REXANNA
Rome wasn't built in a day.
It almost felt like she signed everything away as she slipped her hand into his – but he was gentle with it, informed her of things she could trip over. He was careful, and she didn’t know what to make of it aside from absolutely seeing nothing and mostly being left with her thoughts and a man that had left her to die once before. She chewed the inside of her cheek as they walked, but soon enough he began to question who she was before. And she wasn’t certain if she should answer everything honestly, from servant to queen, to captive on the run before coming here.But she had told so many others of her story too, and knew it wouldn’t be a secret for long. So she inhaled deeply, head turning slightly toward her side where Lucas held her hand as they walked. “I was born in a world where I was a servant to the King.” She began, figuring out how to say it and do it justice. “But on my eighteenth birthday, the King informed me that I was actually royalty of the land, how the Queen had died in childbirth and the King hid me away because of the wars on the border with a place called Asciend. He threw me into training to become royal, shipped me off to Asciend to marry the prince there and I did.” She paused. “But the King wasn’t truthful with me or my country, and it turns out I was the daughter of the Queen and the high general of our soldiers. Both were killed for adultery after I was born, and I was given to servants in the hopes that the secret would be safe.” She shrugged her shoulders, as if it were no big deal.
“But my husband found out a few years after we’d wed, threw me into the dungeons for an eternity it felt like before taking me back to Halyven, my country. Locked me in a cage and set to sieging the city. The King was killed and I became the Queen to a dead land. And I managed to escape, stayed on the run for years. It wasn’t until my husband was pounding on the door of a home I had hid in that I fell through a portal to here.” Humming along as if she had recited it for years, she began to feel little to no attachment to the world there now. Yes, she was the Queen of the land, but there wasn’t a land there anymore.
“What about you?” She questioned into the darkness.
But it burned in one.
