"What?" I asked in disbelief.
Hildegard gently adjusted the bottom of the dress. "Here let help you out of it."
I let her finally undress and was sad to see the beautiful red dress go.
I was handed my dress and Nanny Nia helped to fix up while Hildegard seed to add so finishing touches on the dress.
Dangerous?
I could hardly believe it.
I thought of pearl and nothing I had seen or felt about her made even think she was dangerous.
"When the princess fell inside the sea on the fishing trip, we never found her body." Hildegard began. "We searched everywhere but nothing. The Queen asked for the king of all Sirens to find her daughter. He claid that his kind had been searching for her since the very night it happened. They found nothing."
"And that’s impossible." Nanny Nia joined. "Because the Sirens own the sea. How could a little girl just fall in and not even have her body found? No clothes, nothing."
"Well, we did actually find sothing." Hildegard chipped in.
Nanny Nia looked at her sharply. "You did?"
"Yes." Hildegard nodded in agreent. "But it was kept private and only within mbers of the royal family. People outside don’t know."
Then Hildegard turned back to . "Only a piece of broken jewelry from her necklace was found. The princess had it from the mont she was born. It’s a sort of special heirloom that can only be passed in birth and death. The Queen has it. That’s the only thing that we ever found. The Queen was furious. She saw it as betrayal because it made absolutely no sense. There were tensions for a while. She accused him of having a hand in her death and he accused her of trying to set him up to take over the sea. There were rumors of war. But it never ca to that. Rather they cut off ties. We were banned from ever seeing or being with them. They too were banned from seeing us. It’s been like that ever since. They don’t co out, we don’t go near the sea."
"At all?" I asked surprised. "You an since that happened not even one has had any encounter with a wolf?"
"Yes. It’s strictly forbidden." Hildegard said as she struggled to put a thread in her needle. "Especially in the royal pack."
"Why?"
"Well dear, it’s because the sea here is we’re Princess Scarlett vanished." Hildegard explained.
"But Princess Auburn has been found."
I said further confused. "Then that must an that the princess didn’t die. At least not in the hands of the Sirens. And everything can be back to normal."
"You would say so. The Queen went to apologize but it only further made him angry. He now despises the rest of us and has sworn to kill anyone who cos to the sea. I don’t bla him. He had been accused for over thirty years." Then Hildegard muttered more to herself. "Well that’s even if Auburn is truly the princess."
I rose a brow to that.
Hildegard didn’t believe Auburn was the actual princess?
Was that why she disliked her?
And then my thoughts went back to the restrictions on the sea.
I could hardly believe it.
But pearl had co out to et .
Even though things were seemingly worse than they had been a while ago.
"Why are you asking?" Nanny Nia asked. "I hope you don’t have any plans on trying sothing silly."
I smiled tightly. "No of course not. Was just really curious reading books. Ever since I started reading I read anything I can get my hands on and the story fascinated ."
I hated to lie to Nanny Nia.
But I had no choice.
"Well if that’s the case," Hildegard said. "And it’s just for your own knowledge and nothing more, then I’ll advise you to et Otto. He knows more about these things."
And it hit .
Why didn’t I think of that?!
"Thank you." I smiled. "I’ll do that when I see him at the debut ball."
"Ball?"
Hildegard looked at like I was insane. "Otto hates things like this. The Elites, he despises them. He barely cos out of his ho, what makes you think he will co out for sothing like this?"
That was absolutely true.
"Well I’ll try to see if I can find him now." I said as I adjusted my dress and headed towards the door.
"Jasmine you can not be running around." Nanny Nia warned. "The ceremony would be happening in only a few hours. Can’t this wait till later?"
It could.
But I was already overwheld with everything.
The death song.
The siren.
The ban on the sea.
Anxiety and excitent wouldn’t let hold it till after.
"Don’t worry I’ll be back as soon as I promise." I said and headed out of the room before they succeeded in stopping
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
"Make sure you get back on ti." Nanny Nia shouted to Jasmine.
But she doubted she even heard.
Jasmine was already gone.
Nanny Nia sighed and rolled her eyes.
"Very stubborn sotis." Nanny Nia said.
Hildegard was quiet.
"What’s wrong?" Nanny Nia asked as she went over to the bed and sat. "Is this about the dress? I’m sure she is going to wear it."
Hildegard sighed. "No it’s not that. It’s just. I asked the Queen if she saw Auburn’s necklace had a broke part as expected. But she didn’t respond. She brushed it off."
"Oh?" Nanny Nia mumbled.
Hildegard sighed heavily. "I’m worried she isn’t the one. That stone was supposed to be the one confirmation and yet sohow she passed the test. Sothing feels very off."
Nanny Nia sighed. "You think Cherry had a hand in it?"
"I won’t put it far from her. But Rose thinks she has changed and she is now a good person." An exhausted Hildegard said.
And the Nanny Nia randomly rembered Jasmine had a chipped erald pendant.
"You said it’s chipped?" Nanny Nia asked.
"Yes."
"What stone is it?" Nanny Nia asked.
"Well it’s a-
The doors opened and a servant ca in.
"Lady Hildegard I apologize for the interruption but we need your help with the event." The servant said.
Hildegard sighed. "I have to go. I’ll see you later. Make sure she wears the dress."
"I will." Nanny Nia replied as Hildegard walked out of the room.
By the ti Hildegard was gone and Nanny Nia began checking the dress, she completely forgot about the chipped erald pendant.
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