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________CHAPTER TWENTYONE_______
HATHOR
"Grandma?" Virgo calls upon entering the infirmary, looking for her old-looking grandparent "Hmm?" said doctor pops her head out of the scattered boxes "Did Mirror cheat on Zero?" Virgo wastes no time "Why don't you ask her yourself." Panacea smirks upon getting up, gesturing for Virgo to help her arrange the cabinet "Yeah no thank you." Zoldanga's running heir declines without a hitch "Then ask Zero." Panacea suggests a second option "I'd rather not." Virgo declines a second time "And why is that?" the old amazon turns to her for a moment to be enlightened "Because every time Zero sees me near his beloved darling wife he sends death glares at me like I'm some vile creature responsible for Mirror turning murderous." she slouches a frown upon her features "And why do you think he does that?" Panacea side glances at her "Duh he loves Mirror and wants to protect her at all costs." she tops midway upon what she was doing "...beyond eternal repose at that." Virgo adds with an eye roll.
"Do you think Mirror reciprocates the same devotion to Zero?" Panacea carefully inspects the small bottle in her hands before arranging them in her cabinet "Yeah she does, I mean do you see the way she looks at him?--It's like she was starving or something." Virgo hysterically scrutinizes one of her eyes and her upper limbs performed such movements that posed a confused matter "Bring that box over here please, thank you." the old pinkenette physician points at the box full of medicinal tablets "Now, do you think Mirror cheated on her husband?" Panacea quizzes "...no." such an answer was deficient to Panacea, "You say that but you're still curious and doubtful." she closes the upper half of the cabinet, calling Virgo out on her bs "Grandma is this your way of telling me to talk to Mirror?" Virgo gives her a look "Probably." the former queen of Zoldanga shrugs a sly smile.
"I'm happy with my life."
"But you want to mend things with her, don't you?"
"No? why would I want to get along with my bitch sister? She's just going to ruin my life if she's present." Virgo throws her line of sight aside thinking that it'd solidify her quote on quote loathing for Milady "And yet again your words disagree with your emotions." Panacea flicks Virgo's forehead in which case she pouts whilst rubbing it "That's why you never improved in your talent, you're not truthful to yourself." a scold was shot "You weren't truthful then Grandma too when you betrayed your family." the was a silent pause to Panacea's overall being--she had already chosen to forget that part of her life hence she was left with no choice before Smoking Mirror cornered her into helping commit felony murder "I learned from my mistakes then Virgo," Panacea clears her throat to hide the cracking of it "I hope you and Mirror do too. Excuse me." RHEA's greatest physician leaves with her head low.
Every night after Milady began to officially take hand of Fuzuki's education she was being constantly visited by certain memories of her youth in her dreams at night. Milady hated how it bothered her beauty rest and but at the same time, she couldn't help but think about her nightly dreams to the point that it aggravated her once the sun has rose over the horizon of Lireo. Milady had further shoved back the memory of how she met the red-headed amazon whom her father calls his grandmother, Milady had asked me one time during the night when she was disturbed by this said dream, upon why was she getting them back, the way her eyes sneered at me beyond eternal repose was proof that she highly wants it to be put on on a halt or better yet, stop to further existing in the first place.
All the answers I was able to provide to her is that she might, or might not need it in the future that is about to come so she should just allow it to naturally come to her. There was yet another thing that she couldn't remember to ask me about and those were the vision passing by here and there in each scenario as if an external force created a barricade of sorts whether or not Milady should remember them or not--will she ever remember them? Is the question that had been plaguing her.
"""Where's the stupid orb?" the amazon with long red hair looked down at me from her towering height her voice treading on calmness's tin line "Orb?" I repeated utterly confused as to what is this supposed orb she was looking for, my answer seemed to have insulted her hence her brows knitted together and the frown on her lips turned to that of grimace "Don't play dumb with me little girl where is that damned thing?!" her upper limb came in to vastly grab the collar of my shirt like a crane's claw, Father became alarmed of our relative's action "My daughter is saying the truth grandmother, she does not have it." Father was extremely ready to catch me in case his grandmother drops me out of her angry hold "Does not have it?!" she looks over my shoulder to glare at Father "Yet, she does not have it yet." he made an excuse to save my skin.
The other amazons surrounding us watched in silence as their leader's blood boiled beyond repose "Yet? Not yet?" she sarcastically laughs to herself "Not yet?! you are hearing yourself talk Raios--where is it?!" she shoves me into my father's chest "I, I don't know--" he began to nervously sweat and stutter in front of her and it was confusing me even more "Don't know? you are the emperor of RHEA! IMBECILE!" father places a protective hand over my head as the tall amazon yells at him, some drops of her saliva even flying out from her mouth. "Calm down." an amazon with a cross scar on her lower cheek placed a hand on our relative's shoulder "I'll take it from here for a while." she offered and the tall angry amazon complied striding back into her tent, once she had disappeared the amazon with a scar turned her attention at us...her eyes where burning flames at mine.""
Milady was beginning to dread the dreams that kept visiting her here and there during the night when she was supposed to have a peaceful beauty rest after being railed by Zero with his insane libido. According to Hibiki last week if it wasn't for the curse they both have, Milady and Zero would have had a bunch of children already from often they do it behind closed doors since Milady got better. People often believe that if you dream about a particular someone, it means that they miss your presence--well in this case Raios misses the selfish talent of his beloved firstborn daughter. The three youngsters were able to take advantage of today, with Milady's consent, of course, to drop by Kaito's workplace hence Ethan hasn't met the silvered haired bartender yet, Nox has met the lover of his best friend a couple of weeks ago, plus Ignatius has to give her lover an invite that Queen Minea has distributed for the brunch that will be held in a few days.
Much joy to half of the Rhiannon's, only a few months away and Melancholia will finally be over for half of RHEA'S prestigious tribes. Undeniably enough Lireo's pale-haired monarch was also extremely looking forward to the frozen tundra's departure that aside, today was the scheduled day for Fuzuki's pulse transfer, and just like what Milady had promised the blonde kinou Rhiannon's who could hold down Zero if he tries anything funny are present such as Milady, Panacea, Queen Minea, Sky, Lancel, Galaxia and especially Hibiki, "Zeus's pole, Sting calm down you look like you're about to kill Zero. Fuzuki will be fine, he won't do such rash actions anymore. He promised that to Milady and also look around us, ain't no way Zero would be able to pull that off." Hibiki elbows the tensed blonde, motioning to look at everyone present within the throne room watching Zero perform his talents on Fuzuki.
Panacea created a link between her and the little raven girl so she can measure how much tolerance Fuzuki will be able to intake per pulse "I'm gonna kill him if he pulls a stunt here." the daggers sheathed on the blonde's thighs were sharpened to their best just for this day, Hibiki saw first hand how they gleamed earlier when he came by to Sting's designated bedroom "You sure are grumpy today." Milady greeted chuckling as she walked over by their side in the throne room "Hey Milady," the orangette acknowledge hence the blonde's attention was engrossed on watching the safety of his precious daughter "Hibiki," she tipped her head to the side and the orangette smiled before turning their attention too at the show going on in the middle of the throne room "I came by to tell you something." Milady says upon crossing her arms on her chest, her organ of sight not leaving Zero.
