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"Miss, are you really going to live at the palace starting next week?!"
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Sloan raised her brows. "Now, now, you've all heard it from father, don't you?"
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The younger knights bowed their heads. Sloan chuckled.
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"Is there anyone going to stop me?"
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All the young trained knights at the training grounds stood straight, determined. Sloan almost choked in her saliva.
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"If you're going to stop me, you all should stop the prince first."
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They all seemed to lose hope when they heard her say that. Sloan smiled.
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These youngsters in their place's training grounds were the ones she also trained. They're more like grew up with her, treating her like she was an older sister.
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"Miss, if you live at the palace and become a queen someday, would you go visit us still?"
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Sloan blinked. She looked down, and smiled. "Of course, why I wouldn't?"
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The young knight at the middle row shouted, "Miss, you know! Responsibilities! I'm not doubting your abilities Miss, but your health would deteriorate! You must always take care of yourself so you can always visit us!"
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"How kind, Rovan,"
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The strong wind swayed her hair as she blankly smiled.
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"I'm going to be a wife now, aren't I?"
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"Miss, you can back out!"
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Sloan snorted. As if she can.
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"I wish," She whispered and turned around. "Go train now, I apologized for interrupting you all,"
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"NOT AT ALL!" They shouted.
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Sloan grinned while shaking her head, heading her way to the drawing room where her father was.
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"Sir," Sloan called.
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Shae almost slammed the table. "Sloan, I told you to call me Father. Do I look like a visitor to you everytime?"
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Sloan looked down and chuckled. "I apologized, Father,"
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Shae clicked his tongue and signed her to sit. "What makes you head your way here? Any problems going on?"
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"I need a carriage, I need to go somewhere."
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"...Again?"
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Sloan nodded. "The child I saved yesterday was still on the physician's place. I told you about the child, the countess made him a slave..."
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Shae nodded. "Bring a knight with you,"
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"I can, myself,"
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Shae raised his brows. "No, Sloan,"
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"Yes, Father."
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Shae sighed. "...I don't know anymore, daughter. Just go."
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Sloan smirked. She bowed to him and left the drawing room. Shae could only suffer in silent torment.
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The carriage was prepared afterwards, as Sloan head her way out of the place. Inside the carriage, Sloan recall the days she was a child seeing her scar on her palm near the pulse.
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The other female knight was cheerfully teaching her head-straight and pose in the training ground. The other knights troupe were on a mission. It was morning. They trained for hours. When the noon comes, the female knight, Corvina, told her that she was just going to get them some water to drink because of thirst. Sloan smiled.
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Corvina was the only female knight in the troupe, and one of the strongest and determined person. Shae told Corvina to train her strictly when he wasn't around, cause Shae know the capability of her ability. Many acknowledge Corvina because of herself, and Sloan's father was one of them.
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Sloan too, she felt attached too her ever since as she can remember. She can even pass as her mother in other life.
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As Sloan was patiently waiting, she heard step noises behind her. A rustle of the fallen dry leaves, it goes around. But she can't see anyone's sillouhette or shadows. The training ground is the entrance of the forest, Sloan can barely think.
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Is it a bear? A monster?
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As she thought of that, her heartbeat goes rapid, like it's going to burst out of her any time.
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She can fight, but Sloan wasn't confident in real fights, though she always wins. She has traumas in fighting, she's still a child with little experiences.
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Sloan gulped, terrified.
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"COME OUT!" She shouted, her knees was shaking.
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Suddenly, she heard someone chuckled behind her. Sloan has slow instincts by that time, and her palm got a slash of a sword by trying to get away with a man who has a long white hair and a creepy face.
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Green eyes, pointed nose, pretty lips, smiling creepily. By the looks of him, he looks more than the age of forty year old. So creepy! And he's holding this black sword with him, and it's emitting a black aura!
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This is bad! Sloan thought, she felt it. She's already feeling it. She will die! She's going to die right now! That sword has got the craziest amount of aura! More than her sword!
