Avastine

 Avastine 

By:Sarah

 

I smiled as I plopped another finished book onto the table beside me, I’d nearly read all the books in the Royal library now a feat that was not highly regarded by nearly everyone except my father who loved it that I read and often encouraged me to take on some of the most challenging novels, but now thinking of father I frowned. Father had been ill for the last two years and many of the doctors who came to look at him declared he wouldn’t last another that was in fact the reason I had been reading so I could forget he was ill.

As my father was unable to take on his duties as king all was left to my oldest sister Emily but when it was realized that she wasn’t good for that they quite skipped over my other sister Eowyn and assigned the kingly duties to a council until either she should marry or I came of age…why they never even considered Eowyn was beyond me maybe it had something to do with the fact that she was so…so well so controlling or something like that something not good at least she and I weren’t very close I can tell you that much. Anyways my father was ill and who knew what would happen should one of our neighboring countries decide to expand their boarders at least the council was trying to make it look like we had proper ruler-ship which seemed to be working on them but…while they were doing a good job of that they were neglecting the peasants and as a result they had hardly any food and life for them was so troublesome because of all the strict rules I wasn’t sure they wouldn’t rebel at some point.

All this I worried about but I couldn’t do anything about it because…well…because I couldn’t I mean I could never go before the council and tell them all this, that would mean going before all those people and they would all stare at me I could barely stand going out into the kitchen because of the seven maids and…well I guess now is as good a time as any to tell you that I’ve never deigned to step foot out of this castle since I was five years old. So well you can understand my predicament…maybe.