"What is it?" Sting inquires shifting his weight to the side when he exhaled "When the time comes for Fuzuki to peacefully rest, we won't be able to hide the fact that she came from the both of us...people will start to ask questions regarding her." Milady boredly scrutinizes her eyes at Fuzuki's fragile being "Can't we just tell the public that she was born by blood?" Hibiki adds his opinion in the mix in case it helps to solve the predicament "That's what Zero suggested as well but like I've told him, the timing isn't right. The biggest issue we'll encounter is that she'll look eighteen by the time she sleeps and Fuzuki has mine and Sting's features perfectly blended in her." Milady reminds them making Hibiki deeply stare at Fuzuki's facial features seeing the facts.
"Any ideas Milady?" Hibiki shrugs his shoulders, upon the heavy curtains closing dimming the room "That's why I came by to hear if you two have some to impart." Sting snaps his fingers together activating his talent to provide light most of it centered on Rhiannon's standing in the middle of the room "Sting, got some ideas on your noggin?" Hibiki yawns stretching his upper limbs "I have one that won't allow Milady's reputation to suffer anymore, we can make this work." he relaxes when Zero stopped transferring Milady's pulse for a two-minute-long break, Panacea crouches down on the little raven girl's level asking if she's alright to which case she nodded and the old pinkenette physician gave her a small cube of chocolate "Let's hear it then." Milady implies whilst tapping her painted nails on her left elbow.
"Milady might not be able to alter how my daughter's time here on RHEA looks from how much extending she's done, but she certainly can alter the time perception of other people so Fuzuki will appear to be but a child to them and her features all similar to mine. It needs to be kept until the end of her fu-funeral..." Sting's voice cracks upon the mental image of Fuzuki in a casket, sucking in the heartache to continue with the plan he came up "...on the other hand, Hibiki will keep tabs on all the scapes of those Rhiannon's that will visit." Fuzuki waves at her parents whilst munching on the chocolate Panacea gave her, Sting and Milady waved back at the little girl, who was now able to fully comprehend the height of her mother standing beside the talking blonde. Milady mostly wears five inched heels at her disposal hence Zero has an edge of height against her, the difference in their heights is ten inches to be precise.
"It will reach the news Sting, her death, how she came about--everything. We need to prepare for that too." Milady added to which Sting counters with this "Once people start to ask any of us, intrusive questions we avoid them or better yet, ignore them completely, and regarding the news let's reshape the plan to that of altering the perception in all the Rhiannon's of RHEA once the funeral ends, we'll also be needing help from one of my relatives to pose as a fake parent to Fuzuki." Sting clasps his hands together feeling a bit chilly from seeing Zero begin again to start transferring Milady's pulse on his beloved daughter "That is a massive scale." Hibiki shivers at the thought of it hence they got fooled just like that by Milady when she first came to Ephedia to study--more like kill the respective heirs of each tribe "Can you do it Milady?" Hibiki looks at Milady, so does Sting for verification.
"Of course it won't be an issue. I've done it beforehand honestly you two know that." a naughty smirk plasters across Milady's lips knowing that Sting got goosebumps hence that was how he died the first time around. "Really when?" Hibiki wanted a recap of things a silly grin etching on his lips as he pretended not to know, whereas the blonde got a bit annoyed by the topic but at the same time curious to know "When I planned to be enrolled at Ephedia." Milady humors him "What the--that's two decades ago? You managed to do something like that when you were ten years old?!" Aulora's royal noble face palms pretending to be flabbergasted beyond repose shaking the blonde's shoulder while he's at it "Yeah, and?" Milady giggles proud of herself "What on RHEA," Hibiki playfully clings to Sting's tensed right arm who lost his balance from the sudden action received "That is extraordinary, Milady." the blonde kinou comments as Milady caught him before she too gets toppled over by Hibiki's tendencies "Thank you, Sting." she helps him get back on his proper posture.
"Where are the three youngsters anyway?" Hibiki subverts the topic hence Sting gave him a glare to which he ignored by being annoying "Milady had them met Ignatius lover." Sting imparts the information of where the three are upon fixing his disheveled clothes "Did he pass your standards Milady?" Hibiki wanted to know hence the other kinou's Ignatius dated almost died of extreme fear from learning that the redhead is working faithfully for Milady "Standards? I'm not Ignatius' mother," Milady raises her brow at Hibiki's question, Sting was listening to them talk "She can date him or whoever else she wants as long as they--" she waves her hand dismissing it but before she could finish the orangette kinou finishes it for her.
"But they should treat her with respect." he clings again to Sting hyper extremely close to his personal space upon saying those words to him "That was rude but yes, they should treat her with respect." Milady irritatingly continues turning her attention back to Fuzuki, Hibiki grins like a fool upon succeeding to annoy the beloved spouse of his best friend "Are you sure you're not her mother, Milady?" Hibiki guides Sting's hand to poke Milady shoulder and the blonde has to admit he's sort of getting infected with the orangette kinou's blossoming annoying energy
"Her best friend's mother." Milady rolls her eyes and subverts her attention back at her husband who's transferring a much-needed life on her illegitimate daughter with Sting. "By the way how many pulses did you donate for Fuzuki?" said good looking blonde that raped her asks.
"Twenty." the two kinou's stare at Milady for a good minute in taking what came out of her plump lips "Twenty? twenty?!" Hibiki whispered yelled hence the ball of pulse that Zero started with earlier wasn't that huge of proof that it was twenty pulses more than the rest it merely looked like it was only ten pulses at least "Milady that's a lot are you sure?" The blonde needed to make sure hence it was unexpected on his part considering how much distance Milady had created between her and the little raven girl "It is alright...would you rather I take it back?" Milady side faces him "No, no, but still...I, I--thank you." Sting was about to spout something but choose to cut it short to simple gratitude instead of feeling that it would make him look kind of ungrateful if he would have continued to say what he originally had in mind "I'll live Sting and sure...your welcome?" Milady acknowledges...but her last words came out as more with a hint of unsureness in them.
"Do you have water? this thing is disgusting!" Ethan eyed the drink given to him by Kaito, who was drying the glasses his co-worker washed earlier with a white cloth "Just excuse him Kay," Ignatius smiled at her lover whilst pushing aside the little ravenette monster so much so that he fell off his seat, it is a good thing Ethan can make himself lighter or else he would have face-planted straight to the newly waxed floor "Hey! you don't get to act all high and mighty because your loverboy is working here--get off my seat stupid bitch!" Ethan pushed her off claiming his chair once again "Why you!" Ignatius vastly got up from the floor and began attacking the teen raven, the other employees just ignored them hence they were too busy cleaning up the alehouse and mostly because they knew that this Rhiannon's worked for Milady and they wanted to avoid the confrontation against her.
