Chapter 113

Chapter 113 Red Orange

  Sunspear City is always sunny.

  Today was an exception.

  The dark clouds covered the sun, and the salty sea breeze couldn't blow away the heat in the air, which was so dull that it was almost suffocating.

  Princess Arianne was floating in a cool spring, holding red wine in one hand and "A Tale of Ten Thousand Ships of Voyage" book in the other.

  However, her eyes were out of focus, obviously her attention was not on the book.

  The sound of light footsteps awakened the princess from her contemplation. She turned her head and saw a blond girl walking towards her.

  "Tyrene!" Princess Arianne stood up from the water in surprise, and opened her arms enthusiastically to hug her.

  Tyrene Sand was one of the many illegitimate daughters of Prince Oberyn the "Red Viper" and the one closest to Princess Arianne.

  She has a sweet appearance, like a summer strawberry, because her mother was a nun, so she has a purity that does not belong to the world, but in fact, anyone who is familiar with Tyene knows that her innocence and sweetness is all a disguise, and what's hidden inside is actually a dangerous and rebellious girl.

  Moreover, Tyrene's attainments in poisons was no less than her father's.

  "Princess." Tyrene smiled and saluted, then hugged the naked and wet princess.

  The princess kissed her best childhood friend and rubbed her delicate face: "Where have you been? How did you come to see me now? "

  " I will tell you about that later, get dressed now, Prince Doran wants to see you."

  "My father? Hmph, is he finally willing to see me? I thought he had forgotten that he had a daughter ." Princess Arianne was reluctantly pulled out of the pool by Tyene.

  After drying her body, she deliberately picked out the most revealing silk dress, but was snatched away by Tyene when she was about to put it on:

  "Princess , you can't be so self-willed anymore. You must know that obedience is the best armor for us women."

  As she spoke, Tyrene chose a simple ivory cloth robe to put on the princess, and she deliberately didn't give her any Fancy jewelry, only a seven-pointed star pendant symbolizing the belief in the seven gods was hung on the princess's chest.

  "So I must crawl at my father's feet and beg for his forgiveness?" Princess Arianne muttered , but still accepted her cousin's arrangement.

  After tidying up, Princess Arianne came to the Garden.

  The flowers and plants in the garden smelled very good, but she has no heart to appreciate them.

  Following the guards to a pavilion, Princess Arianne realized that her uncle, Prince Oberyn, was also standing outside the pavilion looking at the red orange tree in the garden in daze.

  The princess remembered that when she was a child, her favorite game with her cousins was to smash oranges off the tree with a stone.

  But she doesn't remember when, her father restrained them from enter the water garden casually.

  He monopolized this place and turned it into his own castle, or rather, a cage?

  Princess Arianne withdrew her thoughts, and saw her father, Prince Doran, sitting in the pavilion, staring at a chessboard in front of him, lost in thought.

  Pale and swollen, the ruler of Dorne, with his legs almost paralyzed by severe gout resting on a padded footstool, playing chess with his trembling red and swollen hands .

  Princess Arianne looked at her father who was suffering from illness, and suddenly felt a little sad, and the resentment and dissatisfaction in her heart also eased a lot.

  "Father."

  Prince Doran came back to his senses and looked at his daughter fixedly.

  Prince Oberyn also came over at this moment, stood beside his niece, and said,

  "We messed up this time. But don't worry, brother, I will find a way to make up for everything."

  "It's none of your business." Princess Arianne said, "It's my willful behavior that caused Dorne such a big loss."

Prince Doran spoke, his voice weak, like a piece of fragile parchment:

  "Tell me, Arianne, why? Why did you start a war?"

  Hearing this, the anger that had been suppressed with great difficulty suddenly surged into her heart. Princess Arianne looked directly into her father's eyes and said loudly:

" For honour !"

  Prince Doran chuckled: "Do you know what honour is?"

  "The people of the Reach have all come to the land of Dorne! Isn't it my honour to lead an army to fight back?"

