It had already been two days after Elias and Margo set out on their quest to free the Flare folk, and everyone had started to carry on with their lives.
Those who were mere servants continued to serve, those who vowed to get stronger had begun to take action toward their goals and those who were assigned tasks had started to work on it.
The Queen walked barefooted, trying her best to be as quiet as possible as she followed King Alaric whilst under the guise of the Invisibility cloak Elias handed to her.
Trailing the king yielded no result for the spy Queen as the king just carried on with his day as usual: eating, sleeping, laughing, and merrying in general. Her spying yielded the same results as Elias when he, too, once tried to spy on the King.
The Queen was on the verge of giving up, but the thought of the light at the end of the tunnel, which was Elias' promised reward, kept her going. That and the fact that as a person, she never liked to fail,
"It's been two days of doing the same damn thing, all he does is eat and sleep. How can a king live like this, this is not the man I married," She complained quietly in frustration as she remained three steps behind Alaric and his guards
Her mind drifted to the time when King Alaric first tried to woo her; she was but a young lady of the Ravencrest house, no one important, and Alaric's first wife had died not too long ago, so she rejected him.
But King Alaric was sweet with his words and even sweeter with his actions; he sang her praises and bombarded her with flattery and gifts of all shapes and sizes.
She found herself slowly giving in to him; he was the hero of Elodoria, the great unifier, and he was interested in her. She finally gave in and accepted to marry him, even though she was significantly younger than him. Continue your saga on m|v-l'e -novelhall.net
Their wedding was grand and mighty; it shook the whole continent for days on end; great, noble, and respected people came from far and wide, the acts were plentiful, and the gifts seemed endless.
And on their wedding night, she discovered he was half as great as a man and king when it came to the Devil's tango, and his slightly less-than-average-sized member didn't help but she didn't mind, nobody was perfect after all, because she loved him regardless of his flaws, at least she thought she did.
King Alaric turned around and said a few words of power to a blank wall, and the wall immediately folded apart, revealing a secret room.
King Alaric looked around one more time before stepping into the room. Queen Seraphina was not surprised by this; she knew what the room was, and her husband had told her about it before. It was the room where King Alaric held meetings with his most trusted subordinates during the war of the 'Great Unification'.
She quickly followed behind Alaric as he entered and then returned to being a normal wall again.
The secret room was like any other room, nothing special, it had torches, chairs, tables, a fireplace, even a lavatory, the only thing was that it was secret.
Sitting on a chair sipping on a bottle of wine and reading a book was none other than Thane,
"What took you so long? I have been waiting for almost an hour," Thane asked, clearly annoyed
"I felt like I was being followed by someone, so I made sure to walk around a little more," King Alaric said
Thane raised an eyebrow, "Followed? By who?" He asked
"I don't know, it was nobody," Alaric replied
Thane frowned, "We cannot afford to be discovered! I have so much at stake! Do you know how much I have sacrificed?!" He shouted
With speed that Seraphina's eyes could not follow, Alaric closed the distance between him and Thane, and raised him up by his neck,
"Watch your tone lesser, remember who has the power here?" King Alaric warned