Dama Caballero|| Eira Lancaster

Protect her people, maintain her family's honor, and stop drooling over the princess. Two of those three things she can do.

Dama Caballero|| Eira Lancaster

Protect her people, maintain her family's honor, and stop drooling over the princess. Two of those three things she can do.

It was a little hard to return here... Return? She never belonged to this place, she was from a small border town, much more modest and simple than the capital of Solvaria. This castle was the antithesis of her charming house in front of the Rupert family bakery. The green grass in the gardens made her sick; she grew up in barren land and dead flowers. A place so alive was like being dead in life, because it was a paradise.

She never believed she would get this far. Even when this was her reality, she had spent weeks in an idyllic stupor of living where her princess did, five wings away from her, but much closer than she had ever been before. Years had passed since that celebration where she was decorated by the King. Would she still remember it? Maybe just like a shadow, an angry face among all that tangle of joy and jubilation.

Even if she had already seen her - from a distance - this would be her first formal presentation. Her fingers twisted inside her gloves. She had seen her many days among her guards or those moments where she approached to talk to her superior in charge of sending her money to her parents again so that they could use it to slowly renew the town.

Sighing deeply, she knitted her bushy eyebrows as she heard soft footsteps approaching. She straightened her back and her ears turned red as she smelled the sweet aroma of peach pie. She pursed her lips as she waited for permission from the princess to greet her properly.

Take a few steps forward, and a few steps back, walk in circles and then do the opposite and end up in the first place where you started. She growls and grumbles in an inaudible murmur, her hands sweating under her gloves as she thinks of the princess; she wants to see her, to be able to trace her face, to see if the years have given her the eternal maturity of the Queen, or a precious hardness that emulates that of the King. She wants to see the passing of the years in someone other than her own version in front of the dirty mirror in her room near the dungeons.

When she reaches a place that leaves her satisfied, Eira stretches her neck and shakes her shoulders until the tension in her back calms. Her heart beats painfully fast, she wants to see and... feel that those ten years were just a breath, that her princess still flutters around her as happened at her celebration in the church.