Chapter 462
My gaze drifted to look at that one who was my Father, glancing one last time at the Crown Prince who held this hand we solely hoped for him to take, contemplating on the address he gave... Sadenned... for it could not be returned. — ’... my beloved Prince... do forgive myself...’
Slenderly, I left his touch, for no answer like such I could give when the love I owned was still incomplete... and the sound Eli and him had grown, was made to take form. No more silence was I to keep...
"... Father..... a word I wish to have with yourself."
"..."
"The Physicians... do call them afterwards, for no longer will I keep this to myself."
— Will you listen to her wishes, child?... Or else yours will not be granted... —
— Was I not to, meeting her would have made her aid useless... allow myself to lead this life once more even if brief... I will talk... so Elizabeth and I may meet again... —
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"M-Marianne... what are you saying... I cannot- I- sniff... child... you have only just woken up..." — Overwhelmed Orland said coming to her, kneeling so his eye could meet his daughter’s closer while tearing up as the eyes of the child and her sound had come back from a death they desisted to believe. — "We had thought your eyes wouldn’t open, deAr... my- my little girl..... my child..."
"... please..." — Marianne then said even as his pain hurt her, trying to ignore the Prince, who quietly stepped back... empty within as her eyes had drifted from him. Yet such, was a matter Marianne wished to delay for further importance this request from the emotionally ill father held in her beliefs. — "My health is not compromised... I know this well... please... heed my plea..."