118 The Empress and the Apprentice Handmaid
When I kicked into the building, the first thing I heard was Lilitha’s cry.
‘thank god. It was alive.’
As I was relieved, my body’s strength was instantly released.
Lilitha was crying in the arms of the baroness.
The baroness is frantically touching her body while hugging Lilitha. It seemed that they were checking to see if there were any injuries.
“Lilitha!”
Calling for her, he jumped off the horse and Lilitha jumped into his arms with a messed up face.
“I was wrong…but Tyra was taken away…the horse died too. He died because of me…What should I do, Lou! Because of me…because of me. Because of me…Tyra was taken away… .”
While crying, Lilitha shouted in a jumbled mess.
I looked around and saw a white mare lying on the ground. This is the guy Risha used to ride whenever she went horseback riding.
It seems that these words were said to have killed the demonic creature.
If the demon creature killed the horse, there is only one reason. It was because he was a threat to Rilisha.
I heard that Lilitha’s horse was specially selected from the most gentle mare.
A horse ridden by the empress of the empire. Of course, he must have been a great guy with perfect pedigree and training.
If it was necessary to kill such a horse, it was a story that an unexpected situation had occurred, but Lilitha only repeated that she was wrong, but could not explain what had happened.
At first, Lilitha’s condition, which continued sparsely, gradually changed to a serious one.
Afterwards, his breathing became short of breath and his voice stopped coming out. A strange gurgling sound comes out along with the crying. I was in complete panic.
“It’s okay, Lilitha. Slowly. Now, breathe slowly. That’s right. Inhale and exhale, inhale and exhale again. Okay, good job. Slow.”
While rubbing Lilitha’s back to calm her down, Rudi glanced at the baroness, who stood there with a pale face, and asked what had happened.
“We moved here because it was time for the empress to ride. But, as usual, a competition broke out between the empress and Taira.”
It was said to be similar to normal.
As always, I was good, and you were ugly.
While Lilitha was bragging about how well she rode, Tyra boasted that she was the best horsewoman in the steppe.
The baroness researched Tyra and the tribe closely before taking her as her handmaid. Of course, I knew that Tyra’s words were lies.
He may have learned to ride a horse, but to say he was a warrior is a blatant lie. There has never been a time when women have been active as warriors in the steppe peoples. A woman cannot be a warrior.
But Lilitha didn’t know that.
I stomped my feet because I was unfair, then it was fine, I said that if you were fast enough to get on the horse’s back before me, I would believe what you said was true.
There was no bird to dry.
As the two pounced on the horse at the same time, it seemed that jewelry or pins attached to their clothes stabbed the horse.
Horses are timid animals. The startled horse ran amok and the two fell.
The horse that was about to run with its forepaws raised and crying loudly was killed by the demonic creature right before it attacked the empress and Tyra.
Thanks to that, the two were safe, but a soldier named Tai took them away for the crime of endangering the empress.
“It’s my fault. It’s my fault. It’s my fault. But I dragged Tyra away. Lou, what should I do?”
Lilitha cries.
I could grasp how Lilitha was feeling.
Although they are bickering, Taira is the first friend of her age whom Lilitha met.
From what the baroness told me, even if she didn’t know about Tyra, Lilitha had a crush on her from the first time they met.
Lilitha grew up in the depths of the concubine without touching anyone. Not immune to people, especially to people her age, she seems to have fallen in love with Tyra in just a few days.
The baroness had said it many times that she had fallen in love with her first friend and had always been excited since meeting Tyra.
That’s why Tyra was chosen as a playmate.
If Lilitha hadn’t liked Tyra, the baroness would have advised her not to put her in that position, no matter what Rudy had told her to do.
After explaining what had happened, the baroness fell to her knees.
“All of this is my responsibility. Putting the empress in danger is a great and unforgivable sin. I ask Your Majesty, please punish me.”
Lilitha’s body jumped at the baroness’s words. It seemed that he never thought that even the baroness would be punished.
Risha’s body trembled. Now, unable to speak, she shuddered and cried.
