Soft chatter ensued from the busy dining room, packed with many men. Generals, soldiers and stuff, some of them were rather dirty and looked grave. Looking away, Makai gritted his teeth as the king went out from the door, carrying his Queen with him. He knew exactly what they would do, he knew too well that he would continue his assault on her over and over, even when the Queen couldn't do it anymore.
Raking his hair and leaning to the wall he sighed, his eyes closed.
I'm not really in the mood to dispose of girl corpses, nor babysitting the crazy.
Intending to see his trusted dragon, he started a walk to the dragon stable alley but a pat on his back stopped him. Turning around he faced the stout pink cheeked Lord Southern Beach and smiled.
"Lord" He bowed slightly. "For what I owe this honor?"
The Lord chuckled and nudged to the inner garden. "I just want to talk privately if you don't mind"
Makai nodded, and soon the man led him to step into the small flight of stairs under a big golden arch. They walk a little far inside the inner garden, passing many decorative arches and so many beautiful plants. When no one could see nor listen to them, he turned his back and faced him.
"You do have the first order of Diamond Blood after the King, right, General Makai?"
Makai nodded softly. "And may I know, what interests you about it?"
Walking down back and forth, the Lord's hand was on his waist, his other hand was on his hair, raking it slightly in confusion and anger. "That perv does nothing but play with his newly wedded wife everyday, in front of everyone at the palace! This is ridiculous! He should be aware that we are on the verge of war! Heck, we are in a war." The slightly bald old man fisted his hand and released it again, sighing slowly.
"We need someone who can preserve King dignity, not fucking anytime he wants to. I get that the girl might be a living seductress, hell, even I get a hard on from looking at her, but he is a king. He should maintain his composure, his dignity and that wouldn't do with rubbing the Queen's tits every minute and showing it around!" He said, passionately.
He glanced at the roof nervously, fearing the magical crows might spy on them but there was none of them around.
"They both are a good sight to behold, and it was sexy to see them fucking, but this is just indecent, disgusting, unforgivable!" He said, blurting out, wiping his temple with an expensive handkerchief.
Makai just looked at him, smirking slightly, but also questioning. "Are you new in this palace sire? Or did you also become a Lord when My Father was the king?"
Reddening under the scrutinizing sight of Makai, he shook his head. "I am a new Lord, but I have lots of experience"
Nodding, Makai ignored the following statement, he just said. "You haven't studied our lore through, so you questioned how the King acted. Study the scroll of Diamond Blood, and you will know, his disgusting act has meaning, especially at war." That made the stout man gaped at his word while Makai snorted slightly. Nudging his head, he led him to a glade in the deepests part of the small man made forest under the very high arch in the deepest part of the palace.
The magical ceiling was so high, that the top of the many conifers and hardwoods barely reach it, and they could sense the swift breeze from the many opening up there. In fact, they magically heighten as the plants grow. The trees were old, that the trunks were as big as small houses, and the branches were as big as their body. There was this magical tinkle in the air, and the sun was soft as it was streaming through glasses and leaves. Stepping on beautiful stepping stones between thick layers of dry and decayed leaves, small grasses and sometimes moss covered boughs, it was almost hard to believe that they were still inside the palace, and not outside of it. Here and there, the southern lord spotted glass or gem like root popped up, it glinted and glistened under the sun and they seemed to follow it somewhere.
At least, the weird root brought them to a small glade, surrounded by high trees, and carpeted with a thick layer of moss and short soft grass. The lord can see similar bumps of roots coming from all sides of it, among the white small flowers popped here and there, and white flowers grew in the border of the opening. No other color beside white and green. In the middle of it, was a huge silver cage, taller than a man studded by magical runes, and wrapped by a weird thorny plant that seemed to breathe softly under the sunlight. At the middle of it, grows a huge beautiful lily plant out of diamond. The leaves and flowers unmistakably twinkled and sparkled as light played on it, yet it feels alive, it sways at the breeze. On one of the stems, was a budding huge flower, and it was wriggling up, left and right slightly then stopped. Then once more, it seemed like struggling to grow, but stopped once more. And they could see the shimmering roots trails ended at its base.
Makai stopped just before the cage and turned to the man. "Have you heard about this magical being?"
The man shook their head. "Never"
He smiled and nodded. "I thought so. This is a magical being that protects the whole country. It strengthened the magical border, it nourished the plant that grows on our grounds, and most of all, at the time of need, it can give birth to a legendary diamond dragon. But to grow it, this plant needs to be fed, everyday, everytime till that huge flower birthed a dragon. And the king doing it right now, non stop"
The Lord gaped, and then his face blushed and then stammered. "You meant… "
"Yes" Makai nodded. "And no, no one else can do it."