__________CHAPTER SEVEN __________
HATHOR
Milady's health greatly progressed hugely thanks to Panacea's care inside the palace of Lireo under the protection of Queen Minea, Queen Evergreen's request on visiting Milady has been now granted with the lingering condition that she had to be thoroughly checked and scanned every time she pays a visit on her firstborn daughter henceforth Raios is one clever bastard son a bitch whom Zero has spoken out he'll decapitate if he has to if that raven old man(mother fucker) tries to take such a small step over the borders of Lireo, not caring either way if he's Milady's father and his father-in-law. A fine statement that would have made Helium's self-proclaimed "king" die of laughter if he has heard it.
"I like your grim thoughts for your father-in-law Zero!" Ethan complimented him whilst sipping water from his packed jug, the little ravenette's words almost moved him to have the courage to relax but Lireo's heir knows Raios' intentions like the back of his hand when it came to halyarding people, meaning that if he can't get to where he wants to wreak havoc on he'd send some who can do all the dirty work for him just like what he did to Milady back then. Even upon the introduction of this lifetime, Raios is banned from ever setting foot in Lireo, "That bastard can't and won't be able to come here." cutting an Ion's stem from its pot the blue-haired kinou placed it inside his bag continuing to get more of the medicinal flower needed for Milady's medication.
Panacea tapped the syringe checking if its the right amount she needed to cure Milady's illness they've been walking around for hours in the botanical gardens of Lapis, a city located west of Lireo. The city was originally dedicated to publishing works but a need change was needed when capitalism with Zoldanga has stopped due to Raios' doing a ploy he strategized wanting to leave Queen Minea with no choice but to beg him for mercy for old times sake but she took this as a challenge and maneuvered a way out of this decline of trade.
Hibiki, Ethan, and Ignatius (the redhead was forced actually) volunteered to go along this journey Nox wanted to come but Queen Evergreen requested for him as an escort, and Sting well the blonde was stuck with Seigrain's watch 24/7 ever since Jellal confronted him something that infuriated the authority figure as he did not like the idea of babysitting a 35-year-old kinou "It's not like we'd run into or cross paths with any of his lackeys." the orangette commented whilst arranging the flowers in his own bag careful not to crush them "Do we still need more nectarines and where are these damn flowers anyway? They all should be here-WATCH IT STUPID CHILD!" Ethan poked fun at the intoxicated woman whose been complaining nonstop due to her wobbly movements by throwing a pebble on her forehead.
When a pot filled with Ion fell to the pavements much to Panacea's displeasure glaring at the childish ravenette raising his hands in defense "It wasn't me I swear!" using her talents on the rowdy teen making sure he wasn't lying "Whats t-the use of these flowers a-anyway?" the redhead chugged her firewater after asking leaning back to empty down the bottle who fell on some flowers crushing them in her weight leaving the old woman to calm herself down first before answering Ignatius' question but before she could the ravenette also asked the same "Yeah! why anyway?" Panacea walked towards the intoxicated redhead who's smiling proudly whilst hiccuping, pulling her up to her feet on her back are now visible liquid blue patches of glistening nectarine "I need it for Ultear's dextrose and this young woman just trampled all over some of them." pushing Ignatius towards Hibiki who caught her just in time "That tickles~" oh she also fell asleep chugging that liquor bottle by the way.
The orangette frowned at her state and laid her down on one of the benches to properly take rest since Ignatius yet again drank firewater without eating any solid nourishment and if she continues that bad habit any longer in the upcoming months she'll be diagnosed with Alcoholic cirrhosis a sign as already made its debut, she just never told anyone about considering the situation they are already in. Just as each of them is getting back to work another flower pot filled with five Ion flowers fell at the center of the garden ground making them all look up above the tree only to see Dobengal the moment Hibiki saw him, instantly tried to attack him on sight.
But Zero halted his best friend to stop as this might be a trap Raios' had sent out for them, but hey at least Hibiki got to throw an empty clay pot in the dragon's direction which he dodged with ease smirking along the way as he did, crouching down the thick branch he's standing on Dobengal began playfully catching a small pot of Ion on his left hand "Is this what you're looking for Yugen?" he shot Zero a cocky look making him grit his teeth in the process henceforth the nectarine of those flowers contains mercury and beryllium, each flower contains at least one spoon "Drop the flower Arius" Milady's husband warned him keeping a sharp eye at his following actions trying to be one step ahead of his schemes.
Hearing the word "drop" Dobengal intentional dropped it down the pavement plastering a huge grin after, like a madman with a completely sickened mind "I would love to play with you guys more but I didn't come here for that. " his tone changed and became kinda less of a trickster than he normally is, now sitting down comfortably at the branch he's former crouching on "I'd go back home" he spat the words with seriousness keeping his eye contact with Zero as if he trying to manipulate him unto doing his boss' dirty work, you may think that hey maybe this bastard suddenly became aware of his doings and missed his homeland and familia? like something like that could ever happen I wouldn't count it, this bastard has done the commands and will of Raios even before our their time here on RHEA, taking a kin on calling the people he hates the most by their last name (well in Zero's case his hated second name) seems like a bunch of people actually do that nowadays.
"Stop thinking deep Yugen, I came here to warn you."
"Why would we believe you? You're the right-hand man of the vilest creature."
"Go back home to your wife Yugen. "
I thought about what the idiot was saying
Panacea confirmed that his intentions are pure making Zero thought about what the idiot has said on their way back to the palace, those last words of his were enough proof that he's acting against the will of his boss which is very unlike Dobengal.
Whilst Jellal and company are on their journey back here at the palace, Milady's eyes kept staring at the ceiling above completely unaware of her surroundings still in eyes all she can see are hazy if she could only see her situation right now Milady would say something like "This shit is such a hindrance to my noble reputation.", at the moment the illusions occurring in her mind is this; the sound of the door opening with a servant entering Zero's chambers holding a platter of food in it, wearing a grey outfit, a calm expression graced her face but her eyes gloomed sorrow just like someone had died this past hour making them turn grey as well and lips painted with white lipstick on. Upon reaching Milady's resting self the servant clad in dull color carefully placed down the platter she's brought on inside the chamber down the nightstand proceeding to pull out a white handkerchief laying it down where Milady's waist is.
