[TW: Child abuse]
•Hayden•
~Flashback to twenty years ago~
The entire palace was in disarray. The entire continent, it seemed. Ever since a young woman and her daughter came into the palace last week.
No one was willing to tell me anything. Not the guards, not my tutors, not even Aunt Meredith, my father’s younger sister, who lived in the palace with us and always talked to me even when I didn’t understand her.
When I asked Aunt Meredith about the woman and her child, she stopped talking. I could tell that it was a very sore topic. The woman and her daughter must have special identities that not even I, the crown prince, could know about.
I tried listening in to what the gossiping servants have been saying about the two people, but they weren’t even sure of the people themselves.
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