Book 7.5: Chapter 8
He wasn’t sure what he himself wanted to do. More precisely, he didn’t know anything other than being Her Majesty’s personal attendant.
“I’m a caged-bird right now. If you stay as my personal attendant, you’ll only be able to live here forever. I don’t want a young man, like you, to be locked in a cage, as well.”
That’s what Her Majesty said to him.
He could understand that Her Majesty held him in high regard after he calmed down. Her Majesty genuinely didn’t want for him to become a bird in a cage as she is. She certainly was a bird in a cage at the moment. She has such a huge world to fly around in and explore, yet she’s stuck in this small palace, where she’s relegated to looking to the North and spacing out. Her Majesty really wanted to go out. She had been separated from her family. She must really want to go and find them.
‘A bird in a cage…?’
He looked at the ring Her Majesty rewarded him. She wore a very lonely expression when she referred to herself as a caged bird. He wondered if there was nothing he could do as her personal attendant. As her personal attendant, he was meant to work hard to make her happy.
‘Is there nothing I could do for her?’
The wall in front of him once appeared so luxurious, yet it now resembled a cage made of gold.
He had no way of destroying the cage. He couldn’t even stay inside the cage so how could he destroy it?