Rudy opened his mouth as he pulled Lilitha into a hug.
“If you stop working now, there will be no one to take over as empress. We will make a judgment about this later.”
Lilitha’s body hardened in Rudy’s arms. She looked up at Rudy in disbelief.
Lilitha doesn’t know Rudy as the emperor. He only knew Rudy, who was gentle and pampered. He could not have thought that he would punish the baroness.
Rudy hugged Rilisha and headed outside.
“Uh…Uh…I…wrong…”
Lilitha looked at the baroness once, then at Rudy, at a loss. Then he hugged Rudy’s neck.
It’s as if he’s protesting why he’s pretending not to know now, when at other times he knows without saying anything.
Wet tears wet the nape of Rudy’s neck.
‘What should I do?’
The empress almost died. I just couldn’t get past it.
The baroness can go over to a light punishment, such as a few days probation or a pay cut, but Tyra does not.
Even the trainer who took care of the horse should be punished.
However, when she learns that people around her are being harmed because of her, Lilitha cannot remain as an active child like she used to. She shrinks and becomes a doll that can’t do anything.
My heart ached at the thought of never seeing that bright smile again.
It was the path he chose because he didn’t want to make it that way, but did he do it wrong?
Rudy hugged the body of Lilitha who was crying silently at the nape of his neck.
A carriage was waiting outside the building. Lilitha came riding.
After getting into the carriage, the coachman slowly moved the horse.
“To the palace.”
At Rudy’s words, the carriage speeded up a little.
Lilitha’s sobbing mixed with the pounding horse’s hooves and scattered into the air.
I could hear the bustle of the court ladies hurriedly following Rudy from behind.
***
Confusion was everywhere.
After collapsing with Tyra, the empress did not move for a moment.
People screamed and the ladies-in-waiting came running and covered the empress with their bodies.
The guards and soldiers drew their swords while blocking the horses.
Everyone tried to save the empress from the horse that lifted its paw in surprise.
But no one cared about Tyra.
Glowing creatures suddenly burst out of the air to surround the horse, and the horse suddenly collapsed.
After that, for a while, creatures of light surrounded Lilitha as if they were worried about the empress.
No one saw Tyra until a single soldier caught her.
However, the soldier was not worried about Tyra and grabbed her. It was to punish her.
The soldier was always someone to watch.
Whenever the empress went somewhere, that soldier stood at the very end.
It wasn’t that the soldier laughed and talked with Tyra, or was friendly with him.
However, the soldier nodded when Tyra greeted her, and sometimes brought delicious snacks to share without a word.
I thought he was a kind person.
But it was the same soldier who dragged her out of the building.
He wasn’t harsh, but he didn’t say a word to Tyra. He kept his mouth shut and his cold eyes closed.
When I asked where he was taking me, he didn’t answer. It was the same even when I was anxious and cried.
What the soldier responded was the empress’ voice.
When the empress and Lilitha rushed over and grabbed Taira, the soldier finally stopped.
The empress was weeping, hugging Tyra and shouting not to take her away. Say no, no, no.
Only she cried and cried for Tyra.
However, the baroness, who was the first to move to protect the empress, caught Lilitha.
The baroness cried and held onto the empress, who was trying to catch Tyra, and spoke several times as if admonishing her.
Taira said that we cannot meet until His Majesty’s orders are issued.
While the baroness held the empress, Tyra was dragged by the arm by a soldier.
Through the large open door of the building, she could see the maids leading the empress into the building, and the baroness groping her little body to make sure there were no abnormalities.
Tyra, Tyra, the empress called her, but no one looked at Tyra.
The place where Tyra was taken was the first building she had ever seen. There were several rooms.
Tyra was placed in a smaller room than the maids’ quarters where she currently lives.
There was nothing in the room. There are no lights, no furniture, no chairs, not even windows. It was just a cold, desolate space.
The soldier put her in here and left without a word.
As the door closed, a dull sound rang out from outside. It seems that the door is locked.
Tyra sat down with her back against the wall.