Taking off the lid from the platter it contained not of food but a grey handkerchief, a saucer half-filled with a vile liquid, taking out a small vial from her apron's pocket popping off the cap dripping its contents down the saucer. Milady wanted to move and retaliate against her actions but her ill body remained annoyingly still when she tried to speak instead her lips cannot utter a single phrase to kill the imbecile standing beside her in upon constant dithering the servant's finger's flicked the syringe with an uncontrollable insane smile on her lips--is this the retribution she deserved? Milady watched her take the cloth from the platter drenching it down the saucer, using it to wipe her arm the moment she took off the cloth from Milady's skin a black spot became apparent on it.
Such lucid chemical stuck on to her skin similar to that of a corrupted flesh whose fleshly stabbed by a diamond fang "Shhhh..." she placed a finger on Milady's lips before replacing it with the same cloth she used on her arm as a muffle in case she tries to scream her lungs out, she slowly brought the syringe closer to Milady's neck leaving her without a choice but to watch the filthy humiliation of the scourge land checkers. She injected Milady on her throat watching closely as she gradually lost consciousness...Jellal?
When Milady had woken up from a horror, she was in her chambers at Helium a strong whiff of lavender candles enraptured all over, overstruck with joy when she was able to move her hand above her head catching the scent in her palms Milady turned her head to the side looking outside her chamber's balcony, whereupon the velvet curtains hung above the glass door panes blowing softly alongside the wind's will of choice blocking Milady's view, annoyed she rose from the bed relieved that bizarre servant did not change her out of such fine garment made only for RHEA's most lustrous elites upon slipping on her slippers a soft harmonious chirping of melodious birds graced music to Milady's ears lifting her spirits in basking under the sun's glorious light, such offer allowed her pulse to quicken who eagerly rushed pressing her time outside.
Seeing such huge variety and an assortment of viaticum which aren't locally found at Helium, in the view of the fact that Raios childish declaration of forbidding importing and creating food from RHEA's other tribes I know what your thinking mortal, its just food right? so why? well, the reason for that is quite simple--Helium's self-proclaimed "king" hated the cuisines they offered him way back in the past calling them inedible trash that's only meant to be served upon those who's starving to death from their unfortunate poorness.
To Milady right now it was a relief seeing all this nourishment in front of her since she truly missed Xeris' cuisines and let me tell you, such rule sucked for everyone living in Helium's grounds becoming closed off from the rest of the world leaving their offsprings to be ignorant and complete imbeciles (as Milady would put it,) of the foreign cuisines they should've been lavishing upon. I can sense no...see that Milady is happy about it hence seeing such changes is good but not good enough to make her smile about it is still not due yet so much more time must profuse on for Milady for that to happen again and believe me mortal reading this, such event will be worth it in the long run so better continue reading Milady's cleansing.
Milady grabbed one of the cuisines laid out in the table allowing such well-made food to melt inside her mouth when out of the lucid mimicry a familiar and long-missed voice caught her fixed regard making her eyes widen in shock of hearing it again dropping the plate of nourishment alongside the spoon down the floor and I guess you thought "Such a waste of food." or "She just wasted food!" no mortal listen here this is a fleeting paranoia Milady is in right now in case you forgot. Upon turning around tears began to fall from her eyes at the sight of her only child...alive and well, who's been waving at Milady enthusiastically using both of her hands above her head "Mommy!" the little bluette's pigtails bounced as she jumped off the two stairs leading towards the terrace of Milady's chambers.
Milady did not waste any of this time being offered to her by a mere lucid illusion, teleporting herself in front of her daughter crouching down the little girl's level tightly embracing her, making the bluette giggle patting her on the back in order to calm her miserable waterworks, leaning back Milady did not hesitate on thoroughly and frantically inspecting each part of her daughter's body with heavy tears on her eyes, whose only wanting to make sure that her wounds are now thoroughly cured but even mere scars did not leave their traces on the little bluette's delicate skin. Milady's scape has been doing nothing but lie and give her false hope upon the real perception that's waiting for her consciousness to be back to its quotidian once more.
"Riona? is it really you?" the little bluette pressed their foreheads together calming Milady with her magic not wanting her to feel alone for now caressing her soft raven locks "Oh, mommy..." she spoke softly appealing to her mother's yearning, Milady leaned back carrying Riona in arms as she stood back up who promptly squealed at the surprise move whilst her mother twirled around in joy once done they both lavished upon the fine dishes conversing about random things until the ultimatum will have finally made its peek.
Going back to Jellal who's walking out of Lapis' botanical gardens pondering to himself whether or not he should rush on back to Eirlys (Its Lireo's capital city, it is also where the royal palace resides on) with the rest following closely behind him. Once standing in the middle of the city's center place Lireo's heir halted in his tracks whilst Hibiki told the rest to go and wait at the station for the train as he'd talk some sense into his best friend's scape but the worried little ravenette stayed back secretly keeping watch of the two of them "What are you doing?" the orangette called his attention sadly with no avail to get a response out of as Jellal hung his head low, people did not avoid the like a plague unlike in RHEA's other tribes knowing that Lireo's heir cares about his own people to do something like that "Jellal come on, quit standing there like a weirdo." Hibiki taunted him who he expected to react upon calling him a weirdo in such a public place.
Annoyed that the blue-haired kinou did not take the bait Hibiki pocketed both of their train tickets in his jacket, striding towards Jellal's direction using his talents to place a heavy hand on his right arm in which the latter slightly tilted his head to "Are you really going to believe that man Jellal?"HE's Raios' most loyal dog, second in command even to say the least! Jellal--FUCK!! YOU SON OF BITCH COME BACK HERE!! Somebody stop him! Stop your tribe's heir!" the raven-haired teen's eyes grew wide upon seeing Milady's husband kick his own best friend in the shin as he tried to talk some sense into him upon why he should not deeply trust Dobengal's words considering his history of spouting nothing but sinful lies. Running towards the older male helping him back up to his feet he helped Hibiki limp after Jellal 's direction.
Noticing that Milady's prodigy gone from the spot he's been standing on after purchasing a train ticket, Panaceascanned her eyes around the station looking for him, wanting to leave to go look for him but that means leaving behind the sleeping redhead with her luckily a railroad guard came passing by, so that old woman immediately asked him for assistance in finding a wheelchair in which the kinou she abruptly pulled aside from his job was kinda hesitant to help her at first until she stated her status in society to which he immediately acknowledged. Once said the problem has been taken care of Panacea paid the kinou who helped her in a good amount of finely made Cyhea she started looking around for the little ravenette.
