Knight's Eternal Flaming Desire

Chapter 2: Rule Breaker

Year 1400

Elysia woke up due to the commotion that was happening outside her room. She's about to get up when suddenly she felt pain on her back and only then realize that she forgotten to take off her corset that was tightly wrapped around her body yesterday.

"Mary!" she calls one of her personal maid. After a few seconds, a maid with lots of freckles on her face enters Elysia's private room.

"Yes, Your Highness!" she immediately responded to Elysia.

"I'm having a hard time on getting up. I need your help!" Elysia says. Mary with no hesitation removes the blanket that covers around Elysia's body and help her on getting up. Elysia then goes directly to the mirror to check on her face. When she face herself on the mirror a trace of disgust expression is visible on her face while staring at the mirror. Elysia's figure was kind of a mess since a trace of saliva can be seen just beside her lips, a messy hair, a crumpled dress, and a dry rosy lips only on her point of view. But, on Mary's point of view, her personal maid, somehow she finds it cute seeing the other side of her mistress in her own pair of eyes.

"What an ugly face!" Elysia murmured on her own and immediately goes directly at her own bathroom. Mary quickly follows her and help Elysia in removing her dress and corset, removing the pins and untying her hair. After several minutes, when it's all done Mary grabbed Elysia's clothes that was lying on the floor.

"I shall take my leave now, Your Highness. If you need any help just call me for I will only stay outside of the bathroom." Mary said and bows down to Elysia before pacing her feet out of the room. Elysia just nodded her head and when she's sure that Mary already closes the door, she removes the only two garment that covers the private parts of her body. When she's done she lies down on the bathtub that was covered with bubbles and fresh petals of pink roses.

The aroma of the scent coming from the red roses are filling up her nose that gave a relaxing thought in her mind early in the morning. She then close her eyes trying to savour the feeling. And little did she know, there's someone watching her from the large tree, outside of the window of her bathroom, infront of the princess quarter area, there's a looming shadow of a person, who's silently leaning on a tree while smoking.

She then gently brushed her skin with soap while decorating her chest with the pink petals of roses while also playing of the bubbles. Doing the things that she loves makes her giggle. For other person, it may look stupid but for Elysia it's purely happiness. Her happiness is superficial. She appreciates and admire things easily especially when someone do it with all their heart and love. She's the kind of princess that is not a spoiled brat, or the kind of princess who adores shining inheritance, glimmering jeweleries, loves collecting fashion trend dress, attending elite gatherings, or even puting make up on herself. To be honest,she hates those kind of things.

On the contrary, she's different among the others because she's the type of princess that is a cowboy. She loves writing poems, reading stories, baking ,painting nature and sceneries, planting and watering flowers, loves riding a horse, adventuring the depths of the forest and most of all hunting since she's good at archery. She's the epitome of a "rule breaker" person since all she does is way out of a proper etiquette that the princess must act.

She prefers hunting, archery, and riding horse all day long rather than sitting on her room learning how to manage an empire and listening to old hag men talking s**t about peace, when all they want all along is money and fame, corrupting the innocence of the citizens. She shakes her head just for this thought. Thinking things related to empire makes her head ache that's why as much as possible she'll avoid those kind of topics or scenarios 'cause it's making her uncomfortable, truly.

After many minutes of bathing she stands up and washed her body with clear water from her head to toe. She lets the water run down to her whole skin so that it will brush all her worries away. After that, she covers herself with a white robe and go out in the bathroom. Mary quickly attended on her and help her in getting dress.

"Dress again?" she complains and glance at Mary meaningfully. Mary just averted her eyes on her.

"Yes, it is. Your Highness!" Mary answers while not looking at her eyes.

"Can we just have another choice? I'm tired of dressing!" Elysia complaints while trying to convince her personal maid using puppy eyes. Mary on the other hand, trying not to look at Elysia's eyes.

"No. Dress is dress, Your Highness. The Queen personally instructed me to supervise you on your choices of dresses and if you don't follow the Queen I will be the one to blame. So please, Your Highness!" Mary said with a pleading voice while looking at Elysia this time. But Elysia is born to be break the rules. She just smile sweetly and hold both of Mary's hand.

"You want me to dress while riding a horse? Isn't that a little bit of disrespect in the royalties proper etiquette?" Elysia said meaningfully while looking at Mary smiling. Mary just averted her eyes away from Elysia's view.

"Your Highness, that's a bi-Now if you don't mind. Can you help me choose wat to wear when I'm going for a hunt?" Elysia cuts off Mary's words. Elysia goes directly to her wardrobes area and choose of a proper clothes to wear when she's going for a hunt in the woods. Mary just let out a heavy deep sigh while looking at the princess happily choosing a clothes to wear for her hunting. At this moment, Mary can't do anything towards the Queen's command. Fate only knows the best and she'll just rely on it.

