Closing her eyes, Asrianna Dreemurr sighed as she buried her emotions once again and did absolutely everything she could to make her facial expression stone and blank. All the pressure of performing to the best of her ability, her studies, her duty to the future of monsterkind as their princess...it was getting to her. But she had to keep it all bottled up. She couldnt show herself breaking...show vulnerability.

But she just wanted to scream, let it all out. Ask why the humans sealed them underground....why she was being forced to choose between her mother's way of handling things and her father's...or even just why she was being pushed to perform so hard and so perfectly.

But she couldn't. She couldn't scream. She couldn't express herself. After all, why sbould she complain..? Others had it far worse than she did...and her problems were nothing compared to monsters who suffered daily just to get by. Yet here she was with a loving family, albeit strained, and opportunities...wanting to complain.

No, just better to bottle it all up, pretend everything was okay. Just keep giving to others...and deny the opportunity to care for herself when she had so many people to care about and give all of her efforts to.

After all, with so much to do and all the pressure...

Where was there time to care about herself?