Chapter 12: The Angel's Lie
Linya, unconscious, has been struggling with nightmares. In her dreams, she fluttered her wings and flew aimlessly in the boundless void, not knowing where her destination was. Fear, loneliness, and confusion surrounded her, and her wings were as heavy as lead.
She was tired. But at this moment, from the sky above, there were no falling raindrops, and it was a rain of sharp arrows. Linya screamed and ducked, but the rain of arrows eventually pierced her wings mercilessly......
I don't know how many times I've been in a loop like this. This time, she finally screamed, woke up from the nightmare, and sat up sharply.
The night was dark, and Queen Isabel and Namia, who had been sitting on the edge of the bed and were sleepy, were awakened, and Emperor Isabel saw the frightened look on her daughter's face, and took her daughter into her arms in distress, and said with concern: "Oh, Linya, my poor child, are you alright?"
"Ah......h......h Rain of arrows...... Then there was the sharp pain in the heart...... Oh no! My wings must have been seen by someone else!
Thinking of this, those wings were already so frightened that they hurriedly burrowed back into their bodies. Isabel and Namia were stunned. Namia said, "Princess, you, your wings ......"
Linya had already blushed, and said in a voice that couldn't be smaller: "You, have you all seen it?" Queen Isabel smiled slightly: "Linya, don't be afraid, it's okay." Can you spread your wings at will?"
Seeing that Queen Isabel and Namia didn't seem too surprised and strange at the fact that they had wings, Linya was a little relieved and nodded.
Namia said, "Princess, you should stretch out your wings, so that I can help you heal your wounds!" You have hidden your wings, but I am afraid that the wounds on them will not heal easily!" Emperor Isabel also encouraged her, "Yes, Linya, don't be afraid, stretch out your wings." With the queen mother here, no one dares to hurt you again. ”
Linya looked up at Queen Isabel's red eyes and tired eyes full of tenderness, and thought that she must have been guarding her day and night after she fell unconscious, and her heart was moved to tears. Ah, is this a mother's love? Her embrace is so warm, full of warmth and security, this is the most wonderful taste that Xiao Yuan on earth has never felt.
Linya couldn't find any reason to refuse, and with the encouragement of Queen Isabel and Namia, Linya blushed and obediently stretched out her wings again. When the wound also stretched out, Linya felt a faint pain, but compared to the previous injury, she felt much better.
"Oh my God, this is a masterpiece of God!" Queen Isabel gently stroked Linya's snow-white wings, the tentacles were full of delicate pleasure, and if she hadn't touched them with her own hands, she really couldn't believe the incredible fact in front of her.
The door of the dormitory opened, and the maids came in with the tonic that had been prepared. Queen Isabel said: "Linya, you have been in a coma for two days and two nights, and you are hungry all night, right? Come, drink some soup, this is made of blood bird's nest, it is very replenishing." ”
Isabel said and asked Namia to support Linya's body, personally picked up the blood bird's nest soup, scooped up a spoonful with a small soup spoon, and put it to her mouth to blow it cold, and then sent it to Linya's mouth. Linya obediently opened her small sip and drank it, the soup was fragrant and sweet, and it melted in your mouth, it was really delicious. However, what Linya tasted was not the deliciousness of the soup, but the strong love contained in the soup.
Linya's tears could not be stopped flowing. Queen Isabel hurriedly asked, "Linya, what's wrong with you?" Linya hurriedly shook her head and said, "No, Queen Mother, I'm fine." Thank you!"
Under the careful care of Queen Isabelle, Linya finally finished the soup and felt much warmer. Leaning on Queen Isabel's arms, Linya felt a little tired again, but when she thought of the situation in her dream, she felt scared and did not dare to sleep.
At this time, the voice of Emperor Herman came in from outside: "Linya is awake, is she okay?" Emperor Herman hurriedly walked in, and when he saw Linya next to Empress Isabel, he finally breathed a sigh of relief and said: "Ah, Linya, you are finally awake, are you okay?"