"They're always like that." Nox sighs as he took it upon himself to talk to Kaito while the two argued among themselves "Ya don't say." Kaito glances over them a little bit worried for the redhead amazon hence Milady's prodigy was pulling on Ignatius's hair like it's a rope used for hauling up the sails of a ship "And Ethan isn't allowed to drink any type of firewater yet, and even if he was I don't think he would honestly." Nox rotates the ice cubes in his empty glass "Why is that?" Kaito took the initiative to pour the white kinou another glass of rum "Because he's too obsessed with drinking water." he says chuckling upon bringing the glasses rim to his lips drinking the fiery liquid down his throat "Oh okay, I assumed he would cause usually Rhiannon's his age that I see around here, are extremely heavy alcohol drinkers--are they really gonna be okay?" He watches Nox down the alcohol, reminiscing a few days ago when they had a couple of teenaged customers drinking till they're ready to pass out.
"You saw how he reacted when you gave him a glass of vodka, and yeah don't worry they'll pipe down later on." Nox looks over the chaotic duo "Uhhh...?" the silvered hair kinou almost dropped the glass he was drying upon catching a glimpse of Ethan aggressively punching Ignatius' bust, his organ of sight had to blink multiple times to make sure that he didn't just imagine that scenario, "Oh, by the way, you already met Milady right?" Nox became aware of this from seeing it on the glasses reflection and asked the perplexed kinou a vast question to distract him "Yeah," Kaito looks up from what he was currently doing answering the thrown interview "How'd it go?" Nox quizzes interested to know how he managed to handle talking to Milady without stuttering here and there and most importantly avoiding eye contact with her like most Rhiannon's do "It went alright? her expression was impeccably hard to read but I managed to talk to her at least I suppose?" Kaito doubts himself.
"Wow, congrats," whereas Nox was amused by how the silvered-haired lover of his best friend managed to calm himself down enough to not freak out in front of a well-known murderer "Thanks though I did my best. I think?" I love the way this Rhiannon bartender keeps on thinking about whether his past actions were alright or completely humiliatingly klutz "The previous kinou's that Tia dated back then were, scared beyond eternal repose when they found out that Tia was working for Milady and immediately broke up with her." Nox frowns at the memory of Ignatius crying to him because some jackass left her "I won't do something like that." isn't this what everyone says? when they're just freshly intoxicated with one another? then a few weeks or months later they suddenly they broke up--interesting anyway "Suurree, whatever you say." he takes a minimal drink off his glass.
"I gotta say though the versatile pet your mother had creeped me out." Kaito reveals whilst placing the dried glasses in their proper case within the island "Oh, you mean Salt? she's cute though." Milady's foster son can attest to this hence the little catfish is kind and tame to him "Cute...?" Kaito looks up from what he was doing utterly puzzled as to what was cute about a shape-shifting critter that stared at him all throughout the duration of that night he met Milady for the first time in his life "And she's a Meraki, Milady loves her. Speaking of love--you do love my best friend, right? right?" Nox relies upon what type of creature Milady's pet is and interrogates Ignatius's lover his expression dead ass serious "Yeah, of course, I do love her." his own words made him grin like a fool to himself "Good then...because if you don't I'll fucking kill you." but Nox's following response had Kaito caught off guard leaving him to promptly peek his head out from the island to make sure that he heard that right--because he certainly heard Milady's foster son say that he's going to kill him "Excuse me what?"
"Oh, nothing~" Nox smiles dismissing the threat he just posed to the silvered haired bartender "O-okay...?" Cold sweat was evident on the silvered haired kinou's forehead as he got back to what he was doing so he can get paid and pay his own bills whilst he was busy doing that Nox felt a tiny thing hit one of the stands of his stool chair, upon looking down he saw a piece of an envelope that was an invite for a brunch that Queen Minea will hold in a few days and the printed name of the invitee was Kaito's name, Nox bent down a bit to reach for it flipping the scented envelope two times to make sure that it wasn't damaged or anything from how much Ignatius and Ethan are writhing each other necks. "Hey, Kaito," Milady's foster son called the busy kinou's attention who looked up to see what did Nox wanted "Here," to which case he handed the scented invite over.
"What's this?" Kaito gets up from behind the island analyzing the piece of paper given to him "The Queen Minea will hold a brunch in a few days, Tia was supposed to give it to you but as you can see she's currently preoccupied with arguing with Ethan over there, so yeah." Nox gestured at the yelling two behind him "I'm invited? why?" The silvered-haired kinou was basically nobody to the royal blood's of their tribe, Lireo, so he extremely pondered upon how did he get an exclusive invite to a brunch their beloved monarch will hold in a few days time. "You're dating Tia, and besides that's the only time my foster father will be able to meet you personally. Milady might have a lot of time on her plate but my dad doesn't." Zero seriously needs to separate himself from those papers and his desk hence his firearms are getting jealous from all the attention he's been giving the paperwork.
"Your foster father? the crown prince of our tribe? His Royal Highness Zero Yugen Edurne? wants to meet me?" The whole idea of it seems lucid to him--because it was "You sure are shocked, but yeah he does." Nox finishes his drink placing the glass gently on the island's surface watching Kaito open the envelope involuntarily inhaling more of its lovely whiff upon the removal of the seal and reading through the back of the pale bluish card inside said envelope whilst pouring himself another glass of rum "What do I need to wear?" Ignatius's lover asks hence he did not find any printed text regarding the dress code that should be followed on the card's back page, completely missing the part over at the other side of the said card he's holding "Uh...? Clothes obviously." Nox pauses his hands' mid inches away from touching his lips giving the silvered-haired bartender a hypothetical look "I mean what is the dress code? Formal, casual--you know the works?" Kaito cleared up his words for better understanding hence his first words were kind of missing the exact context in them.
"Turn up the invite, I'm sure it says it upfront on what to wear once you flip it." Nox taps the scented card in Kaito's hand to which case he turns said card around "It says formal clothing." the silvered Rhiannon reads the printed text out loud and a small frown etched upon his lips after the words passed by "There you go--you okay Kaito?" Nox places the bottle of firewater gently on the island's surface once his glass was two fingers full "Yeah, yeah, but umm...this is the only formal garment I own." Kaito gestures to his currently worn garb "Nu-uh you can't and will not show up looking like that." Nox eyed the bartenders uniform for a good second thinking that this won't do "Why not? It did say here--" winter clothes are far more important to the commoners of Lireo for obvious reasons "Look, first you're not going to work there, second it's brunch you'll be mistaken as a servant serving the platters if you wear your work uniform there, and thirdly we're getting you brand new clothes to wear for that exact brunch after your shift is done." before Kaito could even speak to decline the offer of being bought new clothes, the little ravenette monster came about.
