༄༅ 𝑃𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑐𝑒𝑠𝑠 𝑆𝑜𝑝ℎ𝑖𝑎. ༄༅

❁ུ۪ 𝘚𝘰𝘱𝘩𝘪𝘢 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘥𝘦𝘷𝘰𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘧𝘢𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳, 𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩 𝘴𝘩𝘦 𝘰𝘤𝘤𝘢𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘧𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘥 𝘩𝘪𝘮 𝘦𝘹𝘢𝘴𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨. ❁ུ۪

[༄༅ 𝑃𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑐𝑒𝑠𝑠 𝑆𝑜𝑝ℎ𝑖𝑎. ༄༅ @fifthdaughtcr]

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𝑰𝒏 𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒈 𝒂𝒅𝒖𝒍𝒕𝒉𝒐𝒐𝒅 𝑺𝒐𝒑𝒉𝒊𝒂 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒂 𝒅𝒆𝒍𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕𝒇𝒖𝒍 𝒕𝒉𝒐𝒖𝒈𝒉 𝒎𝒐𝒐𝒅𝒚 𝒈𝒊𝒓𝒍, 𝒑𝒓𝒆𝒕𝒕𝒚, 𝒅𝒆𝒍𝒊𝒄𝒂𝒕𝒆 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒑𝒂𝒔𝒔𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒂𝒕𝒆.

𝄥𝄞────────── 𝄇

[𝑬𝑙𝑖𝑧𝑎𝑏𝑒𝑡ℎ 𝑺𝑐ℎ𝑢𝑦𝑙𝑒𝑟 (says blm) @burningletters_]

“𝑳𝑜𝑜𝑘 𝑎𝑟𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑑...
𝑳𝑜𝑜𝑘 𝑎𝑟𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑑...
𝑨𝑡 ℎ𝑜𝑤 𝑙𝑢𝑐𝑘𝑦
𝑾𝑒 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑏𝑒
𝑨𝑳𝑰𝑽𝑬 𝑟𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡 𝑛𝑜𝑤.“

[༄༅ 𝑃𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑐𝑒𝑠𝑠 𝑆𝑜𝑝ℎ𝑖𝑎. ༄༅ @fifthdaughtcr]

" Nothing. Nothing at all. "

She groaned lightly.

" I must be overthinking again. Too many terrible thoughts hurts my head after a while. "

[༄༅ 𝑃𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑐𝑒𝑠𝑠 𝑆𝑜𝑝ℎ𝑖𝑎. ༄༅ @fifthdaughtcr]

Sophia rubbed her temple. Fantastic, a migraine was coming on. That's exactly what she needed right now.

" And, please, fetch us a cup of water, thank you. I'm rather parched. "

[༄༅ 𝑃𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑐𝑒𝑠𝑠 𝑆𝑜𝑝ℎ𝑖𝑎. ༄༅ @fifthdaughtcr]

Cough, cough.

" Yes, that's right. I'll request again you won't tell the king about our visit. "

It appears she'd been here before.

[༄༅ 𝑃𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑐𝑒𝑠𝑠 𝑆𝑜𝑝ℎ𝑖𝑎. ༄༅ @fifthdaughtcr]

She smiled at her. Having her here did make her feel better.

" Thank you, Lia. I appreciate that. "

[༄༅ 𝑃𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑐𝑒𝑠𝑠 𝑆𝑜𝑝ℎ𝑖𝑎. ༄༅ @fifthdaughtcr]

" Right. "

Easier said than done.
If not for her, then for Amelia.
She raised her head as well, frowning uneasily at the infirmary.

" I've been here so many times, yet I always feel queasy when I arrive. "

[༄༅ 𝑃𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑐𝑒𝑠𝑠 𝑆𝑜𝑝ℎ𝑖𝑎. ༄༅ @fifthdaughtcr]

" Wise decision. "

Sophia sighed. It broke her heart; their father was her entire world. It was hard to accept her world turning against her.

[༄༅ 𝑃𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑐𝑒𝑠𝑠 𝑆𝑜𝑝ℎ𝑖𝑎. ༄༅ @fifthdaughtcr]

She giggled.
" Jesus Christ, this will be fun! I can't wait to see the look on his face. "

She then nodded her head at the substitute term.
" Most definitely. I'm beginning to see why he and Georgie never get along. "

[༄༅ 𝑃𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑐𝑒𝑠𝑠 𝑆𝑜𝑝ℎ𝑖𝑎. ༄༅ @fifthdaughtcr]

" Well . . . Let's just say I'm, ah, rebelling somewhat without his knowledge, but let's keep that a secret between us, shall we? "

Girl talk(?)!

