#also ... what if we ....... whacked doofus together ............. 🥺👉👈

[ednaeflowers]

how could she even say that as a joke? well, losing your only family and most important person in your life to death is surely one way of making edna use comedy as a coping mechanism. perhaps it was humor that was too dark for this princess to handle—or maybe it's edna who's just too cynical. maybe waiting for onii-chan to come home for over a thousand years is not exactly healthy for her mentality, but she is not willing to not wait for him. never. ❛  then you better start taking it seriously by not being a chicken with cold feet,  ❜ edna says, finally. ❛  i may have been making light of the situation until now, but i wouldn't bother giving you the time of day if i didn't see you have some kind of resolve. i don't like wasting my time.  ❜ she means it seriously this time. ❛  and if you keep being hesitant, you might as well get kidnapped again. if the problem is that you don't want to hurt an innocent person, then we should cease this now. having a soft heart won't stop your suitors from going your way, especially not kidnappers.  ❜ she starts thinking about alisha. ❛  i know a princess who trained everyday to be a knight so that she can protect herself and her people. what about you? what's the point of training to keep yourself safe if you can't even fend off your suitors?  ❜ 

with that said, edna follows her into a room with two people seated at the thrones who seem to be the king and queen, another person nearby with some extravagant-looking man. boredly standing next to sarah, she is unimpressed as she watches the man—whom she'll call 'doofus' henceforth—interact with everyone, then edna raises an eyebrow when he uncaringly ignore sarah and the queen in favor of the king despite being in the middle of a conversation. wow. personally, she'd give doofus six whacks for that. even zaveid only ever got three or four whacks from her at the maximum. zaveid may be an idiot, but at least he listens when a woman talks. ❛  i assume so,  ❜ she replies back at normal volume. no need to worry when only sarah can see her. ❛  frankly, he annoys me. if you don't do the honors, then i'll do it myself. it doesn't seem like anyone else here can see me, so it's not like you'll have to worry about your reputation if i do.  ❜ a pause. ❛  though, i suppose that wouldn't contribute anything to your training.  ❜

listening to the other girl talk, sarah was starting to wonder what she had truly gotten herself into. edna certainly had both a penchant for sweets and violence. it was unlike anyone else she had ever met before. were there others out there like her? had cornelia's champions encountered such people? sarah was silent as she listened to edna prattle on and hearing another foreign word made her mind wander again. a dance? what did this dance entail? perhaps she shouldn't have sought 'whacking' advice from such a strange girl, but it was too late to turn back now especially with the fact that they were outside the throne room and she was supposed to already be inside, but before she could open the doors, she is taken aback by edna's statement. whirling on the girl, no care inside of her if anyone on the other side heard her or thought she was mad, she replies, "absolutely not! how could you even say such a thing even as a joke!" shaking her head , her thoughts drift elsewhere. "the only one here that harbored such thoughts due to unfortunate circumstances of fate is no longer present. i can assure  you that my only desire to know such 'whackings' and 'thwackings' is to defend myself from another kidnapping!" 

holding her tongue, sarah simply nods, and enters the throne room. her parents, the king and queen, sat on their thrones with the chancellor nearby. her younger sister was not present, but the latest suitor to vey for her hand was. the love she held in her heart was filled with conflictions, but she did know for certain that it would be rude to lead this men on in the false premise that she would love them and to promise them her kingdom. taking her place beside her mother, she gives the latest suitor a formal bow and apologizes for the delay. she wasn't sure what edna thought of all of this, but she knew the girl would have her say about the too freshly clean and laundered suitor that stood before them all. there was something about him that seemed too... well, there was something off about him. she entertained his questions well enough until he grew bored and cut her off and turned to her father and the chancellor for their opinions on sarah. what! he even ignored her mother! ooh! that set her blood to boiling and sarah murmurs under her breath to edna, "this boy certainly does not care much for my mother and i. perhaps your training will come in handy."