Panic-stricken people rushed around the central plaza of Lapis' upon running away from the orangette, something caught Jellal's eye a brand new model of a convenient viper pulse was on display at the nearby vehicle store, so for Milady...Jellal stole the brand new vehicle speeding towards Eirlys with too much haste "Jellal!! Jellal!!--Damnit!" upon seeing the blue-haired kinou vanish on the road Hibiki threw the rock he's been holding on to for some reason, in Jellal's direction, paying his respects to the vehicle store owner offering to pay him the amount that his best friend just stole "By the gods, no need Your Highness, I assure you it's fine." the store owner raised his hands in denial of accepting such sum from elites like them with Hibiki secretly communicating with Ethan telepathically asking if the teen has any Cyhea on his person.
"This old geezer might deny the offer but deep down he wants us to pay him."
"Really? huh, I didn't notice."
"Do you have any Cyhea?"
"No?..why??"
"Come on kid there's gotta be something, this kinou will go bankrupt from paying rent if we don't compensate him the amount Jellal stole from him."
"But he says we don't need to pay."
"HE WANTS US TO PAY THE AMOUNT!"
As Panacea bumped into random people she also asked them if they've seen neither Hibiki nor Ethan by describing what they look like, most of them who "immediately" recognized her description of these kinou's she's been looking for had their blood run cold from fear as being infamous for murdering people is always a red flag. By luck would have it the train had already arrived by the station as its horn blared all over for those boarding it to climb on before it departs for Eirlys unfortunately for Panacea she was one of those people that needed to board the boundless train and in case you are wondering mortal, yes, Ignatius is still fast asleep on the wheelchair she's in despite being pushed around by the old woman literally everywhere at this point looking for both Aulora's fallen prince (heir) and Milady's little prodigy.
At the point when all hope was thought to be lost a zooming vehicle gushed by the old pinkenette woman similar to that of Melancholia's winter breath due not only did Panacea hate her cursed appearance by the liabilities it gave her are far much worse than what you can imagine, a great example for one is poor eyesight, as you can see mortal all of RHEA's citizens are all graced with immortal youth and Panacea just happened to be not one of those lucky few--pondering the bullshit of her eyesight a familiar voice caught her sense of hearing. "You're Welcome! Your Highness! oh dear me how will I pay rent now.." the old merchant yelled after Lireo's heir as he left.
"Excuse me, Sir! Is that blue-haired kinou happened to be Jellal Yugen Edurne?"
"Hmm? Y-Your Highness, yes it was... and His Highness stole the newest model of viper I just had put on display by the staff, b-but do not fret Your Highness I'm sure the monthly Cyhea given out by Queen Minea will make up for it."
"I deeply apologize for your prince's actions, and please in his place we shall pay the amount my best friend just stole."
"By the gods, no need Your Highness, I assure you it is fine."
"No sir truly I insist."
Seeing the orangette negotiate with the shop owner whose hair already clearly balding from the stress he deals with every day on his established business, Panacea called the latter's name in which the orangette whipped his attention to upon that call excusing himself for a brief moment from the compensation he promised the store owner leaving the raven-haired teen with the store owner who promptly grinned from ear to ear a both a habit and a mannerism he plasters on when intimidating a prey he's trying to murder for Milady such expression had the old man in chills down his spine, both of elites almost ran over each other if the orangette didn't use his talents to put a halt in the old woman's tracks, grabbing her by the arm out of the store owner and Ethan earshot "So short story Jellal kicked me, stole a brand new vehicle and now we have to pay this geezer the amount he stole. Like right now, RIGHT now." flabbergasted over Hibiki's hurried speaking tone the old woman gave him a sour expression whilst pulling out her wallet from her purse.
"This better be worth my Cyhea boy, or else."
"I'm 36 years old and thanks, 'grody grandma.' "
Taunting to hit Hibiki on the head with her wallet the orangette held up his hands in his face as a defense, smiling at her later on trying to make up for the insult well technically it's not an insult since Porlyusica is indeed both grody and a grandma RHEA's greatest physician has six grandchildren in case you forgot mortal, I'm simply reminding you. Ahem, going back to the narrative at hand Hibiki gladly gave the Cyhea to the store owner insisting that he take it, upon seeing how humble this kinou is reminded me of the former state RHEA was in such glorious times are sure to be missed by its aging citizens.
"So what now?" the little ravenette asked the million Cyhea of a question to the two adults with him "Well seeing our current situation will not be able to board the train now in time." speaking of the boundless train it blared its final horn a signal that it will now be departing to leave both Hibiki and Porlyusica discussed about what matter of ways(transportation) they could use to get in Eirlys just in time as Jellal had tried, since stealing another vehicle was not in the list and neither could they afford to buy one either as they paid the one Jellal recently just stole at the heat of the moment whilst the two argued Ethan watched the train pass by like an innocent child until an idea came to his mind tugging Hibiki by his jacket harshly while his other hand deflated pointing at the train tracks "What?!" infuriated the Milady's righthand man whipped his attention to the teen who gave him a look of pure gleaming mischief, taking notice of this Hibiki conversed with Ethan via telepathy not wanting the old woman to hear about the ridiculous suggestion.
"We are not doing that Ethan."
"Why not?"
"Because you're clearly not yet experienced and well trained to do such things."
"Milady trained me, and she even said I could do it!"
"Could, she never said you should perform it."
"I want to!"
"No."
"Yes."
"No."
"Come on Hibiki!! Please."
"I said no."
"Stupid carrot top!"
"Hey! stop it, imbecilic child."
"Hibiki?"
"What?!!??"
"Do you want to live?"
"What the? Of course--!"
"YOU SAID YES!! YESSSS!"
"No, No, Ethan get back here!" the raven teen jumped up and down before running away towards the train station leaving Hibiki behind gripping his fiery locks in frustration, this is the main reason why Odette thought that the little monster is Milady's and Jellla's son, therefore, such type of trait is what they both share in a way. Panacea confusedly eyed the orangette anguish at his finest "Let's just go." Hibiki finally gave in to Ethan's farcical suggestion defeated with no other options left the old woman followed close behind Milady's right-hand man observing their decisions of following after Jellal's nefarious actions despite the fact that she's completely clueless of the ravenette's plan on getting to Eirlys if you ask me the two of them conversed wisely upon avoiding to be eavesdropped on considering Dobengal's presence earlier.