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She can fight, Sloan can fight. But she can't win! She won't win! THAT'S IMPOSSIBLE! SHE'S GOING TO DIE!
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JUST WHO IS THIS PERSON?!
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"You...who are you?! Why are you doing here at the Blue Knight's Captain's territory?!" She tried to scare him, but it bounce back. She's too weak for this.
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"Captain? Why can't you just say 'father?' Aren't you the child of that bastard prodigy that destroyed my life?"
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Destroyed his life? What????
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"What are you---! My father...he's not someone who ever wanted to destroy someone else's life!"
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"Oho! That's right, he doesn't know!"
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What???
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"He doesn't know what?! Just what do you mean?! Are you fucked in the head, old man?!"
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He smiled again, creepily. Sloan wanted to run, but her feet stayed, she felt so terrified. She tried not to stutter.
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"Old man, you say, I'm almost the same age as your father."
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Really??? What the hell??? He looks like my grandfather!
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Sloan gulped. This is crazy. She's gonna die. Run!
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She tried to move her feet. But the man warned her.
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"One move, I'll cut your head off, young lady."
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Sloan's pupils dilated. She almost fell her sword.
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"Good lady, you really take after your stupid father who did everything I say, Foolish ones, Like low life bastards, ha! Even your mother was stupid for marrying your father and having you, now what? They separated! Ha!" He laughed crazily, telling insults.
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Foolish? Stupid? Low life bastards? He know my mother? He called her stupid...for having me? What's my fault?
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That insults was blood boiling. Sloan can't think of nothing else. It triggered her spines to attack him. She will die in honor for killing this one. Nothing else will matter after she kill him.
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Sloan attacked, it was fast, the creepy man's instincts happened too slow, he didn't realized until his chest was deeply stabbed.
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His face twisted. "You little---"
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That was the start of their fight. Sloan never got a chance to wound him again. Though she knows she wounded him deep, he can still fight ruthlessly. Sloan was stabbed ten times. Different parts on the body, her palm was stabbed too. She lost a lot of blood, she was miserable.
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When she fell and her sight gone blur, she thought of herself as going to meet death at eleven. The man smiled again, creepily. And that was her last memory before she lost conciousness.
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When she woke up and regain conciousness, the first thing that crossed her mind was to thank God for still having a life. But she wondered.
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I'm alive. How?
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She tried to move, but her body contradict. She can't move! Why she can't move?! She breathed, she's having a hard time to breathe.
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She don't want this.
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This is so painful.
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The wounds. Her body can't move. She can't breathe like a normal person could.
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She want to die.
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Let me die! Just let me die, God! It's useless being like this! I like to walk! I want to meet my father and mother! I want to meet Corvina! I want to meet everyone!
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She tried again, but it failed. Her tears began to fall.
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"MOTHER!!!" She screamed, crying. "FATHER!!!" She coughed.
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She heard rushing steps as the doors of the room opened. She could only move her head, and when she turned it, she saw her mother and father together along with the maids and knights entering the room hurriedly.
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"MOTHER! FATHER! WHY CAN'T I---" She screamed again, crying.
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Gale, her mother, rushed to her with eyes suffered for crying the whole week.
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When Gale hugged her tightly, Sloan thought of wanting to do it too. But she can't do something. So she cried even more.
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"Why I can't move? I...I want to move. I want to breathe easily...why it's so hard to breathe...mother, I'm gonna die...it's so painful...!!!"
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Gale cried even more too. "No, you will live, alright? You won't leave me, Sloan. Please, baby? Don't leave mother, alright? It hurts, it hurts, it will be alright, it will be alright, baby, you will be fine,"
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All Sloan could do was cry.
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Shae clenched his fist and told the knight to call the physician at the first floor and told him that Sloan was awake.
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Gale, still crying, turned her head to Shae, who was walking at a fast pace towards them.
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"Shae, I don't know what to do, why can't I just take her pain? Why?" Gale panicked, shaking. Shae held her hand. He was suffering for crying the whole week too.
