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Ten years later
"Ah-choooo! Ugh"
"Are you all right Sho?"
The young man wiped his face with his suit's provided handkerchief.
"Yes," the newly made courtier said, " one of my adoring public talking about me that's all."
"Well, just remember I can't have you getting sick."
He scootched reaally close to her and asked with a puppy dog pout, " But you would take care of me, right?"
Shoko, his handler, pushed him slightly away, "Sho, don't play around, this is serious if you get sick that poor girl you dragged with you is going to have to help you."
He twisted his face in a very ungentlemanly way, "So, that's just the sort of thing I brought here for."
"I thought you were going to marry her. That makes it sound like you brought here just to be your handmaiden."
All he did was smile.
Kyoko was happily cleaning the large room where her prince had stayed before he started spending long nights at his benefactor's house. She had to work in two shops in order to pay for it, but as long as her prince was happy so was she.
She was going to be married to him after he became a full courtier and she just knew that one day, he would be king. He had such charisma and charm that when it came around to crown a new king, it just had to be him. There were no living heirs after all and the king had been living in another kingdom for years. Sho would be a prince and she would be a princess.
She informed the guard that she had a delivery to make and he let her go right in.
My day is going so well.
At least it was. She heard everything and none of that would do.
She got real mad real fast. She could feel the wind swirling around lifting up the ends of her hair the darkness forming behind her as she fixed the deathly glare on the two who had just freed her so kindly.
She laughed, a blood curdling laugh; a hyena's laugh.
It felt as though the whole world had been frozen by her waves of hate and the two she addressed shivered in fear.
"I will get my revenge Sho!"
He came back to himself and gave her a haughty smile, "The only way you could get close enough to me is if you become a courtier yourself. But you're to plain to be a lady."
"I'll do more than that! I'll become so regal you will never be able to think of court without seeing my face!"
"We'll see about that. Guards!"
The two large men dragged Kyoko out, kicking and screaming.
She fell with a thump of her bottom on stone and glared at the manor house she would always remember as the setting which began her new life.
She stood and dusted off her skirts. "I will get my revenge!" she shouted at the facade and the guards glared at her. She said more subdued, "I will."