The voice. God, it's the voice. Very deep and intimidating. " Where to?"
" S-sorry my lord, there are other things that require my attention right now"
" And I don't?" *Cough*
" M-my lord, would you like anything else? I'll quickly bring it for you"
He paused for a while. What's wrong? God, does he know? He couldn't know now, right?
Could he? I mean, the kitchen was hidden against listening ears so it shouldn't be possible for him to know, right?
The silence, it's killing me. " Raise your head"
I couldn't possibly face him, I promise I'll melt.
" I said, raise your head lad"
Already frightened from making him repeat his words, I immediately raised my head to face him but never to look him in the eye.
*Silence again* " beautiful" it was the other lord this time. I was at loss at what they were talking about. I just kept mute.
" It's a shame" huh? What now?
" How a beauty like you could be destined to live the life of a slave"
I could most certainly understand what they were talking about now. But really? Did he have to say that. Just makes me want to grief all over again. " My lord?"
" What's your name" The former asked again.
" Sadiki" I said immediately, eager to leave already. " Sadiki" he repeated after me as if to know how my name sounds from his mouth, and to be honest, him calling my name like that really shook me.
He nodded and waved his hand, indicating that I should leave. I immediately turned to scamper. Just when I thought I could breathe a sigh of relief, he grabbed my hand and pulled me forcefully towards him. The impact making me lose my balance and before I could analyze anything, I landed on his laps. It took me close to a minute to understand what had happened, but the moment I recovered, I entered into another state of shock. He pulled me so close to him that I could feel his breath on my face. By now my heart could serve as a drum for the whole world. What? What's he doing? Still processing everything, he leaned my head on his shoulder, burrying my head in his shirt. Being a slave I couldn't possibly do anything against him so I just remained stiff and anxious. Being in this position, I could inhale his scent and his overwhelming aura subdued me. It was so intoxicating like red wine, I could drown. Still glorying in this safe haven, his voice resounded on my ear lobe as a whisper. " You poisoned my drink, hmmm?"
*silence* I was drained of every life within me. So pale like a corpse. It took me a whole minute before I broke down.
Eyes wide, body frozen, I stared into space with tears flowing out of my eyes uncontrollably. He must have felt his shirt get wet because he began stroking my hair as if to tell me, he'll make it painless and fast.
I'm i really going to die? What about Elias?
I raised my head from his shoulders without a thought. " My lord, please let me live. I have a brother and I'm all he's got, please don't kill me". Now I knew I sounded selfish. using my brother to save myself. Without receiving a reply from him, I pleaded for a last wish. " Please my lord, let me see my brother just once....just.... this once... please" I knew that I was certainly going to die for this. It wasn't me responsible but who could i tell this too. I'd die anyways, either through public execution for betraying my master or in the hands of the demon lord for betraying myself.
This was the biggest sin in the land of Eros which is punishable by death.
" You haven't answered my question"
For the first time I looked into his eyes. It shone like amber, very bright, I was certain that wasn't how his eyes was when he came here earlier. " My lord," I immediately brought down my head. " Forgive me." Those where the only words that could come out of my mouth. He just stared at me without as much as a word from his mouth. It was more uncomfortable, but I knew for one that death was near. This was a grave sin. An abomination that shouldn't have happened.The way he looked at me with no emotions, it was obvious that he was greatly enraged. Nothing could coo him and I feared it would reign thunder on the third land of Eros.
He just kept on caressing my hair like it was the forth wonder. As though he was enchanted. A scream of agony was what was left to make my heart disappear. I shivered like a drained rooster the moment I turned my head and found my Master's assistant dead without his head in place. Everywhere went dead silent, all that could be heard was the constant rolling of a head. It rolled till it got to the demon lords feet under my gaze. Dazed, I didn't realise how I was made to stand behind him. It was so fast, I couldn't comprehend and boom, it was a fight. Very fierce, I'd never witnessed before. My eyes glued to what was unfolding before me. Bodies apart, blood spilling like a fountain, mass damage. People usually attacked from behind if they targeted a demon lord cause it's impossible to defeat a demon lord head on. So it was a given, the demon lord's had the upper hand. I watched as people lost their lives, both innocent and guilty. They all turned to dust. It was still not clear to me, from enjoying the scenery of peace to that of agony. It's unbelievable how this two incident, world's apart, happened on the same day. Goodness, save me, save us. Us? That's right, us. Wait, something's not right here. where's?...wait where's Elias? I snapped. Immediately, I got on my knees and began crawling to avoid stray attacks. Moving carefully, I sighted a table not too far from me and crawled under it for a bit of protection. "Elias!" I shouted, not too high though. " Elias! .....Elias! "Oh God, where are you? Please be safe for me. I kept crawling under one table to another still calling out to him. It was so roudy I didn't notice the quick strides making their way towards me. Crawling again to try and get under another table, I was halted by strongs arms around my waist and was immediately pulled from under the table I currently was. I made a sharp turn to try and struggle my way free but I stopped in my tracks, extremely shocked. Goosepimples crept their way upto my neck. It was my master. I wasn't scared that my master grabbed me like that, what scared me was the expression on his face like he was going to shred me in thousand pieces.