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Chapter 04
Hilda woke up earlier than usual, she had a plan, but first she needed to speak about it with Brigitte. The old maid was in the kitchen and was really surprised to see Hilda in there that early.
"Good morning, Brigitte, can we talk?" Asked Hilda, Brigitte nodded and the two of them walked to the backyard, near the fountain. Brigitte sat in the border and was ready to listen.
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Later that morning, Hilda was strangely happy and smiling, a thing that disconcerted both Fler and Royce. After the breakfast, Hilda went to search for her guardian, she wanted to go riding. Sigfried was in the library when Hilda found him.
"Good morning, Sigfried, I was looking for you, I want to go riding and I want you to escort me" Hilda said, Sigfried nodded and followed her outside.
The couple went out from the castle walls, Hilda was riding her white horse, while Sigfried was riding a black one. They went far away from the town and into the deep frozen forest. Sigfried thought that Hilda was acting weird this morning, she smiled at him, chattering about this and that, nothing important.
They arrived to a clearing, where there was a little lake, Hilda dismounted and took her horse near the water, Sigfried imitated her and caressed his horse's neck.
"Tell me something, Sigfried, you don't like William at all, do you?" She asked. Sigfried stopped caressing the horse.
"Why do you ask it, princess? He's your fiance, I don't have any say about it" He said, rather annoyed. Hilda snickered, he was acting like that again.
"What would you say if I told you that for me it's important what you think" She said calmly, Sigfried thought it for a while and sighed.
"May I tell you whatever I think about it?" He asked, Hilda nodded.
"Well... I think he is a big jerk! He doesn't deserve you, he won't be a good king or husband, he even doesn't know anything about how to manage this kingdom or about the needs of the people that live in here! Besides I can see that you don't love him" He said, he felt better after telling all his thoughts. Hilda walked to him, Sigfried was stiff, he feared that he had said too much, but she just stood in front of him and rested her forehead against his chest.
"You are right... but I don't know how I can call off the engagement" She said, sighing. He was shocked, she had never behaved like that, Sigfried wanted to embrace her tightly, but didn't dare, fearing rejection. But Hilda was the one taking things in her hands. She put her arms around his waist and held him tightly, Sigfried sighed and gave up, returning the embrace, resting his cheek over her head.
Hilda smiled and rubbed her cheek against his chest, she was very comfortable in that position, she loved his scent. Sigfried was very comfortable too, he wanted to hold her forever and never let her go, least that another man touched HIS princess.
They stayed that way for a while, then Sigfried let her go and took her hand, Hilda smiled and walked by his side.
"You know, I can make his life miserable if you let me, or he can have an unfortunate accident or..." He said, thinking about how he could make that jerk disappear.
Hilda laughed and shook her head, Sigfried was impossible. But she liked it when he thought the best way to resolve her problems, though William having an accident wasn't the best way to get rid off of him... at least it was not the correct one.
"Sigfried! We can't harm him, so don't. I need to talk to my father, maybe he will understand and he will let me handle this problem" She said, Sigfried shook his head, he knew the king very well, he would be furious if he knew.
"Don't tell him anything yet, let's search for something that can be an excuse to call it off, something the jerk has done wrong in his life, I've got Mime and Alberic working on that, don't worry" He said, helping her mounting. Hilda gaped at him, so he already was planning something like that.
"And you wouldn't be telling me about this till you had found out something, would you?" She said, Sigfried smirked and mounted his own horse.
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"Have you found anything, Alberic?" Asked Cid, who had joined to the research, his brother, Bud, was away near William's castle, maybe he could find something suspicious, Mime was with him too.
"Nope, nothing, in this book about the noble families in the country, there's nothing wrong about them" Said the red haired warrior, who was at that moment very bored.
Sigfried got in a moment later, he greeted them and sat in one of the chairs. Cid and Alberic sat near him too.
"Hey, I've been with princess Hilda, and she told me that she really didn't want to marry him, so now we have her permission to find something bad about the jerk" Sigfried said, smiling, the other two guys smiled too, that were good news.
"Did you find anything?" Sigfried asked.
