Xanthe said, she had already been emotionally connected to mother and I, she could never bring herself to kill or even wish death upon me, the truth was I also felt the same. How would she ever face mother again, if she had harm on her son, as Rhea was like a mother, we also shared a father, making it seem as if we were blood siblings and not just half siblings. She handed over, what she had in her right hand all along, it was a golden drop hoop chained harp earring, the small golden harp stood out the most as it hang just below the chain.
I wondered how, she had gotten ahold of the earring. As the earring was way too small for her, it wouldn't fit her ear, I'm guessing it was the reason she had been holding it. But the earring would fit perfectly in my ear, it was a perfect sized earring, as if made for me. It was almost as long as my pinky finger, to Colossals it wouldn't even be considered a piece of jewellery. "The reason you followed me without hesitation, when I told you to, was because of this", she said, pointing at the earring. I couldn't hold it in, as I burst out in laughter, thinking Xanthe had been joking around, but Xanthe was as serious as can be.
Could it be what Xanthe had just said true, but that's just crazy there was no such thing as sorcery, such beasts that could breathe flames or turn men to stone had long gone extinct and only legends remain. If it wasn't for mother reading me such stories, I wouldn't even know that they had once existed, I wouldn't know of sorcery. Xanthe sat me down before explaining, apparently back when our ancestors would conquer lands to gain more influence, they would take enemy territory and their treasure as collateral for their achievements. For unknown reasons they never cared for the treasures as much as they did about the territories they had conquered. As they never bothered to check what was in those chests, they kept the chests in a locked room, in this castle. Overtime they conquered more land and the chests multiplied, piling up to a point of exceeding thousands. After Xanthe lost her mother, she was granted permission to being the only one that that had access to the treasure room aside from father.
She eventually went through every single treasure chest that was in that room, as she spent most of her time there, some contained gold, some jewels, others jewellery and some even greater knowledge. The was one particular treasure chest that stood out from all, it had different types of treasure the smallest jewelry as if made for a doll, normal treasure for an average royal colossal, items that gave you sorcery like abilities and it had live beasts that no Colossal had ever seen. Xanthe kept the treasure chest hidden in her room and I was the only one that she had told about. The earring was one of the many treasures in the chest, it gave the possessor an ability to put others in a trance like-state and influencing their actions (hypnotic voice). Meaning just by the use of my voice I could control any Colossal, I saw fit. The reason she gave me the only earring that could control others was because I never had an advantage, that my siblings had, with this useless body of mine. I put on the earring on my left ear and was really grateful for Xanthe's help.