ELISE
The princess asked me to sleep with her last night. I cannot help but smile as I remember, gingerly sitting up on her huge bed so that I will not wake her up. It has been a long time since she last asked me to. About a year after I became her handmaiden, she used to ask me to sleep in her room because of the horrible nightmares she had. I would wake up in the middle of the night to find the thrashing princess and I would murmur soothing words to her the way my mother did when I used to have nightmares. When I did that, she always went back to sleep peacefully, and did not thrash any longer till the next morning. There was a period during which she asked me to sleep in her room everyday. I used to wonder why a princess who lived in a palace as huge as this m and had everything at her
