Impressed 2

Stella looked at Elizabeth in worry when she was about to dance, her eyes grew bigger as if they wanted to pop out from their sockets.

Is her lady going to perform her flirtatious dance in front of the king ?. No way !! not here, she exclaimed.

Her maid knew that her lady was fond of dances especially flirtatious ones but she couldn't contain her fear of watching her lady dancing in front of the king and embarrass herself again.

There were many people and dancing in a bad mannerly way will only bring shame to herself and her family.

She didn't know if she was supposed to stop her but surprised she sighed in relief when she came to notice her lady abruptly changed her posture and her lips parted to say some thing.

Words of love, words of longing and pleasure were escaping her lips, likely singing to their own accord.

Not singing, she was harmonizing.

She hummed along with them which create calmly an alluring effect within the hearts of the people.

The lovely words coming from Elizabeth's lips sounded as a poem but were having a little touch of creativity in them.

Her maid kept feeling drawn towards her voice like a special power used to cast a spell on her and not only her but the rest of the people present in the hall.

She admitted it was like magic, the poem was lovely and made people's hearts pounded to it's beautiful rhythm.

There was no need of music to escort her words instead her words danced along with the humming sound she created.

The world seemed to stop moving in front of her when she observed her lady twirled beautiful with her dress when she was about to finish her poem, perfectly combined with her smoothly ringing voice and ethereal sound of her humming that made everyone inside struck with awe. The king couldn't believe his own eyes too, the poem that he read only to the girl six years ago now he heard it again to the girl in front of him.

His heart skipped a beat and he was frozen on spot, his eyes scrutinizing her. Obviously he was the only one who taught her that poem and there is no way it was coincidence because the king was the only one who knows to read it in that way.

He didn't know what he was supposed to do, either smiling, clapping or only observing.

He was truly impressed and no one could explain how much happy he was at the moment.

A girl in his dreams was now in front of his eyes again.

After a moment of whirling around Elizabeth kept her eyes on focus and took a long breath before she settled her gaze on the king who on the other hand was flabbergasted by her performance.

Her maid hurried to her side with a wide smile on her face but also with a little confusion on her eyes, she said "Wonderful my lady !. I didn't know if you had a great talent as such. I hope the king like it"

"Me too" Elizabeth nodded in affirmation.

King Luther couldn't hide his excitement as his lips quivered into smile but his smile faded away as soon as he remembered his duty behind those huge walls of the castle while he had to remain calm and unwavered because he was the king and his decisions were important on everything as they would effect the whole kingdom, although the girl he was dreaming about and searching for was in front of him but he had to make sure that his feelings towards her must remain only subtle to him.

He clapped for the beautiful performance as everyone understood that he was impressed latter the rest clapped along with him.

Elizabeth couldn't contain her happiness as she was jumping and hugging her maid vigorously, indeed she was happy with the outcome but that wasn't the end.

The king has to select the names of which their performances impressed him later the queen will be chosen from them by looking at the points they collected at each competitions they had since the beginning.

The lady with higher points and had the greatest performance will be selected as a queen and have a coronation ceremony the next day.

Elizabeth decided to stay at the castle since she wanted to oversee the process and interfere with it if there might be any manipulation.

Also she wanted to get closer to her fellow competitors and learned some information from them.

She had to carry her plan on princess Eleftheria if things go wrong, keeping her close will enable her to do that.

Due to her own reason she refused to stay at the castle while some of the competitors were allowed to stay since the first day. Keeping her things in secrets and preventing people from spying on her plans, she didn't want to stay at the castle during the first days. Instead if she stayed people would easily observe her actions and she couldn't be able to cheat on the competition.

How clever she is ?. Now she agreed to stay on so that she could carry out on her other plans.