ANASTASIA

XIX

People think they own time. They have watches and clocks and digital pulses. But they are wrong. Time owns them.

-Caroline B. Cooney

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(Time when Anastasia left to get her gift for Lewis)

Practically running in her heeled pair of shoes, she cannot wipe the smile off her face as she focused on her destination. I was initially planning to leave the gift to the twins and ask them a favor of giving it to Sir Lewis before he leaves Mariana. But I think, tonight is the best night to give it to him myself. Unconsciously enveloping herself in optimistic perspective, her walk back to her room felt like a stroll in the moon.

Just by the mere presence and interaction with the man she respects the most in Mariana, the clouds of fear she felt when she was within the hall where the king is pre