I pulled Ustra back gently, raising her head lightly from my shoulder.
I stroke her long hair and I watched her sleep.
I exhaled heavily and robbed my palms together, it was already deep into the evening and my stomach still craves something.
I got up lightly and headed for the kitchen, I peeped through the window and watched as the armies change shifts.
I think they were only allowed to come in when they were summoned.
I had a thousand questions I was longing to ask Ustra, but I've never mustered so much courage to.
Then I remembered Elyon, then Grandpa Ralph, My life, I shook my head, shut my eyes and inhaled again.
"At least, I've had some peace for a whole day now, and I don't want this to end" I thought.
I recalled how Ustra broke into tears, I wanted to ask about her mother and what happened and all but that wasn't the time.
I think it was deja vu.
When she asked earlier, I couldn't respond because I never grew up to know who my mother was.
I never knew what the feeling was, having a real mother.
I grew up with my father's arm all opened for me to embrace and a shoulder to lean on whenever something wasn't so right with me.
I was quite young then, so having to ask my father who my mother was, never occurred to me.
I thought my father Beta Ezra, would be there until I'm at least, a hundred years old.
My eyes became so blurry.
I missed him and I had cried enough, I didn't want to again.
I peeped again, I could see one of the armies somewhere behind the orchid plants beside the vast plains filled with pride of barbados and cherry blossom trees.
Someone tiptoed quietly down his lane.
The figure looked slender and moderately tall, the figure looked so familiar.
I couldn't see through because the distance was quite far, and the lady seem to back my direction.
For a moment I thought it was Petra, but I figured it was a maid probably from the palace.
He pulled her with full aggressiveness as he buried his lips into hers. He ripped her clothes off and her full perfectly rounded boobs popped out of her ripped top.
His body seem to be on fire and so heated up for pleasure.
I couldn't stand it anymore, I shifted my gaze and slammed the window.
"Tanya? My dearest?" I heard Grandpa Ralph's voice.
My heart leaped with great joy.
I turned to my right and there he was,
Just slightly above my right shoulder.
He looked like a floating rabbit in the air.
Grandpa Ralph immediately turned to a dot of light,
"Come with me" Grandpa Ralph said.
He headed for the direction of the two lovers I'd previously seen.
"No, no, sorry Grandpa" I was trying to catch my breath while I guestured with my hands for him to turn left.
I never wanted to disturb those two.
We finally got out of sight, far beyond Ustra's castle.
I watched as the tiny little dots gradually turned into another form, He looked younger this time. He wasn't in his longer, extremely bright and broader flowing robe, nor his beards long like I've seen once.
He wasn't even emitting those vibrations I've once felt from him.
He appeared so young, like a man in his late twenties.
"Grandpa Ralph!" I said as I embraced him tightly.
"Oh, oh," He laughed.
"My beautiful Tanya seem all grown up now, ha ha!" He smiled as he gently caressed my hair.
"Where have you been Grandpa? Why did you leave?" I asked, almost bursting in tears again.
"There's alot to say Tanya..."
"No I want to hear it all, I have so much questions I'm dying to ask" I said.
He pulled me back and held my shoulders,
"I've been with you all the while Tanya." He said, his eyes glittered.
"Then why did you leave me all to Myself?"
"You see, Tanya," he turned as he motioned foward a little bit.
"My true form you have seen once,"
He pulled his palms foward and looked at them keenly,
"I think someone must have detected my presence and only one person can... I" He strained.
I moved closer to him,
" I want to know who it was. Why and exactly what it was all about." I said
"It's the moon witch!" He exclaimed.
"But grandpa Ralph, you said I had alot... wait! What moon? Who's Moon?"
"It seems your coming here was a blessing after all my dearest" Grandpa Ralph responded.
"This very province of the spirit is where you get to learn all you need to"
"Learn what Grandpa Ralph?" I said.
"It's your destiny, I told you the first time I revealed myself to you, the lot fell on you."
"What's this pearl about?" I flipped my right hand foward.
He paused for a while and sighed,
"I'll tell you as you learn all you need to, There are things you need to learn. I told you you wield a power within you and there's just a lot you can't understand now"
"I can!, I really can!. Like for instance, I don't know why we are here. I really wanted to ask Ustra" I said.
"Ustra?" He asked.
"Your little friend here has a close destiny with you and there's only one reason she could have destroyed the blue Moon Park, it's for..."
Ustra called from behind not quite far from where I was,
"Tanya?"
I jerked backward I'm slight shock and hurriedly jog to meet her.
"Yes? Huh..." I dabbed my head lightly.
I watched as she paced with long strides,
"I woke up and couldn't find you around, I was wondering where you might be. You look startled, am I disturbing?"
I smiled and gulped,
"No you're not, I just huh,came out to get some fresh air" I explained confidently.
"I'm sorry about earlier, I was completely..." She ran her fingers through her hair.
"I was just..."
"I understand Ustra" I replied.
I noticed she didn't cover her face, her blue eyes sparkled lightly as she run her hands through.
"Oh, well, thank you! I could show you around properly tomorrow" she said.
"Ustra please can I be your maidservant really, please?"
I wedged myself right infront of her as I knelt down,
"I don't want to go back there."
She pulled me up and smiled,
"No, Tanya"
"No?" I got terrified.
"No you're not going back there." She winced.
"I chose you, but not as my maidservant..."
For a minute or so, I felt completely special. I've never felt that way in a very long time, probably in ten years, when my father Beta Ezra was alive.
My eyes widened, I couldn't contain the fact that our Captor, the princess, or some Lord, just someone far greater than myself chose me. I mean all my life I have always been a castaway.
" Petra and Sonia had not given me the chance to be closer to others and my stepmother Brianna, was no exception. I was that Tanya that used to be confined and now?" I thought.
Ustra clicked thrice in my face,
"Hey hey hey!" She laughed,
"You're such a soul! What were you thinking?"
I only stood there laughing.