Chapter 8

The floor of the palace with different Avalon shapes and symbols met us, I was ashamed to tread my dirty shoes on the glass floor, there are stairs in the middle and at either end are divided into two aisles, pillars are high and strong supported every floor of the palace.

The palace is huge but the design of the flower at each corner inside the flower vase on the pedestal is just right, the wall paintings is perfectly fine in red curtains on windows and there are several statues in different parts of the palace, presumably those who were once a king or royal persons who lived in the castle or contributed significantly to Avalon.

A group of soldiers walked straight to the other aisle, some group of priests were talking in the sidewalk near the window and some royal maid were cleaning the display.

I was almost startled and lost in the studies of the palace when I heard the sound of a loud trumpet, at a glance I could see where it had come from, at the top of the stairs, where there was a royal soldier standing and some royal maid in the middle all standing by a brave man.

His face was bored but his aura was full of authoritative aura, there is something strange in his face that I cannot explain, as if behind his meek face you should still be careful because he might be hiding something else.

His lips were thin and red, his eyebrows were perfect as if they were drawn by a very good painter, thick and curly brown hair, and his blue eyes were seriously looking at us and his perfect jaw line. He was wearing black slacks, white shirt overlaid with black and long coat and his wearing a paired of brown shoes.

I know who he is.

Someone pulled me to make respect to him, my eyes widened and now I realized that almost everyone but me has bowed to him. I thank Stella in my mind for what she did and little bit nervous because of what happened.

I didn’t know we had a few seconds or minutes to bend until I could see in my peripheral vision that Stella was standing so I stood up straight too.

The noise resumed once the man left, I heard Stella sigh beside me so I glanced at her, and she was looking in the group who left so I followed her wherever she was looking.

“That’s the new king of Avalon,” she whispered to me.

“If you ever come in as a royal maid, you can talk to everyone here but avoid the king, it’s best not to meet him or talk because he had bad behaviour,” she added.

“Don’t be judgemental,” I said back.

She shrugged her shoulder, “I’m telling the truth, come on we need to talk to the court lady.”

She started to walk in other side of aisles so I followed her.

“He was the second son of three siblings, they’re all boys.”

I raised my eyebrow at what she said, “second son? And how could he have been king if he had not been the eldest son? Where is the eldest son?”

“The eldest married to a commoner, along with the rules that if you marry a commoner, you rank as a royal family member became commoner too, you need to follow the footstep and cultures of your wife, he is the kindest of the three but he doesn’t live here anymore, he only visits here for a celebration or important occasion, with his wife and two cute twins and they will probably be here later.”

“The king is a bad boy I tell you and believe me because I’ve been here for a long time as a royal maid, I know all the twists and turns of all, especially the royal family and their secrets surrounding this palace that can be brought out of the kingdom but we’re not allowed to do that.”

“Okay,” I whispered.

“Like the secret of the queen that her youngest son was from another man.”

My eyes widened at the story she told me, I knew no one would hear her but I still couldn’t help but be surprised. I do not expect such stories like that in other kingdom.

“So the young king and the youngest son could not agree on many things and there is no time they will not argue when they see each other. The second child will be more high on himself and proud because he is king, did you know that it is good if the youngest child to be a king than him?”

“Because his better than the young king?” I guess.

“Nope, actually the second child is smarter and better at everything, the youngest is just kind and humble that’s why,” she corrected me.

She just stopped talking about the royal family when we stopped in front of the double door brown mahogany, she knocked, in less than a second I could hear the crick sound of the door open.

I peeked in from the inside with busy ladies dressed in their royal maid uniform, some girls help to trim their hair to keep it in a while hat, some tie their white apron, each with a maroon skirt up to the floor, in upper blouse was color black with baby collar and white sleeve up to elbow long and royal emblem as royal maid attached to their right chest, royal emblem just like Stella a while ago.

“What do you need Stella?” I glared at the woman who was blocking the door.

She was old but she was still young because she looked so beautiful and elegant, I suddenly remembered Lady Monica because of her.

She was also wears a royal maid uniform but she has a different design, with green ruffles at the end of her skirt and at the end of her sleeve, she had no white hat on the head like the other royal maid and she also has a royal emblem as court lady.

“Good day to you Court lady, I’m here with my cousin Germaine, I want to enter her here as a royal maid too, as you’ve said before that the palace is in need a new applicant for royal maid,” she said while smiling at the Court lady.

Stella’s courage to smile like that at the court lady while I feel intimidated and the court lady are now looking at me as if studying me from head to toe.

“She can come with me to interview for a while,” the court lady said.

The court lady had turned away, so Stella almost pushed me just too followed the court lady inside the room.

I glared at her.

“Always say yes,” she whispered but I don’t know what does mean.