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  The advisor bowed and did as he was told, and went forth on a search for Princess Ki.

  As for Princess Ada as she held onto Princess Ki she felt a sensation of heat on her forearm where Princess Ki's head softly laid. "The princess is getting warm." Ada quietly said interrupting the discomfort everyone was feeling.

  The crown prince walked over to his sister as she laid asleep in his fiancé's arm, he pressed his hand to her forehead. "Do you suspect she took something before coming to visit?" He asked turning to Ada. Ada thought back on the conversation she heard before interrupting Princess Ki.

  Frantically she looked around at the princess as she started to sweat. Mother sang-hee walked around towards them and lifted princess Ki's head, she felt the princess's forehead and sighed.

  "This poor child seems to be both sickly mentally as she is physical, leave her with me." the elder woman turned Ada and grabbed onto her arm.

  "As for you, go find the king and tell him to find a way to stop the villagers till things die down." She instructed.

  All of a sudden the door was rushed open and before them was the king's advisor. He bowed and looked about at everyone. Ada quickly rushed to him and grabbed him by the arm. " You have to do something the princess isn't well, call for the physicians.

  "What happened?" The advisor asked as he looked over where Princess Ki laid. "It seems that she has poisoned herself a poor child, she's filled herself with so much guilt... she must have prepared it a while before I entered the room." Ada went on the explain the situation and how she suspects someone else in the kingdom to be guilty of the crimes once assumed to only belong to Princess Ki, along with the stubborn princess's loyalty and refusals to give a name.

  The royal advisor tapped on Princess Ki to wake and so after countless times and efforts the princess woke. When she saw the face of the royal advisor her face became filled with fear as she started to back up and call for Ada. " Ada! Ada! " she screamed out of a change in character. The princess quickly rushed over and Princess Ki grabbed onto her hanbok.

  " You must have had another bad dream, it was just the royal advisor, princess. " princess Ada said as she tilted her head, observing the advisor. Nari helped the weak girl stand as she wobbled, her presence displayed of a pitiful being, one that even the servants would see and not care to trade places with. "Get her some tea." Ada suggested. The royal advisor walked over to take Princess Ki by the hand, but as Ada seemed to think further she thought once on princess ki's response to the sight of the advisor and so she stuck out her hand to stop him.

  "On the other hand it may be better that I take care of her." princess Ada responded.

  " I'm simply taking orders of the king, princess I would advise that you allow her to come along with me before the king grows angrier. " The advisor said as an order as he reached over to get a hold of Princess Ki's hand.

  Ada walked closer towards the advisor and said in an assertive voice, almost as if she had been handed command and she harshly said: "I, said no, as a rising alliance to this country, you have to also take my words into consideration." Ada narrowed her eyes and waited for the advisors face to relax.

  He nodded his head and bowed "I'll inform the king of your decision." He soon after departed in a rush. Ada quickly turned over to princess Ki.

  "Lay her alongside Ayo. Nari and I will go get something for her to drink. "

  Nari grabbed onto Ada's hand as they walked over to get some tea made.

  As they rushed about, they passed the throne room where a familiar woman stood. Nari stopped and looked at the woman, before stretching out her hand patting Ada on the shoulder to get her attention. "Isn't that the woman who accused you once? Do you think she's behind this again?" Ada shook her head and smiled. "I don't believe so her apology seemed too genuine." She answered.

  The woman quickly looked about hearing the voice of Ada, and rushed over to her. "Princess!" She called as she held onto her hanbok. "Tell me it isn't true!" She dramatically yelled, her son struggled to stay in her hands as she tucked onto Princess Ada. Nari took the little boy from his mother's hand and distracted him because he was confused in all that was occurring that he almost started to cry.

  Ada helped the woman up, and just softly shook her head as an answer to her question, as the king made way over. "Princess, we...". The king started.

  Ada bowed before he could finish and said "I'm aware of what's happening I assure you it's not orders of my own." she said.

  "These events are much like the trouble, of rumors that my Wife faced in her last days" The king sighed and shook his head, in disappointment towards his sad thoughts.

  The king patted her on the shoulder "I am sure of it, that's why I feel it's wise to go question the guards that have been placed in the prison." The King said, as means of asking Princess Ada to come along. "Nari, could you?" Ada asked implying the task that was all ready to be done, referring to the tea.

  Nari nodded, and as she held the little boy, she asked his mother to follow and they walked away.

  As for the King and Ada, they walked towards the dungeon. Once again the familiar scent of death lurked about. But as they stepped further into the dungeon, Ada looked down at her feet, and to her surprise, there was a dark, thick, red liquid that came about to greet them and hugged the outlining over sandals.

  "Is that blood!?" Ada almost shouted, her heart beat accelerated out of shock as she became nauseous. The king just as confused searched for the source. Ada covered her mouth with her right hand as her left rested on her chest, all in an effort to calm down the sensation of screaming that was arising within her.

  To both of their surprise they came to see that a pile of guards, they were in search for laid on top of one another, drooling blood from their mouths.

