There he stood in front of her, waiting in the shadows of the Palace courtyard as she slowly walked towards him. He watched her with an indecipherable expression on his face as she came to a stop in front of him, nodding once, which he quickly reciprocated. The pair then turned simultaneously, heading in the direction of the street, disappearing gradually as the shadows seemed to swallow them both whole.
A silhouette, barely visible in the low-lit room that they stood in, watched the retreating pair out of a first-floor window. Fists, that had been hanging lifelessly by the silhouette’s sides, clenched tighter as they watched the Prince and the Princess leave the Palace. They had been discovered.
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“…And then my Father had to drag me out, he gave me such a lecture! It was terribl
