The rain seemed to be falling for her, so she could hide her tears and not be seen as a weak princess. She had to be strong. For her father, for her brothers, so she could support the weight of the throne with them. The announcement had just been made to the others, Sun Jian was dead, killed in front of the eyes of his only daughter. Shang Xiang never cared too much about the dead, until her mother died two years ago because of a misplaced arrow that seemed to be poisoned. She changed her weapon after that incident. But now, it was her father, the one who had protected the little princess of Wu since her childhood, first scaring the monsters out of her room and then scaring the facing armies, the one who had supported her through her transformation from young girl to young woman.
She heard her brothers walking slowly closer to her, and then fall next to her, their 3 pairs of knees deep in the mud. Shang Xiang turned to her brother Ce and let herself fall against him, sobbing uncontrollably, gripping tightly his arms. She felt Quan put his hand on her shoulder, trying to comfort her. As the announcement went from one side of the battleground to the other, silence took place, nobody wanting to disturb the tiger pups in their grief.
Only one dared to come close to the trio, worried about the youngest one. Shang Xiang seemed so broken and fragile to him right now. She wasn't being her actual self. But then, he thought that he'd be the same if ever Lu Meng was to die during the war. When the brothers saw him, they gave him some space near their sister, whose whimpering hadn't stopped. He took her in his arms and tried to stop her seemingly incessant crying. "It'll be alright" – he said. She shook her head,"It won't be alright. It won't be the same without Dad." "You'll be strong enough to fight without him. And besides, you're not alone" – he voiced his opinion. The young woman raised her head to meet his brown eyes with her emerald ones, glossy from the tears. The young man tried to smile to reassure her. A small glint could be seen passing in her green orbs before she buried herself deeper in his arms. "Thank you" – was all she said.
AN : Just something quick I wrote months ago, but I didn't have the time to post it. I know some of you are waiting for me to put up 'Undercover Love', the story I recently adopted. But since I'm reaaally slow at writing in English, I prefer having some chapters already ready so that I can make more regular updates, unlike for my other story – which I think I removed from FF – because I felt really bad for the ones waiting for months to have a short chapter. So it might take some time before I post anything so that when I'll upload it, I'll have it quickly (at least I hope so) wrapped !