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THE EMPEROR LOVES YOU❤️
Things had been going well for her, extremely well that she had actually forgotten just who she was in this empire, who she was to the Emperor and how so little she meant to him. She stared at her two aides sleeping by her side, looking tired and exhausted. They had had about nothing to eat since the dawn hour. She sighed and tried to turn to her left. The sharp pain that her nervous system hit her with reminded her of the aching wounds on her back. She grunted as she tried to get into a more comfortable position once more. She began to cry, light streams of liquids that drifted down her cheeks like a gentle autumn breeze. She would never forget this, what she had to go through today and just who put her in that position. This incident had been a jarring reminder that she was still nothing more than a captive, a slave who was being manipulated and hypnotized by her captor. She couldn't really blame herself for having fallen for his antiques. She blamed him for doing this to her without no conscience. Oh damn the man! He was evil.
It had all happened exactly six long days after his departure. She had woken up to the faint orange light of dawn. She had sat up in bed, stretching and yawning for almost thirty minutes before lifting herself out of bed and journeying to the bedroom door. She had opened it and found her aides. Xiera had been asleep on the makeshift palette with a blanket over her. Her red hair had been practically scattered messily but attractively all over the whites of the palette. Vura had also been asleep on the ground near the door with her back to the wall. She had had her hands resting on one knee which was folded upwards and the other stretched out on the ground. She had woken up the instant the bedroom door had opened. Her eyes had met her mistress' whose eyes instantly shifted to her counterpart sprawled atop a palette, wallowing in the entrancing beauty of sleep.
'My Lady, Good Sunrise to you!' she had greeted getting to her feet.
'Good sunrise to you too Vura. I am very sorry to have awakened you,' she told the lady who shook her head a little bit sleepily at her mistress.
'No My Lady, you didn't wake me up. I am a light sleeper you know?' she told her mistress who smiled at her.
'Whatever Vura,' she told her. 'I would like a bath. I feel very unclean and uncomfortable,' she told her. Vura nodded as she bent and grabbed her sword holster which was by the bedroom door where she had been sitting and sleeping.
'I will get Hyeera for you My Lady. She was here about thirty minutes ago to check on you. She was the one who left your blinds open. I'm sure that was what must have woken you up, the lights that seeped through the opened blinds. You are sensitive to them,' she mumbled.
'Oh, they did wake me. But Vura, I never once told you that I was actually sensitive to the morning lights,' she said to her in a questioning tone and large suspicious eyes that had Vura jarred quickly awake to defend herself.
'I just... It's umm... I just figured that out all on my own My Lady,' she stammered quickly. Her answering tone was suspicious and she was just intending to dig deeper when Hyeera's voice made her turn to the direction it was coming from.
'My Lady, Happy morrow to you. How may your night have been?' she asked with a small bow. She hadn't heard the healer come in.
'It was fine thank you Hyeera,' she answered her with a smile. 'I hope yours was too?' Xiera awoke then, slowly sitting up in her makeshift palette sleepily.
'What is all these noise about?' she murmured through sleep clouded eyes. 'I'm trying to catch my beauty sleep. I am trying!' she slurred in a sleep ridden voice before falling back into the palette and going straight to sleep. Vura made a stifled sound which quickly became a rancous laughter. The other two present joined her in doing so.
'I apologize My Lady on her behalf. She must be so tired. She was for the most part of the night guarding your bedroom door,' she informed their mistress with her head hung low. She still had that crazy amused smile on her beautiful face.
'Oh there's no need to apologize for that Vura. She is only subconsciously doing that and I know,' she assured her aide with an amused smile of hers. Hyeera giggled at their interaction.
'Thank you for being so gracious My Lady,' Vura said. Her mistress shook her head in an exasperated way and said nothing in return.
'May you need anything this morning My Lady? I am here to assist you with whatever you need,' she said to her mistress who turned to look at her.