Circling back to Jellal, whilst on his way he informed his mother via galva that Dobengal has bypassed Lireo's borders and has made his presence known to their group upon collecting the recipe's for Milady's dextrose, telling her to strictly scrutinize everyone that enter's the palace gates until further notice of the dragon's capture. Once the blue-haired kinou reached Eirlys he used his tell talents to accelerate the viper's machine to its limits--short of it is Lireo's one and only heir made the vehicle he's riding fly over the closed palace gates crashing over the fourth floor which is approximately two windows near his chambers leaving the viper pulse to crash down the lower levels with him jumping off it before it could drag with down with it, rushing towards to the double doors of his chambers only to find it locked from the inside.
Dobengal's words kept playing widely in his mind about the whole ordeal henceforth you see mortal, the dragon did not lie such occurrence would greatly benefit him after all and he wouldn't waste opportunities when it is being offered to him as it would grant him an audience with none other than Queen Minea herself. Sneaking past all the commotion Jellal has made nerve-racking for Milady's being, Jellal yelled for their servants to get him anything that would open the doors since the keys he has did not do their job of unlocking his dilemma upon struggling to open said doors the whole entire palace was shaken to its core as a second mode of transportation crashed not only crashed but destroyed the lower half of Lireo's palace something that would infuriate Queen Minea as melancholia is soon appearing before RHEA.
And it is one of the occurrences you'd hide for no matter how powerful of a kinou nor amazon you are because during winter time's to shine is a matter you wouldn't want to waste your life for. The newly arrived bunch consisting of Hibiki, Ethan, Porlyusica, and Ignatius (who is still fast asleep despite all that has happened around her)heard the constant yelling above them as Jellal forcibly tried to open the doors of his locked chambers, splitting up Porlyusica had one of the palace servants bring the redhead to her designated quarters, as both Hibiki and Ethan fell over the fourth floor helping Jellal as neither methods of lock picking and using keys worked on the said annoyance of a door. So the little ravenette used his own talents to destroy it...once successfully barging in the three of them saw something that they would never expect to see him do.
Nox, whom Milady and Jellal had adopted as their son is choking her to death with her vitals raging low at the metrics levitating above her husband's bed. Milady's husband froze for a moment when the two standing beside him immediately took action on stopping Nox from killing his own adoptive mother if it were not for the loud noise cranking in his sense of hearing the dark-haired kinou wouldn't have snapped out of it and taken rushed steps towards Nox grabbing him by the arm whereupon the white-haired 28-year-old turned his eye to in a vast second allowing Jellal to see the scuffle in his eyes before he elbowed his foster father square in the face knocking off him out of his own chambers such display of strength had the two in a bolt out of the blue since Lyon was never this robust.
Proceeding to use his talents to get Hibiki off him by throwing the older kinou across the room who crashed in the drawer full of Porlyusica medical tools "Come on whitey! let go of Milady!" the ravenette reasoned with him while doing his best on making him let go his grasp on Milady's neck hearing Ethan's voice the white-haired kinou placed a hand on the left of the teen's ribcage freezing his heart making him drop down on the floor convulsing till he faints from it. Wiping the blood off his nose Jellal got back up to his feet with his back severely in pain from the impact his foster son had caused, licking his lips whilst getting his vigor back up he pulled out the two pistol's strapped on each of his thighs heavily imbuing with his talents.
In the course of replenishing his condition, Jellal kept thinking about how did Nox's got infested by Raios' manipulation since the self-proclaimed emperor was far out of reach, I invoked speculation in the scape of Milady's husband regarding why would Queen Evergreen need an escort since she's clearly well acquainted with Lireo's grounds being that she and Queen Minea are the best of friends since their youth so why? the answer is quite simple...so let me tell you mortal, Raios her husband(is he really though?) and "king" took notice of her daily circadian disappearances at the end of her Queenly duties over Zoldanga so he did what any crazed kinou would do by having the actions of his dear wife stalked on, upon learning that she crosses borders by dark Raios had Dobengal greet(corner) her once she was done visiting Milady. In which turn her so-called husband despoiled her being merciless.
The following two visit's we're no longer Zoldanga's Queen but a pawn sent out by his truly knowing how his firstborn daughter had been in a long while of her absence in Helium, of course, Raios has no intentions of killing his own daughter right?? so this said pawn disguised as Queen Minea lead Milady's foster son on a delusional hysteria that now led to him choking his foster mother if you are wondering what this said spell is, it can cause you to see the person you are most afraid of seeing and the immense strength the white-haired kinou is currently having, are bare fruits of that. Once the regeneration of Jellal's status and weapons are completed the dark-haired kinou made his way back up the fourth floor, such wrecked stairs did not help in any way shape or form in this hasty predicament.
While Milady's husband is busy climbing up the poorly stated stairs, Hibiki finally had gone back up on his consciousness his head won't stop bleeding from the large amount of sharp and fragile objects placed inside of the old woman's stash, scanning his eye around the room the orangette caught sight of Ethan sprawled out near the bed with his eyes pure white and Odette whose standing fear-stricken alongside the other servants on the door frame in defiance of his personal state Hibiki crawled out of his misery and yelled for Odette and company to take action of getting Ethan to Porlyusica before he passes from the land of the living knowing that if Milady finds out that her prodigy died from such a stupid thing she'd send them to Hades himself just to retrieve the teen back to life.
"QUIT STANDING AROUND TAKE HIM TO PORLYUSICA THIS INSTANT!"
"Y-Yes! but, Your H-highness--"
"TAKE THE ANNOYING CHILD NOW!"
Standing on his feet slowly the orangette almost toppled over back to the floor dismissing the unwanted headache that's making him dizzy upon jumping the white-haired kinou to take his hands off Milady dodging the efforts of said mind-controlled kinou "I know you're in there Lyon, let go of your foster mother!" in the fullness of time Jellal encountered on his way up their servants carrying the unconscious teen, immediately after that he reached his chambers once again not wasting any hesitation restrict from shooting Nox multiple times in the arm, chest, jaw, and wrist. Once off Milady Jellal then and then went to her side hurriedly removing all the unwanted cord of wires tangled around her neck before he began to stabilize her raging pulse back up to proper life and deflating his hand over Nox's being lowering his pulse so someone could restrain him without ending up crashing into another piece of furniture the first time around, sorry about that Hibiki.
