me and several others immediately. Everyone screamed as they fell down to the ground. A smalls scream escaped my mouth as I fell down to the ground, the sharp end of the whip had hit me and I was still recovering from the several pain I had.