"Sorry, but we didn't, the guy's family is perfect" Was the answer of Alberic, Cid nodded. Sigfried sighed, they hadn't too much time, the wedding was going to be held in less than a month.
Mime and Bud were hidden inside William's castle. They stole some uniforms of servants and tried to get near the library, maybe there were some interesting book inside.
"Hey, Bud, there's nobody near, let's get in" Mime whispered, Bud nodded and both men slipped inside the library, while Bud was watching that nobody came, Mime was researching in some books without much luck.
Mime approached the big old desk in one of the corners of room, and sat a moment in the chair. He had gathered some books and was going to take a look at them when he suddenly saw a suspicious looking folder, it was inside of one of the three cases, it seemed that the owner had tried to hide it quickly, because he hadn't locked it up properly.
Mime took it off and began to read it, the more he read the more he got surprised and worried. Bud saw the strange reaction of his partner and frowned. Someone was coming that way and Bud quickly alerted Mime, he put the folder in its place again and joined Bud, the guys hid behind one of the enormous bookshelf.
"You think you'll be able to hide it from Hilda? I think she's no stupid, you know" Said a man, William, laughed, he needed to marry the princess, the power of her family and their wealth.
"Ja! Nobody knows about it, my finances are all invested in this business, so if it goes wrong, I will have my wife's wealth and status to back me up" William said, very confident of himself, his brother laughed, William was very smart, he would have wealth and power plus a beautiful wife.
Mime and Bud were shocked, and them they smirked, that's what they needed to get that bastard out of the way... if and when they could get out of there, of course. William took his cape and then turned to get out. Mime needed to take some proof, but without giving them away. Bud urged him to come with him, they really needed to get out NOW.
Mime sighed, the documents were the key to destroy the engagement, but it wasn't possible to take them and just run. Bud took his companion's arm and dragged him out of the library.
"We'll tell this to Sigfried and princess Hilda, they will know what we can do, but now we MUST leave" Bud said, Mime nodded and both fled.
Mime and Bud arrived to their castle at dawn, immediately they went in search of Sigfried, who was with the other two warriors in one of the rest rooms designated to them.
"Sigfried! We've found something!" Mime said cheerfully, Bud nodded. Sigfried smiled and approached them.
"Tell me all about it" He said.
"He needs our princess to back up all his businesses or he might lose everything, but the documents are something we couldn't take with us, but advise our king and princess to ask about all of this" Bud told them. All of them looked at each other and smiled very pleased with the news.
"I'll tell princess Hilda right now, don't worry, she won't marry him in any way, I promise" Sigfried said and left the room.
Hilda was with Fler in that moment, her sister was showing some earrings she had brought today, Hilda smiled and took them.
"They're beautiful, Fler, I need to get a pair for me, I don't have too many" She said, Fler smiled and ran to take something out of her jewel box, it was a little box, covered with blue velvet. Fler gave it to Hilda, who was intrigued, she opened it and saw a pair of silver earrings with a blue sapphire in the middle, they were shaped a tear like form and were more beautiful than the others.
"Oh, Fler, these are really impressive"
"They're for you, my wedding gift"
Hilda gaped and shook her head, Fler didn't know she didn't want to marry William yet, she should tell her sister about it, Hilda sighed and close the little box, Fler frowned, Hilda was hiding something.
"Tell me, Hilda, Is there anything that's bothering you?" She asked her, Hilda wasn't even looking at her eyes, but when she did, she was very serious.
"Fler... I don't want to marry William, and I don't know how to tell father about it" She confessed, Fler was shocked, this was not Hilda's way to do things, she was promised to William and father was happy about this.
"But, sis, father will be furious if you call it off!" She answered, Hilda nodded, she knew her father very well.
"I know, that's why I'm trying to find a good excuse, Sigfried doesn't like him either, so he's looking for something to cancelled this marriage"
"It won't be easy, but if you think you can't love him... I'll support your decision" Fler said, Hilda smiled brightly at her and both sisters held each other.
In that moment someone knocked the door, Hilda went to open it and was surprised to find him standing there...
Sorry, cleaffy but I'll post the next asap.