Dragon Eyes

Episodes 10

the rain was so heavy outside the palace, the crown prince was sitting looking out the window while holding a beautiful heart-shaped pendant. It was clear in his eyes there was a sadness that he could not express.

"Arthur, why don't you go out of the study with Dad outside?"

the soft voice broke his daydream, suddenly he presented the sweetest smile to the woman he called the mother.

"ah.. study is very boring ma'am, I want to enjoy the speck of rain from here"

his eyes began to look glassy according to him being a crown prince was the most boring thing, studying every day, having to keep the attitude every time, and he was always depressed with all the things in the palace.

"mother.. I have a request, will you grant it?"

the look on her face looks sad, which mother can see her son sad every day?

"to my dear little prince, as long as I can, I will certainly grant"

his smile was heart-shaking, warm treatment, and gentle speech made Arthur could not be far from his mother,

"let's say your request"

"i just want freedom mom, I want to have friends, I've been lonely for 17 years"

his mother endured the cries of Arthur, which she had also felt long ago, but this was an inevitable fate, this bird-like life in the cage was not an option, the empress lowered her head shaking slowly in disbelief.

"forgive me my son, I don't seem to be able to grant your request, you can just go out of the palace just for a walk, but someone has to take you in, he said, you can have anything you want but not freedom!"

the face was so worried, because the empress was afraid to offend her son, she did not want to worsen the mood of Arthur who was struggling, but if not given such an explanation, she did not want to, he was afraid that all the hopes that Arthur harbored would only lead to disappointment.

"all right, ma'am, I'm not demanding more! if my mother can't feel freedom let alone me who has no power"

Arthur smiled wryly, he was disappointed because he could not breathe the fresh air in the field, how fun it was to ride on a wide expanse of grass, joking with his peers, how fun it was, eating food on the side of the road that seduces the aroma, even out there the people never know how the crown prince will be the successor to the king of Charlotte, he said, they only know that there is a crown prince in the palace who always smiles with wet eyes, without ever knowing how it looks and shape, black or step hair

beautiful or bad appearance all that, Arthur felt there but never considered.

"already, ma'am, don't think too much! I'm fine, maybe this thought only comes when I'm bored"

Arthur smiled and hugged his mother's body tightly, in fact there was a lot of something that he himself wanted to say, but he was still waiting for the right time, he realized that there were so many cunning foxes near the palace who would take advantage of his situation if he were constantly in grief, he tried to rise from the rubble of the silence that he had to be ready to be a victim, for the sake of his mother's father and the people he loved he had to willingly pretend to be a cunning fox one day.