"Have you heard the news?" Nanny Nia asked as she folded up little of Jasmine’s belongings inside the box.
Jasmine whose mind had been as usual far edged away, barely heard Nanny Nia.
A few days before they went visiting the castle and yet here she was, still in anguish, mourning the loss of her child.
She didn’t want to get over it.
Mainly because she was worried that she would forget she ever carried the child.
So she held unto the memory fervently.
That way she didn’t have to let go.
"Jasmine?" Nanny Nia said.
Jasmine jerked, crashing back to reality.
"Yes?" She answered quickly and tensed.
Nannh Nia smiled weakly and then finished folding the dress she held and picked another one.
"You’re thinking again." Nanny Nia remarked gently.
Jasmine gave a weak smile. "I’m fine. What were you saying?"
Nanny Nia looked at her for a while and then sighed before speaking. "I was asking if you had heard the new news?"
Jasmine frowned. "What news?"
"Well." Nanny Nia cleared her throat. "There were rumors at first but now is been confirmed. The Queen’s grand daughter has returned."
"Returned? Princess Belle was missing?" Jasmine asked.
"Gods no." Nanny Nia replied sharply. "Not that impudent little brat. I helped train her for a year and I couldn’t control her. Quit in a year. Not her. The Queen had a missing daughter."
"Yes I heard. She told me when she came to the pack". Jasmine mumbled.
"The Queen herself told you?" A surprised Nanny Nia asked in disbelief.
Jasmine nodded. "Yes she did.
"Wow. When I met her. She was closed off and for as long as I can remember she hated speaking on it. I’m surprised she opened up to you about it." Nanny Nia gave in. "Well her daughter who had been missing allegedly had a daughter. The daughter returned and now the Queen has taken her in."
"Really?" Jasmine asked forgetting her grief and being happy for the Queen. "That’s beautiful..What about her daughter?"
Nanny Nia shrugged. "Not much is said on that. But I think she died."
Jasmine sighed. "That’s sad. Losing a child. After all these years."
"Of course it is. And I’m sure you can relate." Nanny Nia said gently rubbing her shoulders.
Jasmine said nothing.
"Well!" Nannh Nia said returning to her folding. "There is going to be an official party announcing the princess. And it collides with when we go. How beautiful."
Jasmine was delighted for the Queen.
She had been so attracted to the Queen. Felt a pull to her she had never experienced and knowing she went through such sorrow made Jasmine sad.
She was a good and kind woman.
Not what she had expected of the Queen.
It pleased her to know that the Queen had requested to see her.
Whether she was going to be sentenced for the false accusation of her assassinating Xaden, she had no idea.
She simply wanted to leave the pack and not come back.
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