“Hurry…" I all but barked at the servants who rushed to do my bidding. My servants could barely keep up with me as I bustled around my room with excitement. I was barely able to stand still long enough to get dressed.
“Your Highness, decorum…" I grinned over my shoulder at him as I hustled out of my palace and crossed the courtyard to the Emperor's palace. Poor Eunuch Van had to run to keep up.
“Grandfather I'm here." I never stand on ceremony when we're alone. It's something he had instigated when I was much younger, when grandmother was alive.
In the presence of others, I of course carried myself in the manner befitting a Prince of the realm. But when alone we were family and behaved as such.
I knelt in front of him, shaking with excitement. If this indeed concerned my beauty and her
