The Lost Heir: Battle Of Royalties - Chapter 176

Yeah, Sarah is already working with Lady Shammah since she isn’t prepared yet to work at the inner courts as one of the spiritual guides in the kingdom.

Just as Lady Shammah said, the path to the inner court is not that easy. The lady has to pass through a lot of qualifying exams, physically, mentally and spiritually to be exact. Although Sarah doesn’t have much knowledge about a seer’s job, she knew that she is fit to be one of them. However, despites her eagerness to join the other heralds and minister in the royal tabernacle, the fact that her true identity might be exposed made her withdraw her decision to join the qualifying exams. She’s not yet ready to be exposed, not until she sees the judgment of the people involved in killing her beloved family members.

Justice must be served!

She couldn’t enter the inner court although that was the quickest way to invade her grandmother’s room. But Lady Shammah suggested another way out— to be one of her maids. She will try to ask the king or the queen to take over Milcah’s room. It was quite impossible but who knows they might miraculously agree.

Sarah agreed with Lady Shammah’s proposition so the next morning, she took all her things and went with the head attendant that Lady Shammah sent to pick her up. Lemuel felt dejected at the thought that he won’t be able to see the lady anytime he likes but prince Leo comforted him.

“It’s just a temporary separation… for now. Though you won’t be able to see her everyday but whenever you miss her, tell me so I can make an audience with Lady Shammah.” The prince tapped the sad gentleman who only nodded lightly in response.

How the hell did they end up entering the palace and became one of the royalty’s servants?! Lemuel thought but he dared not to say a word to the prince.

He left the prince and went back to his room without another word. Although Lemuel wouldn’t say it but Prince Leo knew that he is kinda mad at the sudden change of the set-up. Being separated from each other was never a part of their schemes but things turned out differently from what they strategically planned from the beginning. The sudden change might even affect the prince’s plan to hold onto them until Liam and his group arrive to the royal city.

“Patience, Leo, patience….” The prince exhaled his disappointments and turned around to go to his own chamber. The need to contact prince Zyrei and prince Rohann suddenly emerged within him. It’s been many days that he didn’t receive new words from the two.

At the other end, Sarah was tending Lady Shammah’s small garden when she suddenly paused from what she was doing. The vision of the impending doom is quite disturbing and it is about to happen not too soon enough.

It is indeed a day worthy to wait but she couldn’t stop thinking about the sun and the moon creating havoc in the kingdom. It makes her happy but sad at the same time. How she loves to see the end of it as well as the complete details. However, visions work differently from a play.

The vision is quite disturbing but something is telling her that she will somehow be involved with the twists and turns of events in the kingdom. But why and how? She already decided to stay low and passive while inside the palace and she has been trying to turn a blind eye on the things she sees in visions. ‘I don’t care…’ She kept on muttering within her.

“Sarah, are you alright?” Her new found friend tapped her shoulder when she noticed how she paused in the middle of her work.

“E-eh?” She immediately looked around and saw a worried little lady.

“You were on a different dimension. Is everything okay?”

“E-ehm.” Sarah faked a smile. “Just a little tired.”

“Then why don’t you take a rest for the meantime? Don’t worry, I’ll finish what you are doing.”

“Would that be okay, Lilo?” She asked although she already knew the lady’s answer. Lilo is kind and sweet. A loyal friend whom she can count on. They got along as soon as they saw each other. Guess it was their age that brought them together since the two of them are the youngest among Lady Shammah’s maidservants.

She has this kind of aura around her that will bring good luck to her in the future. As long as she sticks to her then all will be well.

“Count on me and just rest. Besides, I’m done with my ȧssigned tasks.” Lilo smiled sincerely.

“Thank you, Lilo. I’ll just sit over there. I’ll be back as soon as possible.” Then Sarah walk near the pond and sat on the small rock as she reminisces the sudden vision she saw just a while ago.

“Look at you…” Sarah heard a provocative voice out of nowhere. Looking at her side, she saw a smirking woman— Nami.

She doesn’t know why but Nami seemed to dislike her greatly for who knows why.

“Not because Lady Shammah favors you, that doesn’t exempt you from doing any of the work here.” Nami gritted her teeth in annoyance. Her face shows how disgusted she was with her.

