I shouldn't have called her name, alongside her title. I should have said 'my Queen' but that would only alert her that something was up. I always called her by her name and title.
Hopefully, she wouldn't decide to go berserk on me tonight and kill me off. Hopefully she wouldn't notice that I was powerless. Hopefully she wouldn't notice my false bravado.
"Don't you think your prideful gestures are getting out of hand? And I am not talking about your rude way of addressing me…" The Queen started, coming to stand beside me, eyes on the starless sky.
Well, at least there wasn't a goblet or full moon tonight to point toward the warning of the strange witch. I believed I would survive. I wouldn't be dying tonight.
"I am talking about walking around the forbidden forest, with no guard, not even with your friends, or your foster parents. Do you think you are invincible?" she turned to me with narrowed eyes. "Are you invincible?"