Porlyusica arrived at the door alongside Queen Minea and Ignatius(who now regained her robustness) once the whole entire fiasco has calmed down of its fixated angry nature, the redhead jumped Nox to restrain him as the latter still had impurities imbedded within his system when he tried to strangle Hibiki as his next victim, yelling for the old woman help as the kinou raged to escape "Porlyusica a little help would be nice over here!" RHEA's greatest physician dulled the white-haired kinou's senses leaving him like a black box whose of feeling any emotions and he'll stay that way until she can brew a proper medicine for his diffused scape.
Later on that day Nox was locked up inside his room with just one servant slipping his meals by the door, by 5:26 in the afternoon Porlyusica came by alongside his redhead best friend and Pxyar to give the first half of his cure in which turn worked magic in just half his system immediately the potion also nullified in performing any of his talents capabilities. A few times profused on after dinner both Milady's right man and husband came by Nox's quarters to see how he's doing after Porlyusica confirmed that it was now alright to interact with Nox and ask him a couple of questions but the debrief escalated in fits of scolds rather than a peaceful talk "HOW COULD YOU DO THIS!!! MILADY SHOWED YOU MERCY AND THIS IS HOW TOU REPAY HER??! WHAT KIND OF FUCKING IMBECILE ARE YOU???!!! " tears started to run down the orangette's cheeks as he kept on yelling at Nox vigorously while Jellal calmed his ass down by the door of his foster son's designated quarters.
"I'm sorry okay?"
"Are you?!"
"And here I thought you came by peacefully."
"Peacefully? WE are beyond past that on what you just did!"
"Cannot you see? I was being controlled?"
"Weren't you trained to resist such acts? No matter how you look at it YOU yourself are at fault here Lyon."
"How many times do I have to tell you--"
"What? tell me what?! that you tried to fight? which part huh? WHICH PART?!"
"That's enough." upon hearing Jellal's dissatisfied voice the two of them forthright held back their tongues from speaking any unbearable arguments any longer, the orangette made his way out of Nox's quarters standing by outside leaving the two of them to talk calmly like they originally planned in the first place, Jellal had dropped his crossed arms down to his sides.
"If you're gonna yell at me too Dad...please just leave."
"I won't."
"I'm sorry okay."
"I know you are."
"At least you get it unlike that best friend of yours, like who does he think he is anyway? he's not even part of this family and yet he talks to me like he's some kind of perfect being who is incapable of fault." As I've said before only half of the cure worked hence the reason why Nox is being a jackass and Hibiki well he's just angry at the mistake the white-haired kinou has done to his lovely boss "He is." Jellal whispered to himself in which turn the 28-year-old eyed him suspiciously "Eat your fill Nox and get well." Jellal turned on his heel to leave also but his foster son grabbed the plate wasting it all by throwing it at him in who dodged the thrown projectile "As if I'd east such disgusting filth." sighing Lireo's heir turn the doorknob leaving his crazed adopted son to get better of his current self, honestly I did not see a point on why Jellal and Hibiki thought that seeing him right after he tried to kill Milady is a good idea since the later is clearly intoxicated with delusion still, well in the defense of Milady's husband he's just worried about him. Proper judgment shall come soon.
"See what I've told you? it's a trap." Hibiki stood beside his best friend who took a breather since the incident yesterday with both of his hands resting behind his lower back such calm demeanor should be applauded by the masses "And if I hadn't rushed over, our adopted son would have choked Ultear to death." both Milady and Jellal were aware of Lyon's incestuous affection towards Meredy, whose father is unable to deny the fact that is not okay with him and it will never sit right with him. First of all, Meredy is 7 years old while Lyon is 28 years old, the white-haired kinou is twenty-one years older than the little girl who's not yet aware of his future advances towards her. Hibiki gave his best friend a sideward glance seeing nothing but pent-up rage "Nox's already temporarily locked up in his room and he'll stay there until Porlyusica finishes brewing the other half of his cure, so you don't have to worry about anything he plans to do to Ultear." Hibiki reassured him as he patted the left side of the blue-haired kinou's arm with a genuine smile alongside it, Jellal's expression may have confused him in the matter as a verity popped up.
"It's not Nox I'm worried about right now, it's him." Jellal pointed out staring down at the figure of Sting whose walking around the palace grounds alongside Seigrain, with Ethan tagging along bothering the blonde (the little ravenette has gotten better overnight and it is one of the things Milady liked about him becoming her prodigy). Hibiki followed Jellal's gaze downward the balcony their currently standing on as an annoying comment came with the sentiment "Oh you mean, young Mr. Eucliffe, whose still in love with Milady?" irritated by the fact Jellal raised a brow at his best friend's statement of fact "Keep on annoying me and you'll be the next one to fall off this terrace." Hibiki just laughed off the blue-haired kinou's words enjoying his vexation of the subject at hand "But seriously Jellal, it's not that I'm insulting you or anything but we both know what kind of history they had." Of all the topics the orangette could bring up he'd just had to say such facts, doesn't he? Well, even Jellal wants to repudiate it and that's how unwelcomed it is.
As stated before by me, Hathor, Milady never loved Sting she just manipulated him to get information about Xeris and it led him to an inevitable death in which he survived by her own unconscious reckoning. Milady married Jellal and not the blonde, the blue-haired kinou became flabbergasted of his rival's return henceforth he himself saw Sting's corpse lying inside the casket and buried six feet under the ground with gazillions of dirt remind you EVERYONE WAS THERE they all saw it with their own eyes upon how the blonde was laid to rest excepting him to stay there forever rotting, so is it a coincidence that he just suddenly rose up from the grave no, I saved him just in time and I Hathor did not intend to do it a month before Milady's matrimony with Jellal.
It's a gate crasher move and I'm sorry about that Jellal. I myself am even thankful that Sting didn't come nor barge in the ceremony and shouted "I OBJECT!" because if the blonde did do that Jellal would have become Raios' favorite son-in-law "Continue on Hibiki and I'll throw off this balcony right now." the orangette just smiled raising his hands in surrender while Lireo's servants are sweating in fear behind the two of them conversing since Jellal did throw over a kinou who embezzled money from the palace treasury that one time "Fine I'll stop harassing your ego." Hibiki made himself comfortable upon sitting at the balcony's fence making the servants feel trepidatious of the orangette's imminent falling over if that ever happens it's not Jellal would simply push over his own best friend, he's the best friend for a reason.