"Why wait till his shift is done? Let's just go right now!--OWW! THE HECK BITCH?!" Ethan falls away from Ignatius to Nox's side adding his voice into the conversation upon hearing that they would be leaving the alehouse but said redhead hit him on the head as she too joined in "Idiot! Kaito can't leave on his work hours just like that he won't get paid if he does!" Ignatius sat on her best friend's right propping her elbow up the islands' surface "Ehhh?!?! You had such a massive audacity to say that, but you do that all the time and you still get paid--freeloader!" Ethan massages the swollen part of his noggin and claps back "Because it's Milady, she's kind and considerate enough to understand what I'm going through." by hearing Ignatius call Milady to be such a kind amazon, had some of the alehouse employees raise a doubtful thought heavily judging upon how would Milady become someone who is kind and considerate with such a notorious reputation at the palm of her hands.
Ever since the pale-haired monarch's speech ended Queen Evergreen has been taken to the comforts of her spouse's royal palace to stay until Raios would allow her to leave, he needed her empire's entire resource disposal at his side now that Milady is no longer on his manipulative control "How is she doing?" his calm demeanor terrified his wife's handmaiden "Her Majesty has refused to eat a single bite of her food for the past few days." Mayari looks to the side and not the floor, upholding her dignity in a way hence she is not from Helium after all--Zoldanga's former queen gave her to watch over Queen Evergreen due to her strong fighting spirit "Why?" Raios raised a brow upon feeling an all too familiar pain in his abdomen "She doesn't say much about it, Your Excellency...I apologize." Mayari dreaded the way she apologized to Helium's reigning sovereign. "No one shall come in nor interrupt." Raios voice echoes in the hallway, Queen Evergreen is by far the only Rhiannon that Raios treats with the utmost care and affection. And you mortal reading this are about to find out why.
"Conri, stand guard outside." he commands the brunette kinou "Understood, Your Excellency." to which case the blood talent user agreed without a second thought. "Evergreen." the raven-haired tyrant called the name of his wife, who had her back facing him unmoving from her current spot on the enormous bed "Evergreen." Raios stops in his tracks as she lightly looks over her shoulder, her eyes both puffy and red "What do you want?" she asks her tone poisonous "I need you to eat this." Raios kicks the small table's legs making the cold food jump from the sudden action RHEA's emperor caused "Huh...no." those were enough to aggravate him hence they both share the same ailings--Queen Evergreen has made an eternal link between the two of them to prevent Raios from doing any kind of brutal harm to her, be it may physical, or emotional any kind of pain will be shared to one another.
Raios has been eating his daily fill of nourishment but his wife hasn't so he's been constantly feeling starved like a homeless person and a Sikota, the thought of it irks him beyond repose, he has long wanted to exactly force-feed the pink-haired monarch but he too would feel the pain of it on his own jaw "Eat the damned food before I shove it down your throat!" he harshly grabs her face to the point that it looked like his fingers would puncture her cheeks "Go ahead then." Panacea's second child challenges the angered kinou in front of her, a mischievous smirk etched upon her lips waiting for the action Raios declared to do if she refuses to eat her food willingly. Their eyes bore at each other for dominance, the raven-haired tyrant could feel the talent of his wife seeping through but he held through with his own talent. A familiar growling sound was emitted from both of their abdomens, two small circular bruises were making themself visible on both of Raios's cheeks.
"Nourish yourself right.now."
"No."
The raven tyrant loosened his grip off Queen Evergreen's cheek from the pure annoyance of what he's receiving out of it, she watched the way he paced back and forth rapidly in front of her his breathing racing along with it "Show me my daughter first." she proposed him a compromise by word only knowing that Raios cannot do what she asks hence both their children are nowhere near the vicinity of the tribes they govern over "You know damned well she's not here--NEITHER OF THEM IS HERE EVERGREEN!!" he was losing his shit over this hunger he's been feeling and the pink-haired monarch of Zoldanaga was enjoying watching him suffer the same ache she is experiencing "I won't--" before she could relay her words Raios grabbed a handful of the cold viaticum and stuffed it to her mouth. She choked on it and so did he but it doesn't matter, for now, hence the more food he shoves down her throat the faster the ache in his stomach will disappear. A few stains of said nourishment decorated the edges of Queen Evergreen's lips by the time she finished swallowing and Raios was helping her wipe it off with a clean piece of cloth out of her beautiful features.
"Are you okay?" he asks calmly "You had some audacity asking me that after you just forced me to eat." Raios gently traced the evident bruise on her cheeks that made her wince a bit when his cold fingers danced across "You needed it." he gave her a chaste kiss on her temple, getting up from the bed throwing off the cloth into the bathrooms trash bin "I don't." Queen Evergreen spoke after him "You do. Hence I refuse to die from such a pathetic reason such as hunger," RHEA's emperor stared at his appearance at the mirror for a good thirty seconds before going back in the main room "You need to live...so I can." He pauses his steps in front of her "Raios, you are fully aware that I can murder myself any time I want, and you will cease to exist as well." A reminder that he always has a mental note on "Whoever said I'll allow you to kill yourself? You are not allowed to die until I say so." He lifts her chin to look up at him.
"You are not a deity."
"Watch me become one."
"You will never manage to impress her Raios." Zoldanga's monarch adverts her eyes upon seeing the concupiscent glint in her husband's organ of sight "Oh really? then why is she complimenting me then? that is progress." He drops his hand back to his sides agitated by the pinkenette monarch's phraseology "She's fooling you." Queen Evergreen still had an ounce of hope that the kinou she married would see the bigger picture despite his sky-high ambitions "Why does everyone keep telling me that? hmm?" a sarcastic chuckle escapes his lips "Because it is factful, you saw first hand what she did in the past Raios and what she's capable of doing, what makes you think that this time is any different than before?" Queen Evergreen lays out the table of the list to him that Raios chooses to ignore beyond repose due to a desired--no, wanted validation out from someone related to him by blood.
"That time has passed...this is now." he counters, walking away from her to the direction of the small liquor table in their shared chambers here at Helium, the sound of two glass cylinders being opened can be heard such a pungent smell of bourbon and lime lingered within the cold songs feeling, ice cubes cannot be added hence the weather is terribly cold around them right now, a hint of water was added into the mix of his drink to release its flavor around his tongue once they met inside his mouth "Do you honestly think she's become different? that's rich because the deranged does not change no matter how long--" while his wife was busy reminding him he took two glasses of the strong liquor cutting her off mid-sentence once refilling his third glass, turning around to face each her combative wordings "You dare say such words but you were there Evergreen, you saw how your aging mother cured her." The raging snow outside rattled the windows of their bedroom.
