Inside the beautifully decorated room meant for a short stay of condemned golden-haired females, Sienna smiled as she noticed the quietness. She listened to the door and even peeked outside when she did not hear anyone. The corridor was empty and she grinned in amusement. She felt quite safe in the Dragon Castle now. She knew, that she just had to wait for Sarcos to come. Dragon King was too emotionally numb to bother her needlessly. She would be surprised if he started the conversation with her again after this!
Sienna nodded in satisfaction and looked around her room. Sharp sunlight peeked through the colourful stained glass window, bathing the room in rainbow lights. The warm fire crackled in the huge fireplace, and everything seemed so peaceful. Sienna went to look out of the window. She watched the snowy land with longing."My mates are somewhere behind those mountains of snow, " she sighed.
Sienna adjusted her dress when she felt her skirt was sticky on her bum!"Yaak, it must be from that disgusting chair!"She bit her lips and went to the big mirror. She watched in horror as her dress skirt was lined with fine dust and even bigger pieces of fluffy dust on the back. The fabric on her behind was sticky and her sleeves were a bit messy from the ink...Her hair was a little ruffled from the windy corridors and although she looked overall beautiful, she felt like Cinderella after the ball. In the rags!
Sienna took the top layer off her dress carefully, leaving her short chemise only.
She filled the bath with hot water and dropped her heavy velvet dress into it. Then she took off her shoes and washed them at the basin, rubbing them with a wet towel. Then she went into the bathtub and started to step onto her dress in the water cleaning her feet and dress at the same time. It was kind of hard work because the velvet dress full of water was incredibly heavy!
"I can use a washing machine..." she sighed longingly. The stains were hard to remove because she did not add any soap to it and she did not want to use the unfamiliar dragon concoctions.
After a while, Sienna decided to leave it in there and went out to look for a place to put the dress up to dry. She arranged a few wooden chairs in front of the fireplace, added some towels and went to finish her dress. Sienna squeezed the water from the heavy dress and it did not go too well. However hard she squeezed, the dress was still dripping and its fabric was soaked, so she just did her best and hung it over the chairs in front of the fire...The dress was dripping water slowly on the floor with towels and Sienna went to have a bath herself...She lay in the warm water thinking, the pictures from the day appearing in her mind...
Sienna felt so wrong as that dusty library flashed in her mind...the golden-haired woman in the crystal was stuck in front of her eyes...Sienna imagined how Sarcos would come, free the girl from the crystal and they would go home together. How he will take her back to Sand City and she will be next to him, and then she will try to decode the Crystal Emperor...Sienna's mind became overwhelmed. It was way too much work waiting for her! Then she worried about Tyrell and sleeping Sharchan and Marco. She did not talk to him after he attacked Tyrell...
The water went cold slowly and Sienna forced herself to get out. She covered in the towel and looked at her chemise. She was considering if to put it on or not but then she just chucked everything into the water...She had the towel as a dress and washed her chemise and underwear. The light fabric was easy to squeeze, she was done quickly with that. She hung the underwear on the chair and went to warm up to the fire to dry her hair, holding wet chemise in front of the fire to dry it up quicker. Staring into the flames the pictures of her past were dancing in front of her leaving her in a dazed thinking state.
Sienna sobered up after the chemise was almost dry, she put it on and covered in the heavy blanket as well. She was considering making a dress from the curtains but they seemed heavier than the blanket and even though they did not look dusty, Sienna did not expect they were freshly washed, so that was "no" to the curtain dress.
Sienna understood that this King was planning a very short stay for her here, so he did not have any dresses ready in the room.
"Luckily, Sarcos will surely bring me one..."She smiled satisfied with herself and her negotiation skills.
Sienna sat on the bed and watched the painted ceiling. The dragon seemed so happy with the princess... "Is it her...or do they just like blondes?" She thought...
Sienna looked at the decorated windows, walked around and sang longing songs which came to her mind. She watched the fire some more and played with a handkerchief from Ellaine. There was nothing to do, no papers, no inks! "Well, at least this room is clean." she thought as she tried to relax her mind while doing nothing. The time went quite fast and dusk was up already... Sienna watched the dimness eloped the room and went to the bathroom quickly to get ready for bed.
