It's tough being a princess.
You spend your entire life raised to be beautiful, to be perfect. You're taught proper etiquette for any and every situation in life. Poise, balance, and grace are all lashed into your mind and body from the moment you take your first steps until it becomes as natural as breathing. Every aspect of your womanly figure is brought to its fullest potential by an assortment of servants who cater to your every whim for your entire life, or until you learn to perform tasks without their aid. As a princess, these things are your bread, your water, your air until you come of age.
At the moment you turn the 'proper' age for marrying, your entire life switches to a different pace, a different mindset. Suddenly you are accosted with balls, dances, elegant dinners and private meetings with royal gentlemen from far and wide who, quite suddenly, seem to want you for their bride. It matters not to many of them that they've never seen or heard much of you until the moment they step into the castle. To them, you are typically a prize. One that they wish to win from the clutches of your father, who holds you like the most precious gem in his outstretched hand, waiting for someone worthy enough to take you from him. Typically, your opinion in the matter isn't asked.
You weren't raised to have an opinion, after all.
Amidst all of this confusion and the flurry of unfamiliar faces which flit in and out of your new reality, there is often an unexpected spark that trips through your veins, plunging deep into your heart to ignite the waiting passions of youth. You fall in love with a man who is so unlike the others in some way. It doesn't have to be a grand difference, or even an explainable one, but a difference nonetheless. You wish for nothing but to spend your life reveling in that difference... but other arrangements are made.
Your father, the
wise and
caring ruler that he is, decides to marry you to someone else. Someone whose face you barely recall, and whose name leaves a foul taste on your innocent tongue.
What is there to do in this hopeless situation?
You run away to find your true prince. You travel across the land with your most trusted guardians to search out and find the man who placed that spark in your heart...
This is the tale of just such a princess. One who set out on a journey to find her true love in his faraway castle, running frm the wishes and dictations of her parents. This is the story of her travels. One of a long journey to an invisible destination far far away.
But this is also the story of her companions. Her most trusted bodyguards. Her best friends who came along to support her. And the wanderer they met along the way, who changed all of their lives...
