Sharchan and Sharchet were out of Sienna's room, walking the long corridors.
"You mess me up, brother..."Sharchan bit his lips.
"I thought you told her already?"S shook his shoulders innocently." She would find sooner or later anyway. Besides, being truthful is important in the relationship, no?"
"I know what you are trying to do..."Sharchan looked at him suspiciously."I said I will not stand in your way, so what more do you want?"
"I want you to tell her your decision."S smiled sneakily.
"When her days are over."Sharchan said."We need to ease her in...You saw how grumpy she still is."
"You enraged her brother..."S shook his head."But why you will not allow her to work...?" he asked curiously.
"Because it is ridiculous." Sharchan bit his lips.
"Well, if you will allow her what she wants, you will get what you want."S chuckled...
"Why did you say that?"Sharchan furrowed his brows.
"Sarcos owns half of the world. Do you think he let her do it? If yes, is okay, if not, you could not go against him, but you were on her side. It is a win-win."S smiled.
"You are unbelievable brother, so sneaky..."Sharchan shook his head.
"No, I just use my brain. So do you agree?"S smiled.
"Yes, you are right."Snake King nodded.
"Good, now be kinder. We don't want her to drop you off completely..." S smiled confidently. "We need to tame her better... "
"How? "Sharchan looked at his sneaky brother in awe...
"With kindness!" S chuckled."Did not you notice after all this time?"
Sienna was sulking in her bed. She had a horrible story in front of her eyes, as she had to mate with a huge snake in the golden cage just to be allowed to walk in the garden...
Noon came and S brought her a tray with mushroom rice and a sweet cone."Look, Sharchan cooked it for you..." he smiled gently.
"You broke the cage down for me..."Sienna locked her blue eyes in his.
"Yes, it is still in my room, I just hid it in Sharchan's pile of treasure," S chuckled.
"Thank you." Sienna kissed his cheek.
She did not feel so confident about Sharchan anymore...
"S? Try to spend more time with Sharchan and explain to him that his cage ideas are not ok, please," she asked him sweetly.
"I will," S smiled."Rest, my love..." he said gently and left.
Sienna ate the rice slowly. She really liked the taste but was thinking about her Snake King. She felt so hurt by his new golden cage! All the previous resentments she had with him, just came up in her read, dancing around in circles, making her more upset.
Soon enough, Sharchan came to see her. Sienna was drawing in her bed when he opened the door carefully. He locked his wild yellow eyes on her, but Sienna did not even look at him!
"Are you upset with me now?" he sat next to her curiously.
"I do not want to live in the cage!"Sienna said seriously.
"But how do I keep you safe?"Sharchan glanced at her.
"I'm not running away from you! And if someone comes to take me, they are strong enough to get me out. But you know this! You just have your golden cage fantasy stuck in your head with no regard for my feelings!" she cried out upset. "You are just breaking my heart again! Why do I love you so much?" her voice broke in sobs.
"You just complain about me all the time! I put lots of nice things inside for you. I will give up everything for you! But you keep missing...you spend more time taken away than with me..."Sharchan sighed.
"Last time it was your fault, so don't tell me off for it! If you are so scared send me to Marco now or call for Lord Ziran to stay." she hissed at him.
"Leave them out of it, you are my mate I want to spend time with you by myself," Sharchan said jealously.
"Then stay next to me when I'm with you! You can survive one week, no?"Sienna asked in a challenging voice.
"Yes, I will, but even Sarcos can't keep you safe all the time...you are walking trouble ..." he looked at her a bit desperately.
"Trouble?"Sienna's voice broke in pain."How could you...? Send me away if I'm troubling you so much! l go to Marco's mountains then. Write him a letter now. Nobody took me from there yet!"
Sharchan just looked at her and bit his lips." She is still moody..." he sighed in his mind.
"You said you would be nice to me!"Sienna was not finished with him yet.
"No, I said I will do what you want...You did not ask me anything yet and you are already grumpy..." he noted.
"I want you to be kind and considerate...so go ask your brother how to do it!"She cried out."And bring me a honey cone on the way...you stressed me out!" she sobbed.
Sharchan sighed and went out. He was not sure what to do...the golden cage was really one of his snake's fantasies and he was always pushing it into his mind....it was turning him on in an erotic way...
Sienna sat in her bed and stared at the door."What just happened?" She mumbled to herself. She was so upset, she did not watch her words at all! She was thinking if she did not hurt him too much. It kind of felt weird, that he just went out quietly, he did not even shut the door loudly as always." Did I hurt him?" she thought." Well, he should stop caging me then!"
