Chapter 148: The Union Ceremony
I stood before the leaf-shaped mirror, my dull eyes on my reflection, and the maids working on my white slender gown, walking around me as they made sure I was perfect, perfect for a Union ceremony, a union that would forever bind me to Aldon.
Everything just seems to work slowly in my peripheral vision, everything was just slow, why my existence was lost to the world and all I just had was my mind only. I didn’t feel as if the maids worked on my hair or when I even wore my gown or when they bathed me, I was nonexistent to what was happening to me. Maybe if the world burned I wouldn’t feel it.
"Your Highness"
There is an echoing voice but I didn’t listen to it, just the voice in my head thinking about what I have to endure after this Union.
"Your Highness"
To be with a man I have no amount of feelings for. All for the sole purpose of keeping a balance.
"Your Highness"
Because fate is already written about my destiny, a destiny bound to Aldon’s, even if I didn’t want it. Nothing can ever change that, I have no power or control over it, this was all because of a promise we made millennia ago when we were just energies born to the Isle of Pathways.
"Your Highness"
I instantly met my gaze with Adina finally breaking out of my mind and reality was coming back to me, she looked at me with a worried expression before blinking and offering me a smile.
"You look beautiful," she says and I saw nothing but respect and adoration in her eyes but I didn’t return it as I stared back at the mirror, wanting nothing more than to be lost in my senses, I cannot do this with a sane mind.