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Chapter 7
Keeping up Appearances
When 8:15 rolled around the next day Tk was woke up to an empty room and glanced at the clock on her night stand. "Oh SHIT! Why didn't anyone wake me up! I'm late! Ah man Jareth's gonna kill me! No he's not that nice. I'll be doing a nose dive into the bog of stench then maybe he'll kill me!" Tk panicked pulling her pajamas off and practically diving headfirst into the large deep bathtub, thankful that her bath water always filled instantly when she told it to,and quickly poured soap over her head and scrubbed by the time she stopped she looked like a cotton ball, every inch of her that wasn't hidden by water was covered with foam then dove under water resurfaced and scrambled out and dried off and without even the slightest thought of modesty she ran from the bath room naked as the day she was born, to her closet and snatched up the first gown she saw, a pair of bikini cut panties, and her sandals.
"The last time I was this naked, I was coming out of a uterus." she muttered pulling her clothes on running a brush quickly through her hair and sprinting from her room and down the hall and into Jareth's study.
"Sorry — I'm — late — no one — woke me up." Tk gasped out as she collapsed onto a chaise lounge.
"Tk, what in the name of the gods are you doing up at this hour in the morning!" Jareth asked.
"Lessons, 8:30 sharp, remember?" Tk replied with a yawn.
"Did no one tell you Tk?" Jareth asked, handing her a small sheet of parchment.
Tk took the parchment and read it.
Breakfast 9:30 - 10:20
Politics & Court Rules 10:30 - 11:20
Public & Court Conduct 11:30 - 12:20
Lunch 12:30 - 1:20
Formal Etiquette 1:30 - 2:20
Court & Royal History 2:30 - 3:20
"Oh goody." Tk muttered with a look of dislike etched on her face.
The day went by quickly, well at least it did until her court and royal history lesson, which was nothing more than committing every single member of their family and their accomplishments and their history, which Tk was horrible at, horrible being an understatement, one of which Jareth was becoming quickly annoyed with.
"Everyone's right, I am too little. You should rule not me, you at least met most of these people/ancestors/family they were almost all dead by the time I came around." Tk said sullenly.
"Has anyone ever told you about your beginnings?" Jareth asked sitting next to her, just as Rio, Trenton, and Sarrethanna appeared (literally) out of the blue and seating themselves in various comfy armchairs.
"Mind if we join you?" Sarethanna ask making tea and a tray of cookies and and other little pastries appear.
"Not at all, most appropriate since we all saw her younger years, now lets see here, ah yes what is a story of your beginnings without the beginning. You were born in a palace by the sea." Jareth began.
"A palace by the sea?" Tk asked in confusion.
"Yeah, you were the only one of us lot born in the winter palace, and as I recall mother was in labor with you longest of any of us, three days, twenty-three hours, five minutes, and forty-seven seconds as I recall." Rio replied.
"Yes, father was worried about both you and mother, since we all came in less than a day and a half when we were born." Jareth said.
"Yes, that's right." Trenton said gravely, "I remember you were so small. I remember the healer's said you were born so early that you didn't have a chance of survival, but father hoped and prayed to the gods and they heard and answered his prayers, you started growing stronger"
"You grew so much and became so healthy and strong, that you rode horseback when you were only three." Sarethanna said taking a sip of her hot herbal tea.
"Horseback riding? Me?" Tk asked in stunned disbelief.
"Yes, and by the time you were eight, you made faces and terrorized the cooks!" Jareth said with a laugh.
"Was I really that wild?" Tk asked.
"You wrote the book on wild, little one!" Rio laughed.
"But you'd behave when father gave you that look!" Trenton said
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