"Preparations For A Princess"
Once the criminals were gone, the pharaoh and his procession proceeded to the palace. When they arrived at the palace, some slaves hurried over to help the new princess down.
They looked at her wondering what was so special about her when the pharaoh broke into their train of thought, "This is Karania she's my daughter and the new princess. You will do as she tells you if she asks you. Is that clear?"
The slaves nodded. Now they helped the pharaoh down, then everyone walked into the palace. As they were walking the pharaoh took his daughter's hand, and began making preparations to get her a dress that was more princess-worthy. When they entered, Advisor Ishizu hurried over.
"Oh, your majesty, you're back. Who's this girl?" Ishizu asked.
"This girl I found in the town, she didn't have any family to care for her so I took her under my wing." The pharaoh replied.
"I see, so she's the new princess, is that correct?" Ishizu asked.
"Yes, she is. She looked like princess material so like I said I took her under my wing." The pharaoh stated proudly.
Just then the High Priest entered, and once he entered he eyed the girl with distrust. "Who's she?" He asked at last.
"As I was telling, Ishizu this is Karania, she's the new princess. I found her in town, and she didn't look like any of the other commoners so I took her under my wing and made her a princess." The pharaoh replied.
"You have excellent taste in selecting a daughter and a princess for your kingdom." The High Priest stated with respect.
"That's quite enough, Seto! You have duties to attend to, so you should be getting back to them. Go on."
Priest Seto eyed the girl once more before he left the room to return to his duties as a High Priest.
Then once he had left, the pharaoh turned to Ishizu and said, "Ishizu, I need to go back to the throne room, but could you do me a favor and take Karania to the healers so that they can see about whether she's in good health or not. I don't want to lose her now that I've found her. Then could you take her to a nice room, and get her a dress that is more suited for a princess?"
"I will do that for you, your majesty." Ishizu said.
"Then once you've done all those things, and she's changed into her new dress, I would like for you to bring her to the throne room so that I can see what my daughter looks like when she's wearing her princess attire." The pharaoh added.
"I will do that too, your majesty." Ishizu said.
"Good. Now I really must go to the throne room." The pharaoh said.
The pharaoh started to walk towards the throne room then he circled back and embraced his daughter, and after that he continued on to the throne room. Once the pharaoh had left, Ishizu took Karania's hand and led her down another hallway and up to the healers.
The healers looked up when Ishizu and Karania entered and Ishizu broke the silence and said, "The pharaoh wishes for you to check his new daughter, Karania to make sure that she's in good health."
"New daughter?" The healers asked.
"Yes, the pharaoh found a little girl when he went out into the town earlier today and he adopted her and made her a princess. Does that answer your question?" Ishizu asked.
"Yes, it does, Advisor Ishizu. We will be more than happy to look at the new princess and determine what her health status is." The healers said.
Now one of the healers walked over to Karania and took her hand and led her over to a chair and asked for her to sit down. Karania sat down and the healers began trying to determine what her current state of health was. After checking her over for a few minutes, they found that she was in good health, but was a little weak from not eating as much as she should have been. So the healers gave her a magic potion that would cure her of that state. Karania drank the potion, and was a little surprised when she felt her strength coming back to her, but she was happy and didn't say anything about it except a simple 'thank you' to the healers, which they acknowledged with a nod in her direction.
Then the healers turned back to Ishizu and said, "She's all better now, it'll be like she never was a little weak from being malnourished."
"Good, I'm sure the pharaoh would be happy." Ishizu replied.
"I hope he is." The healers replied.
Now Ishizu said, "It's time for us to go now as I still need to get her a dress before I present her to her father."
"You do that." The healers said as they turned back to what they had been doing before Karania and Ishizu had entered.
Karania and Ishizu left the room and Ishizu took Karania to her room; then she left Karania in her room while she went to get a dress for her. A few minutes later Ishizu returned with a dress for her that was indeed a dress for a princess. Ishizu entered Karania's room and gave the dress to her; then she began helping Karania change into it. A few minutes later Karania had changed into her new dress. The dress she was wearing was a light blue and was made entirely out of satin with only the exception of the sleeves and collar, which were made out of blue chiffon. Then around her waist she wore a length of white and silver braided cord, and on her feet she wore white dress shoes. Karania looked simply lovely, she truly looked like a princess in this dress. She looked so much like a princess that Ishizu gasped in utter amazement. Ishizu now braided her hair in the style of a princess, and then she stood back to admire her. Karania looked at herself in the mirror, and her hand went to her throat since she wasn't used to an outfit that exposed her throat so openly.
Ishizu now took her hand and said, "Come, your highness, your father is waiting for you."
Karania and Ishizu walked to the throne room, and once at the doors to the throne room Ishizu stopped Karania and said, "Please wait here, your highness so that I can find out whether your father is busy or not at the moment."
Ishizu entered the throne room and saw at once that the pharaoh wasn't busy; he was just sitting on his throne waiting for something to happen. He looked up when Ishizu entered, and asked, "Where's my daughter?"
"She's outside the door, I asked her to wait for a minute so that I could make sure that you were ready to see her." Ishizu replied.
"Good, please go get her, I can't wait to see her." The pharaoh said.
Ishizu now hurried out of the room and returned a moment later with the princess. The pharaoh's eyes widened in amazement when he saw his daughter, and he bade her come over to him. Karania walked over to her father, and he reached into a chest and pulled out a crystal necklace that dangled in 5 different places along with a set of crystal earrings that matched the necklace. Ishizu walked over and helped her put on the necklace and earrings.
Then her father said, "Much better, you look like a true princess. From the way you look no one would guess that you're not my real daughter. I'm glad I found you, you're a delight to have around, and don't worry you'll be taught how to be a princess. Your princess lessons will begin tomorrow, I've already arranged to have someone teach you. Oh, and by the way as a princess you gained the right to speak freely in my presence so you should take advantage of that, daughter. It would delight me if you would call me your 'father' since I did adopt you when I took you under my wing, and don't worry about your real father and brothers they never were around for you so you can hardly call them family."
"That's true, they never were around for me. They seemed to abandon me to take care of myself while they went to go do who knows what." Karania replied.
"Too true, and guess what? You're catching on as to what a princess does already! As I've told you your lessons are to start tomorrow, and although you might be frustrated at first your lessons will get easier as you learn the basics of how to be a princess, but you'll find out more about that tomorrow." Her father said.
"Yes, father." Karania replied.
The pharaoh smiled and got up off his throne and embraced his daughter for the second time that day.
"Oh, I love it when you call me that! You're going to fit in perfectly. Now daughter, please come sit beside me, and I'll explain the basic rules and customs that you'll have to abide by as a princess." The pharaoh said.
Ishizu helped Karania over to the velvet chair next to her father and Karania sat down in it, then Ishizu walked over to the other side of the pharaoh so that she could be ready to advise him as that was her job that she was responsible for. The pharaoh began to explain the rules and customs of the palace and Karania listened intently, not knowing that however simple the rules and customs sounded that they were actually more difficult to follow and abide by than it ever seemed possible, but she would find out that over a period of time.