Painful Procedure

Lorelai stood before the expansive doors leading to the queen's bedroom, tightly gripping her fingers around the gilded handle of her cane. 

The soaring feeling of anxiety made her heart beat faster and she felt like suffocating as the air filling her lungs was clearly not enough to satisfy her needs. 

'Why did she call for me while having her beauty procedures? This has never happened before.'

Whenever Althea was busy receiving her "treatment", no one was allowed to enter her bedroom until she was done. No matter what. Therefore, such a sudden change in her own rules made the princess feel like something was entirely wrong. 

'It is almost as if last night has completely changed the path our lives were supposed to take on...'

She knew that this way of thinking was ridiculous, but she could not help it.