As she came back to the room, she realized that the fire burned the last wood and only shining ashes were in the fireplace. It made her feel uneasy somehow, she felt forgotten and it irked her inside.
"Great! No fire, no candles...or dinner!!!"She called loudly." But it is fine...the lunch was fine...thank you, Dragon King!"She shouted in a sarcastic tone and went to bed to keep warm...she listened to the strong wind outside unable to sleep. She was angry inside...and a little hungry.
Suddenly the dark mass entered her room and Sienna sat up scared with a startled shriek...She watched as the burly black mass passed her bed and put something on the table, then turned to leave...
"Hey! Who are you...?" She asked in a whisper.
"It is me..." the rasping Dragon King's voice sounded a bit unsure. "I heard you asked for dinner." He bit his lips in the darkness.
"Aha, thank you... "Sienna nodded with a sigh of relief. Her heart was thumping loudly in her chest from the shock he just put her through, so the wild energy eloped around her, prepared to lecture the forgetful King.
"But don't you know how to knock...?" she asked firmly." Knock next time...I could be naked in here...."Sienna shook her head pretending to be deadly serious.
"Why you would be naked in here?"Thunder shook his head in surprise.
"Well, you never know. Do not interrogate me!" She lifted her head proudly and slipped out of the bed only in her light chemise...
'Why do you have no clothes on?"He asked as could see in the dark quite well. Hmm, very well...
"It is dark anyway!"Sienna shook her shoulder nonchalantly but then it struck her! "He can see me in the dark!" the thought passed her mind at lightning speed as she felt the blush on her cheeks.
"Are you staring at me? And here? In the only room I can be...in your huge castle?"She asked melodramatically determined to count it for him...
"Well, you came here in a dress..." he rasped disturbed by her tone.
"Yes, it is here somewhere, drying..." she pointed her hand into the darkness.
"The fire went out..." he noted.
"That is why is dark in here..." she said dryly.
"How do you think your dress will dry like this?"He shook his head.
"I hope it will." She nodded with a pretentious smile. "Or I will have to stay here till Sarcos brings me a new dress. "She noted satirically.
"That is fine with me." he shook his shoulder satisfied that she would not run around his castle and tried to make a bigger U-turn to leave the room distancing himself from her standing figure.
"Splash, splash!" his big boots landed in the pool of water dripping from Sienna's wet dress!
"Ahh, you wet all the floor!" his serious composture was out of the window suddenly.
"Sorry, the dress was too heavy...I could not squeeze it out too well. I have small hands..." Sienna sighed..."Can you bring me more towels, please? I will dry it off." she smiled apologetically.
"You are so troublesome..." he shook his head. "It will dry, just eat your dinner. I do not want you to scream, shout, sing, talk or mention my name till tomorrow," he said in a firm tone.
"Will you make me fire again, please...I can't eat in the dark..."Sienna sighed feeling a little sorry for ruining his floor but not too sorry to start listening to him.
"I told you to stop talking!"He growled.
"I did not agree with you on that!" she noted firmly. He was overstepping her boundaries with that request and she was not having it. She was a Queen of four Kings after all!
"Why do you make it so difficult?" he exploded in frustration suddenly." Would it be easier if my dragon dealt with you? Will you be at least more scared and quiet?" He asked almost bitterly.
"Will he make me the fire?" Sienna asked excitedly. She wanted to see the dragon again!
"No!No! I will make you the fire...if you eat." the King backed off seeing her excited face.
"I do not know where the food is. It is too dark in here!" she said grimacing her face. "Does he think I can eat in the dark? Dummy!" she thought, walking forward to the direction his voice was but not stretching her hands. She did not want to look like walking blind in front of him...
"What are you doing?" he asked her as she bumped into him by accident! Thunder stood frozen as he watched her walking straight into him. He expected her to circle him but she just splattered on his chest. Thunder held her waist instinctively and felt her soft warm body under the light chemise. It felt so comfortable and electric in his hands. As an unwanted fantasy out of his reach...forbidden and feared at the same time.