"I'm good, Father. Linya replied timidly. I don't know what he thinks when he sees that he has grown wings? The maids didn't seem to think it was very strange, and Linya quietly looked at their eyes, and felt that their gaze had changed somewhat, but it had changed from the original respect to the current gaze that seemed to be worshipful.
I hope no one else cares too much about the wings...... However, just when Linya was worried, Emperor Hermann still asked a word that gave her a headache: "Linya, when did your wings grow?
Linya hadn't figured out what kind of lie to make up to get by, how to say it? When Linya was in a dilemma, Namiya said, "Your Majesty, Her Royal Highness the Princess has just woken up, and her body is still very weak. Let's wait for her to rest a little more!"
Empress Isabel also said: "Yes, Linya is very tired, let her sleep first, don't bother her!" Emperor Herman hurriedly said: "Well, well, Linya, you can rest in peace first!"
Linya was relieved when she was relieved. Emperor Herman asked about the princess and went with confidence. Namia helped Linya to lie down on the bed, carefully placing her wings beside her. Linya said to Queen Isabel: "Queen Mother, you have become a lot haggard, Linya is fine, you should also go and rest!"
Queen Isabel nodded, comforted her again, and then got up to leave. Namia drove the maids out, closed the door, and when she saw that Linya's eyes were still open, she asked, "Princess, what's the matter, can't you sleep?"
Linya thought about the situation in the dream, where she could sleep, and nodded quickly. Namia asked again, "Princess, is it a nightmare?" Linya nodded quickly, ah, she is really understanding, but it's a pity...... Alas......
Namia smiled and said, "Princess, don't be afraid, I'll sing you a song, and you won't have nightmares, okay?" Linya was left with a nod now, and Namia sat beside her and sang softly. The song seemed to be similar to the previous hymn I had heard in the Temple of Light, and it sounded gentle and warm. In the midst of her singing, Linya finally slowly fell asleep.
This night, Linya slept soundly, and the nightmare never came to bother her again. When I woke up again, it was already dark, and Namia, Queen Isabel and Emperor Hermann were all in front of the bed with concerned expressions. Priest Kalisa examined her body, and there was nothing wrong with her, except that the wounds on her wings were not completely healed.
After feeding her some food, Queen Isabel finally couldn't help but ask, "Linya, when did your wings grow?
At this time, Linya knew that she couldn't put it off any longer, so she had to make up a lie to deceive them. Linya thought for a while and said, "Queen Mother, that's the case. The last time I ran away from marriage, one night I dreamed that a group of bad people were chasing me, so I ran and ran, and I ran to the edge of a cliff, and there was no way to run. Just then, an angel came down from the sky and gave me a pair of wings, and then I flew up, and finally I was safe. When I woke up, I realized that I had actually grown a pair of wings!"
"Angels, messengers of the gods?" said Emperor Herman's face was full of contemplation.
"Yes...... It's an angel with wings like this, I don't know what's going on!" Linya said with a very innocent and aggrieved look.
But it seems that this story has been enough for them to ponder for a while. After some reassurance, Emperor Hermann and Empress Isabel got up and left, so that she could rest in peace.
Linya had been sleeping for a few days, feeling that her body was sour and soft, and she was trying to stretch comfortably, not wanting to involve the injury, so she quickly stopped in pain.
Namiya, who was putting down the veil, also covered her shoulder, as if she was in pain. Linya hurriedly asked, "Namia, what's wrong with you?" Namia shook her head and smiled, "I'm fine." I'm just giving you a pain reliever. ”
"Pain relief?" Linya thought for a moment, "No wonder I don't feel very painful!
Namiya smiled and said, "This is because pain relief does not really reduce pain, it only transfers half of the pain suffered by the caster to the caster. So when you feel pain, I will hurt just as much as you!"
"Huh?!" Linya was a little dumbfounded, "Namia...... You've been so good to me...... Um, well, I've decided, Namia, I've decided, when I become a boy, I'm going to marry you and be my wife, Namia, you're going to promise me!"