"I am self-aware of what has transpired Raios," Queen Evergreen fixes her long button-up velour "It's good that you are." Raios tips his glass eyeing her actions in case she tries to do something rash like Virgo did when she was taken here at Helium "I am warning you, she did not progress beyond after she was cured." she stands up from the bed to the bathroom wanting to thoroughly wash her face despite it already wiped clean by her forcefully loved over time spouse, Queen Evergreen's matrimony is kind of a similar branch to that of her dearest friend, Queen Minea "Brah, the diamonds fangs I've been sending them are helping, not only her but all of them." he empties half of the liquor in his glass eyebrows furrowing at the thought of how he could find more diamond fangs to supply to them.
"Helping them, yes, but the people mining those fangs you are so proud of? are dying! Raios, they're dying because of you!" she barges out of the bathroom flustered with anger, jabbing a finger on his chest. "It's not like I forced them to work, they willingly applied to work there." Raios scoffed ignoring the glare his wife is giving him--but wait, he has a point though, no one forced the Rhiannons born in Helium to do such prejudicial work--so in order to survive the current damned situation, they forced themselves to bargain their own lives to a sharp blade held against their necks. Helium's prestige has fallen so far down the drain that everyone has already forgotten its beauty, Autarchy War instruments have inflicted such long-lasting damage all over our homeworld that every time a none royal blood/elite cracks a smile or be grateful about something they instantly regret it knowing that tomorrow will be worse than today had to offer.
"Yes you did not, but that amazon started it and you just went along all willy nilly to further cultivate its corruption like mere child's play--those are human lives! You might not be able to hear their daily aches but I do!" she places both her hands on her chest to indicate her point to which he clapped his eyes at. "The solution to your problem is easy my love--ignore them." Raios uses his free hand to touch Queen Evergreen's long wavy hair, appreciating the way it slides off his hand the very same hand that personally killed her first husband so the raven-haired tyrant could replace him "Our daughter was right, how did I even come to the conclusion to even love someone like you." she sighs defeated "Just be pretty like you always do Evergreen," he begins, offering her the glass to finish it off for him in which case she gladly took dowing the remaining firewater that was settling in it shoving it back in his hands making him smirk
"I hate it when you run your mouth against me and question our matrimony when it's already too late," he leaves her standing there, returning the used glass back to where it previously belonged. Queen Evergreen clutches the collar of her clothes knowing well, the sound of a buckle unfastening made her exhale an annoyance "...now use that mouth of yours for good purposes." Zoldanga's monarch pinches the bridge of her nose and one hand on her hip "Hence the reason I talk." she side faces the raven kinou, who was now sitting at the edge of the massive furniture they sleep in "Quit yammering and just take it already." he demands flicking his wrist at her to which she complied wanting to just get it over with "I'll puke if you shove another thing down my throat." the pink-haired monarch could feel the avid predisposition as she kneels in front of his pelvic-girdle, rolling her eyes upon pulling down the garment covering it "Hurry up." the emperor of RHEA demands.
After the pulse transfer whenever Fuzuki went around about the palace walls of Lireo, she always wondered what was beyond those walls anyway, why was she restricted to go past that barricade? So she took it upon her father to ask why (her appearance was already of a ten-year-old) and he only told her the first time around that melancholia is far meaner outside the palace walls. Sting also already took the liberty to tell Milady his decision regarding Fuzuki's education which was made due to the raven-haired pre-teens pleading and puppy eyes, the blonde kinou also warned Milady to never teach Fuzuki any of the things she has taught Ethan over the years, and she found it amusing enough to tease him about it all. During Fuzuki's first few lessons with Milady, Sting had to be personally there to make sure that no steps upon how to murder someone will be involved nor mentioned--Ethan occasionally tried to pester Sting of course while he was at the library which is unavoidable.
Fuzuki on the other hand was always telling her father later on the day whatever she learned from Milady, the little girl won't stop talking about it until her bedtime comes around. Everything was going about smoothly from a far simple perspective. So a good minute let's go outside that almost ideal perspective and take a look at the bigger picture that is--RHEA, you can see from this angle how awful the destroyed tribes appear dull of any color, the blood-red sands of Aulora are currently nothing but a massive block of ice, bodies of water surrounding Xeris have all turned into solid glaciers. Borealis' golden fields are all blank of life from the frozen tundra, Calix was shrouded in pitiful darkness beyond repose, and lastly, Helium and Zoldanga can barely be seen from the thick song covering it. Once melancholia has departed all of those valuable resources will soon sulk.
Two older kinou's namely Hibiki and Sting are currently taking a break from their job, the latter wrapped his upper body with a throw blanket upon sitting down on the sofa that was near the furnace "Sting, you okay?" Aulora's royal noble asked his long-time comrade hence Sting was noticeably ill-humored by the slightest of things for the past week now, there was even one instance he almost snapped at a palace servant for merely bumping into him in the hallway "No." he began playing with his dagger upon sitting down the opposite couch of where Hibiki was seated at "Wanna talk about it?" another careful inquiry to not tick off the latter "Yeah.." Sting vexatiously admits upon grabbing a piece of firewood and dumping it down the fireplace, making it cackle upon eating said thrown resource of nature.
"Go on," the orangette kinou encouraged Sting to speak out the burden he was carrying "The nearer Fuzuki nears to appear like a teen--it scares me Hibiki, I've gotten so used to having her presence around me in so little time that...that...I don't think I'll be able to go on normally like before without my daughter being there. Damnit!" he stabbed the ipil table hard much so that it astounded the orangette enough to make his eyes grow wide for a good second "I know what I did to Mirror a year ago was wrong beyond repose but this price? It's too much." the dagger did not fail to shine through its own glimmer whilst piercing down the small furniture.
"You know," the orangette begins "If it wasn't for Raios's upbringing, Milady wouldn't have earned the curse she has now." Hibiki lazily turns his head to Sting whose eyes were fixated on the burning fire in front of them "It seems like every problem we have nowadays is all linked to that asshole." Milady's father is basically the first motivational instigator Rhiannons thinks about first when the word evil is put up for question regarding the current era's situation "He is the emperor--so it's only cynical that all the bad things are rooted to him." Hibiki giggles as he turned his eyes over to look at the ceiling "Then it's only fair that I kill him then maybe so all of these terrible occurrences stop existing in the first place." Sting sarcastically chuckles to himself, grabbing his dagger's hilt taking it out from the table--an evident slit hole was now embedded on it.
"I also had those thoughts around the time my mom and Arcana passed away. I couldn't help but idiotically blame myself for the things I had no control over," he paused, looking at his left hand remembering how he struggled to cope with the death of his loved ones "For years I was unable to be genuinely happy because of their deaths, I kept having the deprived thoughts of avenging them heck I was even angry at Milady for some time because I didn't know the full details of the facts." The blonde peaked to look at Hibiki "I never knew you hated her at some point." Sting comments hence he never knew that part until now because he was deceased around that time still "I'm over it..." Hibiki chuckles as he adjusts his lower limbs hence they were beginning to go numb from the previous placement they were in.
