Chapter 15: Disadvantages Of Talking Back
"Here’s your uniform." The woman named Iris snapped as she flung some outfits my way and I struggled to hold onto them as some spilled to the ground.
Just like the other people of this kingdom, she clearly hates humans as well.
"You’ll be among those who’ll be serving the prince his meals. That’s the easiest job you can be assigned to in that area, seeing as you look so thin and frail." She sneered before looking me over, lips curled in disgust.
"And why do you have hair this long? See that it’s shortened. Boys should not keep their hair this long." She continued and I swallowed before nodding, feeling on the verge of tears.
The only person who has ever referred to me as my actual gender was my mother and kira- behind closed doors. Listening to this woman refer to me as what I really was was what made it fully hit me that I wasn’t currently in a woman’s disguise and on moving forward in this kingdom, I won’t have to hide the fact that I was a boy.
I blinked back tears on suddenly feeling emotional. This is something that I’ve dreamed off countless times. If only it wasn’t happening when I’d have to be working as a fucking slave. Not even a normal slave, but as one that would be serving the prince whom everyone seemed so afraid of. I could remember how scared the feeders had been when he was mentioned, and how the crowd had reacted at the mention of the prince.
He was the beast who I thought would devour me.
Why didn’t he?
What’s his deal?
After Iris gave me a bunch of rules which I must follow along with a curfew, then someone else- a younger but still mean woman named Sarah was asked to lead me through a door into an open area bursting with people dressed in the outfit as the one clutched to my chest. They looked to be about two hundred in total... and they were humans?!
Sarah clapped and everyone stopped what they were doing to stare at her. She pointed at me and spoke loudly.
"This is Lilac and he’d be joining you all starting from today. Do welcome him."