Marriage proposal

The room was tense and slient. Even despite the countless people that kneels sideways. Their hand cleach the white hood that cover them and their slight long ears.

" Lord? This decision?"

The rest of the sentence was slience by a sharp glint of light causing all eyes to widen; yet no body moved an inch.

Even when the dead body was dragged away by guards. No body dare made any sound.

" Looks like my degree has accepted by all."

Everyone nodded their head with cold sweat hanging on their back, their face showed hesitate and clearly refuser. But_ nor voiced out any complaint.

" Then... Court dismiss."

They bowed one last time before walking out. Their head bowed and hands hiding under the wide sleeve.

" Come out already! They're all gone." The Duke snort staring resentfully at the slime figure that walked out of the dark corners of the court.

" You seem to've got nerve."

" Sire..." He ignored the other bowing and sip from the glass cup filled with red wine.

" Rosedale... What do you think about my decision?"

Rose stiff and it didn't went unnoticed to the duke._" Rosedale, answer me."

His voice contain some force which made the woman trembled. She cleach on her black hood and bit her lips.

No one knows this man more than her. She knows he knows her answer already, but she could only muttered out.

" Sire..."

The Duke laughed. In anger and mockery causing Rose to grip her hood scape tighter.

" But sure, you know very well that's she just a child."

His laughter stop and the air turned cold, causing Rose to trembling sightly but keep a determine calm look; with her head bowed.

" And?"

His cold uninterested tone made her eyes widen.

" Sire_ she the child of your Lover! She trusted her to you and beside you don't have any–"

Rose crouch with a gasp. The sharp stinging pain on her right cheek cause her immense pain that she couldn't scream .

The whip hit the ground. Duke stared at the woman in so much pain and grinned. " Next time, I will make sure I skin off ever layer of your face... If you dare show your presence."

His threat came through gnashing teeth before walking away; not even looking back at the trembling Rose .

Rose seem to fought back her tears hold her left cheek. Thick blood slip through her finger towards the adamant floor.

She didn't want to shed a tear. It wouldn't change anything but makes her more pathetic than she already was.

" Miss is time to go back." She didn't protest or struggle as the maid held her up. Hot tears ran her cheeks and she didn't care the image she display as the ' Wife of the Duke'.

_'Am sorry sister, Am so sorry...'_ if only she could go back to time and fixed her mistake?

The past seem to rush back like a huge storming sea and completely swallow her whole.

_' Am sorry...'_

The humans and elves were like two matter that can never mixed. There's wasn't any history or how their hatred was begot_but_ They couldn't stand each other.

Human consider elves as products to be used for creation or sexual slaves. And elves consider them as hard labourer and nutrition to feed the ' Mother Tree.'

They could puck out the eyes of and elf for decoration and use their flesh and blood as medicine. Or could humiliate elves still they seek for death themselves.

Rose shudder imagining the cold horror her little niece was going to experience. Her fingers trembled not form pain but guilt.

If only that day, she didn't do what she did.

Maybe _maybe, something would have been different.

The self negative thoughts seem to succeed in blocking her awareness of her environment. Rose could feel the steaming disgust and indifferent of the servants_ that continue to grow.

The maids held her through the long staired upward towards her room_ a cold prison to be placed in.

She knew he could have killed her but he decided to damage further her face. Her pride.

" M'lady, please lay as will go bring a physician to check on you."

She didn't speak but sat still on her bed staring pause at her calluses hands. She ignore the maid tiring sigh or the door closing hard.

" Desdemona..."

That distance name cause her to trembled harder. Rose struggle to stand up straight as she walked towards the sealed exposed window.

The gentle autumn sunlit ray pierce her green eyes that overwhelmed tears, due to pain. She could feel the wind gently on face that was scar with new and old whip injuries.

Her red earlobe moved yet her green eyes stared nor at the garden nor moving slaves nor beauty of the kingdom. Her eyes stared ahead nor blinking towards a small tree house.

" Desdemona..."

Her hand reach for her chest. Rose didn't feel any pain despise her kneel thud the ground.

She screamed. Yet still couldn't get rid of the suffocate feeling that made her cry.

" Am so sorry...! A-am so so-sorry...!"

_'Am so sorry that I can't help you further than this.'_

No one could hear her last words, not the maid that walked in a rush into the room nor the little girl that weep hugging a small metal toy.

Desdemona...