In a few minutes, S came to bring her the honey cones..." Why are you so upset, my love?" he asked gently...he sat next to her bed and watched her gobble up the sweets nervously.
"I want Sharchan to be nicer to me! He keeps breaking my heart!" she sighed."I want to go home..."Sienna felt her angry tears coming up again...
"Shshs. You are home...leave it to me. I will take him hunting tonight..."S said calmly. His voice sounded so reassuring and ...kind of dangerous!!!
"Just bring him back safe, no more tricks on him, please..."Sienna looked into S's eyes.
"Do you love him so much?" S looked at her with gentle content.
"Yes."Sienna nodded.
"So, do you love me too?"S asked.
"As the best brother-in-law in the world... "she smiled at him.
"Come here, my silly queen."S embraced her gently, pressing her head to his wide chest. Sienna felt as if her hurt was going away. She felt safe in his embrace. She started to realize, that he was the only one on her side suddenly...
"You are my little sweet queen." He petted her head." I will do everything for you to be happy here." He kissed the top of her head.
"Thank you." Sienna let go of him. He felt so sweet to her somehow."You smell good too." She nodded quietly for herself.
"What?"S asked confused.
"Go hunt," she chuckled. He made her grumpy mood vanish completely and she felt strong again.
S smiled and shook his head...she was getting comfortable next to him and that made him happy.
After S left Sienna stood up and walked around her room thinking... she had a plan forming in her mind, but first, she wanted to see the remains of her golden cage...
As the night came, Sienna watched two big copper snakes leave the castle for hunting and sneak into Sharchet's room with a burning candle. She went through the golden heaps and found the parts of the golden cage..smashed together..."The bars are surely unusable now..." she giggled looking at the big golden discs.
"That is quite a big piece for a necklace!" the rasping voice sounded from the dark corner suddenly.
"Who are you?" Sienna flinched. The castle should be empty apart from them, so she was a bit shocked to hear an unfamiliar voice!
"What are you doing in my king's room with a candle?" the older man with piercing eyes came out of the darkness. He looked at her as a ghost...
"I'm his queen! I can come to his room whenever I want." Sienna nodded confidently.
"Not on my watch. Get out!" Akita hissed.
"How dare you?"Sienna hissed back at him." I'm your queen as well...so scram!" he made her upset.
"You are stealing his gold, you just accepted him for it. You are a golddigger..." he pointed his long dried-out finger at her.
"Are you stupid? How would I carry all this and for what? You are annoying...get out!"Sienna tried to act as a confident queen.
"You should be in your bed but you sneaked in here as he left! I was watching you..." he nodded.
"And what? I want to see my king's golden cage!"Sienna looked at him upset.
"I can show you his dungeon!"Akita chuckled darkly.
"No! I do not like dungeons. Stop bothering me or you go there by yourself!" she called distressed. He was too weird!
"You plotted with his younger brother! You betrayed your king! You plotted against him with him...You deserve to die as a traitor!" he mumbled madly convinced.
"What? I got Sharchan out, so stop this game! It is not funny!"Sienna backed off a bit because he was getting closer...
"Liar! You tricked him! I will revenge for my king!" he said coldly.
"Oh no, a crazy man!" Sienna thought," Get out of my king's room! "she shouted at him...
He just grinned moving closer to her slowly. He saw that she had nowhere to run! His eyes gleamed wildly.
Sienna felt scared. "Go away from me!!!" She shrieked and smashed the golden disk into his face. He was acting weird! He grabbed the disk in the air and laughed."You are not a very strong female. You look like a mermaid. They are cold and greedy...Rather come to the dungeon with me by yourself so I do not need to hurt you here and make a bloody mess on my king's floor..." he said coldly as a man without a soul...
"That will be the last thing you do!"Sharmut came out of the darkness suddenly! He was watching both of them from the beginning with quiet entertainment...
"Are you crazy?" He smashed his hand over the servant's face so hard that silly horrid man snake splattered on the floor.
"Come, my child...he just unfroze a few days ago and he does not know how precious you are to all of us..."Sharmut smiled and circled Sienna's waist tightly!
She was suspicious of him too, but it was too late, so she decided to play nice...
"Thank you father-in-law...you come just in time..." Sienna smiled nervously at him. She was a bit shaken.
"So tell me, why you were looking for the golden cage?"Sharmut asked with almost dangerous sweetness.
"I wanted to see it with my own eyes. I wondered how big it was?"Sienna smiled gently but gulped secretly. Sharmut's hand was tight around her as a steel ring. She felt trapped!!!
"Yeah, I can show you..."Sharmut nodded cheekily..."Get all cage parts to my chambers!" Sharmut called to Akita as he took Sienna out of the room.