"I still think we should have brought a horse and left it at the borders of Draven" Kahlan commented. We completely ignored her and in a few minutes, we arrived the borders of Draven.
"My lady, I think you should stay here with Owen, Kahlan and I will go see how safe it is to enter the city" Sir Magnus Instructed but I revolted "I won't stay back. We'll all enter together" I said and headed in first and the others followed me. Draven was quite a quiet place. There was almost nobody moving around except for a few vampires who could move under the sun but the sun was fast going down so they were slowly creeping out though they didn't certainly look creepy.
"Which way do we go now?, I'll see" sir Magnus said and pulled out a bigger map this time around and placed it on a huge rock and started to check it. "Hmm, seems like locating their king won't be quite an easy task".
"Okay, I think we should stick together you know. So no one will get hurt" Kahlan said grabbing me. "Or maybe so we could get trapped together" I said jokingly. The words had barely escaped my lips when an arrow flew from the wind and embedded itself in the map just a few inches from lord Owen's fingers. We all looked up to see what was going on but we suddenly got trapped in a huge cage. A cage from up trapped us in and we couldn't pull it up. Slowly and majestically a female vampire walked up to us in the presence of other mean looking vampires.
"You're trespassing" she said glaring at us. "And you don't look like vampires to me either. I'm Aurora and I'm in charge here. Humans, tell me, what do you seek" Aurora spoke with so much authority. "I'm Diana, and I'm the queen of Darca, we seek your king and we have come peacefully" I said. Aurora looked closely at me with intrigue "Diana of Darca, formerly of From?" She asked.
"Yes" I replied coldly. "Torren's bride. You could get killed right now you know" she said. "We've come in peace I promise" I said lifting my hands up slightly.
"Lower your weapons, every single one of them". We lowered our weapons hesitantly. With just a snap of her fingers the cage were gone. "Gather them" she instructed her men and they gathered our weapons. Then she turned to us "follow me". We all followed her and she led us through a lot of creepy looking houses and finally to the palace. The guards stared at us as we made our way into the palace following Aurora's lead. One of the guards halted us. "State your mission intruders". I tried to defend us "we're not intruding, your king is aware of our visit". "They are with me" Aurora cut in and the guard slightly bowed and went off our way.
"Are you royalty?" Kahlan asked. "Mind your business" she replied. As we finally entered the throne room, flames burned in the chambers. The throne room looked really beautiful, it didn't seem like what I expected. I was full of light just like my father's palace back in Tron or was it even more beautiful then From? "stay here. King Luther will be here soon" Aurora said and left. King Luther?, I remembered the drunk telling me to stay out of his bad side.
Soon, a regal male vampire dressed in luxurious clothes and accessories emerged from the inner door and sat on the throne slowly reclining and putting his hand against his jaws. We all stared at him in awe. He exceeded our expectations. First was the palace and now him. He was unbelievably handsome, tall, young, in fact he was super attractive, but Torren was still more handsome, not because he is my husband, it's the truth. Following his kingdom's reputation, we had expected to see a scary world full of scary vampires. Well I guess vampires are always so super attractive. Torren, Luther and even Aurora.
"Visitors from across the sea" He said in a deep and enticing voice. I cleared my throat and started "greetings your majesty, king Luther. Let me introduce myself and my companions. I'm queen Diana. Queen of Darca, bride of Torren..." I was still talking when he muttered "the almighty vampire's bride". I smiled and kept on "this is sir Magnus, my crown guardian, Kahlan, and sir Owen" I said pointing each one of them as they slightly bowed on announcement. "Just Kahlan? You can't introduce her as your handmaid because you think she's you friend or rather sister?, come on Diana she's only a maid and nothing more" King Luther said annoyingly. I was not comfortable with his words "I would rather not talk about that king Luther, with all due respect" I said.
He scoffed "you little fierce thing. You're physically strong, tell me, why are you so scared?" He asked staring at me. I didn't respond to that. "Your majesty, if you don't mind, we don't have much time we need to state our mission, get a solution and leave right away" sir Magnus said. "And you think it'll be as easy as that?" King Luther had no smile on his face at that moment.
"Pardon his manners your majesty, I'm sure he meant no harm" I said to make the king relax and it worked. "I must say being fake doesn't suit you queen of Darca. You have quite a daring reputation and I expect you to live up to it" he said. I tried to say something but he waved his hands dismissively.
"What brings you to my kingdom Diana"
"Well your majesty, lord Torren is...." I was explaining when he interrupted. "Shall we take a walk. That veranda oversee the entire kingdom. I'm sure you'd love to take a look".
I agreed and followed him while my companion followed as well but he halted them "only your queen, I believe this is going to be a royal conversation".
"How do we believe you're not going to hurt her" sir Magnus asked.
"I didn't say I wasn't. Did I?" King Luther said smiling cunningly.
I nodded to them and they remained calm. I followed king Luther to the veranda. As we got to the veranda, king Luther bended and raised my gown and pulled out two daggers from my knee pads. I hid them there in case we needed to defend ourselves. I didn't let Aurora see them and I'm sure no one could see them either. He held the daggers and glared at me angrily groaning.