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Their child almost died. Her heart was barely beating when she was taken to the physician's place after she was found by Corvina. And both of them wasn't around. They never knew who did that.
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They could only know after their child was not in this condition anymore.
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Sloan was asleep for a month. She never woke up until then.
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And when the time comes she was awake, she became mute for another four months. Sloan was always at the corner or staring at the ceiling, never wanting go out.
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Gale and Shae both talk to her everytime even Corvina, who held the most guilt of them all. Corvina told Shae what happened. Shae was a little pissed off, but then he realized that she wasn't at fault. Corvina always take good care of his daughter.
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Gale was the most patient for Sloan to get better. She never left Sloan the whole days for four months.
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"Sloan, would you mind if we go outside? Do you want to see flowers?"
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Sloan silently shake her head. She pointed the floor, signing 'only here'.
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Gale could only suffer in silent torment.
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Shae too.
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He was also always there after his duties and finding clue who did this thing to Sloan. He can't sleep. He's taking supplements to be awake the whole days. He'd do anything.
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"Would you like us to play? Sloan, let's play, outside, not swords. If you don't want swords, let's go to the plaza. Let's buy..." Shae was interrupted.
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Sloan shakes her head, pointing the floor. 'Just only here.'
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They couldn't do anything in those months but to stay by her side.
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One night, Sloan woke up. Her mother and father wasn't around in her room. She was alone. She dreamt of that creepy man again, and this time, she already remembered his face.
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She remembered his face again. Now, she felt like there was nothing to be afraid of anymore. Her father, she felt, was stronger than anyone else. And by saying anyone else, she meant that that creepy man was one of them. No matter how that creepy man defeat people who's weaker than him, he can never defeat what's stronger than him.
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She walked slowly, finally opening the door of her room for the first time once again. There outside, she saw the dark hallway. She walked slowly, having to recall the way to the kitchen area.
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She walked down the stairs carefully, not wanting to wake up anyone else of the house. She took a lamp in the drawing room and head her way to the kitchen to got some food. She felt hungry.
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But as she was reaching the jar of biscuits on the cabinet, it fell and the jar broke. By that reason, the entire people of the house was awakened, being alert of everything after the young lady of the house had this cruel accident by someone.
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The first person who was awakened was Gale, who rushed to the kitchen, and saw Sloan.
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"Sloan...what are you...???"
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"...Mother?"
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Gale was astonished, having to hear her talk again.
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"What...Sloan? Baby? You can..."
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"Mother..." She repeated.
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Gale's heart almost burst out of happiness and relief and rushed to get her a jar of biscuits.
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"Are you hungry?" Said Gale, tears on her eyes. Gale thought of herself that she looks stupid right now. Crying and giving her daughter food.
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When Shae and the other knights and maids entered the kitchen area, they were shocked for a minute. They saw Gale crying and smiling at the same time, and Sloan laughing along with her. She's already talking...God.
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Shae cried too.
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The entire house was rejoiced once again.
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"That's a terrible and funny memory," Sloan whispered to herself as her lip's corner lifted.
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After that happened, Sloan described the creepy man to her father.
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Turns out the creepy man was her father's rival. Shae always thought of him as greater than him at almost everything. But he has a darkness in his heart, he's always enveloped with envy. At this kingdom, many call him a fallen prodigy. The opposite of Shae, who was a named prodigy.
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He fought with Shae and left the kingdom when he lose, developed a black magic to transfer only to his sword and did wicked things. He went here for revenge, after so many years.
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Shae travelled miles to find him and kill him. He was bestowed great honor after that, even to another kingdom. He just killed the evil man that's pestering the two kingdoms for more than a decade.
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Shae was a hero, she's also a great father, many women strive for him. But still, Gale left his place again once Sloan recovered. Sloan was then spending half of the year on her father, and half of the year on her mother.
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Shae knows, that Gale never once changed her mind since she was decided and determined.
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That way, they will live in peace.
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Sloan looked outside the window and her fingertips travelled through the window glass.
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There was a snow outside, falling slowly through everywhere.
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