" Don't sound so glum, dear sister. Hopefully he'll get that stick out of his . . . Y'know. "

[༄༅ 𝑃𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑐𝑒𝑠𝑠 𝑆𝑜𝑝ℎ𝑖𝑎. ༄༅ @fifthdaughtcr]

@lymphantiium :: not to mention, he was pretty progressive at the time. he strongly believed women were just as capable as men, so he raised her the way he wouldve raised a son. at least, back in those times. ::

[༄༅ 𝑃𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑐𝑒𝑠𝑠 𝑆𝑜𝑝ℎ𝑖𝑎. ༄༅ @fifthdaughtcr]

" I know. "

She repressed her own emotions, however she was bitter knowing he wasn't treating Amelia well.

" No, he hasn't. I'm growing rather sick of it. "

[༄༅ 𝑃𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑐𝑒𝑠𝑠 𝑆𝑜𝑝ℎ𝑖𝑎. ༄༅ @fifthdaughtcr]

" Well . . . We had a fight recently and that led up to him implying I'm a child and how I should leave it to the adults to clean up after my messes. "

. . . Sigh.

" I'm not speaking to him right now. "

[༄༅ 𝑃𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑐𝑒𝑠𝑠 𝑆𝑜𝑝ℎ𝑖𝑎. ༄༅ @fifthdaughtcr]

" Precisely. "

She hummed. Something else was on her mind, but she didn't know how to approach it.

" Have you spoken with father at all? "

[༄༅ 𝑃𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑐𝑒𝑠𝑠 𝑆𝑜𝑝ℎ𝑖𝑎. ༄༅ @fifthdaughtcr]

" Oh, Lia. You don't need to dread for the worst. We've championed through our toughest ailments and most miserable days; we'll survive this. "

She gave her sister's hand a gentle squeeze.

" We're strong. "

[༄༅ 𝑃𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑐𝑒𝑠𝑠 𝑆𝑜𝑝ℎ𝑖𝑎. ༄༅ @fifthdaughtcr]

@revolutionpanik " I know what you mean. My father being, " a pause. How does she put this delicately? " . . . My father, it can get a little hard to breathe at points, and growing up with fourteen other siblings certainly doesn't help. "

As much as she loved them, she needed her space.

[༄༅ 𝑃𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑐𝑒𝑠𝑠 𝑆𝑜𝑝ℎ𝑖𝑎. ༄༅ @fifthdaughtcr]

" Good call. "

To see the sun one last time . . .

Regardless, she hated knowing they were troubled, especially because of her own doing.

[༄༅ 𝑃𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑐𝑒𝑠𝑠 𝑆𝑜𝑝ℎ𝑖𝑎. ༄༅ @fifthdaughtcr]

@revolutionpanik Yes, but she'd much rather have one person or two recognise her than a whole crowd.

" Thank you. What brings you out here today? "

[༄༅ 𝑃𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑐𝑒𝑠𝑠 𝑆𝑜𝑝ℎ𝑖𝑎. ༄༅ @fifthdaughtcr]

@revolutionpanik Oh! Another fellow Jefferson! How lovely.

" A pleasure to make your acquaintance, Liz. Please, call me Sophia. I don't really need the public knowing who I am right now. "

Yeah, the fancy gown wouldn't give it away or anything.

[༄༅ 𝑃𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑐𝑒𝑠𝑠 𝑆𝑜𝑝ℎ𝑖𝑎. ༄༅ @fifthdaughtcr]

" I suppose that's fair. Should we go before or after the garden stroll? "

Sophia frowned at the sigh. She hated when they sounded just a bit disappointed in her.

[༄༅ 𝑃𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑐𝑒𝑠𝑠 𝑆𝑜𝑝ℎ𝑖𝑎. ༄༅ @fifthdaughtcr]

@revolutionpanik She pat the air with her hands, an anxious smile on her face.

" Really, really. I'm fine. You needn't worry about me. "

She smoothed down her gown, chuckling ever so quietly.

" May I have your name? I don't believe we've met before. "