On getting to the castle, Luna encountered the shock of her life, she saw that the throne hall was gathered with people, she walked through the sea of people to see what the hell was going on that was making the castle sound like a market.
Her eyebrows furrowed on seeing a person that looked familiar to her and blood was gushing out of the neck. She bent down to turn the person over and her eyes popped wide in shock. "No, no no this cannot happen? ... How? Where is father? he must have something to do with this?" She asked herself as she clenched her fist while letting the tears in her eyes fall uncontrollably.
"Father? what did you do? did you do this?" She asked as she saw Magnus entering through the hall.
Magnus folded his arms and rolled his eyes while he kept listening to his daughter's rants. "Father aren't you going to say anything? say something please" She begged as she knelt down while clenching his golden robe. She felt as if her throat was tightened and was restricting her from taking her in.
Magnus yanked his robe from her hand forcefully as he said to her, "It's good that this one is gone, I wouldn't have to worry about your marriage" He spoke heartlessly.
Luna's face became red with anger as she glared at her father, no this wasn't the person she knew when she was younger. This wasn't her father who spoilt her a lot, it was as if he was a completely different person. She seems to have lost her father the very day the massacre took place in sleasea.
"Did you do this father? Did you kill him?" she asked as she placed her hand on her chest while feeling air being knocked out of her, it was getting hard to breathe.
"I... can't, I can't breathe... mother, I..." Luna crumbled to the floor while holding her chest as she cried in agony, it was as if her lungs were being tied. Oh what did she do to deserve all these. Why is all this things happening to her?
Alice rushed towards her daughter to help her up while she ordered the servants to go get water, she turned to look at Magnus whose features was expressionless as if he wasn't bothered if his daughter would end up dying. 'Why are you doing this?' Alice asked herself as she looked at him. But instead of Magnus to feel pity towards his daughter, he turned his back and began walking away.
The servants brought the water and it was fed to Luna while some fanned her so she could regain her full consciousness.
"Are you alright? Luna? " Her mother called as she pulled Luna into her embrace while caressing her.
"I'm not mother, I'm not, how do you expect me to be alright when Evans is gone?" She asked as she started crying again.
"I'm sorry dear, I'm sorry, it's alright everything will be alright" Alice consoled her.
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Ever since Evans was gone, Luna became a total different person, she wasn't living and caring at all. she became aggressive towards people and also impatient. She would spend all day in her room without doing anything but just staring at the blank ceiling.
She would order the servants to bring her meal to her room instead of her eating with her parents like she normally does. Sometimes she doesn't have a complete meal, she would eat in the morning and the next meal would be the following day. She soon became lean and weak that made the queen worried.
The queen had discussed the issue with Magnus but her husband seemed the least bothered with the health of his daughter.
Camille also began to visit her sister regularly to talk things to her but Luna wouldn't budge, a broken heart can never be easy to mend.
"Listen up Luna, I heard that there is some new brothel that had been opened for a week now and it seems people are patronizing them, they also have sweet and fine alcoholic drinks to offer, let's go there shall we?" Camille asked as she looked at her sister that was laying on the bed lifeless. She hadn't even had her bathe since morning, her hair was all messed up like a bed's nest and wrinkles were begining to appear under her eyes.
"Hey Luna, with that look of yours people might think you're a granny, can you just get some bath already, you stink" Camille said while covering her nose, she was just saying all these things to liven up her dead sister.
"Is that what Ethan has been teaching you?, to go to the brothel and get drunk and let some useless men lay their hands on you, huh?, I knew it Ethan has not been a good husband" Luna finally spoke, she sat up straight on the bed as she stretched her body.
"Do not talk bad about my husband okay?" She responded with all smiles and a flushed cheeks that made Luna fake a smile at her.
"Big sister, are you planning to spend the rest of your lives within this four walls? you know Evans wouldn't be happy to see you in this condition, why don't you get a bath and get dressed into some nice cloth and let's enjoy this evening?" Camille suggested as she went to grab her sister's arm and pulled her out of the bed to the bath.
She made sure the bath was warm enough and put some scented oils in it and some roses, before telling Luna to get in.
"I can do this myself cam, stop bothering yourself" Luna said.
"No let me, it has been quite long since we indulged in these activities you know"
She removed the band that held her silver hair and began pouring some soap to wash her hair, when she was done. She took the wash cloth and helped Luna bath.
"Look at you, so fresh and clean" Giggled Camille, she walked her sister out of the bath and took her to the large mirror, Camille helped her get into a red sequin dress that had one arm covered while the other arm was left bare, her feet were covered with some black heels. Her hair was braided into two and a red paint was applied to her lip.
"Don't you look lovely now? sister you know no matter how ugly you look when you're down, you're still the most beautiful, I truly envy you" Camille confessed as she looked at her sister in the mirror, "But... I like to be me, it makes me happy and fulfilled" She said again making the two laugh.