She wanted to curse the woman but Sarah held it in and completely ignored her. Once again, her eyes landed on the different fishes mindlessly swimming in the pond.

‘Tsk! Did she just ignore me?’ The woman hissed madly within her. ‘What a rude brat!’

“Hey! Did you just ig—–”

“Snake….” Sarah interrupted without looking at her. “A snake is crawling near you.”

Lilo panic and look around her feet and there it is! There is indeed a big snake crawling and its nearing her!

“Ahhhh!!!!!!!!!” She was jumping in panic as she run away. “Snake! Snake! There is a snake in the Lady’s garden!” She was screaming while running, catching other maidservant’s attention. Some guards who heard the lady rushes to her aid, some went to check on the area that she’s pointing at.

The head of the maidens also came and went to check the area and to their surprise, Sarah is holding the big snake as if it’s a pet whom she can play with.

“Oh no!” The chief head stepped back in fear as well as the guards.

“You! What is the meaning of this? How dare you bring a harmful animal in here?” The chief head is angry.

“We entered this area together. Did you see me carrying such a thing?” She asked sarcastically.

Definitely! The chief head and the guards didn’t see anything. She was not even carrying a bag that could hide the snake.

“I told you she’s a witch!” Lilo frantically accused Sarah as soon as she came near them. “She even brought her evil friend!” She was referring at the snake.

“Be careful with your words, Lilo.” Everyone heard a familiar voice behind them.

“L-lady Shammah!” They were all astonished. “Please go inside, we have a dangerous situation —-” The chief head paused as soon as Lady Shammah walked pass through her and went near Sarah.

“I never thought she would like you.” She smiled as she ċȧrėsses the snake’s body. Turned out that the snake was her secret pet that everyone was talking about. “Thank you for not hurting her. I was so afraid when I saw her cage opened so I rushed here.”

“She’s wise. She knew whom she should approach.” Sarah smiled as she hands the snake over to the Lady.

“Everyone, since you already saw her, I want to introduce to you, Puschia, my pet. Please be careful whenever you see her. She doesn’t harm anyone unless you hurt her first.” The lady spoke as soon as she faced her servants.

“Y-yes, my Lady.” They all bowed their heads in response.

“Sarah, why don’t you join me inside for a while? I have something to tell you.”

“Yes, my Lady.” Sarah followed Lady Shammah behind but as soon as she walks passed Lilo, she smirked and raised her brows sarcastically.

Sarah’s eyes were seemingly telling Lilo to be careful next time and that irritated her even more.

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“Where have you been?!” The princess worriedly run when she saw Liam and Diana walking towards them. “We’ve been looking for you everywhere! Do you know how worried we were?” Princess Laura’s voice tells Diana that she’s quite angry.

“I’m sorry.” She bowed apologetically.

“You! Don’t you ever go anywhere without us knowing.”

“Ehm. I promise.” She grinned playfully as they head back home.

***”Do you know how lucky you are.” Princess Laura suddenly muttered out of the blue. Diana is fixing the flowers in the vase while Princess Laura was watching the Shadow knight’s member cooking in the kitchen.

“Eh? What do you mean?”

“You are surrounded by beautiful knights. Are they usually this sweet? Cooking for you and all?” Princess Laura dreamily muttered.

Diana turned her head around, her eyes landed to the men who are busy preparing the foods in the kitchen. She smiled.

“Ehm. They are indeed sweet little gals who only knows how to treat people nicely.”

“Aren’t they cool? The princess smiled. “You are very lucky to have them. I wish I have brothers just like them…. sweet, caring, protective and always cool.”

“You can.” She looked at the princess. “You can treat them as one. You only have to show your love and loyalty to them. Those kids are not hard to please.”

The princess sighed. “I wish I could stay with you for long.”

“Why not? You own your life and what you do with it depends on you. Do what make you happy and even if you are a princess with a lot of don’ts more than do’s, do not let anyone control your life. Be the cool and unique princess that everyone will look up to someday.”

“That’s definitely the best advice I ever heard after such a long time!” Princess Laura yelped in awe.

“Look whose back….” The two suddenly paused as soon as they heard a familiar voice of a man. “Look like your memory is finally back.” The man’s voice doesn’t seemed surprise at all.

“I…” Diana jerked as she gulped nervously.