I continued to wait, shivering in the cold as night dew started to form. I was still thinking about what Kama had said when my isolation was disturbed by a sound of cracking twig not far away. I lifted my face and caught the same enchanting sight of my princess. She was standing on the other side of the running creek. Her beauteous person wrapped in layers of the thin nightgown. Her face was half hidden in her silk scarf as her flowing black lock flirted with the wind like a shy willow tree.
"Amarisa?" I said in a joyous relief. My heart skip so many beats seeing her face again.
The notion that Amarisa was spying on me brought me an odd feeling of pleasure. But once she realized I saw her, the princess began to turn away.
"Amarisa!" I almost cried in despair. "Please stay...don't go awa
