[F4A] I’m not the Chosen One, but who has to know?

I didn’t hate the girl who would be the princess. I didn’t love her, either, but I didn’t hate her. She was always kind to the servants, and ever since I was hired to care for her youngest sister, she treated me with respect and dignity. We were similar in age, and had hair and eyes of a shade, but she was stunningly beautiful. I was plain, as most servants are. Inoffensive to look at, but plain, perfect for fading into the background. Of course I envied her. The most powerful mage in a generation, the greatest beauty in all the land, and engaged to a prince? What saint wouldn’t envy her?

Nonetheless, I did not kill her. I just survived, when the flames took the manor house. I grabbed the tiny girl placed in my care and ran, as fast and far as I could, and when we were discovered, the only two survivors ofthe blaze… a maid would be questioned. Maybe hanged. I did not start the fire, but the people would want someone to go down for all those deaths. But they didn’t call me by my own name, they called me hers. I could do no magic, not naturally, but then, I wouldn’t be the first to fake it. And it meant I wouldn’t have to part from the little girl I’d grown to love like a sister, who had lost her entire family at once.

So I became the princess prophesied to bring about a golden age in our kingdom, and was brought to the palace to live with my future in-laws…

Where, of course, I meet her fiance.

You’re the real hero. I can tell when I meet you, because you seem to glow with this power, this blessing I’ve never had, and I know that you are the one meant to rule this land in an instant. What I don’t know is how I’m going to match you— but I know I must, because each day of this lie I find myself falling more and more in love with you.

Nobody has to know the truth— it died in an inferno with the real princess. Why not be her? What have I to lose?

What have I to gain?

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