Carrier Falcon Princess

abbed her first.

“Gweckk!”

Zelle screamed from frustration.

She overlooked the fact that confidential messages were written in military codes.

A soldier entered the tent.

“Sir, you called for me?”

“Treat it.”

Valhayle handed Zelle to the medic as if she was some unpleasant package.

Zelle watched Valhayle leave the tent and screeched for the last time.

“Gweck!!”

If it were to be translated into human language, it would have been too vile to be said out loud.

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After getting treated, Zelle was wrapped in the yellow flag again and placed in the corner of the tent.

There was now a rope around her uninjured leg. 

Valhayle came back late at night.
He glanced over at Zelle and spoke.

“That’s better.”

He conserved the preceding phrase ‘Now that you aren’t in my way’.

Zelle lied down and glared up at him.

I just don’t have the energy to get in your way.

Valhayle ignored Zelle and immediately started working.

While he worked, Zelle repeatedly slept and woke up from the side-effects of the medication.

The herb that the soldier had used was a common herb for reducing pain.
Zelle had also used it often for her menstruation cramps when she was a human.

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But the effect was way harder on a bird and she was having a hard time staying clear-headed.

Then Zelle fell asleep.

It was around dawn when she regained her consciousness.

The effect of the medicine faded and the pain was getting stronger.

Zelle groaned from the pain.

Although she had been barely audible, Valhayle somehow heard it.
He turned towards Zelle.

“Looks like the pain is here after your episode of insanity.”

How is every word he speaks so mean?

Zelle grumbled, “Grrooo.”

Without lifting his eyes from the documents before him, Valhayle continued.

“You were lucky.
If you arrived even a little later, you would have bled out to death.”

“…”

Hearing that she had almost died for real gave her chills.

Zelle burrowed deeper into the flag.

It’s warm when I do this but also…

Zelle had to admit it.

‘Yes.
I feel protected.’

I’ve never been protected by anyone my whole life.

‘No one values a thing no one protects.’

She survived using this mentality of the people.

That was why Zelle never attempted to make any connections with people who would ever try to protect her. 

But when this yellow flag surrounded her… It felt like the Roymonde kingdom was protecting her.

Aside from that, though…

Why is he talking to me all of a sudden?

I’m sure it’s not because he is bored.

Valhayle spoke coldly.

“This confidential message… Isn’t that important.”

Zelle halted. 

Not important? My name is in there though?

Her mind went blank.

Yes.
I know. 

This is Roheneim and thus the 8th princess is not important to the queen-supporting Roheneim. 

But still…

It’s important to me!

Zelle huffed and flapped her wings.

Valhayle raised his gaze from his document to look at Zelle. 

“Gweck! Gwechh!! Gweck! Gwettk!”

Zelle showered swear words on him. 

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You still call yourself the commander-in-chief of Roymonde!

He obviously didn’t understand them but his face turned hostile. 

“If you continue to act like this…”

He warned in an intimidating tone. 

Zelle scoffed. 

If she was in the body of a princess, she would be terrified at what he might say next like ‘I will kill you’, ‘I will banish you’, or even ‘I will sell you to the Granoir chief for peace’.

Now that she was a bird, though, she couldn’t be threatened by anything except her life. 

And she was confident he wouldn’t kill her. 

Why was that? It’s because it would be his loss to kill her. 

Who is the one who said she was the only useful messenger bird in Roheneim?

Zelle shook her tail like she was taunting him.

‘Kyahaha! I’m not scared of anything!!’

Valhayle continued coldly.

“I will starve you.”

Sh*t.

Zelle immediately stopped prancing.

“…”

Valhayle noticed that his threat was effective and raised his brows with a confident expression.

Zelle huffed and curled her talons.

You dirty little bastard. 

How could you threaten to starve an animal for just screeching?

Zelle knew the feeling of hunger in this bird’s body.
It was more painful than a human’s hunger. 

So she had to shut up.

When she fell silent, Valhayle spoke slowly.

“I don’t know why you are so obsessed with the confidential message.”

He ran his hand through his hair. 

“But what I said is true.
This confidential message had nothing much since there was no progress in the search.”

Search?

Zelle listened attentively to every word Valhayle uttered. 

The man continued in a subdued tone. 

“The only royal descendants who haven’t been found dead are the 1st, 2nd, 8th princesses and the 4th, 10th, and 11th princes.”

Zelle’s beak dropped open in shock. 

Chills ran down her spine. 

Surprisingly, Valhayle was explaining to her what the current situation was. 

Her body started shaking. 

‘My body hasn’t been found yet.’

Zelle could barely breathe. 

And the king and her other 5 siblings were…Dead.