Hibiki's quite amused at how Jellal watches the blonde strife with both an authority babysitting him and a water obsessed child bothering him in his already trying day of escaping Seigrain's hawk-like eyes feasting on his being "Hibiki," Jellal called the orangette's name as they both watched over the trio "Regretting on telling me to shut up?" he's on thin ice I tell you thin ice! Lireo's one true heir whacked him in the back as a precautionary measure the heavy gushing wind certainly did not help as one of the servants gasped in fear of Hibiki falling over and dying from it. The orangette noticed this fear of their's and decided to poke fun at the servants disturbed state of nerves by taunting them, using his talents in which Jellal sighed pinching the bridge of his nose on the acquired sense of dark humor from Milady's kinda "bad" influence "Hibiki." upon hearing Jellal's grumpy voice the orangette pouted a frown on his lips sitting back down the balcony fence like an annoyed child that his parents didn't buy the toy he wanted
"Why did you lash out like that towards Lyon? to think that's supposedly my line."
"I owe her my life Jellal, if I wasn't for Milady I'd be dead when Raios ordered to destroy my homeland. I guess the reason why I lashed out like that towards Lyon is the fact that he maltreated Milady and your's kindness just like that, and yeah it's factful that he's being controlled by Raios but he's still at fault no matter how you look at it."
"Thank you, "
"No need to thank me Jellal, we're friends after all."
Both prince's(heirs) of different respective tribes watched the trio carefully without their knowledge so let's put the time unto them, while these two silently observe them above this balcony and let me tell you Ethan is having the time of his life whenever he's bothering someone from their little murderous team well all except for Milady, the little ravenette has no courage of any audacity to do that to his own mentor yet speaking of their relationship I know you are curious upon knowing how this raven became Milady's prodigy in the first place, we'll get there, for now, have patience "The fact that you've been walking back and forth for a while now is becoming boring Sting, do something else!" the blonde paused midway from his tantrum looking at the ravenette's direction whose sitting idly by Seigrain busy sharpening his weapon.
"I am not a fucking entertainer and besides don't you have anything better to do than being here?" the raven-haired teen took a loud irritating sip from his water box making the blonde's mood duller than it already is "Nope." he began "Milady's unwell and what you and Lyon did added more damage to that." the ravenette said it all with a straight face on such words made the blonde skittish, Seigrain raised his head to the statement that the teen spoke out giving him a small glance then to the 35-year-old kinou he's (been) babysitting--a long exaggerated sip invaded both the adult kinou's sense of hearing as Ethan took advantage of their distracted guard.
Laughing afterward like there's no tomorrow, Ethan to a certain extent is quite like Hibiki in some cases especially when the orangette was in the peaks of his blossoming youth even now as a full-on grown adult the orangette never abandoned such trait points of it can be seen as he constantly bothered his dearest friend, heck even the time Milady first got hold of his profile prior to enrolling at Ephedia she gave him the label "crouching moron" saying that it sees fit his lively but rowdy personality until the time he was paired up with her on a task assigned by King Loki in the times of their team undergoing his mentorship.
"You're hilarious Sting, I like it."
"Ugh...by the gods, Seigrain help me get rid of him."
"I have to decline and disagree, hence I quite like this little monster tagging along it makes my work less boring. Isn't that right Ethan?"
"Hear! Hear!"
Being ganged up by a water obsessed child and a Diamond Authority made the blonde exhale out loudly expressing how much of a pain in the arse this has become placing both of his hands on his scalp finger-combing his golden locks back, as Jellal had said before this blonde is the smart one in their team back then and now in the timelines current present my previous wielder's words are remaining stagnant after all hence if only the blonde did not allow his rivalry with Lireo's prince hinder his completely capable intelligence the blonde would have been a decent kinou who has great potential to sit no stand rank to rank alongside those astute amazons that have walked RHEA. "Sooo what's Xeris like Seigrain? from what I've heard your home tribe has tons of water!" the raven-haired teen eyes had that glint in whilst striking a conversation with the authority figure as they walked around the palace grounds trailing behind Sting closely "Oh, you certainly heard right little monster, Xeris indeed has tons of bodies of water than you can imagine. As a member of the authority, this would have been the part where I say I'd like to take you there but such chances now are most unlikely to happen."
Downcasted by the truth both the blonde and authority figure frowned upon it, knowing that their homeland will now forever remain in the dust of debris and rubble of its former beautiful past therefore in early times before Xeris was destroyed it is the most elegant tribe of RHEA and they provided the planet's spontaneous affinity when it comes to passing fancy for fashion, yes fashion Sting's sister-in-law nature's(personality actually) was extremely bold when it comes to extravagance that even in the most barbarous events she'd wear a gem-encrusted gown of sorts meaning she does not disappoint when it comes to flamboyance. The role of their tribe was to simply dispense everyone with luxury garments no matter what their status in life might be everyone deserved to have it but alas its vastness of glory came to an end once it received the first declaration to be demolished out of existence by his truly--Raios.
The loss took off a huge chunk of a valuable asset leaving RHEA's inhabitants dull of color and extravagance, upon seeing such betrayal of an oath, the other five tribes became alarmed hence not only did Xeris have fine luxury at their disposal they also held RHEA's naval forces on their hand and the self-proclaimed Emperor was after that kind of power...a kind of power that each tribe has depending on what true roles they play. Milady has successfully found out what these are but she refused to tell her father about it and that is something Raios isn't willing to compromise with being that Milady had served him better than any other lackey and minion he's ever had as an instrument of vengeance(evil) starting at the tenderfoot age of five. Being the schemer of all things vile the raven old man was given the epithet "Feathered Serpent" by the planet's inhabitants a nickname/alias suiting his nature well.
"Do the pictures in our history books give that much justice?" livening up the mood the raven-haired teen shifted their attention to a much more positive note, whilst catching up to the blonde walking pace before answering Ethan's question as Sting tried to lose the both him and the ravenette at the turn to which he failed "Not even a single drop of paint did any justice." hearing the expected answer Ethan's eyes sparkled in delight daydreaming on how great would it be if could have a taste of Xeris's famous waters making the blonde elite creeped out for a slight moment in time on how this child is capable of intaking such huge amounts of liquid and if Ethan did possibly got to go on a tour in Xeris I'd say as a jest that he could possibly lower its water levels to 50% by the time he's full.
