Within the Walls

"Do not look to me, do not address me, do not approach me unless I summon you."

Phillipa sat above the kneeling girl, whimpering as she was chastised.

"Do not speak of me, or draw me in that awful pad of yours. I do not want to see you or know if you are near me, you are a servant, nothing more."

The girl's lip quivered as tears rolled along flushed cheeks. The princess' heart throbbed as she heard her family withdraw from the doorway. She knelt to her partner.

"Now kiss me."