  "Heavens!" the king exclaimed in surprise. "Let's leave this and tell the others." Ada nervously backed away, in order to regain her sense of fearlessness she looked to the king.

  "The crown prince will be worried to see that I didn't return with Nari." Ada said while she was narrowing her eyes about, trying to understand why things looked as they did.

  "Very well, I'll call upon the palace staff to see if anyone knows anything of this." As they were rushing to leave, the door which they originally came in, was found locked.

  Ada raced towards the door, twisted and pounded yet the door remained locked.

  "Someone must have locked it from outside." Ada said while she felt about on the door. She looked about the place to find something to use, to create even the smallest of dents in the concrete door.

  While the day was growing late Ada grew with rage, she found a sodden stick and she attempted to use it as means to make noise, but the stick simply snapped in half. The king called out, for anyone that may be outside to unlock the door, but still, no one came.

  Because of the severity of how stressed out, Ada was becoming she took chance to lean on the door and breathe. "Don't worry, we should be out soon, relax." The king responded.

  The baby seemed to be kicking harshly causing Ada more pain when one side kicked, another kicked after as if it was more than one child resting within her womb. "Relax, relax." Ada finally said to the life within her, as much as she did to herself. It seemed to be soothing to them both because in time the kicking stopped.

  The king distracted, to Ada's pain was walking about to find another means of exit.

  "Ugh!" Ada said in discomfort, she grew angry rather than fearful, and her discomfort made it unpleasant for her to stay still.

  In the palace, as Nari returned, the crown prince took his turn to aid Princess Ki and woke her up to drink, as difficult as it was he did as he should.

  "Where's Ada? Ji-Hye asked while looking behind the company of a woman and her son. She was surprised but she left it silent to question.

  "She and the king went to the dungeon to question the guards, a little while ago." Nari responded.

  After tending to Princess Ki, the crown prince laid her down. Meanwhile,
Ayo softly blinked and opened his eyes, as he attempted to get up, but he only grunted and went back down.

  "What happened?" He asked conflicted. The crown prince looked to him and said "Seems you've returned from vacation." he teased, avoiding the answer to Ayo's question. Ayo looked at his arm that was wrapped, by this time it seemed swelling has gone down, which was minimal of what he remembered from what happened.

  The eldest princess and her husband took the time to look, about the room, big in size but with the addition of people, it felt as it was no longer as wide as it once seemed, now that it was growing in addition to the most random of people.

  "Shouldn't we go about looking for the princess and the king? With everyone here, it seems there is no value in, the time we are wasting." The eldest princess simply said.

  Ayo slowly got up in reaction to her statement. "Ada? Where is she?" He asked. A questionable feeling grew in the crown prince as he too thought on the length of time. He looked to the mother sang-hee.

  "Could you care for her in my absence?" He asked referring to Princess Ki, naturally, his grandmother agreed.

  After watching everything take place, the village woman bowed and excused herself, explaining she needed to return home till it grew too dark to care for her father's meals, so she was excused as she made way for herself.

  The simple purpose of her arrival was to hear from the princess herself of her innocence so that she could be of value in explaining it to the villagers, but the problem resided, not in the honor of the princess but rather the fact that villagers were growing hungry and furious, because their homes were being burned and destroyed .

  The clouded skies sat silent, allowing themselves to get grow dark in the evening sky, and soon the rain followed. The female visitor raced away towards the village with her son in her hand. In the middle of the rain, she squinted towards blossom tree, which even in the rain posed perfectly. Distance away from the tree and more, towards the directions of where the servants resided was a door that leads to the palace dungeon. A group of soldiers bordered around the walls, to the entrance, but not one stood directly in front of the entrance. The woman grew intrigued by this wanting to figure out as to why they all hovered around the same area.

  With her son's head resting on her shoulder she walked closer towards the servant's quarters, she already appeared as if she was dressed in rags, it only made sense for them to assume so.

  After some time of pretending she was walking into the servant's quarters she watched and waited till the guards departed from where they stood, as the rain seemed to get heavier. After some time of making sure that they were all gone, she snuck towards the gates. Trying to look in, because of the darkness outside it made it a bit more difficult for her, causing her to grow insecure she changed her mind on the curiosity she had.

  Silently she backed away, and then came to a halt at the sound muffled moans of fatigue and pain. She looked to her son and looked towards the path she was to take to return home. In this moment she thought, comically to herself; if it was true that it was curiosity that killed the feline, which her father always used to warn her, in order to control her lack of following marked paths as a child. Then if so it was true and understandable why the feline chose adventure over lectures.

  Her son that struggled to fall asleep because of the tapping rain on his shoulders flinched in shock so he groaned in anger.

  "Who is there?" Someone asked. In the uncertainty of how to reply she stayed silent. "Who is out there?" The voice asked once more this time sounding a bit more familiar.

  "Princess Ada?" She whispered back. "Yes, who's there?" The voice responded back.

  As her son clinched on to her tightly she looked down towards, him. "It's okay little one." She said, after she gave him a kiss on his head and redirected her attention towards Princess Ada again.