Retracing yesterday's events, Dobengal's little warning to Jellal granted him an exclusive audience with Queen Minea who's not in a good mood about her palace getting wrecked two times in a row a few months away from the worst season of all. Every servant, guards, and elites were dismissed upon today's meeting as this kind of matter only needed those relations to the Blood Ties severance ages ago, it is arcane magic performed by Medea Kyle on the offsprings of the three first amazons that founded RHEA with the goddess's help, by perfectly dividing no-- splitting three blood ties(hence the name.) into seven different ones. Once their "familial ties" had been settled and distinguished properly, they all became but strangers to each other. If you still haven't pieced it all together yet mortal reading this, the short of it is that all of RHEA's true royal family are related--meaning that if you decided to take a curios peak at Milady and Jellal's lineage they are cousins IF you base it on the past...I'll let that piece of information sink in your scape on how incestuous their relationship would have been if it weren't thanks to the blood ties severance.
Those present inside the throne room are Queen Minea, Porlyusica, and Sky said Creon kneeled down before Lireo's present reigning monarch to try and get on her good graced before beginning with his personal reason of being here in Lireo in the first place as his presence is not really all that welcome here for obvious reasons of deep treason scarred by history lingering timeline of the past. Queen Minea's eyes never left the kneeling brunette form who in turn kept his head hung low avoiding any eye contact from any of the two amazons and clone for now. Silenced prevailed as none of them spoke up first. Porlyusica, whose real name is Grandine Vermilion is the former Queen of Zoldanga true lineage--BERSILION, Minea Strauss present Queen of Lireo true lineage--BERSILION, Sky Diamond Authority, and clone of the late Queen Yuen Strauss. Dobengal Arius, commoner, right-hand man to the feathered serpent, and biological father of Madeline Alana Ixion(Milkovich).
And of course, the three of them are not yet aware that Madeline is his daughter. Having enough of this thick impending silence the old pinkenette woman who is also been declared as RHEA's greatest physician broke it apart first. "Of all the kinou's that have existed why do you assholes keep on becoming my daughter's and granddaughters' choice of interest." wanting to be done with such matters Porlyusica spat her words of annoyance like poison to the flame whilst adjusting the right cuff of her long-sleeved dress creating a link between her and Raios' most reliable, loyal, and trusted lackey making sure he speaks nothing but the truth and only the truth, nodding to Queen Minea once the process has been completed "State your purpose unwanted guest." on cue of her Queen's words Sky hitted her sheathed weapon down the marbled floor such blusterous sound echoed inside Lireo's throne.
"First of all Porlyusica." the brunette began, ignoring Queen Minea's words for a brief moment choosing to address the old woman's assumptions first before deeply indulging in their true topic of interest. "Adeline was left with no other choice but to interbreed with me. Considering the status they've been in when Dejah's treatment became public knowledge and all those are caused by your each of your own selfish reckonings--Minea and Grandine." lifting his head to properly stare daggers whilst plastering a heinous smirk at those he called out who both been filled with irritation all this time ever since Dobengal revealed his standing in their families blood severing.
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After dealing with Nox's whole ordeal of trying to murder Milady right that second, have administered Ignatius recourse in treating the raven-haired teens' frozen organ. In the midst of curing Milady's prodigy a servant came barging in disturbing her work saying that her presence is greatly being required outside the palace which is odd beyond repose to her since her occupation in life is neither an architect, engineer nor a construction worker so what help could she possibly do to the wreckage caused by this patient she is supposedly treating (working on) the said servant also cannot (or should I say would not) give the old woman any concrete answer(pun intended) either hence Queen Minea did not rely upon what exactly it is she is being called for, pissed off she plucked a vial from her cabinet giving it to the redhead amazon as a temporary remedy.
Telling her to keep it warm in her hands using her talents and to sit by Ethan's side until she gets back from whatever it is she is being demanded for. Once reaching the front doors of Lireo's palace (and to the farther left side of the palace is the huge hole caused by Ethan's talents) stood numerous soldiers holding their weapons with a formidable stance surrounding Raios' right-hand man whose been grinning from ear to ear ever since he's been spotted striding his way towards the palace doors completely relaxed like he owns the place.
Queen Minea stood present in the current predicament her brows furrowed with great anger upon how someone belonging within Raios' ranks of vilest evil bypassed the bounded field surrounding all of Lireo's borders in RHEA's soil "What is he doing here?" the old woman whispered to the youthful Queen of Lireo. "I have the same question as you." using her talents the pale-haired Queen collared Dobengal's neck with profound force of air leaving him to drop the grin into a minimum of an annoying smirk "I wouldn't do that if I were you Queeny." all those present elites and servants gasped at the brunette's rudeness towards their benevolent Queen.
"How dare you talk to Queen Minea that way!'
"The audacity of this commoner is astronomical."
"The nerve."
"Insolent fool you take that back!"
"Address Her Majesty with proper respect."
"You dare, display such brash manners to the Queen of this tribe."
"Mind your tongue commoner!"
Gaining the wanted attention from the masses, Dobengal moved his feet ever so slightly to the right taunting them in which turn Queen Minea almost closed the gap on his neck apace with it the soldiers nearly caged in on said brunette whose been primed to defend those sworn living upon this land even if such means are in exchange for their own lives. "Such vigor, the Emperor would be pleased of your work queeny. But do try to decompress you're starting to look like that old woman standing beside you." with leaden steps he twirled around raising both of his hand up in the air as if he's in a party of something before pointing a finger at Lireo's present monarch "You!" he began, regaining back the toothy grin "I just want an audience with you, queeny--a simple talk that's all no harm shall be done I assure you." mockingly bowing down to her the kinou noticed in his peripheral upon how much more soldiers are arriving in his little display.
"Am I really worth all this effort?" the brunette got back up on his posture with the collar pressing on his flesh a reflection showing how irritated he's made Queen Minea of his presence who also signaled her soldiers to arrest him and throw the tick back out of her domain borders, upon turning her heel away from Raios' most loyal lackey a viable statement sent a spine chilling revelation of fact "Would you turn down your own blood?" such words made Lireo's Queen halt in her tracks whilst the old pinkenette woman eyes widen in aghast of how this vile kinou became part of the Blood Ties "To who's line do you belong?" overwrought by the old divulgence Porlyusica asked him "Thank Adeline old hag."
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Such commotion now brings us to the following day at this 'talk' as Dobengal had labeled it "I've only permitted your request to discuss present matters and not to confer about such past pretenses." ah yes the past, the past events surely did make an impact on how everything in today's era is what they are "Of course...Your Majesty." poking fun at how he should properly address the monarch sitting in front of him up in her throne, the authority figure standing beside her clashed her sheathed weapon once again down the marbled floor making the brunette shut his mouth once the echoing sound has long but passed out their senses the pale-haired Queen deflated her arm upfront and snapped her fingers together, to begin with, this vexing fiasco.