Sienna held her hands on his chest as he was kind of squashing her more to himself unknowingly...
His body was hard as an iron to her but her body felt good to him like a squashy toy to touch.
"Ahh...do not squash me so much!" she interrupted his touch-sense exhilarating experience...
"Do not walk in the dark if you can't see..." he growled disturbed and let her go as if she was melted metal. He forgot himself for a moment, eloped in her presence and it shocked him...
"Ahh, thank you for catching me...I could break my nose on your hard chest..." she giggled sheepishly as she felt she affected him."If you tell me what the food is you can feed me." she noted cheekily. She knew he would not do it!
"Wait here, I do the fire first..." he sighed. He would not let his dragon near her. She was too mouthy, unpredictable, dangerous and alluring to his dragon...
Thunder kneeled and started to light the fire...The small sparkles glittered as falling tiny stars in the dark room.
"Will it be not easier with the dragon?" Siena asked curiously as she came closer to him following the tiny lights.
"No. I do not want to let him near you..."Thunder grumbled.
"Why? Are you jealous because he is so cute?"She provoked him a little.
"How can you be so annoying?" He shook his head.
"It is the hormones...probably...I feel a bit wild..." she noted.
"What?" He looked at her surprised. No female ever dared to talk so openly with him.
"I miss my mates. They keep me calm..." She smiled sadly and looked into the new fire.
She looked so gentle and sweet longing that Thunder stopped breathing for a moment. The sight was so magical. He tried to leave her till she was quiet when he slipped on that spilt water and almost splattered on the floor un-kingishly! Luckily she was not watching and missed the comic moment ...
"I will help you to press your dress better." He bit his lips when he stood straight again...
"Thank you." Sienna turned to him, smiled and picked her dress. The wet fabric was staining her chemise, making it stuck to her body becoming almost see-through...
Thunder stared at her nipples suddenly...
"Hey!"She followed his look and furrowed her brows." You take it then!" she chucked the wet dress onto him roughly.
"You are stronger." she smiled at his shocked expression and followed him to the bathroom after lighting a torch from the wall in the fireplace.
In the bathroom, Thunder helped Sienna twist her dress over the bathtub. He was as if in a daze because she kept talking, her breast moved as she worked and his lone brain was not able to process it. It sounded like a mix of jingle bells, harp and running water...He was distuned and disconnected from his reality. He awoke when Sienna shrieked..."Stop, stop...that is too much! You just ripped it...!" she looked at him shaking her head.
"Ahmm."He looked at her as if he had just awoken from a hundred years of sleep.
"Yes, yes...you are too strong. Please, go get me a needle and thread," she asked of him calmly.
Thunder stood there staring at her...
"Why would I know where needles and threads are?" He was thinking and Sienna somehow understood his stupor.
"OK, just leave it. Come, help me to dry it."Sienna ordered him around and he was kind of shaking his head in disbelief of what is he even doing in there...
"Did she mesmerise me?" He thought as she let him stretch her heavy dress to dry...
"Hm...It is not that bad..."Sienna was inspecting her ripped dress with an expert eye. "If you do not have a needle, I will wear it short..." she bit her lips.
"What?" He looked at her...
Sienna looked as the burly man staring at her rasped as if he did not hear what she just said!
"Well, at least he is helping..." she noted in her head and stretched her back.
She realized her chemise was drenched wet and it started to feel cold on her skin because she stopped moving. She wanted to take it off to dry, eat and go to bed but the King was still standing there staring at her!
"I need to get him out."Sienna thought and bit her lips. She realized Thunder was dazing again, staring at her body and she felt exposed suddenly.
Sienna walked to Thunder and embraced his waist in a friendly manner because his shoulders were too high.
"Thank you so much for your help, Thunder. You were very kind today..."She made him walk to the door as a mindless puppet."I'm quite happy with you...Good night..." she pushed him out of the room.
"What?" Thunder turned as she closed the door and he just saw her waving her hand sweetly in a flash of a second... He was about to wave her back automatically but the door was closed already! He looked at the door staring bluntly for a few seconds and then he let his hand down slowly. He was gobsmacked!