Everyone in the Palace is holding up a lamp on the attemp to shine a light in the midst of darkness.
"A fuse blew up." asserts Kanzo to the rest of us, calming us on the alarming explosion.
I assumed it was the hundredth enemy attack but I'm glad to be wrong. Father always said that the enemy never slumbers and I'm content that this time the enemy chose to slumber instead. It looks like we will be out of power for a short while as I look at the miriad of people moving back and forth around me and Klaus.
A positive of the explosion is that it ended what was quite an uncomfortable conversation between me and Klaus and hopefully now we will just pretend that nothing happened. For now at least.
I take this moment of confusion as an opportunity to visit the dungeons again. I short swift movements I walk through the flock of arrows and head straight to the door. Nobody notices me or at least I hope nobody has, especially not Klaus. As Klaus is now ion my case I don't want to add more wood to the fire.
'Of course it's dark downhere too', I think once I've reached my destination, rethinking my decision. I feely pockets for anything that could help me in produsing a light. I shouldn't have ditched my lamp earlier to avoid Klaus tracing me. As I don't feel like risking again I grap the door handle and push the door open with a little too much streght which makes the perilous book shelf tip over and a few book fall. I shove them out of my path gently withy foot to all the door to open fully to have the room pick them up.
"Ouch" I loud whispers having hit my leg against a solid piece which I cant recognise. It looks like box and it makes a vibrating noise now that I've hit it by accident. I feel it with my hands and find a switch. Suddenly the room is filled with light and I realise it's a generation. I hear loud commotion coming from upstairs which I block out to avoid distractions.
Now that there's some light I notice a book stuck at the back of the shelf that didn't get knocked over unlike the rest. Curioused I reach for, at moving my arm aimlessly at first as my arm aren't long enough to reach it, but eventually successfully secure it.
It looks like an agenda and as I flick through it I recognise this to be a journal. Skim reading through the first pages it's as though a light bulb turns on as the mysterious phrase on the wall has now an answer.
I look around to find a mirror and a piece of paper. I balance the mirror I find at an angle to meet the light slightly and try to sketch out my findings, finally making sense of the motif.
The letters are simply mirrored letters at about a 70 degree angle and the red letters disappear. I suppose that those were only a distraction from the final question on the wall.
'It's a riddle!' I think point my finger upwards excitedly. My first thought is to tell Zaffera through a telegram, but I quickly remember that about her doubting our actions.
'I know people will get hurt...', her voice ringing in my head.
I'm sat here alone holding a piece of paper, and as I rethink my action I her a clearing of a voice. My head turns around in synchrony only to meet Klaus' disappointed gaze.
I shake my head, "Not now Klaus."
He walks towards me and rests his arm on my shoulder.
"I won't tell you to stop because knowing you it won't do anything. But be worn: I've seen this tale before, a long time ago and it ended in war between to Kingdoms..." his voice is low and defeated. After he says this he takes his arm off my shoulder and walk away although the darkness has eaten him again. An urge to rip the piece if paper I'm holding rushed through me, yet I don't. I shove it in my picket, turn the switch off and forget about the room for the upcoming time.
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I'm standing nernously in the Hall before the arrows and chiefs of the Kingdom. I have called in a meeting in which I will be delivering an apology speech. Although I am a young I have quite a lot of responsibilities and it's time to fully dedicate to them. I can see Klaus's dull eyes from up hear and I gulp down a sour gulp. Lately I have forgotten that not only he's and Arrow, a battling soldier, but he's also what used to be my only friend and one should listen to friends.
At the end of my speech I gather myself away from the crowd, avoiding the eyes of the people that were just standing before me. The next minute and laying done in my bed with my head slightly hanging off, throwing a little wool ball between fingers as I procces all if the events.
After I hear a knocking sound by my window and a familiar face makes it's way. I invite them in and adjust myself upright.
"I head you." she says looking sitting on the edge if my bed, "It was a really good speech actually, I'm sorry I might have let you down..."
I shake my head. Sitting beside her I reach fir her hand.
"I deciphered the writing today. Klaus caught me and warned me not to go ahead. I realise I've been naive, I just... I just." I try to speak my mind but all I can think about is back to when Klaus asked me if I was in love with Zaffera. I shake my head harshly and my next sight is her smiling softly.
Heck I think I do. I'm in love with Zaffera and if anything happened to her I wouldn't bare the pain.