It was sad to think that his parents had died to keep her safe, and it made her feel even worse for even considering confiding in him. Yet, his honestly made her want to tell him everything, even if he could never understand, and even if he continued to believe that she had never known hardship. It was hard to explain how the girl who seemed to have everything was not necessarily the girl who did.

When she looked at him, her resolve was strengthened and she began to speak again. "I wish for you to listen, and not judge, or interrupt. I've never told this to anyone before." Her gaze founds its way back to the fire before she continued, so she would not have to see him or any of his reactions to her words. 

"I know it seems crazy that anyone in my position would be unhappy. I have everything, don't I? Money, power, family. But it's the things that I have to give up for those that people always forget about. I have no friends, none that haven't died in this war that is. I have no free will. No one to share my life with at all. I wasn't born to live, as you were." Her mind thought back to the dreams she'd had as a child, the ones of flying. That was what she had always wanted: the freedom to make her own choices. "Everything I do is for you, for them. You think that just because I'm royal, that I do not expect to die to this war, but you're wrong. I'm the one they want to kill, everyone else is just collateral damage." Here, her voice broke and she was silent for a good minute.

Her eyes were sad as Kiara turned back to him. "People think they want my life, but they don't. They have no idea what I've given up for them, and I don't wish them to... because they have no idea what they've given up for me either."

Finally, her eyes closed as she finished with, "A good princess will serve her people, not the other way around. That is what we are taught from birth, and that is who I have always strived to be. It is the reason I am going through with this, and the reason I will not stop regardless of my feelings. It does not mean, though, ... that I don't wish."