After I bathe myself, I put on the white dress set out for me. I pull up my hair into two buns the way my mother likes it.
As I'm walking down the corridor on my way to the dining room I pass my fathers study, I hear the voices of my father and big brother I listen as quietly as possible trying to make out their conversation.
"If we distribute more soldiers to Jing Kalani's aide then it puts the kingdom at further risk. We leave ourselves vulnerable for attack along the Eastern Coast and Capital, but if we don't send aide it'll damage our relationship with Spirit Beast Kingdom."
"What if we get General Yun to cover the Eastern Coast and allocate some soldiers from the palace to keep the Capital from invasion-"
No father we end up getting ambushed by The Elven race, along the Eastern Coast if you do that! While our troops are distracted The Capital gets betrayed by a coup d'etat.. and my Second and Third brothers get kidnapped by Elves from the Weeping Willow Kingdom before my dad and brother return.
I don't see them again till Lu Rem and I conquer their kingdom and by then my brothers ... where to far gone, from all the drugs and torture. If troops were here then we won't be left vulnerable to the coup. I'm sure daddy can figure out by who if he wasn't distracted helping allies from another kingdom.
I have to prevent this... but how ... what's a game changer .... shit ... think... think...
"Dad~ddyyyy good morning!" I run into his study and jump onto his lap.
"Baby girl you're awake? Where's your mother? Sit still Little Princess. Why are you running around? Shen have someone send for your mother and the doctor." My dad lifts me up on his desk and checks my temperature.
"She's warm! Nevermind I'll call get the doctor myself take care of your sister."
"Daddy? I'm really ok-" He places me in Shens arms and jumps out the window before I finish what I wanted to say.
"..." he's so extra.. I can't..
"Little Shin'er how are you feeling? Do you feel sick anywhere, if you do tell Big Brother and I'll get you some medicine." Rai Shen looks me over nervously.
"Shenshen I'm really ok. I'm not sick at all!" I smile brightly at him.
In my past life Shen and I were the closest of my siblings especially after what happened to the twins he always stood by me and got me out of trouble and sided with me when it came to things I wanted or dreamed of.. he doted on me the most, sometimes even more than my parents combined.
"Big Brother, Big Brother ... why do we need to send soldiers away?" I ask innocently playing with his obi.
Ha Shens so traditional.. so old school, I should give him a make over.
Come on .... fall for my cuteness!
"To aide friends of our kingdom, and help save the lives of people from their kingdom."
"Oh, bad guys want to hurt our friends?"
"Nobody wants to hurt them, it's just unavoidable. You know how big brother has Asui? Sometimes creatures like Asui who don't have masters to make them behave run into places and cause trouble that hurt the people around them."
"Oh so spirit beast are hurting our friends? How come you don't just give them shiny rocks? Asui likes it when I feed her with shiny rocks, she even listened to me when I taught her to do tricks after! Maybe the other beast are hungry and they'll go home after you give them some?"
"What shiny rocks? When did you give Asui rocks?"
I explained to my brother about the time Asui, his contracted spirit Tiger was home healing from a minor battle wound and I was sad she was by herself, so I brought her lots of food and brushed her fur to keep her company. But Asui didn't want anything I gave her to eat so I was bringing random treasures from Dads study to her and she liked the stones so much she ate three of them and healed almost instantly and powering up a level. She was super easy to coax after the power intake, that's when I taught her to shake paws and roll over.
These stones where just discovered about half a year ago and are currently being mined, because their cores could hold spirit energy. It was used kind of like a rechargeable battery for spirit energy, it's true power was unknown to others.
In my past life it happen that way only, it wasn't my idea... it was made know by others by studying the properties of spirit stones after someone crafted a weapon with a spirit stone for nicer appearance, and it so happened he cultivated with the sword on his person and his controlled element merged well with the spirit stone and made the weapon upgrade to something a lot more powerful.
Spirit stones have different attributes and work better combined with specific elements, it can becomes like a power booster for all beings that practice cultivating.
But the stones spirit energy was so pure, it made the stones look translucent and beautiful while hiding its power so well the naked eye couldn't see it's tremendous value.
I hop off Shens lap and run to Dads book shelf and pull a big green and small red stone off and give it to him. "Here let me feed it to Asui! She likes the big ones most. Here for you because your spirit energy is fire and fires red so you try!"
He chucked and rubs my head. "Silly girl. But I'm full already I ate breakfast earlier...and you shouldn't try to eat these either okay? Promise?"
SHEN! Don't be stupid when did I say to eat it.
I roll my eyes and put it in his hand. " Big brother don't be dumb it's a rock not food. You have to make it light up when you practice cultivating silly. Call out Asui I bet she'll eat the shiny rocks! Can I to play with her?"
He shakes his head but holds the stone and summoned-sacrificed Asui. A beautiful white tiger with black stripes and bright red eyes jumps out his Mindscape landing on the floor gracefully.
"Asui!!!" I squeal and hug myself to her, Old Friend. "I brought you a snack!" I hold out the green stone in my hand.
She looks at it ....indifferently but eyes the one in my brothers hand. She pounces on him rubbing her head against his chest before snatching the stone right out his hand.
She curls up on the floor and starts chewing on the stone. It lights up as she gnaws on it, and outlines her body in glow of bright red.
My dad rushes in, carrying my mother in his arms like a Queen....while dragging an Uncle Doctor by the collar of his robe behind him; they catch Asui glowing brightly as she hits the core of the stone then fades as she finishes the stone.
"Told you she liked to eat the shiny rocks."Shinah whispered to Rai Shen.
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