Namia smiled and said, "Okay, okay, my little princess, I promise you! But for now, you better obediently heal your injuries first!"
The care that Linya received in her recovery was really meticulous, from eating to changing clothes, she didn't need to move anything, it was all done by the maids. All she could do was lie on the bed like a puppet - not that she didn't want to move, but that Namia wouldn't allow her body to move even the slightest.
Lying in bed all day long, it will suffocate people! Linya just wants to get out of bed and walk around, but this little wish is impossible to come true, no matter how she pretends to be pitiful, how she threatens and begs, but Namiya is still unmoved, because she has a Shang Fang sword: "Princess, the Emperor and the Empress said that you must obediently take care of your injuries now, and you can't move around, you know? If you touch the wound, it won't be good!"
Oh my God, don't you know the great truth that "life is in motion"? How can wounds heal so quickly without exercise? But...... This little princess's body never seems to have had the opportunity to exercise, but isn't it just as healthy......
The only thing that Linya is free now is that pair of bony eyeballs - if she hadn't shut up quickly, she might have been deprived of the right to speak!
Looking enviously at the mountain eagle flying freely in the blue sky outside the window, Linya suddenly had a feeling that this Tianfeng Castle was like a big cage, and she was a little canary in this big cage.
I don't know what other people think about the fact that they have wings? Simply bored, Linya used her hearing modified by the creator god to eavesdrop on other people's whispers. Ah, eavesdropping on privacy doesn't seem ethical......
But no one will find out, what are you afraid of...... Linya didn't know what she knew, and she was shocked to hear it, and the whole castle was talking privately about her wings—and all sorts of coincidences between the princess and the moon goddess. Moon goddesses? It turns out that they think of themselves as the moon goddess......
Linya was a little dizzy, she did have something to do with the God of Creation, but this God of Creation and the God of Light Creation were not a concept, what about her identity...... It should be said that it is most appropriate to be an angel, after all, he came to this world with the power and mission of God. As for the goddess, forget it, if I were a god, the first thing I would do was to change my gender, so I wouldn't have to look embarrassed all day long.
Finally survived a long day, by the fourth day of Linya's injury, the wounds on her wings had basically healed, and Linya was finally allowed to get out of bed and move, it seems that the people around have accepted the fact that she has wings, and Linya is too lazy to put her wings in and out so troublesomely, anyway, no one can go up to the maple castle casually on this day, and Emperor Hermann also urgently issued a permanent decree: without permission, no one is allowed to set foot on the top floor of Tianfeng Castle at will. This must have been the tenth decree issued by Emperor Hermann specifically for her daughter.
I could eat with my parents again, Linya's appetite had always been very good since she came back, and looking at the pair of snow-white wings behind her daughter who ate with relish, Emperor Hermann and Empress Isabel finally felt weird.
After some consideration, Emperor Hermann finally decided that this matter should not be publicized, and ordered that all those in the know should not divulge this secret to the public. The Moon Goddess is a wealth that is completely unique to the Red Leaf Empire, and that's enough.
However, poor Linya seemed to suffer from a phobia of bows and arrows, and this time, a patrolling Pegasus Ranger suddenly appeared outside Tianfeng Castle where the princess's line of sight passed, and the princess immediately clenched her wings in fright and trembled. Emperor Herman had to issue a permanent decree that was limited to the castle: no archers, rangers, or anyone with bows and arrows were allowed to enter the top floor of the castle or within sight.
When the poor archers learned that the one they had shot down was the princess, they were all half to death, and the enraged Emperor Hermann threw them into prison. However, Princess Linya finally decided to spare their punishment, after all, they were also dutifully guarding the castle, no wonder they ......
"Hmm...... My poor wings...... If anyone dares to move my wings again, I will chop him into eighty-eight pieces!" said poor Linya, holding her injured wings, and her eyes widened. Emperor Herman then added a permanent decree that applied to the city of Léa and the surrounding areas of the capital: all archers and all those who possessed bows and arrows were not allowed to shoot anything with wings that could fly, and it was not impossible to shoot indiscriminately, but they could only shoot if they saw it clearly, and if the archers did not know what they were shooting, or did not know the target of their shooting, they would be convicted of treason and imprisoned.