  "Princess, are you the only one in there?" She asked "No, no, please go get the others; the King is catching a cold. Please get the others!" Princess Ada instructed, "Whatever you do, don't tell the King's advisor about our whereabouts." Princess Ada ended.

  "But princess, why shouldn't I tell the advisor?" She asked and before Princess Ada could respond a shrink from the outside found a way into the dungeon, followed by a change in voice.

  "Yes, princess, why not tell the advisor?" The question repeated.

  "Princess!!" The young woman cried, soon after wailing and calls for " Mama" followed with the rain releasing a blur it was hard to hear what all was taking place.

  " Take her and her son and have the locked into a room, if she doesn't listen threaten the life of her child, she will do anything for the sake of her filthy child." the voice scoffed.

  "Stop! Leave her alone! Who are you?" Ada cried. The mysterious man brought himself lower towards the ground and looked at Ada, from the small space between the cracks.

  "The one that can't be trusted." The voice responded in arrogance.

  "I assumed you were more intelligent, but it seems I gave you far too much credit for the nothing that you do." the man said.

  "You let her go!" Ada screamed. "I demand you to let her go!" Ada screamed once more.

  "As an alliance, and person of power? Is that what you mean?" The man asked.

  Ada placed out her hand, attempting to grab a hold of the royal advisor's collar, with her small hands he only stepped back. He took a hold of a whip and aimed in through the crack, hitting it faster and faster till he heard the cry of pain from the princess, who couldn't move back, due to the reach in distance.

  The dungeon was strutted in the most unique of fashions, being underground there was a gap in the roof of it, where the light was let in during the day, and the stars at night. As for the door entrance, though it had a small amount of space to reach through, the weight of the heavy door was too intense for just any man to open.

  The advisor, reached for Ada's arm, tightened the grip he had on it. He pressed her hand harder one last time and threw it back, straightened up and walked away.

  As the rain was starting to clear up it was easy to see the young woman being dragged across the lawn by the guards as her son was being handled roughly. Ada turned to the king as he was groaning in pain, and his coughs seemed to have worsened.

  "Do you really suspect that my own advisor would act so harshly towards me?" The king asked, tuning back into reality, referring to a conversation that was spoken a while ago, when Ada first told him of her suspicions while they were trying to get out.

  Ada stood silent for a while, thinking to herself whether to aid to the old King and allow him disappointed that would only weaken him or just allow him to believe a lie. "I could be wrong." was all Ada said and she made effort to sit down next to the king, her handbook dirty, she leaned his head forward onto her shoulder.

  "I wasn't always such a weak king." the King testified. " But I feel the curse is my own, every king wishes to live forever, I've followed the want to live forever, making foolish mistakes, rather than to actually maintain myself enough to be healthy. Being in such a position only allows for stress." he scoffed.

  "We are all guilty for our selfish wants, when I first arrived I wanted to leave the second I placed my feet on your land, and now I can't see myself anywhere else but here. If we even had the ability to know what the future provided before it arrived we would still never be satisfied, don't feel guilty for being a person doing what a person does." Ada sighed with a smile. "With all that we have been through, I have come to understand that there never use in the survivor taking responsibility for the misfortune. " Ada smiled.

  "I can't even protect you, the weakness I portray is a mockery to me and those before me." he added as a cough followed.

  "Your highness, you can't ask a bird with a broken wing to fly can you?" Princess Ada asked with a soft stare. The king coughed as he attempted to laugh. "What a silly thing that would be to do." he finally let out.

  "You're right, it's quiet silly, to ask a bird that's prevented from flying, to do s
omething to show its abilities when it is prevented to do so. You can only wish for it to be healed soon and in time fly again, it doesn't mean it's weak, it doesn't mean it doesn't know how to fly. There's a difference between won't, and can't. It can't fly because it's being prevented to do so, not that it won't fly even though it has all the abilities to do so. "

  Ada finally finished and looked at the elderly king relaxed his face and looked to her. "I pray you stay wise like this all your life." he complimented "Your father I'm sure is quite proud, of who you have become."

  Ada scoffed and blinked several times as the droplets of tears were forming, she made effort to get rid of them, but a few slid down her face. "It means alot to hear that, thank you.'

  "I pray my grandchildren are to look at their father and be proud of him, even though they had a grandfather that didn't prepare him as he should." the King scoffed.

  "You're Highness that's an impossible wish." Ada replied with a teary giggle. The king looked over to her unable to respond.

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  “ To trust in a mindset of

  Lost self worth

  Is to lie to your

  Self ”

  "The true disappointment is in the children that stay thankful of all their parents do for them, I know I wasn't until I grew older and aware, and lost the chance to thank them. If the crown prince and I's children, always things of us as being amazing to them, we aren't doing something right." Ada laughed. The king nodded his head and smiled "That makes me feel better." He responded weakly and honestly.

  Ada nodded and tapped onto her shoulder " They will find us in time, don't worry just rest and take the time to save energy to endure whatever it is to come. " she instructed the king.

  A while into the night, the king took time to go about and look about the dungeon for anything once more to let them out, after his short rest, despite Ada's instructions. After he left her side, walking further into the dungeon a voice came from outside.