keep your secret for now

You could easily trip your cousin, with your tail, onto the floor and stab him with your spear in the head. But then you would have revealed your true nature and killed the king's nephew in his own castle surrounded by his knights, guards and a bunch of wannabe knights all around you. You keep to your self and your worry for your mother and half-sister in your heart.

You wait your turn to meet the king and finally see your farther face to face. You had seen him before peaking at him from a hiding space when he came to see your half-sister. He was very old now as he celebrated his 60th birthday last year. He had a grey beard and small wisps of grey hair sticking out from under his crown he wore purple robes but was not as fat as he was the last time you saw him. For the first time, you looked into his tired green eyes and he looked back into your young green eyes and he saw himself in you. A younger, fresher, more feminine and much more beautiful version of himself.