Life is travesty, the sad truth. We are only born to die. That became all so clear after my father's death, and only clarified after my mother's.
"YOU CAN SAVE HER!" I scream to Gehenna as she nods her head as I continue to kneel by my mother's side. Kneeling beside her as she opens her hand, pushing it towards her father as Orion reluctantly passes her a dagger as she slices her arm. Dripping the blood over my mother as she sighs, and nothing changes.
"I can't bring back the dead" she says solemnly as my anger shines through.
"THEN YOU ARE USELESS TO ME!!!" I belittle her as she takes a deep breath, my anger mixing with guilt. The tears still tracing down my face as she stares. And I stand up, commanding two of the servants for me to stand up. "If you don't defeat her, then my mother died for nothing!" I guilt her as I lean on the servants for balance as they lead me away as I look back to her, seeing her father patting her back as she stands there. Still, almost like she was grieving as well.
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"Must I bring a doctor?" Ask a servant as I snicker.
"Bring my wife!" I command as she nods and hurries off. "It's the least she can do" I say to myself as I realize that a entire generation is dead and gone of the royal family.
But I'm thrown out of my thoughts by a knock on my chamber door.
"William?" I hear that familiar voice as I push my anger down.
"You may come in" I allow her as she opens the door, blood still on her gown, and that necklace laying upon her neck again. "Can you heal me?" I ask her as she says nothing, just moves a warm bowl of water to my side with a rag. Sitting on the side of my bed, as she wets the rag in the warm water and placed it on my leg.
"The cut is bad" she observes as I notice that her neck is dangling in front of me as I grip the knife beside me. As she focuses on cleaning up the cut, finally cutting her hand with that same dagger as she squeezes it from her palm into my wound as it slowly closes.
But as she did this I found myself wanting to see her eyes. Her mother referred to her eyes as those of a snake, and she never was seen without that necklace of hers.
As she leans in to pick up the rag by my side I grab the dagger. Letting my curiosity take the wheel as I slice her necklace as I falls to the ground and she quickly turns around.
"What did you do that?" She ask me as I stay still, the dagger in my hand. "Don't you think you have taken enough from me? Everything I just gained I'm doomed to lose it all again at the cost of your kingdom. But I don't use that against you!" She angrily tells me through her tears, as I can hear her soft sniffling. "You and your people have taken everything that matter to me, binded me in the most painful way possible, used my friend's life against me as a bargaining chip! And yet you still take more!" She yells at me as I sit up. Feeling my healed leg as I do.
"I THINK I AM ENTITLED TO KNOW WHAT MY OWN WIFE IS HIDING BEHIND HER NECKLACE!" I yell at her as I see her shoulders tense.
"YOU ARE ENTITLED TO NOTHING!" She screams, "Why am I only your wife when I am being secretive, described to all powerful or all evil?" She ask me as I realize I cannot truly answer her question. "Because being married to you is the worst punishment under the gods!" She says through her pained voice as she turns around to me and I finally see what she was hiding.
I had know since the first day I met her. Her hair was the same, the only difference that could be told about her appearance was her missing necklace. That was until she looked up to me. Her eyes, they were not her normal brown anymore.
There she stood, in all her true glory. Her left eyes was the eyes of a killer, filled with red, almost representing blood. The first thing that showed me the smallest hint of who she really was. Her right eye was golden, like a viper's. Looking at me as she stood across the room from me.
"Why?" I ask her as she laughs, wiping her tears from her face.
"I thought you wanted a monster?" She ask me as she walks out of the room and I'm left alone. Again.
"BENJAMIN!" I yell out into the room as the doors erupt and Benjamin hurried through the door.
"What is it, William?" Benjamin ask me as I sit up and before I have to say anything Orion marches through the door.
"WHAT DID YOU DO TO MY DAUGHTER, WILLIAM?!" Orion yell to me as I take a deep breath.
"Benjamin" I say my advisor name. "You can leave us now" I order him as he nods, leaving the room.
"I cut off her necklace" I admit to my crime as Orion takes a deep breath.
"Her eyes were hidden for a reason, William!" Orion angrily tells me.
"And what is that reason?" I ask him as he sighs to the revelation in my question.
"She has always felt more comfortable with her eyes hidden" Orion explains as I stand.
"I know that many people of Dern have glowing eyes, her own mother has violet eyes." I explain as he nods.
"When she was a child she had one red eye and a brown. The day she was bitten by that viper her right eyes turned. It left a memory of the viper." He tells me as I nod, "She knows that her powers have mixed with that vipers, it turned her eye just as it suppressed her powers all these years" he admits as I stand blankly, unsure of what I just did.
"She knows you married her for her powers" Orion says as he look to me, "But don't make her feel like a weapon. Because if I know my daughter well enough she will use her gift of destruction on you and your kingdom as well" Orion warns as he leaves.
Would I rather have a spouse or a weapon? That question was now ingrained into my head.