Awake

Kirigan's POV

I didn't care about any of that. I wanted her gone. Jane had done nothing to her. All Jane wanted was to stay alive. Trina had everything in the world but she was still afraid of a girl who was blind.

How crazy could someone be?

"How can you say that my lord?" Asked Gregory. "This incident is awful and I am sorry about that but Trina is still your beloved. Your betrothed. Your father…"

"…Is not here!" I yelled as my voice echoed around the room. "I make the decisions here and not you. And if I ever get hitched with her, make sure you prepare a very deep grave because she would need it when she's going to the afterlife."

Before he could say anything, I pointed to the door.

"I would like to be alone now."

That was an order, and he knew better than to disobey me.

With a sigh, I fell on the bed after he was gone as I started to wonder what my next move was going to be.

I was too angry to think straight or do anything. I just wanted to be left alone.

I thought back on what happened in the field.

She picked up the wrong cup as I yelled her name to drop it but instead she drank everything and smiled at me before the poison kicked in.

My question was why she would do it. She had no obligation to me but she didn't need to do it.

She could have lived and I would find a way to save her and get her out of the kingdom. 

Now if she died I would be without a cure and I would keep on suffering.

This was something I didn't want to have going on for me.

I needed that cure, which meant that she needed to wake up.

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Katarina's POV

I found myself waking up in bed, disoriented and confused. 

The last thing I remembered was the excruciating pain of drinking poison and the darkness that enveloped me afterwards as I lost my sight. 

The rest was history as I didn't remember anything else. 

Was it all just a terrible dream? Did I really not drink that poison?

I sat up, my head spinning as I tried to make sense of the situation. 

My body felt weak and achy, my mind still clouded from the remnants of the poison. Had I survived? Or was this some sort of strange afterlife?

As I looked around, the unfamiliar surroundings of the bedroom came into focus. 

The soft glow of the morning light filtered through the curtains, casting a warm hue on the room. Everything seemed so kingly, so royal. It was hard to believe that just moments ago, I had been on the brink of death.

Suddenly I saw a portrait of the prince on the wall before me and I knew this was not my room at all. Where was I? How had I gotten here?

Maybe that wasn't a dream… me drinking the poison. Maybe I had actually done it.

Questions flooded my mind, demanding answers. How had I survived? Did someone save me? The memories of that fateful afternoon were hazy, fragmented. I struggled to recall the details, my mind still muddled from the events that had transpired.

I sat on the edge of the bed and found my clothes to be different from my maid wears.

With cautious steps, I made my way out of bed and as I glanced at my reflection in the mirror, I noticed the color of my skin and the dark circles under my eyes. 

I could even see the bruises on my face which had been cleaned and I was sure would heal in a week or two.

With a deep sigh, I decided to leave the empty room as the door opened with the prince getting in.

Just as he saw me, he rushed into me, giving me a deep hug he had never given to me before.

I could feel his heart beating as he held onto me like I would go missing.

Within minutes, he did that with the door open. I was scared that if anyone was passing by and saw us, they would have thoughts about us and spread rumors, but from how he was still on me, he didn't care.

Just as my brain had brought up scenarios, Gregory showed up to see us which had my heart going into overdrive.

He nodded to me with a smile and a little bow before shutting the door and leaving the prince and me alone.

Kirigan let me go and immediately got to scolding me at how I had done a stupid action and he was ready to tear through the elders as I halted him.

"Hey," I smiled. "It's fine."

"But it's not fine," he lamented. "You could have been killed."

"But I'm not."

"That is because your friends came to the rescue. What you did was very dumb and I am ordering you to never do such a thing again."

I gave him a big smile and saluted him like I was in the modern army.

That didn't work as he raised a brow.

"What are you doing?"

"What?"

"You just did a weird thing with your hand."

It was at that moment I realized that I was still in the medieval times and saluting now was only going to change the course of history.

"Nevermind," I smiled before he handed me the cane and thanked me again for why I did but not without warning me.

After I was done, I started for my room. While I passed through the hallways, everyone stared at me like they had just seen a ghost as they all moved out of the way.

Even Trina who was in my path moved out as I smacked the cane around and headed for my own room.

When I entered my room, I knew it was time to start making research on getting the cure for the prince so I could honor my side of the deal and get out of here.