"Milady wasn't at fault, her tyrant father is. He manipulated and later on guiltily forced Milady into doing something she never wanted to do in the first place." the orangette noble continued, their silence prevailed for some passing minutes none of them dared to break it apart at first upon taking in or should I say, how much they got deceived back then by Raios's plot and the reminiscing of it scared them of what more he could have possibly done up to this day if Milady never swayed out of what being a faithful lackey to his personal selfish goals "Do their resting places still stand today?" the blonde kinou asked nicely, it was the first this week that his tone of speaking took on that kind of sincerity.
"It does but...they're probably covered in debris at this point." Hibiki recollected the last time he went to visit the different separated graves of his mother and deceased fiance, honestly, he doesn't even know if either of those places could be classified as their final resting place from how offended it has been treated throughout the years they have laid to eternal peace and rest. Arcana's burial place has been surrounded by huge bodies of water that dared move without any following a perfect flow and aside from that huge broken pillars littered about where you should place the candles and flowers. Whereas the resting place of the orangette's mother was nearly buried in the thick red sand, cacti, and snakes practically inhabited the nooks and crannies of the decaying logs that tumbled over it.
"Doesn't matter as long as it's there..." his eyes seemed tired from Hibiki's perspective it made him think to himself if Sting ever did sleep last night or night from worrying about Fuzuki's remaining time here on RHEA "Fair point." Hibiki smiled whilst shrugging his shoulders, appreciating the kind-hearted compassion his long-time comrade had for the deceased Rhiannon's they treasure with so much value "Why do we even have to reach the reachable finish line at some point anyway," the blonde began, and chuckled at his own sarcasm before continuing with the following "Everybody practically hates reaching it. The damned unending reach just had to be cut short in some way possible." immortal youth or eternal youth as they like to call it, is the lowest tier of immortality just so you know mortal reading this.
"You sure are taking this full circle." the aulorian noble shrugged his shoulders as he opted to lighten up the mood hence Sting brought on an existentially heavy topic into their conversation "..." the blonde scowled at Hibiki's commentary on his current taken serious demeanor "Yes the deities have blessed us with immortal youth, but that doesn't make us any stranger to future death, of course, we are given a choice to avoid that by taking care of our health hence if we don't we pay the price...and in times like this? it sucks when we know that we can't avoid death or stop someone we love from dying." Hibiki humored Sting's words "I've already known that for years Hibiki, your father taught us all about that multiple times..." his irritable tone made a slight comeback. "I know, I know. All that I'm trying to say here is that I understand, the dreading anguish you are going through right now, and if you ever need someone to talk to about stuff like this, I'll listen to you without judgment." Hibiki patted Sting's right shoulder.
"I'll take you up on that...thanks," during their youth, the two of them are often paired up by King Loki during their class time hence he knows that his only child needed to be infected with Sting's heavy blessing granted of an intellect with the added bonus that their talents played swiftly with one another during their combat-related classes. Hibiki and Sting are the original team's fastest runners a contrast to Arcade and Zero, who are their heavy hitters, Arcana can play the duty of being in close combat according to King Loki's perspective, whereas lastly, Milady served as their team's chick as during the time she perfectly put on the facade of the most useless team member to fool them of her true capabilities. People assume that those individuals who trained under King Loki are equipped in handling a wide array of situations.
That is both a lie and a fact on its own, given the history of what happened to the kids, King Loki taught during his time teaching in Ephedia.
"Your Welcome--and now that you have agreed quit being irritable, hence your kind of mirroring Zero when he's sexually frustrated." Sting was about to get up on his seat to put more firewood into the burning furnace but he was stopped from making those actions upon hearing what had just come out of Hibiki's lips, he slowly craned his head at the orangette kinou who had one of his eyes closed, a silly grin etched all over "What on RHEA...that was too much information." the look of disgust on Sting's face is immeasurable "Nah, it was just right." Hibiki just laughed it off whilst placing his upper limbs behind his head, gently leaning back on his seat. Organ of sight now paid well attention to the furred gecko walking up the ceiling eyeing back at him curiously.
"And wait just a minute, how did you even manage to know what that pulse-sucking bastard looks like when he's sexually frustrated?" Sting asked curious, not wanting to assume that Hibiki listened or accidentally probably saw Zero edging himself over Milady's beauty that Sting was also formerly losing his head over too--the thought of Milady's features had cringed shivers running down his spine. Sting loves to gift the amazons he liked armbands made of pure gold hence his family always expresses their gratitude or fondness for someone by giving them material things that hold such a high value take jewelry, for example, Milady was one of the lucky two to receive this armband made of gold "The expression was plastered all over his face whilst signing the papers when Milady was still sick a year ago if I remember correctly it was around the time when we first came here to Lireo." Hibiki placed a finger at the side of his lip upon recollecting the memory of when he served part-time as Zero's assistant.
"The fuck...?" Sting couldn't believe what he was hearing right now--he never wanted more to erase what he just heard so badly in his life "What did I say Sting? Hmm?" Hibiki double-tapped Sting's forehead like one does to an aquarium to know if the fish you bought as a pet is still alive and kicking "Fine." The blonde sighed defeated, but before he could open his lips a second time to speak something that was on his mind Hibiki beat him to it "Great! Now all I need to do is find you a girlfriend." Milady's trusted right-hand kinou swingly clung to the blonde who was taken by surprise by the fact that the fiance of his deceased niece was also playing matchmaker just like Arcana back then "Seriously Hibiki??" the latter only laughed upon reading what was running on Sting's scape.
"Oh and Sting?"
"Yeah?"
"Let's visit them one of these days."
"Sure, that be great."
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Each side was carefully planning out their own stratagems to win but it was blatantly obvious that Verity's side on this war has much more of a chance of winning it for themselves from the variety of experienced combatants Rhiannon's that chose to join their side rather than be on the losing end of the stick, right now most of the important players in the blood bath are countering up are plan that could erupt extreme reckless anger from their enemies side "We can't just start assassinating their children one by one because that would alert them to the point that we wouldn't even manage to know where those kids are going to be hidden the next time we try to discontinue their existence here on RHEA." Dejah points out hence what the second-highest valtorian had suggested earlier can only be described as reckless and full of needy blood lust.
"The children are innocent of their parent's actions, do we seriously need to bring them into this? Don't you think that is kind of unjust?" the peach-haired spouse of General Loki placed her voice in for argument hence she did have a valid point, they were only children, and they absolutely had no stain of bloodshed on their lives yet--they are not to be held responsible for something they never did in the first place "This is a war, nobody is innocent--young or old. Nothing here is ever going to be fair no matter what angle you look at it." a dark-skinned amazon with tattoos over and below her eyes countered the statement General Loki's wife had made, said orangette kinou glared daggers at the bronzed valtorian upon shielding his pregnant spouse.
