episode 16
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They both reach the main gate of the palace, “Open the door …”
The gatekeeper salutes Rose, “sorry Queen but we can't let you out without the permission of the King...”
“What?” Rose shouts angrily, “What did you say? You know I am the queen … do I need his permission to go out? That is really nonsense rules … I'm not a prisoner …”
“I'm sorry Queen but I am just following orders. The Queen can leave the palace only after the permission of the King...”
Rose try to speak in an apologetic voice, “But King Stone is not here … don’t know when he will come back. Um, I beg you, please let us go...”
“Sorry Queen but …”
When dancer Flora come there laughing with some of her friends, “What's going on here? Queen, did anyone bothering you?”
“Flora?”
Flora angrily looks at the gatekeeper, “You made Queen Request … How dare you to treat her like this...”
“I'm sorry but I am just following the rules … Queen has going to the lunar festival but King is not here at the moment so I can't let them go...”
Flora laughs out loud, “Oh, King is not here … I'm sorry, Queen, but I can't help you.
“What?” Rose says in her mind, “Her behavior change suddenly …”
“This is very bad … Lunar festival is very beautiful but you can't go … Don't worry Queen, I am just going there now. I will definitely bring something for you coming from there...”
Flora smiled teasingly and put her hand on Rose's shoulder, “Looks like King doesn't care about you at all. If he cared, why would he have left you at such a festival? O Queen, I really feel bad for you. Queen, I will bring you a very beautiful clothes …”
Rose angrily looks at Flora straight in her eyes...
“Oh, what happened, Queen … Did I say something wrong? Why you are looking at me in anger...”
“You don't have to bring anything for me …” Rose turns angry and starts walking away. Ella runs after her.
Rose says in her mind, “What this mean that King Stone doesn't care about me … He is my friend, then he should have thought of me … Why did he go out of Lemuria in the festival? Ok, I don't mind but there are many ways to get out...”
“Queen, where are you going?”
Rose stops at the back wall of the kitchen in the palace, “Queen, why are we here?”
“Look at the wood that has been built on this wall...”
“Yes …”
“We can climb this wall by climbing those woods”
“What?”
“Not through the main door, but let's go out from climbing the wall...”
Ella hold Rose with concern, “Queen, what are you saying … this is very dangerous...”
Rose smiles and pats Ella on the shoulder, “Don't worry … it’s very easy” Rose turns to the wall … she climbs the wooden ladder,
“Queen …”
“Ella I will be back by evening … don't worry okay...” Rose climb the wall and talk to Ella while at the same time King Stone, Philip, Elliot going to the main gate of the palace from the road across the wall..
“King looks like we reached Lunar Festival on time...”
“Yes...”
Suddenly the soldier shouts, “Queen ….” King Stone, Elliot, Philip all look up to see Rose was on the wall...
“Oh that stupid girl … what did she think and climb the wall …”
“What she is doing …”
Rose starts to turn other side to get down from the wall and suddenly her foot slips. She lost the balance and starts falling down, “Aa …..”
“Bethany …”
“Queen …”
King Stone jumps from horse and catches Rose. Before Rose could understand what had happened, she was in King Stone's arms and King Stone stood looking at her in anger...
“King Stone … you are back?”
“Rose, will I got one day when you don't do anything wrong...” King Stone leaves Rose and she falls on the ground
“Aa... Ouch... If I had to fall down then why did you catch me? Ah … how much hard I got hurt...”
“Then what...”
“What?”
“Well think about it, if you had fallen from such a high wall, how much it would have cost...”
“You are really ruthless...”
“And what you are … why did you climb the wall like a thief... that too in daylight?
“Because your gatekeeper didn’t let me out of the palace...”
King Stone is stunned, “What?”
“Am I a prisoner that I need your permission to get out of the district...?”
“And why did you want to go out … You were thinking of running back?
“No, I just want to go to the Lunar festival …. Your dancer... She also allowed to go out but I don't.”
“So you tried to climb the wall and get out...”
Rose sadly lowers her neck, “So what should I have to do? Am I inferior to you more than a dancer?”
King Stone suddenly laugh out, “Rose, let's go to the festival...”
“What?”
“You want to see the Lunar festival. Then let's go...” King Stone picks up Rose and puts her on the horse and he too follows behind her...
“What are you...”
“Elliot, Philip Capture the gatekeeper. Present him in the meeting in evening...”
“Yes King...”
“King Stone, what are you...”
King Stone pulls the reins … with that the horse starts running, “hold me tight my friend otherwise you will fall”
Rose crouched her face but she held King Stone's hand tightly. In a short time, they reached the big ground outside Lemuria. Rose kept watching … The whole ground filled with many kinds of pavilions, shops, decorations, “Wow …”
“This is the most special festival of Lemuria … let's go”
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