She was woken up by her servant.
"..." Was all she heard. She was sure he was moving his mouth… It just seemed she couldn't hear… Slowly, she reached up her hand to his mouth, watching as it continued to move…
"I can't hear you…"
He seemed to say...What?
"I can't hear you…"
She motioned to her ears and shook her head. "You… can't hear?"
The doctor came in with news.
She laid there in the bed motionless. Deep down, she was crying. She wouldn't be able to hear anymore. It seemed she hit a nerve connecting her brain and her ear, making her deaf.
Tears welling up in her eyes, she looked down and blinked, getting rid of evidence that she was crying. It didn't work. She watched as the white bed sheets became gray, stained with her crystal like tears. How they glistened in the light that came from the corner of the room's window. Peering out of it, you could see a large portion of town. She blinked and looked again. Where was her castle? She blinked again. Where was it? It was usually to the direction of the right. Where was it?
She blinked once more. Remembering the incident, the whole castle erupting in flames, the one person who there a lit match on the side of the castle. She gritted her teeth, repeating in her mind, I'll catch him… I'll catch him…
She burst into tears again. She didn't care this time. Who ever saw, saw. Shiro watched as the deaf princess sat on the hospital bed and began to cry. Yelling out, though she couldn't hear herself, "What have I done to deserve this!?" Doctors watch, pitifully they wish they could do something.
"Hey, she can't hear, right?"
"I say she deserves it."
"My son was drafted to be her servant."
They kept on talking, talking about her, Shiro decided it was enough. "You guys are absurd! She lost her family! Why else would she be so cruel, she's just undecided, she's hurt! God, she looks like an angel when she's asleep!" He realized what he had said. His face turned beet red, his heart beating faster and faster by the second, the doctors laugh out.
"Ha! Angel? She whips you, doesn't she? She probably gave you some… poison to make you think that!"
"N-No! Not at all!" He yelled, trying to defend his princess.
"Look! Your friends! They are beat every day! Its like- Do you even care! Or are you too busy taking care of your 'angel', Huh?"
That brought him to silence. He hadn't realized that all the other servants were afraid of her. She had seemed so… peaceful. She looked so… untroubled when she cried. Its like she finally let go of everything she was holding back. He knew what she had gone through, with no mother, no brother, she was raising a whole empire by herself. The troubles and pain SHE must go through, all for her people. Yet, they didn't seem to care.
He did.