Chapter 4 Dinner With The Queen

"Again!" came Sir Aaron's stern voice as Pierre failed to shot the target board once again.

Pierre groaned in frustration. No matter how many times she tried or how much effort she put into it, she still failed to shot the target board.

She breathed hard due to the fact that she was exhausted.

Her shoulders were aching her and she was also hungry-Sir Aaron had been teaching her for three straight hours without even having a break.

Sir Aaron watched has Pierre panted and he knew the little prince had reached his limit.

"Alright prince Pierre I think this would be the end of our training for today, you should go take a nice bath and rest". He said.

Pierre nodded as relieve came as a fresh breeze, she was so happy that today's training was finally done.

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"How did it go?". Tania asked with excitement when she saw Pierre entered her room, which she was cleaning.

"it was great and I loved it". Pierre replied, sarcasm lacing her words.

Tania chuckled amused, she could tell Pierre was been sarcastic by the tone she used in replying.

"It's normal not to like something at once, all you just need is time and i bet you're gonna love archery my prince, you just have to be committed and you'll see; little by little you'll generate liking for it. Tania advised.

Pierre didn't give any comment about what Tania said, she only demanded for a bath which she was given as Tania had prepared a bath down for her earlier.

As Pierre stepped in to the bath, Tania crouched by the bath and began to bath her.

Pierre relaxed as Tania poured water on her head, the bath was relaxing and that was exactly what she wanted especially after training. Thinking of today's training spoiled her mood and thinking of how she was going to keep on attending until she was perfect made it worse.

She sighed. Her mates at seven were still playing, having fun but she was busy learning archery at seven. Nothing was easy and nothing was free in this life because what she was doing now was the prize she had to pay to be a good ruler.

'It's not easy to be a king' . Pierre thought not knowing she had voiced that out because thereafter Tania's annoying but melodious chuckles rang out like a bell.

"Well, you're right your highness but don't worry you-".

Pierre groaned in annoyance. "Please Tania don't start, don't just start because your optimism and jolliness is making me angry".

Tania sighed. "Alright I'll stop".

After Pierre bath and got dressed she was served lunch which she ate so hurriedly like she hadn't eaten in days and this resulted in choking. Tania then quickly gave her some water and rubbed her back to help her and it worked like magic.

As soon as Pierre had finished eating lunch she got reprimanded by Tania for eating very fast and the whole talk took five good minutes that Pierre vowed never to hurriedly eat again in the presence of Tania.

As evening came, Pierre was summoned by her mother to the dinning hall to have dinner with her.

Being alone with her mother was one thing Pierre dreads but fortunately she couldn't say no to her mother's request.

As she followed the guard who came to call her to her mother she got cold feet, she was extremely anxious about being alone with her mother because she was very intimated by her and although she was Pierre's biology mother Pierre had never received any motherly love from her.

Queen Regina was a very cold woman, she was cold to everyone including Pierre her own child and this was the main reason why Pierre was intimated by her.

Pierre and the guard finally stopped walking as they had reached the dining hall, more specifically the entrance door to the dinning hall. Pierre gulped in fear as the guard opened the gigantic bronze door to the dinning hall and closed it behind Pierre as she stepped inside.

The dining room was spacious and luxurious, there was a really wide and lengthy table that stretched out far- the length almost reaching the end of the room with more than a dozen rows of rectangular shaped and well designed chairs on either side of the table.

Fancy Eating utensils and plates with different delicacies in them were lined up on the table filling the room with different aromas.

There were beautiful crystal chandeliers that were lit, brightening the room as it was evening.

The room's celling to floor windows were wide open, allowing in ventilation and also showing a beautiful and perfect view of the moon, letting it's silvery rays grace the room.

In the first chair, on the left side of the table sat Queen Regina in a stunning green dress fit for a Queen, her face was beautiful but stern and her aura spelt danger and her eyes...they were like precious emerald, a brilliant green that seemed to sparkle in the light but they were cold and could freeze you to a stop with their gaze.

And those eyes were now looking at Pierre, freezing her to a spot.