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“What happened, my child?”
Abby was startled when she heard a soothing voiceing from the side while she sobbed
soundlessly.
She turned around to see that it was an elderly woman with a gentle air to her. She seemed like a local
and had this soft smile on her face.
“Are you new around here?” The woman asked Abby, to which she nodded.
“Did you get
you get lost in the crowd?” The old woman asked Abby when she wouldn’t say anything but kept
looking at her with tears in her eyes.
Abby felt a little awkward hearing the old woman’s question. What grown up would get lost in a
crowd?
But then again she couldn’t me the old woman for taking herself to be someone underage when she
didn’t look like a grown up at all.
Her father’s negligence of herself yed a big part in this. But Abby couldn’t afford to wander to her
father right now.
As if she could sense Abby’s difort at the question, the older woman changed the topic. “Here,
drink some water. You look like you need to soothe your throat,” the woman said, offering her own
water skin to Abby.
Abby felt so grateful at the first sip she took, she didn’t realize it, but her throat had been parched.
The woman didn’t take her water skin back until Abby drank to her heart’s content and then made her
wash her face.
In her motherly presence, Abby rxed a tad too fast. But her next question made Abby start crying
again.
“So where is your home or where are you from?” The woman asked, seemingly wanting to help a
helpless teenager. N?velDrama.Org holds ? this.
Home? Did she ever have one?
After listening to Ruby’s friends’ endless gushing over Micah, Ruby and how the both of theni would
make a perfect couple, Abby couldn’t help second guessing everything.
Micah did say she was his destined mate and that he wanted her clearly. But she couldn’t feel anything
this was all reallyplicated.
When she didn’t answer for a long time again, the old woman changed her question.
“Or how about where you are staying in the capital? Or who were the people you came here to
visit?”
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As soon as Abby heard these questions, her eyes immediately lit up.
She thought all ways to go back were closed. But how stu pid of her.
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She didn’t think of finding a way to the pce directly. Had she thought of that earlier, she would have
been halfway to the pce by now.
At this thought, Abby immediately perked up and smiled at the older woman who looked confused at
her reaction.
When the woman asked her so many questions, and didn’t get a proper answer for a single one, she
felt dejected a bit in her need to help Abby. And when she smiled at herself, she couldn’t help feeling
confused as to how she made her look like that.
“I need to go back to the pce,” Abby told her, beaming from ear to ear,
The woman looked like she was from around this ce, and Abby didn’t think there would be someone
living around this area that wouldn’t know about the pce.
“Which pce?” The elderly woman was dumbfounded by her question.
This girl didn’t say a single word from earlier but she wanted to know how to go to the pce now. Did
she hear her wrong?
“The King’s pce.” Abby affirmed her answer and this only made the older feel even more curious of
her identity.
“Why?” She couldn’t help but ask, only Abby seemed to have found her lost brain cells as she deflected
answering her with the truth.
“I know someone from there.”
The girl’s answer cut off the older woman’s train of thought as she exined to her the biggest.
landmarks Abby needed to take note of while going to the King’s pce from this town.
Abby listened to her carefully before thanking her profusely.
“Don’t get lost again. Ask the people along the way in case you need to confirm the roads you are
taking,” the woman advised her and Abby could only smile at her sheepishly.
After thanking her onest time, Abby finally started walking to the pce.
However, the deeper the night became, the colder the air around her felt once she got out of the crowd.
Only then she realized she left her outer robe in the carriage. And a few momentster, she felt her
stomach protesting in hunger.
I think I digested whatever little I ate at the restaurant long back, Abbymented as she continued.
walking slowly. In her panic earlier, she didn’t feel any hunger, but once she found a solution to her
problem, her stomach too chose to make a protest.
Even her throat seemed to have dried up again. What could she do? She didn’t have any other.
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option than to move forward.
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The only ce she could go back to now was where Micah would be. Which was none other than the
pce.
Moving forward step by step. Abby didn’t forget to follow the old woman’s advice. She asked, people
for directions whenever she felt like she took the wrong road and corrected herself immediately.
She didn’t even want to think about the number of times she did that. She was hungry and tired beyond
possibilities, as she dragged her feet one after another.
Her face
ace was full of dirt and her clothes were all disheveled by the time she could take thest turn. and
enter the main street that would directly lead her to the pce gates.
“Only a few more minutes to go.” Abby told herself as she continued her journey.
And the moment she saw the pce gates, the happiness she felt couldn’t be exined in words. She
was so relieved she wanted to jump at her own sess.
Only that emotion didn’tst long as the guards there refused to let her in.
“Who are you?”
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