For the inhabitants of the city of Leia, there was nothing strange about such an inexplicable decree, and in most cases, the wise Emperor Hermann must have issued such a decree because of the little princess who gave him a lot of headaches. Usually these strange decrees do not have any impact on people's lives, and the only effect is to become people's ** talk and speculation about all kinds of rumors in the palace.
At breakfast that day, Emperor Hermann suddenly said, "Linya, I have something to tell you. ”
"Well, what's the matter, Father?" said Linya without raising her head.
"It's been ten days since you came back, and it's been half a month since you escaped from marriage and left Haitian Academy, what about you, it's better to go back to school, I've already arranged your itinerary for you." ”
What Haitian Academy? Linya's mind spun rapidly, and she quickly found it from her memory: Haitian Academy, Haitian Magic Academy, located on Rainbow Island in the west of the Earth's Heart Sea, is the most prestigious and highest-level magic academy on the Violet Continent, and she has just been sent to this academy by her father this year to study magic.
"Hmph, it's not like you're thinking about kicking me out of the house, marrying me off, or I wouldn't have run away......! I'm going, when are I leaving?" Linya said this, but her heart was happy, hehe, as long as I leave the big cage of Tianfeng Castle, I am the biggest in the sky and earth outside, and no one can care about me, just like letting birds fly into the blue sky, letting fish swim into the sea, and letting turtles drink water...... Phew, this metaphor sucks!
Seeing his daughter's happy appearance, Emperor Herman couldn't help but shake his head and said, "It's strange, when you let you go last time, you didn't want to go!" Linya pouted and said, "It was before, and now it's now!"
Queen Isabel said, "Linya, we'll leave in two days. When the time comes, the Queen Mother will go with you, and we will go back to Cohen City first, your Uncle Lloyd has not seen you for a long time, and has been eager to see you!"
Koen Lloyd, oh, remember, Cohen is the capital of the Kingdom of Sachnea, the Kingdom of Sachnea is a plain country located on the northwest shore of the Heart of the Earth, bordering the Heart of the Sea to the south and the Red Leaf Empire to the north, Lloyd is the current king of the Kingdom of Sachenia, and is also the younger brother of Queen Isabel, who is of course the princess of the Kingdom of Sachnea.
The queen mother wants to go back to her parents' house, that's fine, just by the way. Linya nodded hurriedly: "Okay, okay, I just don't know if Cohen is so fun!"
Over the next two days, Linya waited for the day of departure in extreme excitement and anticipation. Bidding farewell to Emperor Herman, Linya and Empress Isabel boarded the silver chariot and marched south, surrounded by two air guards. The queen and princess's ground guards had already set off early, knowing that the flying beasts were much faster than the horses.
The capital of the Kingdom of Sachneia, the city of Cohen, is more than 300 kilometers away from Leia. The silver carriage began its journey along the Seine, and when it was nearly dark it reached the city of Fiset, the capital of the province of Philitte, a fairly beautiful riverside city. Linya and Queen Isabel rested for the night in Count Gemmitt's castle, and the next morning they continued on their way, finally arriving at Cohen at dusk.
The size of Cohen City is much smaller than that of Learain, after all, it is the capital of a small country with a population of a million, and it cannot be compared to a large empire with a population of 10 million. However, in the square in the center of the city, the ceremony to welcome the arrival of the two princesses was very grand, and tens of thousands of people in costumes enthusiastically cheered and scattered the petals in their hands.
Marand commanded the silver flying carriage to stop in the square, Queen Isabel pulled Linya down from the carriage, and King Royd, who seemed to be a little weak, greeted him with a smile on his face, hugged Queen Isabel in his arms, and said happily: "Oh, dear Sister Isabel, I want to kill you!"