The room is too cold. My body trembled.
Will it be abandoned? Left alone here without anyone knowing…
‘Are you going to die like this? Am I going to die alone here like this? no. mom, dad. I want to go home.’
Tears poured out in torrents.
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Do not kill women in the meadow. When they lose a war or are plundered and go to another tribe, they only give birth to and raise the child of a man there.
But I heard that this place, the Empire, is different. Everyone in the tribe said that the Empire kills women too. The empire is different from the grasslands.
where did i do something wrong
No, I know. It was my fault for ignoring the first advice I heard.
Those who had educated Tyra before meeting the empress said this over and over again.
He said that the Empress Mama was a very noble person and should not be rude, that she was a person with a very special status.
‘I should have believed that. I should have listened carefully and not violated it.’
However, when she met the empress, she and Taira were nowhere to be found.
Rather, the people who educated her seemed much nobler. It was more elegant and aristocratic. It was stylish and looked great.
However, the empress was just a child. He laughed loudly, and his behavior was inelegant.
She was just like Tyra.
It seemed that even like Tyra, maybe even worse than Tyra. She was a year younger, and although she was pretty, she didn’t look like she had big hips or big breasts.
what the heck, it’s normal Is this child noble? If this kind of child was His Majesty’s wife, wouldn’t it be enough for Tai? it is not so? A child like that can also become an empress, so why can’t Tyra?
I thought so.
‘That’s why I was punished.’
My eyes were blurred because of the welling up tears. But I don’t know if my body gets cold and tears flow down. There was no feeling in the cheek. My fingertips are tingling too. At this rate, I thought I would definitely die.
how long was that one hour? two hours? I do not know.
The locked door opened with a creaking sound, and this time an attendant entered.
“Tyra, His Majesty told me to move you to another room. Thank you for your kindness for taking pity on you young.”
Tyra nodded absently.
The attendant looked at her with a cold expression and opened his mouth again.
“But you should keep in mind. You’re just an apprentice maid. Originally, you couldn’t even be in the same room as the empress. Since you dared put the empress in danger, I can’t let it go. Do you understand what I mean?”
“yes yes.”
Holding tightly to my frozen, numb hand and nodding while crying, the attendant said,
“Follow me.”
The attendant took Tyra out of the building and took her to a small building right next to it.
When I entered the room there, I felt a warm feeling.
There is a bed and a table in each room. Warm stew and bread were prepared on the table.
“I’ll say it again, but you shouldn’t take His Majesty’s warmth for granted.”
“yes yes.”
Nodding eagerly, the attendant left the room with an expressionless face.
Tyra was left alone, squatting in front of a small fireplace that radiated warmth. It seems that the firewood has just been burned. The tree has been around for a while.
‘Can I survive the day with this?’
As I pushed the small piece of bread into my mouth, tears dripped and ran down the back of my hand.
I know I was wrong. It was his own fault that the empress was injured.
My heart felt impatient because the empress was unexpectedly quick. Imperial clothes are pinned here and there. Secretly, he took out one of the pins and pressed it lightly into the horse’s skin.
I didn’t know that the words would run wild like that.
‘sorry.’
The bread did not go down my throat.
She just wanted to win over the empress.
I just wanted to show Her Majesty that I was better than the empress.
Although we can’t meet often or approach each other casually, I wanted to tell you that there are things I’m better at than the empress, just like I greeted her last time when I see her face.
Because Tai also likes His Majesty. I liked it from the first time I saw it.
When we first met, I was glad that I was asked to dress for myself.
I was so happy that he said thank you in a small voice when I got into the car and passed him.
There is no one so pretty in the meadow. Her moist eyes and hair were pretty, but her lips and fingers were all as pretty as sculptures.
It was the first time I had heard such a beautiful voice.
Everything about the stranger boy was good. Really. I just wanted to stand out from him. I didn’t do it on purpose because I wanted to hurt you.
‘I didn’t think the empress would get hurt. sorry.’
Tyra hung her head weakly, holding the bread in her hand.