'I was just telling Vura to come get you because I would much need a warm bath before you dropped in on both of us,' she said to her.
'Oh! Then that is perfect timing My Lady,' she exclaimed.
'Must there be My Lady in each of your sentences. Is it not quite bothersome to you, all of you?' she asked her. Hyeera smiled then shook her head.
'No My Lady. We cannot address you any other way lest it be tagged as treason by the Emperor,' she said.
'Why on earth would he do that?' she said. 'When I am not his consort or even his wife or much less the Empress?' she added. When they were silent for so long after sharing very obvious knowing glances, she glared suspiciously at each of them one after another. 'What do you both know that you aren't telling me?' she threw at the both in a stern authoritative voice that she was surprised she owned.
'It's... no I, it's just that...' Vura began to stammer stupidly again like earlier. She was more suspicious of the both at that moment.
'It's nothing My Lady,' Hyeera answered her quickly, interrupting Vura, in a more composed voice.
'Yes My Lady, nothing,' Vura instantly added in corroboration.
'Yes, nothing My Lady,' they both said simultaneously, staring at each other for only but a moment.
'Really?' she said.
'Yes My Lady,' Hyeera answered as Vura nodded, swallowing.
'What is it that you know that I do not know?' she asked again, a sinister threat in her hard voice. 'This is your last chance.'
'Nothing My Lady.'
'There is nothing My Lady, be rest assured,' Hyeera said with an uneasy queasy smile that made her perceive the stench of the rat that she had smelt in their cupboard more strongly, overpowering.
'Last chance!' she simply said. Both of them chose to be quiet father than answer her. They didn't see her coming because she was very quick, like a feline. It was only when the sword was pointed at both that they realized she meant all the threats in her words and they were absolutely nowhere near empty.
'My Lady!' Vura exclaimed. The sword drew closer to her than to Hyeera. She swallowed softly in apprehension at the weapon held to her neck.
'Shall you both begin to speak or shall we do this the hard way?' she told the both of them. They both swallowed in alarm as she brandished Xiera's sword that she had pulled out from the holster with a type of speed that totally belittled lighting.
'It is not that My Lady,' Xiera's voice came as she rose from the mat. They all turned to her. 'Good morrow to My Lady,' she greeted before turning to Vura to continue. 'Why don't you just tell her that you both think she would be Empress?! Is this secret worth your lives?!' she asked Vura. 'Vura keeps saying that to me, that the Emperor loves you and that he would marry you and make you his Empress and not that bitch of a lady that claims to be his fiancee!' she snapped.
'Is that it?' Lady Rose said with a laugh. Vura nodded fearfully.
'Yes My Lady. I thought it would be rude to say something like that to your face, but I see that it doesn't matter to Xiera,' she said glancing at Xiera with a sneer.
'Oh my, oh my! You all crack me up!' she giggled. 'Where on earth do all of you bring all these ridiculous jokes from?' she demanded with mirthful eyes and a smile that suggested that they were surely unbelievable.
'It's just one of Vura's many thoughts,' Xiera said with a sneer which was directed straight at Vura.
'It wasn't mine alone My Lady!' Vura protested. 'Xiera was in on it too. It was a collective thought!'
'Collective thought my foot!' Xiera snapped at her.
'So, all you do is gossip about me in your free time and come up with astonishing theories?!' she asked them. 'Well well, it must be such a nice way to spend your time,' she chided them.
'No My Lady,' Hyeera said. 'I am not always idle. But when I am, it is quite good to talk highly about My Lady you know.' Her sincere smile stopped her from saying anything to the dutiful maid.
'Oh whatever.'
'Do you forgive us My Lady?' she quickly asked her mistress with pleading eyes.
'Please My Lady,' Vura joined in. Xiera sneered at her entrance into the conversation.
'Forgive Hyeera My Lady, but not that deft gossip,' she told her mistress, referring to Vura.
