I laid my head back onto my pillow after dinner. My butler and only friend, Benjamin, had just left to get me something for my headache when I heard a tap on my door. It was soft but I heard the pattern and knew it was Gracie.

Me and Gracie had developed a pattern of knocking so I would know it was her before I even opened the door. I sat up and climbed out of bed to walk over to the door.

"Hello Gracie," I said as a stooped to lift her up." At 5 years old, she was still as light as a feather and as small as a beetle.

"Hi uncle O," she replied.

"What are you doing here baby cakes?"

"I was racing to beat mama and I won," Gracie replied with a triumphant smile on her face. I looked down the hall to see Eadlyn walking towards me.

"Did Gracie find you?" she asked once she was close enough for me to hear her.

"Yes Ma'am, she's right here with me."

"Okay, race back and see if you can find daddy okay baby?"

"Okay mama," Gracie replied and took off the moment I set her down.

"What's up?" I asked Eadlyn after we saw Grace take off around the corner.

"I just wanted to talk to you about the selection you're going to be hosting in a couple weeks."

"What about it?" I asked getting uneasy.

"I just want you to know I support you in deciding to have a selection, I just want to know your true motives. The Osten that I have grown up with for the past 20 years is not the kind of boy to want to settle down and find his one true love."

"Alright, you got me. I think it'll be fun to have 35 girls around for a little while. After all it won't matter if I end up sending them all home to get a new batch if I don't find the one for me, I'm not the heir to the thrown."

"Osten..." Eadlyn looked at me like I had done something wrong.

"What? It's not like you held your selection out of sheer desire to find a husband. You didn't want to get married then but you did it anyways, I'm just doing the same thing for a different reason. What's the difference?"

"The difference is that what I did was for my country and I wasn't trying to hurt the boys that showed up. You are doing this all for yourself and you don't care who gets hurt along the way."

"Why do you care so much anyways Ead?" You have a whole country to help run, this shouldn't matter so much to you, so calm down." I could tell she was mad that I would do this, but in the end the girls would get over it, and it wouldn't matter. They wereonly
/joining because they thought I was cute. I hadn't ever given the public enough of a piece of my personality for them to genuinely like. As long as I could stay shut off emotionally towards them we would both be fine. Eadlyn continued to glareat
/me as I thought this over.

"If you're just going to sit there and glare, then you can leave. I can feel a headache coming on and I need some rest." She stared at me for a couple more seconds before finally turning around and leaving.

I walked back to my bed after shutting the door behind her and laid back down. Pretty soon Benjamin came in with some medicine and a tall glass of water and helped me take my medicine. I knew it would only be a matter of minutes before the medicine putme
/to sleep so I laid my head back and closed my eyes. what if I really do fall in love? What if my soulmate is brought here by some random possibility? I tried to push the thought out of my head but It was stuck. There's no way. The chances are toolow she'd never put her name in, let alone be one of the 35 chosen. Right?


Dominica, Carolina and clermont are the only three provinces taken at this point. Please submit your characters, I need both nice and mean girls, and a diversity of physical appearances. Please submit characters quickly so I can get started on some girls POVs.