RUNNING FROM DISASTER INTO TROUBLE
By nightfall Adelaide was resolute. She was yet again in a tight corner and she cogitated the entire evening about her predicament and her mind only conceived a single means forward. She resorted to her most trusted measure of damage control. She was already infamous for running away from her obligations, her reputation was already terribly tarnished, so it was pointless of her to ever try to bleach it clean. She might as well add more stains. She thought to herself as she grouped her luggage. This time not out of choice, but necessity.
"Princess, may I speak?" Cumia accepted the suitcase with a disconcerted demeanour, but Adelaide was deeply engrossed in thought and did not register her words. The princess proceeded to the shoe rack and began tossing
