The king watched Winter with a pair of angry eyes. His pupils flashed a different colour and quickly turned it's former red.
Everyone Winter has seen up close all day have red eyes like Prince.
Winter returned the gaze equally her stubborn personality not making her back down. The only difference between them is one is furious! While the other is uninterested!
The servants in hall clenched their fist and restrained the fury. They have a rising urge to run up to that lady who didn't know the height of heaven and earth and tear her into a million unrecognizable pieces.
Suddenly..
The king's lips cracked into a smile and his eyes gleamed with deeper interest.
"I knew you will be feisty and stubborn! I have to say..I like it!" The king said happily looking like he found a new toy.
The queen couldn't maintain am elegant look again and silently clenched her fist. 'The vixen offense is casually brushed off again, at this rate she will be a highly favored concubine'
The king is more infatuated than she thought.
Winter lifted her eyes very bored but still alert.
'it just got boring again'
The servants blood boiled hearing the vixen offense is causally brushed off..again!
A little maid somewhere in the room silently consoles herself thinking of what she had done to the vixen dress earlier.
"You two come and sit for breakfast" The king beaconed to them.
Prince walked forward and sat on the king's left side. Winter went and sit two seats away from him.
The dining table is very large able to contain fifty people with good spacing between each seats so sitting two seats away from Prince is like having four grown men between them.
The queen is very happy with Winter's tactfulness yet angry at her blatant disrespect!
The king smiled with patient and a hint of helplessness.
"You should sit beside the crown prince miss Powers"
Winter furrowed her brows. If this people really behaved according to old rules of hierarchy, then her space shouldn't be here in the first place but in another dining room far away from royalty. Now the king is asking her to sit beside Prince.
'what is going on here?'
She didn't want to admit it but she is sensing a weird feeling from the king and queen. Like...
'it can't be!'
"I dare not your majesty, that will be a huge disrespect to the crown prince" Winter said politely.
"No! Your right position is beside him!" The king raised his voice angrily.
Winter eyes turned freezing cold, her being shrouded in a deep aura.
"What is going on here?" She asked in a deep and calm voice.
The more dangerous the situation is the calmer she becomes.
The whole room become shrouded with her deathly aura suffocating the people in it. The weaker servants had began to crumble some falling down while the stronger ones just held their chest having difficulty breathing. There is a dangerous feeling in the room going down their spine.
The king and queen having accumulated their own aura didn't seem too affected however deep down in their eyes fear rose and clouded their brain. Prince looked up at her and awed, even though his own aura has been suppressed.
"There is an announcement this evening and you will find your answer then" The king said his voiced cracked and trembled.
Winter blinked and the whole room felt relieved, the dangerous feeling is gone.
"I will appreciate it if you can tell me now" she said politely and calmly.
"I can't miss Powers"
"Mm" Winter nodded and stood up.
The king quickly wiped his sweating palm on his trouser under the table. He felt it just now and is very afraid!
No one saw it but he saw her calm black eyes had flashed a color orange!
"Am afraid I can't eat your local delicacies"
The food in the table consisted of several odd dishes that she has never seen before.
'they sure have a way of turning meat and vegetables into poison' she grimaced on the inside.
"You should try it" since you will be eating it for the rest of your life, Prince said.
Winter shook her head "am afraid of what it will do to my body, besides am severely injured and won't be able to really digest"
Prince face changed. That's right he haven't healed her injuries from last night yet.
"Am sorry and will get to that right away" Prince stretched his hand and placed it on hers.
Winter closed her eyes and felt the energy entering her body. This energy is different from any of the supernatural creatures she have ever come in contact with.
This energy felt oppressive and suppressive not at all in the healing department. It seems closer to vampire's and werewolves magic but it's more aggressive!
They don't seem like supernatural creatures with their red eyes.
Are they another type of supernatural creature?
Or just a mutated version of several?!
"Done" Prince reluctantly removed his hand from Winter's.
"Good"
Prince frowned and said" I told you it is very rude for you to not say thank you when you receive someone's help"
Winter just moved her eyes bored.
"It is only considered help if the person actually need or ask for it" Winter replied.
"Didn't you ask for it?"
Yes that's right, she did.
"Aren't you the one that injured me in the first place, this is not a help, this is your obligation" she replied.
Now Prince is speechless but happy.
'i and my future wife first bicker!'
Winter wasn't interested in whatever he is thinking, she sat down back. She had heard the sound of fabric ripping earlier and knew her dress had ripped a little at the lower area at the back. No one's attention was drawn there because of her little banter with Prince now. She just sit down obediently to hide for now.
According to the old days, the king and queen must leave first before she and Prince can also leave. Then she can make trouble for the maid.
Her plan for now is to effectively chase any maid around her away then after doing that, she had seen a secret passage earlier in the way. She will hide there until they discover her missing and relax their guard around the place and look for her outside. She would then try to contact the boys to rescue her.
She isn't stupid enough to think she can escape a whole city full of superpowered beings by herself!
If that doesn't work...well plan b!
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Sorry for the late update.
I had a terrible fever last week and just caught up with the chapters this week.