Celestial World, 150 years ago
“Milady! Wake up!”
She was sleeping peacefully when one of her servants woke her up. While rubbing her eyes, she woke up from her sleep and glance in annoyance at her servant.
“Didn’t I tell you not to disturb me when I’m sleeping?”
“I’m so sorry, my lady. B-But…”
“What is it? Spill everything or get out from my room!” She raised her voice.
“The palace… it’s under attack!”
“What?”
“People from the opposition side are doing cout d’état! You need to run away, Milady!”
She immediately jumped out of her bed and looked outside the big window in her room. Seems like her servant is not lying. She saw some nobleman being tied and being brought to the palace. The atmosphere is gripping. Her servant silently opened the door and she could hear screams and people running away on the hallway.
“No… They have raided my house. I need to run away.”
She tried to calm down. ‘Calm down, Felicity. You can survive this. All you need is to go through the secret passage that’s located behind the bookshelves in the library.’ The secret passage. That’s it.
“Olivia, right? Can you check the hallway and find out if it’s possible to sneak out to the library.”
“But miss… the library is on the first floor. You will get caught if you go.”
“That’s the only escape route.”
Olivia, her servant, looked unsure but since it’s an order from her lady, she must do it. Olivia opened the door and sneakily walked around the hallway to make sure that it’s safe. While her lady waits for her in her bedroom.
“What is going on…?”
She knew what would happen if she got caught and brought to the castle. Maybe that day was her last day living as a noble. Those people are known to be such a ruthless. Suddenly someone opened the door and it’s her servant, Olivia.
“So, how’s it?”
Olivia shook her head, “Those guys are everywhere, miss. There’s no way that you can go there without being caught by them.”
“My lady, it’s such an honor to serve you. If they caught us, I want you to know that I will never forget everything that you gave me.”
“Olivia! Don’t speak like we won’t see each other again!”
Suddenly the door opened and some people walked into the room. It’s the opposition side. They came in with some weapon on their hand. A wicked smile curved on their faces with satisfaction.
“There you are, finally. You are the last noble, Felicity. Now, please come with us and don’t even try to resist.”
Those people tied Felicity’s hands and brought her to the palace.
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On her way to the palace, she saw some people cheering for their victory and some are terrified. Some places are being burned down and some are being robbed. Where are the army? They should be the one who protect the citizens and the city.
Finally, they arrived at the palace. It’s an enormous castle with magnificent design. Its wall was built with marble. On the portcullis, there was two huge fox engraved and its eyes are made of pink sapphire. It was so beautiful back then. She remembered when she was a little girl, her parents used to take her to the palace.
She and her friends used to play on the garden full of cherry blossom trees while their parents had a meeting with other council who was also the council. Now, all of the trees are gone.
“Did they burn all the trees? I mean, it’s the rarest flower and now it’s all gone…”
Those people took her to the grand hall where all the councils and nobles are being detained. They forced her to sit on the cold, icy marble floor which is extremely cold during that time. They put a fabric on her mouth so she won’t be able to speak. Afterwards, the leader of those people stepped forward and with an insulting face, he sat on the Queen’s throne.
“Draven!”
“What a view!”
“Usually we are the one who sat on that chilly marble, gosh, I hate that floor! Can someone change the floor?”
Someone exclaimed, “Yes, sir!”
“Good! Also, the interiors—it’s so dull! Who designed this castle? They really don’t have that sense of art.”
“Now now, what should we do to these roaches?”
“Kill them!” Someone shouted
“No, no, no, don’t kill them.”
“Banish them!” The other one exclaimed.
“Banish them? Let me think… Well, it’s a good idea.”
Felicity couldn’t believe what she just heard. Banish them? It’s their home and where will they live if this selfish moron banished them?
“Who said that before? Thank you for the idea!”
“My people, this will be the day when there won’t be any ‘noble’ in this world. Everyone will be the same! Anyways, I’m not that evil so I will give all of you, nobles, a chance!”
“Chance?”
“If you want to return to this world, you need to find something that’s called ‘Love’. Once you found it then you will be able to return.”
“Love? Why love? There’s no such thing called love!”
“Now, off you go!”
One of his man dragged her outside where there’s a big door that wasn’t there before. When the door opened, a purple thing looks like portal appeared.
“Sayonara, Lady Felicity!”
A hand pushed her into the portal and everything went dark.
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She felt her body bumped into something soft and when she opened her eyes, she saw a blinding light and something blue.
”What is that…?”
She narrowed her eyes and she saw a blue sky with lots of white, cotton-like clouds. She tried to stand up and realized that her hands are not tied up anymore.
“Huh? When did…? Never mind. Where am I?”
She saw a yellow mound of something that looks like hay. Farmhouse? Is this earth? She looked at the sky then took a deep breath before opened her mouth and screamed,
“CURSED YOU, DRAVEN!!!”
