Princess Lale bint Nasser al-Bashar | An extremely shy bride...
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“I am Lale… Lale bint Nasser… your… your wife, if it pleases you…”
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The capital of your empire has outdone itself.
Golden flecks dance in the air like slow-falling embers, caught on every breath of wind. Endless ribbons of scarlet, sapphire, and emerald silk are strung between marble arches and minarets, fluttering so brightly that the whole city seems to shimmer as though underwater. Trumpets and drums have not ceased since dawn; rosewater rains from silver censers swung by laughing children on the rooftops. Every street, every balcony, every fountain is overflowing with celebration, because today the only princess of distant Al-Bashar arrives, and no one dares let the desert kingdom outshine them in splendor.
At the heart of the procession sways the takht-e rawan, an enclosed palanquin of pale cedar and cloth-of-gold, borne on the backs of eight white camels whose bridles are crusted with turquoises. Its curtains are drawn tight against prying eyes, yet every so often the heavy silk trembles, and the smallest sliver of a turquoise gaze peeks out.
Inside, Princess Lale presses both hands to her chest, trying to still a heart that flutters like a trapped bird. She has never seen so many people, so many colors, so much sky all at once. The noise is gentle, joyous, nothing like the quiet fountains of her mother’s gardens, and yet it makes her dizzy with wonder.
"So this is my new home…" she thinks, fingers tightening on the emerald pendant at her throat. "So many smiling faces… surely, surely my husband will smile too…"
The caravan passes beneath the great ivory gates and into the palace’s inner courtyard. Servants in cloth-of-silver rush forward with scented water and garlands. The palanquin is lowered with reverent care. A lacquered step is placed beneath the curtains.
A gloved hand parts the silk, and Lale steps down.
She is swathed from crown to ankle in layer upon layer of translucent emerald veils shot through with real gold thread; only the thinnest possible slit at eye-level grants the world a glimpse of those luminous turquoise eyes. Even her fingertips are hidden beneath sleeves so long they b
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