"Mary, what's the best color black or white?" the princess asked while holding a fitted pants that has two different colors.

"Black suits you more, Your Highness." Mary answered with a soft voice. Elysia stared at the black fitted pants for awhile then nodded her head.

"Okay. Then, I think I shall pair it up with a black coat with a white long sleeves inside." she murmured to herself even though Mary can hear it. Mary get the clothes that Elisha chose and put it in her hand. Elisha then goes to the shoes area and her eyes landed on a brown leather boots. Without hesitation she get it and gave to Mary.

"Bring me a black leather corset that I can use for this white sleeves." Elisha turns to Mary and commanded her. Mary bows her head and immediately followed her instructions. She goes to the corset area and choose the finest leather corset she could find. After that, she gave it to Elisha and Elisha accepts it with a wide smile on her face.

"I need to change." Elisha said. Mary nodded.

"Then, I shall take my leave now...Your Highness. I shall wait for you outside the door of your quarter." Mary said gracefully then bowed her head.

"Okay." Elisha only responded and turn her back to Mary. Mary exited Elisha's quarter and patiently waiting of her outside the area.

Elisha change clothes fastly in a matter of few minutes after that she arranged her hair and styling it on a bun design. She puts little powder on her face to conceal her pinkish cheeks. When she thinks she's already done she immediately leave her room and finding out that Mary was just standing outside the door of her room together with other maids.

"I'm ready for the hunting." Elisha happily blurted out. However, the maids seems not happy of what they hear from the princess's mouth and Elisha notice it due to the eerie atmosphere that covered around them.

"What!" Elisha asked while acting innocently then tilted her head like there's a big question mark just above her head..

"Princess!!!" the maids all exclaimed but only the laugh of Elisha echoes all over the princess's quarter.

—Royal Horse Barn

"It's an honor meeting you again, Your Highness!" the young man greeted Elisha with a wide smile then slightly nows his head. Elisha just giggles and it seems that the young man already knows the answers since sweats is starting to form on his forehead

"You always know me, Mr. Mowers!", Elisha said while smiling or more like smirking evily.

"I'm sorry, Your Highness but not this time. The King personally visited me last night and instructed me on not letting you near again in the horse. 'Cause if I let you my family will be in danger." Mr. Mowers said with a head low looking at the ground. He's trying to avoid looking at the Princess saddened expression.

"Hah! How ironic...How ironic that the two monarchies eventually looking out for me everywhere that it comes to the point where they need TK threatened other people. Is this what they called care or entrapment operation? If this is what they called 'care' then I don't care but if it's entrapment well then it's pure suffocation and it sucks." she exclaimed with a dim expression. The young man knew it, she's with the princess for almost five years now and this is the first time that he denies the request of the princess. He knows how it hurts to be rejected by the things you wanted to do, it really hurts so much that why he can't look at the princess directly.

As much as he wanted to let her ride a horse but his family was already next in line. He can't do anything about it anymore.

"I'm sorry, Your Highness!" he only says with a voice full of concerns.

"It's okay. I only hope that there's still next time." Elisha said with an unreadable expression and turn her back to the young man. Elisha returns to the carriage then told the coachman to leave the Royal Horse Barn.

While on the road, Elisha can clearly see the pine trees that lines up in the road leading to the exit of the palace's fortress. But, she only threw a view of it as the carriage turns and it lead her to the quarters of the Knight's. As soon as the Royal Carriage arrives, all Knight's are in halt and immediately on their knees while keeping their head low. Elysia's coachman opened the door so she got out gracefully and full of dignity.

"Greetings to the beautiful flower of the West! May God's grace upon you and shall blessed you eternally, Your Highness!" says one of the Knight's while holding his sword that was tightly stabbed on the ground. Elisha only displays her well mannered gestures and allows the Knight to stand up.

"May I know your name?" Elisha asked the young knight. The Knight only stand straightly with a straight look in the eyes.

"With all grace it would be my honor introducing myself to you, Your Highness. I am the Marshal Knight under Sir Schmidth's supervision, my name is Kairo Leveseé." the Knight proudly said while keeping his head low.

"So you're from the house of Leveseé, huh? Is your father the head gardener of the palace?" Elisha muttered.

"Yes, Your Highness!" the knight politely answered. Elisha just nodded her head.

"Heads up. A knight shouldn't bow to no one except infront of the King. By the way, who's Sir Schmidth you say?" Elisha said and on the other hand she diverted her attention. The Knight held his head high and his eyes shows the glimmering of proudness.

"He's the head of the Knight's Templar, Your Highness!" the Knight Marshal answered.