Kira is taking a walk around the castle headed for her usual spot, the garden, the only place in this damned place that feels like it has life. She can't help but notice the tense aura surrounding the place. 'Something is definitely going on' she thought to herself. "I'll figure that out later." She says out loud speaking to herself. She takes a turn and finally reaches her destination. When she gets into the garden, she can't help but feel like something is out of place.
The feeling she's getting from the garden is strange and off, it's not like it usually is, calm, secluded and cool, instead, it has an ominous, cold and weird feeling. It disturbs her but she pushes it aside, after all, no one goes into the garden besides her. She heads towards the bench in the garden and seats. The happenings of late start to flow through her mind bit most especially the moment the Dark Lord turned her down and told her that she was not ready to be The Empress. 'Why would he say such? What were the things she did that made him believe or think that she was not ready to be The Empress? What did he see? What was running through his mind at the moment?' This are the thoughts currently going through the mind of our dear Kira, yet she is so sure that she has done nothing wrong and that she did everything in her power to ensure that she did all that was asked of her. She decides to close her eyes for some minute to have some rest but ends up falling asleep.
While she's asleep, the Dark Lord comes into the garden, with him is the supposed emperor to be. They walk around casually not knowing that Kira is in the garden asleep. While they are walking and chatting the dark lord sees her and immediately shushes his son up. His son looks at him confused and a little bit annoyed until his gaze lands on his sister who is asleep on a bench in the garden and his eyes immediately widen. "OH..." He whispers and chuckle quietly. "Well, well" he says silently. "Come on Luke. We have to go she cannot see you." The dark Lord says and walks out followed by his son. "So, she still doesn't know that I'm here. I have to say I'm surprised, I thought she would have figured it out by now." Luke says. "Well, that's the whole idea, for her not to know you're here." The dark lord says. "Yeah, I know. I'm just saying that it's just weird that she hasn't felt me yet. When we were younger, I couldn't even hide from her and neither could she hide from me." Luke says. "You have been gone for a long time. The connection between you two was probably severed due to that. I never really understood or knew the reason for such connection anyways…I mean, you aren't even blood." The Dark lord says. "You're probably right." Luke says with a sigh. They arrive at the entrance to the Dark lords' study and enter. Luke walks around the room, taking a look at the shelves and the surrounding, feeling memories coming back to him. "It's been a long time since I was last in here. I actually, felt like I won't be back here ever again." Luke says while sitting down. "I wonder how Kira would react if she saw me…. hmm, she definitely won't be happy to see me, that I'm sure of." Luke says while chuckling. The Dark lord chuckles at Luke's statement. "That, my son, is true." He speaks.
Kira finally wakes up. She gets up from the bench and stretches. She pauses mid-stretch, "Someone was here" She thought to herself. "The dark lord and one other person… Who could it- No... no way…? The Dark lord would tell me if he came, right?" All this are what's going through Kira's head. She leaves the garden and heads for the Dark lord's study. The servants and workers are all on edge, no one wants to know how the encounter of the siblings will go. Kira gets to the Dark lord's door and knocks on it. The Dark lord and his son tense up. "Who's it?" The Dark lord says. "It's Kira" She replies. The eyes of the Dark Lord and his son widen immediately, panic written all over their faces. "What do I do?" his son whispers. "Hide somewhere" The Dark lord replies. "Where?" His son says. The Dark lord looks around and remembers he has a secret room. "Um… Hello… Can I come in?" Kira says from behind the door. "Just a moment" The Dark lord calls out. "Quick get in" He whispers to his son after opening the secret rooms entrance. His son quickly rushes in and the Dark lord closes the door behind him locking. He heaves a sigh and rearranges his outfit making sure to look presentable and unsuspicious. "Come in." He calls out after sitting in his desk, pretending to look busy. "Kira. What brings you to my office?" He says as soon as Kira enters. "OH, nothing serious. Just wanted to say hi." Kira says walking in looking around the office as if looking for something. The Dark Lord looks at her suspiciously. "Really? Just to say hi uh.." The Dark lord says looking at her.