Princess
Thea
Rycroft
Thea
Rycroft
After a few minutes into the book, Thea had to call Aryn over to help her read it. "Aryn come help me read this book! I would get a different one, but this book's cover seems interesting, so I want to read it!" She had thought she choose only a slightly harder book, then the children's book she read prior. Though it seemed that she picked out a much more difficult one to read on her own.
"Princess Thea, I have taught you well enough to be able to read most books on your own." Aryn said, coming down from the second floor to help her out. When he got closer, she was pouting. "I know there are some words that are difficult, but you should be able to sound them out and figure out how to read them by now." Even though he had said that, in the end, he ended up just reading the book to her.
Once the book was done, Aryn got up. "Alright, next book you have to read on your own. Only call me over if you need to know the meaning of a word." He told her, heading back to now look around the third floor of the library. Halfway through the third floor, he had noticed a lot of the much older and very advance books were mostly on this floor of the library. As well as books, or something, that were locked away in the back. "Now I wonder what is in those..." He asked himself.
Sighing, Thea got up and searched for another book. She ran her had along the bookshelf and stopped when she felt the spine of a leather book. She pulled it out and looked at the cover. It seemed to be fairly old, a dark red color, embossed with two dragons facing each other on the front and a large tree bare of its leaves embossed on the back. She went back to the table she was sitting at, hidden behind a bookshelf, and started to read it.
The book was surprisingly easy to read, but hard to understand. She thought about calling Aryn back over. That is, before she heard the doors to the library open. She did not look up from the book, until she heard Slaine's voice. Great...
"I do hope you are being careful with those, Princess. Some of the books aren't replaceable, so were you to tear or otherwise harm them.... well, even your status as a princess would do you little good." He warned with a grin on his face. "But I guess I should not be expecting you to have your paws on those books. They're fairly advanced, after all."
At Slaine's last comment, made the princess's cheeks a light shade of pink. Does he know? Oh God, he knows. That's just great...Another thing he can harass and ridicule me with. She thought, burying her face back into the book, hoping to hide the slight embarrassment that showed.
"Advanced, huh? Well, I'll keep that in mid when I get to them." She said, having no hit in her voice of anything but annoyance. After she felt the slight warmth in her cheeks disappear, she looked back at Slaine. "Is there something you want? Since lunch had just passed, dinner isn't until much later. I had already said I would e joining you and your family for that."