Luminous, and the other ladies in waiting walked to the training ground in a formation, like how ducks would. If it weren’t for the swishing of skirts, you would have likely mistaken them for ducks. They all went on like this until Brenda stopped at the big black gate. One of the knights saw them coming and opened the metal gate to the training grounds letting them in. Brenda-bot, the red prince, and all his ladies in waiting went inside, filling out the grassy area around the training yard.

“Alright, ladies, listen up!” Said Brenda-bot. “You can all sit around and watch the trainees practice in the meantime. When I come back, we will all participate in preparation for the ball.” The robot's mechanical eye swiveled to a particular blonde lady in waiting. “Luminous.”

And with that Brenda-bot departed, all the ladies in waiting went to gossip and giggle. All of them watching the knights in training fence each other in their black skin-tight uniforms with red metal shoulder pads. All of the ladies in waiting were talking about which boy they wish would ask them to the ball tonight.

Luminous, of course, was excluded from this and left to sit by herself. The blonde looked at the Knights in training across from where the other ladies in waiting sat, before turning to her book. The hero on the cover of her book wore silver armor and had a handsome porcelain white face that went with his white hair and blue eyes. This book was obviously from kingdom white judging from the cover. He looked only a little bit older than the plucky fifteen-year-old boys with their red, orange, or pink hair that were now showing off in the fencing ring.

"Maybe I could be a knight in training. It does look like fun.” Said Luminous. "Maybe in another life, I might have been..."

“So, where were you, miss Luminous?” Asked a boyish voice in a mock Brenda-bot voice.

Luminous turned around to see a pair of chestnut brown eyes twinkling down at her, with his signature wide smile on his boyish freckled face. It was the red prince.

"Library. I fell asleep," answered Luminous.

“Again?” Asked the prince, sitting down on the grass next to her. "Looks like I was worried about nothing because here I am finding out that you were skipping lessons like a rebel again."

He then took her long blonde hair in his fair, freckled hands and started braiding it.

“You were worried about me, my prince?” Asked Luminous.

The prince raised an eyebrow, his chestnut eyes staring down at her.

“Well, what do you think?”

“I think you would miss me.” Smirked Luminous.

“I think you may be right. ”Smiled the prince.

Luminous looked back at the prince. He had a head of dark red hair just like everyone else, but unlike everyone else, his freckles sparkled in the sunlight. He looked so carefree and never bothered by anything.

"Do you ever worry about your life so much that you wonder what things would be like if you were anyone else?" Asked Luminous. "Or if you ever had a past life where you were someone else? Maybe?"

"Worry about my life?" The prince rubbed his freckled chin. "You know, I was worried about you when you didn't show up this morning.”

"That's . . . not exactly what I meant. I mean like every day worries . . ."

"Humm, I don’t know. You skipping out on things to hang out in the library only for me to wonder if you’re alright seems like an everyday worry."

"I-I just . . . uhmm . . ."

Luminous bit the bottom of her lip as she picked at her flowy pink dress. The prince's face softened in pity as he watched her struggle.

"Oh, alright, I do suppose that, uh, that I do wonder sometimes… I mean, I do wonder what it would be like to be a girl, like how mother says I was supposed to be. Because then I wouldn't have to worry about being betrothed to a random princess."

“Oh?”

The queen you see wasn't able to have more than one child because of a hex put on her by Fertile, the witch when she was caught stealing rapunzel from her garden. Because of this, she only had one chance to make a little princess and raise her into a queen to inherit the kingdom. The red prince being a prince can't be a queen because only a princess can become queens, of course.

"You're getting married to a random princess?" Asked Luminous.

"Yes, it's been decided by my mom, ahem I mean by the red queen that I would host a ball to choose a princess from another kingdom to marry. That isn't already a crown princess, of course." He said in a mock cordial voice. "But hey, at least I get a choice, right? Just as long as it's a princess, that is.” He scoffed. “I mean, at least my mom can’t have a wizard make her an Immure ring to bind my life force to whomever I’ll be betrothed to. The magic council has banned that kind of dark magic, she may be the queen, but she wouldn't dare cross any lines with the magic council.”

"But don't queen's usually get married to their champions?"

"Haha. Well, I'm not a queen, Luminous. I would be a king first off, the first king in the six kingdoms since Valiant the red..."

"..., he would slay all his citizens and cut off their heads." Luminous sung.

“Uh, ya, that.” The red prince cringed, continuing playing with Luminous’ hair to soothe his nerves. "And besides, I can't marry Sir Kay Luminous. I mean for one he’s already married..."

"No, I mean, wouldn't you most likely get married to your champion?” Asked Luminous. “That would be whoever is the top knight in training now."

"Umm, well right now that would be uhh...Chasm?"

"Oh...ya...It would be...."

She then drifted into thought, letting her imagination wander like it always did. Chasm, and the red prince together? Kissing? The more Luminous thought about it, the pinker her cheeks got.

"Two boys, kissing..."She mumbled without realizing it.

The prince glanced at the girl with his eyebrow raised before deciding maybe it was best not to ask what was going on inside her head.

"I was thinking, more like, if I was in a reality where I would be raised like a normal boy." Said the prince getting away from the awkward conversation topic. “I would get to be a knight in shining armor riding a horse with a pointy stick. Maybe my mother would let me spend time with my father, whoever he is. I would also probably marry a lady in waiting, any lady in waiting I want in fact. I could wake up every morning and get to touch something that was made by the sun."

The red-headed boy ran his hands through the girl's hair as he said that. Yes, he really did believe her hair came from the sun, but in all fairness, he's never seen anything like it, and it rather does look bright and golden just like the sun in the bright sunny sky that shines over the field.

Right at that moment, a black-haired boy who had his hair up in a short ponytail stepped into the dirt fencing ring.