The Web of Knightspur-Chapter 55: My Beliefs

Princess Eleanor looked down at her leg. The bandage had started showing some red pot, but Princess Eleanor knew that the blood must have stopped flowing and its wound would soon start healing.

"But Sir Kit must also know that I need to stay here till the time I stabilize my mind set. There are times when I think that maybe I am doing something wrong. What if the thing that I am leaning to is not there. What if I am making scenarios in my mind, but then I have to stick up to my beliefs."

Sir Kit could not follow up with princess Eleanor’s words. Was she even speaking in a logical sense? Sir Kit could not tell. Maybe she had a huge blood loss for her to make her feel hallucinating.

"Princess," Sir Kit tried to cut her off. He wanted to make some sense of her words but Princess Eleanor beat him to it. She smiled as she continued.

"I know that it must be confusing to you but this is important to me. Although you think that I hurt myself because of your words, but the truth is I know that if I did it then no one would be forcing me to meet the Crown Prince. They will let me recover, see if the injuries have left any mark and then introduce me in the palace." Princess Eleanor smiled as she looked at Sir Kit, but her eyes were laid with sadness. "I know I cannot delay meeting that man for whom I am here but I hope that at least till the time of the Royal ball, I avoid the storm."

Princess Eleanor looked down nervously, "I know what I am doing Sir Kit. It is not because of your words. It is because I wanted this to be the case. I wanted to be the one doing this to avoid many things. To avoid the unwanted entanglement with the royal family."

Sir Kit did not say any other quotes. I nodded his head as he stared into Princess Eleanor’s eyes for quite some time.

Princess Eleanor was like a mystery to him. A mystery that he wanted to unreveal.

Sir Kit took a step towards the bed as he moved forward to pick the perfume bottle out of bed, but before hoshands to couch the bottle Princess Eleanor took a hold of it as if she was afraid of something.

Sir Kit’s eyes narrowed. He looked at Princess Eleanor with a questionable gaze. Although he did not ask anything, but it was clear from his body language that he wanted to know what was happening.

Princess Eleanor was baffled by this sudden movement. She would not have pulled the perfume bottle but she got frightened and her body moved on reflux. Princess Eleanor could not help but smile as she looked at Sir Kit. "Actually this is made by Nia. I only have a few bottles so they are precious to me."

Sir Kit nodded his head as he looked at the bottle. It was then that he realized that the perfume must have been made by the flowers he had seen Princess Eleanor’s lady in waiting bring to her.

"Is it from the plants that you wanted to cultivate?" Sir Kit asked as he looked at Princess Eleanor who nodded. Her eyes showed her shock as if screaming, ’You remember?’

"Yes, I love the flowers and I love to cultivate them. Gardening had became my hobby when I shifter to my Maternal grandparents place. It was a coming mechanism from the tragic events of the past." Princess Eleanor said with a sigh, "But everyone said that I could not bring my plants to the Roulux Empire so I could only convert them into things that I use them for. They are precious to me."

Sir Kit nodded his head but he could not understand anything. He knew that ladies, especially Princesses, are prone to getting attached to things. So are jewelry and some clothes. To Sir Kit, Princess Eleanor seems to be attached to her plants and things.

Sir Kit could not say anything, but he felt a little odd. For him Princess Eleanor was a lady who had grown up with her family’s love and care. She must have been soiled. Even though she lost her family, the habits are something that are hard to change.

But the Princess Eleanor that Sir Kit saw was a complete opposite to what he had imagined. She was mature and well collected in her approach. Her aims and ambitions were high and worked towards it. Her obsession was not clothes, jewelry or power but plants.

It was all new to Sir Kit but it also made him a little unsure. Was his amusement wringing all alone? Or was the real Princess Eleanor different from what it was portraying?

Sir Kit remembered what he had heard about Princess Eleanor before then came to the Angevin Kingdom. All the knights were given the details about the Princesses they would be escorting to the Roulux Empire.

What the Princess liked, what they loved doing. Their hobbies and their behavior. Everything was told to the knights as the Emperor thought that the knights would be able to manipulate the Princesses if needed. After all, the prophecy said that they should be willing.

Sir Kit knew that although all the information they were provided may not be true. The information that the Empire got a hold of was by the rumors going around and the rumor regarding Princess Eleanor was mixed.

Sir Kit was informed that Princess Eleanor loved to live in luxury but he had seen it in reality and there was a huge gap between the rumors and the truth. Princess Eleanor was known to be naïve but Sir Kit knew that she was intelligent and knew how to get what she wanted.

’Does she know how to manipulate people to think what she wants them to?’ Sir Kit though as his lips curled up.