  "For your honour , thousands of Dornish warriors gave their lives, Starfall and High hermitage will no longer obey our orders, and your uncle has fallen into a trap for poisoning the King's hand. Tell me, is this really the honor you want?"

  Princess Arianne murmured for a moment, but she was still unconvinced:

  "That's because we lost the battle of Starfall City, if we win..." "

  "Even if you won that battle, you won't win anything."

Prince Doran interrupted coldly, "In the Game of Thrones, the first to go out is always the idiot who can't control his ambition and bet first. Do you know , because of your impulsiveness, we have become a wounded prey, and the blood from the wound will surely attract countless greedy vultures, who will take this opportunity to try to tear us apart and share the food!"

Princess Arianne wanted to refute , but Prince Oberyn spoke first:

  "Don't worry, brother, I won't let the vultures succeed. This time I will go to King's Landing, I will do everything possible to remove the suspicion, and I will never let the war flare up again."

Having said that , Prince Oberyn couldn't help thinking of the old man's dying murmurs.

  So, he added another sentence: "At all costs!"

  Prince Doran sighed, rubbed the center of his brows tiredly, and said after a long while:

  "Oberyn , do you still remember our aim?"

  "Of course I do." Prince Oberyn paused, "We want to avenge Elia who died tragically in King's Landing!

  " Elia..." Prince Doran repeated, with a painful expression on his face, "For so many years, I can see her bleeding face almost every day after going to bed, and I can hear her and her children's voices when I wake up countless times in the middle of the night. Whining... Oberyn, my brother, I really don't want another face of yours..."

  "Don't worry, brother." Prince Oberyn pretended to be relaxed, "There have been countless people who wanted to take my face... My life, but they are the ones who go to meet the Stranger in the end."

  "It's different. Brother, your halberd and poison may not be able to help you this time..."

  "I don't just rely on these two things, brother ,Please trust your brother."

  Prince Doran and his brother looked at each other for a long time, and finally looked away, holding tightly the chess piece that symbolized the dragon tightly in his hand : "

  "Oberon, you know, I have been planning for so long, planning for so long, and I am about to succeed, really, this girl is already a menarche..."

  Princess Arianne was at a loss when she heard this, and she couldn't help asking:

"Father, what are you thinking ?What are you planning?"

  "Sorry, Arianne, I can't tell you yet." Prince Doran sighed and shook his head, "Because I know you too well, a secret is nothing more than a wonderful story to you that you can quietly read it when you sleep at night."

"You will tell Tyene. And Tyene never hides from Obara, and Obara is an alcoholic, who knows what she will blurt out when she drinks too much . I can't take risks, and the Martell family can't afford to take risks."

  Arianne mouth moved, but she didn't speak any more after all.

  "Brother, please trust me this time." Prince Oberyn looked into his brother's eyes with piercing eyes, "I will remove all suspicion! I will never delay our plan! Elia's revenge will definitely be avenged!"

  Prince Doran struggled for a while, and finally heaved a long sigh: "Okay."

  Afterwards, he turned to his daughter again, with both helplessness and disappointment in his eyes: "Arianne, this time you go to King's Landing, everything will be according to your uncle's arrangement, and you must no longer make up your own mind."

Princess Arianne met her father's gaze , we don't know if she remembered her cousin's advice when she came here, but she finally lowered her head and said obediently:

  "Yes, father."

  Prince Doran waved his hand wearily, indicating that the two can leave.

  The garden became quiet again.

  The sky became more and more gloomy, and the wind became stronger and stronger. Finally, the long-standing dullness was finally broken, and the heavy rain came down with a bang.

  "Your Highness, Your Highness, please come inside house."

  The servant's shout came , but Prince Doran ignored it and just stared blankly at the messy garden in front of him silently for a long time .

  Under the ravages of the violent wind and rain, countless red oranges that were about to ripen fell to the ground and smashed to pieces.

  [END]