Ruffling feathers (4)

"It is not nothing when a princess walks around the palace she was raised in with a tear in her dress. Don't tell me that you missed it because the maids dressing you would have noticed this tear and changed the dress right away. Speak the truth," said Scarlet. 

"I thought I had become good at mending," Alana said, touching the failed attempt to get rid of the tear. "So maybe when he said he would get me out of the palace when we were children wasn't a lie. He is still angry that his father married my mother after his mother passed away. Giving me torn clothes is a bit silly for a king, don't you think?"

Scarlet knew that King Luke had a petty side but since when had it become this bad? His mother's death and the former king remarrying though he promised not to take another wife had nothing to do with Alana. 

The king had been advised to find another woman so he did and Alana was the only child to come from the new marriage.