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The sun never shone so bright on Solaria than in the day King Radius and Queen Luna announced their first daughter had finally seen the light.
Stella.
Expectations were high and placed in those little fingers of hers, but it still didn’t bother her, too busy staring at those rays with curious eyes as everybody would spin around her.
"Your Majesty, there were rumors about a rift in your marriage. Looking at your beautiful daughter it would seem hard to believe." a journalist asks during the King and Queen’s first interview after their child’s birth. Queen Luna flinched - it's almost imperceptible - and King Radius’ gaze got lost for a second.
"Our family has been through a lot lately. Me and my brother's quarrels have severely endangered our mother's life, and this has brought a great deal of stress in our marriage. We love each other, and this is enough. Hopefully my mother, Queen Eliana, will quickly recover and meet our daughter."
Pride filled his words, making it enough for everybody to believe he was genuine. When his hand reached to his wife’s, she clutched her daughter at her chest, giving a little nod at his words a warm smile to tie the whole act.
King Radius and Queen Luna's marriage was of convenience first and of love second. Everybody seemed to fail in seeing it, but it would have been cleared a couple years later, when she would tuck her daughter into bed – her husband too busy to be there, as always - and would whisper in her ear "my dear Stella, you are the sun" before disappearing in chambers that definitely were not her husband’s.
"You are the sun, Stella." the princess would come to whisper herself staring at the mirror, staring at the dark, facing her fears and her grief. You are the sun.