You don't like animals

You turn around, and mechanically keep walking towards the door, the entirety of your being screaming at you to go back. You push all these intrusive thoughts out however as you exit the room.

"Goodnight Dea." you managed to peep out before closing the door.

You begin heading back to your room, and after a small check-in with the staff, you decide to turn in for the call it a night. You lay in your bed, staring up at your rotting wood ceiling. This castle cannot be structurally sound.

A lot has happened today, your father died, shared a family blessing that turned out to be a curse, and now you're now forced to live with a deadbeat goddess for a year before receiving your wishes. You close your eyes, better to take it one day at a time, starting with tomorrow, because tomorrow is your first day as the Duke of Eiden