"Although," Ren began his words in order to save the peach amazon from getting ganged up on by the valtorians much to General Loki's relief, not forgetting to telepathically thank the ravenette kinou that only dismissed it aside "It is obvious that we have a much bigger advantage especially when it comes to resources, but we can't keep on dragging this further on longer than it should..." all of their attention was now on him they were slowly beginning to take on where he was going with this and the valtorians present mood are turning bitter "...this warfare is no longer benefiting us." those words were enough to make the valtorian's blood boil "We've already gotten what we wanted isn't that already enough? admit it or not our own exchequer is nearly in the state of bankruptcy--" Ren reminded and even managed to bring up the financial state along with it but before he could finish his words they were cut short by the amazon with an x scar on her cheek.
"You may have gotten what you wanted, but we?" the amazon with an x scar on the lower part of her left cheek motioned to her fellow valtorians that are present within the agenda they are having "We, haven't gotten what we want yet--so don't you dare spout some biased nonsense." Ren remained to have the stern look on his face "As long as our armed forces are maintained by the last remaining contributions then we can push through this without a hitch." another valtorian amazon whose left organ of sight was stitched closed earlier interposed, Evergreen couldn't understand how the said amazon was even participating in the agenda instead of resting hence it was outright palpable that injury is hurting like a bitch right now.
"She is right." the amazon wearing a crown braid hairstyle agreed with her comrade "Pleasantries are to be heavily excluded until we win." the amazon with an x scar reminded as they are quite used to not living a lavish life but most of the royals with them in the room aren't and it vexes her "If we win." Ren rolled his eyes at their oh-so-high dreams "We will win." her voice manifested their future victory "Now going back to the matter at hand," said valtorian with a fresh stitch made haste with their true discussion as trailing off another topic isn't feasible in any way shape nor form "The least Rhiannon out of the seven of that is going to be least affected is Aesira, she never showed an ounce of care for her own daughter." General Loki went with the flow by exploiting a secret of his crazed niece, his beloved spouse gave him a side glance upon hearing him say those words as still she couldn't comprehend to believe that General Loki would turn his back and do something like that to his own blood "So her child with Ambrose is highly unlikely to be useful."
"Yugen will suffice a much-needed impactful anger out of her, so prepare to have someone capable to take him off the list of the living." Ren hated the blue-haired kinou beyond repose from all the coercion he received from the bluette's posse's "That kinou is too titillated to even function." Dejah commented chuckling "What about Seilah's daughter?" the dethroned monarch of Calix has always been a problem on the battlefield from how robust her talents and versatile her raw strength were, General Loki was always the one being sent to deal with countering Calix's champion and he's having enough of it all, to be entirely honest. The orangette general couldn't really find any excuse to say his complaint is to their so-called allies in this blood bath, hence if he were to do such a thing the safety of his other half will be in great peril he can't afford that right now, not when her due date approaching near.
"Minerva's spouse watches their children like a hawk, he's going to be a problem." the bronzed amazon puts up what she has learned into the open discussion they were having, Evergreen saw from her peripheral how they placed pieces of symbolism in the middle of the table to signify each dethroned monarch of RHEA's tribes "Obviously..." General Loki sarcastically comments, something that was ignored by the rest whereas the valtorian amazon standing on his left rolled her eyes "And more importantly Athanasia will secure the future of her own children, those brats are the ones that truly need to die more than the others." a small hourglass to symbolize the dethroned monarch of Helium was placed upfront in the map, where they make a bunch of strategies at to counter at nd monitor their enemies' own stratagem to try and beat them.
"See? she agrees with me." Dejah shrugs her shoulders in the I told you so manner "Then what do you suggest we do?" the amazon with a crown braid inquired upon crossing her arms on her chest "First we need to send a highly trained spy to study their movements on a daily clock once we've done that then we can execute the plan of discontinuing their offsprings." Dejah moves a piece into the map where their enemies are have made their home base "Huh, Ren's wife truly has a use in our cause after all." a seep of blood made their appearance on the valtorian's stitched patched up eye after she had spouted those words "Excuse you? I have a name use it." Zoldanga's white-haired monarch gave the valtorian beside her a side-eye from not using her name that her parents had taken time to think about and given to her at birth, her little sass was ignored to continue on with the main topic at hand "What is the strategy to kill those brats?" the bronzed amazon bluntly made way.
"We need all of them to be together in one place, it is a cleaner slate." The way Dejah came up with her plan left a bitter feeling on her part hence she used to be close with the parents of those children they are plotting to discontinue, Ren did not fail to notice the tone of his wife's voice either is the way she habitually pressed her fingers to the inside of her right palm, slowly hiding it behind the massive sheets maps, papers filled with reports and etc laid out on the table's surface when she read what was running on Ren's mindscape in the midst of it all "So what your saying is that you want us to herd their useless children?" the amazon with a crown braid concluded whilst leaning on to the table eyeing the pieces placed in certain aspects of the current altered terrain.
"Yes, if you do exactly that, they would be angry beyond repose and you will be guaranteed to win this war." She took a breath while tucking a lock of her curly white hair behind her ear upon leaning on the table picking up a piece of paper that caught her attention, both her organ of sight vastly skimmed down the letters written on it "And here I thought you were friends with those imbeciles," the second-highest valtorian couldn't help but chuckle at how funny the situation is, hence she never thought that Dejah could possibly come with up such a gruesome plan like that to the children of her former close comrades "I used to." Dejah grumbled gripping the paper edges her brows creasing a tad bit without looking up, upon the reminiscing of the past memories she used to enjoy and treasure but now? It was all but nothing but forgotten dust upon edges of a dirtied silk garment hidden or better yet thrown behind a corner never again ceasing to exist in the knowledge of its owner that used to value and care so much for it. Such vagueness for clarity can sometimes be hard to cope with, upon occasion that dared to give a hint of spiteful reminders.
"Excellent thinking then let's--" the bronzed valtorian gave praise where it is due but her sentence was cut short by the very white-haired amazon she praised "I know, but we need to have a plan B if in case that plan A fails to dust." Dejah lowers the document she's holding just enough for them to see her facial features "Did you just question the capabilities of our strength to perform the own plan you came up with?" the second-highest ranking valtorian did not take it lightly when her comrade was rudely interrupted by someone who they only see as mere puppet they could use in this game called a war zone "No, I just want to prepare a countermeasure..." Dejah's voice came in a commanding tone as she sat the paper down to her side of the table placing a small item above to keep it in place before continuing with her words "Overpowering someone doesn't always work, get that through your thick skulls." Ren couldn't help but smile as his spouse irritated one of their "allies" per se.
"Let me just remind you," she stood toe to toe in front of Dejah, who did not falter despite the evident height difference between the two of them "Being the bigger brute in the situation is how we got to where we are now." those who turned against that natural order brought on by the first Rhiannon's are arrogantly proud of their raw strength and talents hence they only keep the best of the best among their ranks--meaning that no kinou's are to be allowed to join them no matter what "And look where you are now--still struggling to the point that you've needed our help." The white-haired amazon teasingly walked her two fingers on the armor worn by the valtorian she is having a striking conversation with who wanted nothing to do but pull out the sharp weapon hanging around her waist and cleave Dejah's hand for even daring to play coy with her.
