I can't say, but, under my logic, Valverde must be giving me a warning message, that means...
I squint my eyes, "Valverde may be spying on me and all my companions minutely, Does he know that I have communicated with Huanca?", I walk to the bed to lie down, I can't help but feel watched, the cut rock walls seem to whisper my name.
And soon I fell asleep.
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The next day...
The sound of the door wakes me from a dream not very pleasant, squinting my eyes my mind quickly works, remembering everything that has happened.
There was a slight silence until the sound of the door filled the room again.
*knock* *knock*
With light steps I walked to the door and opened it.
Outside, this teenage girl stood...
Her beautiful white face, red lips and upturned nose along with golden hair makes my mind wander for a moment, then, a bit of confusion appears on my face.
Why does she look so much like the girl who was beheaded yesterday?
This question fills my mind before the teenager makes her introduction.
...
Kamila, is her name, she introduced herself as the older sister of the girl who was killed yesterday, however, Why doesn't she look sad?, I'm not good with explanations, let alone dealing with people whose relatives have just passed away.
I could grieve for a person who has died, yes, but that wouldn't bring them back to life.
"Kamila, