32 The telling - I

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In my twenty-one years of life, I had never been to a fortune-teller simply because a princess did not step out of the palace walls to go to the market. And before this, I had never thought of sneaking out as well but since I had, I was going to use the opportunity to its fullest.

"Gemma," I tapped on her shoulder and when she looked at me I pointed behind at the tent. "I will be in there for a few moments." She look towards where I was pointing at and then looked back to the vendor and resumed her arguing with him. It seemed like she was not ready to let go of the piece of cloth even though the one she was wearing was much more high quality.