" I hate this." Irina complained hoping off her bed.
" What?" Emilka asked annoyed.
" This, this palace, this life, everything. I can't wait until I'm old enough I'm going to travel the world. I'm going to go to England and Italy and Greece and France."
" We've been to all though places." Aurora protested.
" Hardly. We went to hotels and seen kings and presidents and whoever but we didn't go to them we didn't meet the real people."
" Yes we did." Emilka countered.
" Not real people. The people who work and all that other stuff. We never do. We stay here and go to class with tutors, and do all this boring stuff. We know no one our age that doesn't work for us nor have a title. We are princesses and that's it. I'm leaving as soon as I can."
" You want to get away from me that badly Greenlee?" Dimitri asked pretending to be hurt.
" No Daddy!" Irina said grinning as she ran to give her Dad a hug. " I don't want to get away from you – just mother. And anyway you can come with me. We can run away together."
" And what about your sisters and your mother?"
" I don't want to go." Emilka said getting up and leaving the room.
" Me neither I love Russia, I don't want to go to silly France. Those French are weird."
" There you go it can just be us, Mother wouldn't want to go anyway."
" Greenlee." Dimitri said shaking his head and laughing. " On your eighteen birthday we can go anywhere you want and for as long as you want. Deal?"
" Eighteen! I'll be so old then."
" Yes but that's the deal."
" Hey." Jack said sitting down next to Irina. " What are you thinking about?"
" My Dad. He used to call me Greenlee you know. He named all of us a color, Rory-Scarlett, Emilka-Violet and me-Greenlee. I miss him so much. We were going to go anywhere I wanted when I was eighteen. I left when I was seventeen you know and when I was eighteen I was with you and they killed him before we could go on my trip. We never got to go on our trip." Irina repeated sadly looking out the window.