The situations he is in, making him speechless. He cannot explain what is going on, why is Samuel mad at him although he just want to see his father?
Why did his father shoved him and not even bother to hear him after screaming out to him this late at night? And why is there another woman in his father's room? What are they doing without my mother's presence?
But the most important part he needs to tell right now, is that thing that was chasing after him. The dog headed creepy woman eating a man alive.
"Samuel, Something, I need my father" Eliot pleaded him, but Samuel looked at him from top to toe and clicked his tongue as if he seeing a malice causing his life upside down.
"sam" He kneeled and pleaded again. Why would I do such thing to a knight? Though I am my father's son, the future king on this country?
"The king does not require your presence," Samuel pushes Eliot's grip from his cloack and then sighed.
"what are you doing creeping all alone this laste at night half blood?" He was whispering intentionally so his words didn't reach the king. Samuel wasn't the only one that calls him that, for a fact it was the people in the palace nicknamed him.
Servants pretended to be full of courtesy, humble when Eliot are with his mother and the king, but treated him like a commoner when they attended him alone. Well, they're doing in only to Eliot maybe because he is a kid that is shy and won't tell anyone about it.
"speak" Samuel grip his cheek.
"did you kill someone?" Samuel standing up, and while he did that, he held Eliot along with him. That knight snorted seeing the crown prince struggling to breath. Dragging him 5 metres away from the door, secluded behind panels of castle's block.
"speak" he said it again. Eliot could hear the tantrum of his heart. His lips trembled, is he frightened to this noble knight? Who is a pure blood while he is not like him? Or he is afraid of upcoming footsteps coming at them at a long distance.
Eliot raised his head, his tiny fingers clasping on to Samuel's while his feet is dangling in the air. His face became pale. Blood is leaking from his shoulder, dripping on the tiles.
Samuel loses his grip, and Eliot crashes to the ground. "you are not just a half blood, you are a half breed. You are not a human at all, not yet a beast" that man keep mocking him.
"Don't blamed mee this hospitality young prince. Blame your parents, I dislike your mother and I hope she wither away like a dandelion" Eliot slapped Samuel, that hit was weak but it felt good. He is suffocating as it is, insult me, but not my mother. He wanted to tell him that, but he cannot say a single word.
Is it possible for this guy to belittle the mother of this palace when his job is to protect the royal family. His mother is indeed a commoner, changes her status after a marriage is common, was it wrong the she was lift up to be a queen through steps to be a noble?
Why is father is not coming for him? Is that woman is important than him? That dog headed woman will tear his head off.
"Father!" Eliot got up and bang on the door. Quicly Samuel pick him uo and covered his mouth, didn't want to lose the fight, he bit him.
Samuel squeezed his shoulders, a warning not to scream or he will hurt him even more. "Did you see it?" Samuel grabbed Eliot's on the waist. Hugging him away from the door, leading to the direction of where he is been running from.
Eliot looked up to Samuel. Shaking his head telling him no to go there. The knight didn't care at all and keep on walking leisurely towards the pond. But he stopped mid way.
"Oh, she's there all right. She's curious abaout you" Fortunately, the dog headed woman is still there. Like a souless puppet resting in the dark running out of energy.
"how did you get away? Surprisingly you are alive" The dog headed woman flinced. She cross the pond to where they were standing.
"hmpph!" Eliot kick Samuel's thigh with his dangling feet. Samuel was annoyed so he let him go and kick him foward. He chuckled seeeing Eliot crawling back to him.
"kill that thing samuel. As the heir to the throne, I command you to kill that woman" Said Eliot with a hoarse voice.
Samuel didn't deliver any response, his face didn't show the slightest urge to follow the young master's rule. His expression was empty.
"not. My. Problem." Samuel lifted his leg from Eliot's hand, "I serve the king, you are no king to me" he sneered at him and walked away. Just like what he did in his nightmare.
"one day, you will serve me. What difference does it make Sir Samuel?" Eliot is furious. No matter what he do, people will always blame him for everything even if he just stay silent, if breathing also a crime, his name will be written.
"In my opinion, You will stepped down from the crown. You will lose your standing little prince. Neither you, or your might born siblings will ever sit on the throne, because you aren't worth it" he uttered his opinion slow and steady to let each words cross into the boy's head and dwell.
"I was named the next in line to the throne, whoever against that shall meet their death and the king" This is the what the king taught him. They may humiliate the half breed little prince, other than that the other half of the blood belongs to Royalty.
"you think people will accept you? If they know who you are," the blood that was dripping of his shoulder isn't red. Rather than black, blood of a beast. Those encounter that rare blood will die as it act approximately like a lethal poison. But Eliot had no idea about it. Even the tiles are melting.
" exist a woman, cherished by people. She loved them too. In the end she burnt to crisp by her own people who she sought as a family" Eliot is the verge of crying. He is hoping his father listen to all if this and come out. But what is taking him so long?
"that woman, was your ancestor" no response. He is quiet. This man is definitely lying to make him sad. Since Samuel kept looking at the blood, smeared on the floor after his fall.
"you are lying" if he didn't try to hide this conversation, the man would burst into laughing.
"you should look at your face your highness, did you believe me? Lies and truth altered all together. But it's your job to seek the truth" samuel came to Eliot. Taking out a dagger behind his back.
Eliot was thinking he was going to stab him. Instead Samuel dearly deliver the dagger into his palm.
"prove yourself, then I'll bend my knees to you" Samuel let go of the grip, Eliot was staring at his eyes, and so is Samuel.
"light kills them, but it will hurt you too if you wound them" Whispered Samuel. From time to time, this man disliking him, he was there for Eliot, he remember how Samuel is angry for him, worrying in his place. His actions are different from his speech. All he did portrays a keeper to roof Eliot's head discreetly.
So what he told Eliot, at this moment might be true or false just like what he said. His ear is ringing. His vision is blurry again, the boy plopped to the ground frequently blinking to make sure he won't faint.
"urgh!" he took a deep breath, breathing in and out hoping the pain to decrease. This is something he can't control, aside from his mother no one know that he had weak lung as if he suffered from tuberculosis.
What saddened him, he saw a glimpse lf golden puppy floating in the water. He was in his knees, with his palm on the cold tiles, his head was facing the tiles, tears was falling from his eyes.
No wonder, his vision was blurry, those tears was piling up cover his sight. His chest was suffocated as to realises, the main point he came down from his room, was a waste of time? He encountered something he shouldn't have, seeing his father with someone else, mocked by a mere knight.
His body won't have holes in it if he mind his own businesses and con to sleep. The puppy and the mother will die any way if he didn't interfere in some kind of way.
"it's my fault?" mumbled Eli.
"if I stay in my room, they end up die as well" he close his eyes, wishing for this to be a dream and ge will get up on his bed just like his every morning.
If this is a dream, why is it painful? My neck is hurt, I'm tired, my eyes won't stop crying,
"my fault?"