"Go on then with the second course of action Dejah." the leader of the valtorian's wanted to hear the second plan of action as a sort of humoring the white-haired monarch of Zoldanaga, knowing her trusted right hand's personality well enough than her deceased sister "Looks like your boss is wiser..." the white-haired amazon wisped her fingers slightly to arrange the unruly hair of the valtorian imposing to intimidate her but to no avail at all did she back down--stature is stature, after all, no amount of cyhea nor strength can change a divine blessing "I can see why you are always going to be second to the last."
"Tch." To some of the valtorian's Dejah's mindscape is like in a fixed state of course when she's carefully maneuvering plans or coming up with them on a regular basis of dire need such as now. Ren didn't have to convince the valtorian's that his spouse is worthy to be kept alive as an ally, Dejah did that all by herself knowing well that the valtorians know what they extremely value upon witnessing robustness at first glance. Whether some of them like it or not, their leader sees the use of Dejah's intellect to their cause and she'd be foolish to waste that asset over to the side of what she likes to call dunder-headed imbeciles.
"That first plan is only seventy percent guaranteed to succeed, you are all aware that Athanasia can see the three occurrences which are past, present, and future." Dejah smirked at the irony as she made three marbles levitate via her talent above the piece that was meant to symbolize Helium's former empress "Get to the point already!" the valtorian's leader was sort of aggravated by the reminder of Helium's dethroned monarch and they way Dejah mimicked how said former monarch used her selfish talents out in the field "She will see our plan of sending a spy before we can even manage to send one and will immediately take action to protect not only her children but others as well...and the news of Minea being pregnant has already reached me." the mention of her best friends name had Evergreen lift her head to pay attention to the conversation she previously ignored beforehand.
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Lunchtime was nearing upon the clock so ideally, Milady choose to dismiss her illegitimate daughter with the blonde kinou early, hence the preteen ravenette girl was obviously not listening to that much to lectures from daydreaming of food that will be served this noon, and Fuzuki was currently feeling an ache on her temple and it's slowly making her vision line go hazy "Young Miss, are you feeling okay?" Fuzuki's nanny checked in on the ten-year-old ravenette girl who only gave a smile at her nanny concerned nanny "I'm fine, thank you." they've walked together side by side for a good minute but when they reached the tall flight of stairs down to the next floor Fuzuki felt the familiar ache in her temple banging louder than the previous one and by seeing how steps the stairs would take it made her faint down to it "Young Miss!" her nanny instinctively jumped in to catch the young girl into her arms as she lost consciousness of her own being, the both of them harshly tumbled down the stairs none stop until they've reached the following floor.
It's a good thing that the uniform of the palace servants here on Lireo have quite thick material on them due to the biome of else Fuzuki's nanny body would have been filled with scratches and heavy bruises, they were still on her skin but not to the extreme point that it'd have her be laying on the infirmary's bed like Fuzuki is currently right now. The palace staff immediately helped to take the both of them earlier to Panacea and she was thankful for the sacrifice Fuzuki's nanny had done for the fragile young girl, despite her body being ragged by the stairs earlier Fuzuki's nanny still insisted to be the one to call the blonde kinou known as Fuzuki's father. Calling Sting via galva was not optional at the moment hence they were restricted by Milady to use their gadgets in the midst of their work hours.
(A/N: Okay I'm getting real tired of calling/addressing the servant taking care of Fuzuki "Fuzuki's nanny" all the time so I'm gonna give her a name which is Suha Cei and a hair color which is turquoise since she deserves it at this point.)
Panacea told the young servant in charge of taking care of Fuzuki to at least stay put in the medical infirmary whilst giving her the small spoon full of medicine to slowly heal the inflictions she got from falling off the high staircase, but upon turning her back to focus on the young ravenette girl, Suha didn't think twice to limply dash out the medical infirmary to inform Sting herself as she felt somewhat that she would be neglecting her job description if she wasn't the servant whom will inform the blonde kinou known as Fuzuki's biological father.
"YOUR GRACE! YOUR GRACE MURIEL!!" The panicking voice of Fuzuki's nanny echoed from the hall as she ran with vast haste not stopping in her tracks until she reached the blonde kinou "Why are you yelling? what's the matter?" He asked confused as whilst Fuzuki's nanny caught her breath "It's the Young Miss, Your Grace please you need to hurry!" upon hearing that the cause of her fretting was related to his treasured daughter the blonde kinou did not hesitate to yeet the box he was carrying to the alcoholic redhead amazon "Ignatius catch this!" the heavy box flew in her direction without context.
"What?--WAIT!" she lazily asks yawning while at it but it was instantly replaced with a protest of unpreparedness when she saw the box flying at her "HEY BITCH! I heard from Hibiki earlier that you got RAILED by Kaito yesterday!" Ethan caught one of the boxes Sting had thrown but the water-obsessed teen purposely had the other two boxes fall on the redhead amazon he likes to annoy so much "AND IT WAS GREAT--NOW SHUT THE FUCK UP! AND MIND YOUR OWN BUSINESS BRAT!" She yelled back at Milady's prodigy not having an ounce of care if the Rhiannon's around them heard that she got laid yesterday by her lover "Naahhh~ HUHUHAHAHAHAHAHAH!--oops!" Ethan dropped the third box he caught to the redhead who has her head bonked upon the boxes fall on top of her noggin.
"I'M GONNA KILL YOU WATER BOY!"
"As if you can~"
"Is she going to be okay?" Sting asked the old pinkenette physician whilst caressing the head of his sleeping daughter after Panacea finished chatting down her keys notes on her clipboard and decided to temporarily get up from her seat to grab a stash of me first her cabinet full of it "In a way, yes, but for the most part no." Panacea lowered her clipboard down to her sides whilst walking "The pulses that have given to her a few weeks ago have already been divided into halves...you should prepare for the worst after melancholia. I'm sorry Sting." Panacea stopped searching through her stack of vials lowering her head knowing the pain of losing someone--someone who was supposed to live longer than you, the someone who was supposed to bury her, not the other way around.
Panacea hastily turned her back off Sting to give him the vial of medicine Fuzuki needed to stay with them here on proper land "Give her two spoons of that every meal she has...it'll last until the end of melancholia." the turquoise haired servant listened well to the instructions Zoldanga's former monarch spouted, hence it was her job to do such a task. Sting took the bottled medicine with deprived sadness visible upon his features, tears almost daring to fall off his lower eyelids just by looking at the last string of life his delicate daughter has, he gave Suha the bottled medicine in which case she took with careful hands "Show her all she needs to know and tell her all she needs to know." were Panacea's last words to him as she retreated to the comforts of her office here in the medical infirmary, once the old pinkenette physician was gone the blonde collapsed on his knees silently crying his anguish out.
Who was he kidding honestly? Sting knew the answer to his question had no mere drops of hope but he still hoped for blind hope...he wanted to save his daughter, he wanted to save her.
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