Father invited my sisters and I to sit with him in a council meeting at the senate house.
I really don’t know why though, I have no interest in affairs of state, and Layanna will most likely be Queen after father goes as she is the oldest, so it would be more beneficial to her.
I just hope when she is Queen that she doesn’t have me accompany her. Those council meetings are so boring! Just a load of old men & women arguing amongst themselves… Even father looked bored.
It did come as quite a shock when he took over though, shouting at the top of his lungs for everyone to be quiet; they almost browned their pants. I think a few actually did.
But it was tedious though, but fortunately, those two long hours were the only tedium I had to endure.
After the council meeting had finished, father took my sisters and I to a bakery and got them to make us a special cake. It took a couple of hours to be ready (we spent the time sitting by the fountain, talking and occasionally splashing each other, even father joined in. It’s nice to see him smile. I do wish he’d cut his hair though)
Anyway, when the cake was almost ready, we went back and watched as the bakers decorated the cake in such artistic fashion. It was exquisite.
But, I think that at that time, father was missing his dear wife, for she used to work in a family run bakery (which is now a carpenters shop), and I think he wanted to reclaim some of the history he shared with my mother when he used to visit her while she worked.
He’s a strong man on the outside, loving, kind and caring… But on the inside, I think he’s still broken, like when my mother died, a part of him died with her. I see him sometimes just looking out to sea with tears in his eyes. He totally denies it of course, says that the salty air is irritating them, but I know better.
I just can’t imagine what it would be like to have the one person you loved most in the world, snatched from you. I don’t think it makes it any better that I’m apparently her double (aside from the hair colour) it must be tough for him if every time he looks at me, he sees his darling wife.
I love you daddy.
Ellie XxxX
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