'Oh, it's quite expected of someone as ungrateful as you to say that!' Vura barked her. 'And to think I was here apologizing on your behalf when you were yelling obscenities at our Lady early this morning in your sleepy state,' she informed her.
'I did?!' Vura asked after a gasp because she could tell by the look in everyone's faces that she must definitely had done so. Yet she prayed desperately that it was all a prank, a bad heart plodding one.
'For your information,' Xiera said turning in her direction and going up to her, 'You did so with so much disrespect, like the one that you are currently displaying. You literally asked our Lady to shut her mouth,' Vura exaggerated.
'No way on earth did I do that!' Xiera disagreed with so much fear. 'I wouldn't dare, even if it be in my sleep,' she further said.
'Well, you did.' Xiera fell to her knees at that instant.
'Oh my Lady, I know I dare not ask for your forgiveness, but please I beseech thee, forgive this lowly servant. Please spare me despite my grevious sins which are well deserving of death,' she said to her lady with her head hung low. Therefore she didn't see Vura cover her mouth, trying very hard to stifle a stubborn giggle that threatened to give away the little game she was enjoying playing with the warrior.
'Should I really?' Lady Rose asked the warrior playing along just for the fun of it all. 'Should I forgive you?'
'Yes My Lady, please do. I am sorry for what I have done, deeply,' she said to her mistress. Her head was still hung low. She seemed disappointed in herself for doing something that she hadn't even done. Her mistress laughed softly. She glanced up to look at her for but a moment before she quickly lowered her eyes along with her head, afraid to incur the wrath of her mistress. It was all her fault. She should have left her mistress to interrogate the other two with that sword in her hands and never gotten herself involved. She wouldn't be in this position now if she had done so, not here kneeling, pleading and suffering from her Lady's transfer of aggression.
'Then Xiera, tell me exactly why I should forgive you, for insulting me in your sleep, for gossiping about me, for slandering me with ridiculous speculations and for being so funny that I just can not seem to stifle my laughter,' she confessed.
'Mayhap because I am a good aide, a good person and someone who really loves her mistress in no carnal way. It isn't anywhere near easy to that My Lady,' she told her. She did not even get her mistress earlier joke at the end of her statement.
'Oh get up Xiera,' she said with a sniff as she went to the aide and tried to help her up to her feet.
'You have forgiven me My Lady?' she asked, her body stiffening, causing both to crouch halfway.
'Oh yes Xiera I have,' she said as the lady then allowed her mistress to help her to her feet.
'Thank you My Lady, thank you,' she sang, bowing repeatedly, her loose red hair continually flying forward and backward at the gesture.
'I forgive you Xiera because there is nothing to be forgiven of. For one, you never did any of those things that Vura mentioned to you,' she exposed the other warrior. 'She was only just playing around with you entirely for the fun of it.'
'What?!' Vura mumbled with eyes wide in surprise, then quickly squinting with anger. 'Vura!' she yelled out loud.
'Oh I'm sorry, it was just fun to do so and watch you. Although, it isn't entirely a lie. You really did ask us to keep the noise down because you were taking your beauty sleep earlier,' she divulged.
'Really? Is this really your prank?' she asked again with venom. Vura laughed uncontrollably, causing her anger to spike.
'Oh, I'm sorry. But it's just so funny, so funny!' She said.
'I bet it won't be when I pull out all of the red hair on your head,' she threatened before rushing at Vura to carry out the threat. They fought playfully like toddlers, laughing unladylike as they did so.
'Hyeera?'
'Yes My Lady, do you need anything?' she asked her.
'Yes Hyeera, just get me my bath,' she said with an exasperated sigh.
'Shall you need anything else?' she added again.
'Oh Hyeera, just get me my bath,' she said turning away from the sight and heading towards the bedroom with a smile on her face.
'Yes My Lady.' She turned and left to do as she was bid to, overlooking the crazy ladies who were now continuing the second round of their cat fight on the floor.
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