CHAPTER SIX – Talk Between Two Princess

Hitomi sighed finally being free from Mamoru or Van's samurai who where constantly around her, as if someone was hiding in the forests other than the dragons and where ready to kill her. She was walking around the garden, a place that she found that she liked a lot since it had a beauty of its own and it was quiet and secluded and so she visited it whenever she could. Her first meeting with Van didn't go very well and she was surprised that her mother hadn't sent out a letter for her yet saying that she had escaped. Hopefully, her mother would be stupid and that her mother would have sent the note with one of Mamoru's loyal men who would take a long time for it to get here.

"I was told that I'd find you here." Another voice said which made Hitomi turn to look at the Asturian Princess, a woman whose life seemed to be filled with love, joy, and true happiness, something that Hitomi's life lacked. "Princess Millerna." Hitomi said standing up quickly.

"Please, just Millerna, I figured that we're both women here so let's be friends." Millerna said smiling and Hitomi just stared at her.

"Friends…" Hitomi repeated, what did she know of friendship? The people she use to hang out as friends as a child where long gone and she had hardly any real need for friends. She noticed the Millerna looking at her strangely. "Did you say something?" Millerna asked.

"No, nothing, yes, you can call me just Hitomi." Hitomi said which made Millerna smile.

"I always thought that titles where always over rated." Millerna said. "It's a beautiful garden isn't it? I remember them from when I was a child." Millerna said and walked over to a rose and smelt it.

"Pri… Millerna, as a friend can I ask you a question?" Hitomi asked suddenly, she had never talked to another woman before about love, or about marriage and since Millerna was married, she figured that perhaps that she could try to talk to her it was a little straight forward since they had just met, but she hoped that Millerna wouldn't laugh.

"Sure what?" Millerna asked with a puzzled look on her face.

"I hope that you won't tell anyone that I asked you this, but are you happy with Prince Dryden?" Hitomi asked blushing. "I mean I heard that your marriage was an arranged one so I figured that I'd ask you since…"

"Since your marriage with King Van is arranged." Millerna said completing Hitomi's question.

"Yes." Hitomi answered blushing.

"Yes, I'm happy." Millerna answered with out any hesitations. "I wasn't at first though, I didn't want to marry Dryden, I actually wanted to marry Allen." Millerna said truthfully.

"That Calie knight?" Hitomi asked amazed.

"Yes, I had been in love with him before I had found myself to be in love with Dryden. He left me for some time which really got me thinking and well I realized that the short time that we spend together, I was in love with him. He even told me that he had fallen in love with me but would make himself the kind of man that I wanted him to be so he left."

"But you're together now." Hitomi protested.

"Yes, after I went after him after he left. Even though it's an arranged marriage, there is hope for love in there Hitomi." Millerna said. "I hope that answers your question."

"Yes, thank you." Hitomi said. "I've never even been in love before so I just wanted to ask someone else who was in my shoes." Hitomi said bashfully. "Thank you for telling me that."

"You might hate it now Hitomi, but there is a chance for love in the future if the two of you allow yourselves to first love the other and then to be loved by the other." Millerna said. "But the first step to love is friendship not the kind you would give another person who wasn't meant to be your husband, but someone your future husband could rely on and go to for advice and trust. Be his friend Hitomi, every thing should work out from there."

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I didn't change this one very much, but oh well.