172 Tell Me You Need Me

Harriet leaned over the blue and white checkered picnic blanket in the palace grounds.

Beside a spread of jams, cold cuts and sliced fresh loaves of bread, the royal Princess Ava gurgled happily and kicked her little legs as she reached her little fist to grab a hold of Harriet's brown curly hair.

"Ouch!" Harriet giggled and kissed the chubby little girl on her rosy cheek, "Stop pulling my hair princess! It is I who changes your dirty cloths!"

"Oh and her crib!" Freya pointed her slim finger at Jude who was balancing a small pot of blue ink on the blanket as she quickly dipped her quill and wrote down on a pale yellowish paper the list of requests the queen was dictating.

"How's that?" Freya asked, "Should we bring anything else?"

Jude blew on the wet ink to encourage it to dry and she looked over the long list, "It's a lot," she commented. Are you sure we can bring all of this down the Capital Road? The journey will be more than a day or longer with all of this luggage."