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King Clarkson stood up, probably to make sure everyone knew who held the power in the room. He did a quick once over of all of us, then began to speak, "Now this is every important, Illea is hosting a very special guest, In one week time His royal highness of Russia, Prince Austin, will be visiting." King Clarkson gave a sharp look to Maxon before continuing," I know you girls must be very excited about this new visitor, but let me stress the importance of this visit, this is a very political met, as you all know Illea and Russia have had issues since the beginning of this great nation. This visit is to show the people of Russia Illea is not the enemy and to try and start securing an alliance and trade agreement with Russia. Russia is a very important nation and if any of you put this agreement in jeopardy, it will not only cost you a spot in the selection but will put the nation in a position of war." He ended with a pointed look at me.
Great of course the king thinks I'm going to mess up this alliance and start a war with another nation.
King Clarkson continued, "You must be on your very best behavior with our guest, any slipups and you will be out of the selection faster than you can call home, understood." We all nodded like good little dogs obeying their master. Even Though I wasn't into politics I knew how important it was for Illea to get an alliance with Russia. Illea and Russia have been on the verge of war for years, Russia is a very powerful nation that could take down Ileea in a War easily. It must have been really hard already to get the Prince down here to even consider this agreement.
The Queen now stood up next to her husband to address us, "Now ladies I know this must be a lot of stress to be placed on you, we weren't expecting anyone of extreme importance to plan events for until after the selection, but this rare opportunity has occurred and we think that it will be a great opportunity to show off the daughters of Illea and the skills you have obtained since being here. Now don't start worrying Silva and I will be here to help you plan events and overall impress Prince Austin. We will be starting work tomorrow morning after breakfast in the women's room, so please don't be late."
We all nodded again. I looked over a Maxon and he looked nervous again but like he was trying not to show it. I realized this is why he has been so nervous all day, he has probably been briefed and knows that this meeting means war or no war for Illea. The realization of how important this meeting was started to sink in. I started to become worried, what if I messed something up like I have before not only will it put my life in danger but all of Illea. I had a week to gain all myself control and ladylikeness. I just had to be as charming as I could for however long the Prince was here. I would hold my tongue and hope that we would only have to see him when we hosted events and meals. I could do that, I would do that, to show the royal family that I could be one of them. I was going to show everyone that I was fit to be the next queen.
The girls started leaving one by one. Telling me it was my que to get up and join them. We all climbed the stairs to our rooms. The other three girls talked excitedly about getting new company in the palace. As I thought about what I was going to do to impress the rule family. I was going to start by planning the events perfectly and then when the Prince does show up I will be as political and polite as possible. Yes, I could do this easily.
It had been a long day so I decided to leave the girls and head to my room. Competition has become a lot more hardcore since it was down to the final four, and I can feel it getting even harder as this new challenge comes closer. Known of us knew how much longer we would be here, it could be days or months but we all knew that we were going to have to fight to be the last one standing. I climbed into bed, missing Marlee even more. She would have known how to deal with the other girls and how to deal with these events that have to be planned. I missed my friend. I missed having someone at the palace to talk to, other than Maxon of course, but I have a feeling with this new Prince he won't have that much time for me for a while. Sigh, I would think about all this tomorrow and I would try to be nicer to the other girls. If I was going to be here for a long time might as well have someone to talk too.
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