"At ease."
"Thank you."
"Don't be."
"You're hilarious queeny."
"Speak only of what you're here for imbecile."
"Hah, so the clone speaks after all."
"Quit this foolishness at once, I have more important matters to attend to and I highly suggest you, Dobengal to state your business before my work dies from his frozen organ."
"Such etiquette is astounding bravo! but sadly I did not make all the trouble just to humor you so, let's get down with the real matter shall we?"
"By all means." crossing her leg over the other Lireo's Queen made herself comfortable in her throne and prepared her boxed patience as she cannot stand to even take a single glimpse on this kinou standing before her asking for help that she extremely does not want grant but, by him being Adeline's boy toy made the state of affairs...onerous "I need your help in locating someone." Queen Minea's eyes carefully studied the movement of his mouth and the glowing pink sensory bracelet on his wrist double-checking that he's really saying the truth since this kinou has the talent to alter his own racing guilt of lies into pure truth as if its mere child's play "Couldn't you have achieved that with Raios' help? hence you and all his lackeys serve him as RHEA's Emperor, after all, he did say that I am just a mere Queen of a pot full of dirt, and years prior to my grandchild's birth he humiliated me in front of my own court by saying that I own nothing. So now convince me Dobengal, why should I help his most trusted guard dog?"
Circumstances aren't really in his favor of how terrible his beloved boss has been for years to the amazon he's asking for help knowing that there isn't any possible way she'd help him, Dobengal still risked it anyway since the amazon he's chasing after at all costs cannot be allowed to roam around freely just yet. Modifications upon her being are still in progress the only reason she escaped from her glassed cylinder chamber is by one of Faust's assistant got a little curios more than they should have about the process of her talents being reshaped to resemble that of Milady's talents, so curiosity killed the cat and she opened the chamber Madeline is being kept on allowing her to kill this said assistant upon feeling her presence before her "I do not have any reasonable claims to convince you queeny, but I do care about my boss temper so my paycheck doesn't downgrade to that of a gardener's minimum wage."
Seeing that Dobengal has no asset to back himself up made Lireo's reigning monarch plaster a smile on her lips, enliven upon how honest the kinou is being "What are you after?" startled by her kindness Dobengal cannot help but stare at Queen Minea "I thought your services are not available to me? but what is this? what kind of sick joke are you playing at?" truly the pale-haired amazon is entertained by his honesty but how can she not be? it is hilarious beyond repose...and dark at the same time therefore you see Raios' might be the reason why Jellal's father is long dead but the kinou who committed the order to reality is none other than Dobengal himself by simply protruding a hole in the torso of Queen Minea's husband whom she still had the time to love despite his infidelity towards her with an amazon whom she thought was her friend.
"Don't compare me to your boss Dobengal, and do say what you want before I change my mind." the golden opportunity he's been dreaming of, finally came true beyond his wildest dreams "I need your help in locating my daughter...do the name Madeline Alana Ixion ring a bell?" upon hearing the name of Milady's former lady in waiting and handmaiden both Queen Minea and Porlyusica turned their head to other staring deeply as if they are conversing telepathically "She's your daughter with Adeline?!" the old pinkenette woman asked, "Yes, she is." baffled by the fact she placed a hand above her chest as Porlyusica's pulse began to race "If Madeline truly is Adeline's child then, that makes her the true heir to Zoldanga's throne." it was Sky's turn to speak up hence now that Zoldanga's rightful heir is alive it gives their side more advantage to retaliate, but she is dangerously walking incapacitated broad daylight.
"She is, but her fate is not yours to decide now."
"Excuse me? what makes you think that you are the only one to decide? As her grandmother, I hold the same stature of that right."
"Are you though? you've only known her relevance to you just now, so you tell me Porlyusica, are you really her grandmother in the first place?"
"Enough!" the pale-haired monarch of Lireo whiffed a small sample of Melacholia's winter breeze and circled it around the throne room to pipe down their constant arguing, both Porlyusica and Dobengal gripped their beings from the cold they've felt by the Queen's talents, Sky is unaffected by it hence her body is magnificently modified to stand such phenomenal conditions created by their planet's bizarre ecosystem. A sigh of relief escape Queen Minea's lip as she rested her right elbow at the armrest of her throne, leaning on her fists before beginning to speak up "If I'm not mistaken, Madeline is Ultear's lady in waiting and handmaiden and that she disappeared a year ago without any trace of significance as stated by the reports when the officials of RHEA had looked into her." the pale-haired Queen began calmly "But now that we three know he's your's and Adeline's child...it tips off a slight chance in regaining balance to our arduous era." Dobengal gritted his teeth upon hearing her spat pieces of broken hope.
"You do not understand what you're going be dealing with here queeny."
"Then enlighten me, of what the circumstances are."
"Madeline has been greatly induced in Faust's research ever since she vanished or should I put it stopped serving Minerva Ultear as her lady. I've asked for your help since she's wandering incapacitated in your territory and Raios wants her back to Helium before anything else happens to damage the modifications made to her being."
"You're crazy...Minea, I suggest you kick this asshole out of here for good measure and let me heal Madeline of all that vile modifications they've done to her." Porlyusica counseled the pale-haired Amazonian Queen sitting beside her "You only want Madeline back just because Raios told you so? some father you are." Sky voiced out her opinion in the matter as what the brunette had revealed made her repugnant beyond repose, "Regardless of my responsibilities with my daughter, she did all of these atrocious ways on her own free will." Queen Minea raised her hand to silence the two standing beside her as she lifted the winter breeze surrounding the throne room "Is she in need or in danger?" remembering what Adeline had told him long ago Dobengal smirked mentally as the Amazonian Queen of Lireo sitting in front of him asked the million Cyhea of a question to him "Yes." he replied without hesitation.
"Minea, re-consider this fallacy!" Zoldanga's former Queen pleaded with the pale-haired amazon who closed her eyes not wanting to stress herself out just yet hence the agenda's later on does not welcome such things to the conversation. Seeing that Queen Minea would not change her decision Porlyusica walked down the platform, angrily striding towards the brunette who pocketed both of his hands as the old pinkenette woman strangled the collar of his shirt.
"I won't return my grandaughter to you."
"Quit playing sympathy."
"Lecturing yourself? that's rich."
"You cannot help her."
"Are you disregarding my profession?"
"I do not care about what epithet nor title you have old hag, all I want is to retrieve my unwell child."
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