Happiness is not an ideal of reason but of imagination
Receiving the letter was pretty much the highlight of my time here so far, I cannot lie. It arrived one evening quite unexpectedly - few knew where I lived, and fewer still would want or need to write me a letter, so it was easy to assume that the note was for the landlord. But there was my name, there could be no doubt, and so I took it to my room and opened it with some excitement.
I nerded out in joy a lot after I read the letter in full, multiple times.
Rolling out of bed exceptionally early (I had asked the cook if she wouldn't mind waking me up when she usually awoke, which was grotesquely early, and she seemed to take a special satisfaction in the task, and I wonder if I'll ever get to sleep in again), I don my clothing and my letter, and make my way to the palace. I felt like a young squire, off to learn the ways of being a knight for the first time, learned in the theory of combat but extremely unpractised in the execution.
"Princess!" I proclaim happily as I enter the vast room where she has placed herself, pausing my approach to offer her a deep, sweeping bow. As I rise and continue onwards to her, my grin is very evident, and I can't help myself as I say with a warm laugh "Curious that I should find you in a palace, don't you think?"
I nerded out in joy a lot after I read the letter in full, multiple times.
Rolling out of bed exceptionally early (I had asked the cook if she wouldn't mind waking me up when she usually awoke, which was grotesquely early, and she seemed to take a special satisfaction in the task, and I wonder if I'll ever get to sleep in again), I don my clothing and my letter, and make my way to the palace. I felt like a young squire, off to learn the ways of being a knight for the first time, learned in the theory of combat but extremely unpractised in the execution.
"Princess!" I proclaim happily as I enter the vast room where she has placed herself, pausing my approach to offer her a deep, sweeping bow. As I rise and continue onwards to her, my grin is very evident, and I can't help myself as I say with a warm laugh "Curious that I should find you in a palace, don't you think?"
CHULANE
