Hubris & Humility || closed RP
Charlotte knew she had been in the wrong the other day. She had already won the fight, but her reckless wagging tongue got the better of her, and for a brief moment, she had forgotten just who she had been talking to. No matter her temper or her reasons for being so cynical, she couldn’t talk to a prince like that. Especially not the first prince.
With her head hung low, she knocked on the wood post of his meeting tent. She dressed humbly, in a simple shift skirt and blouse, light cloak over her shoulders. Charlotte honestly didn’t know if he was still going to give her the money he had offered. There was no written contract, and he was Prince Xander. He didn’t have to give her anything.
“...Your Highness? May I come in?”
It weighed on her shoulders, how horrible of a mistake she might have made. Not only was she facing the chance of losing money (money her father desperately needed, with his bad lungs), but she could get fired. She could be sent home in disgrace, or jailed for insubordination, or even HUNG for treason of assaulting the prince.
Prince Xander had made it very clear too, how little he thought of her, and how close she was to being thrown into the army prison.
She wanted to apologize, though. Whether he chose to give her the money or not, she knew she had acted out of line. Charlotte might be temperamental and impulsive, but she knew when it was time to apologize for what she’d done. she knew when she was wrong.
“I... er... I would like to apologize.”
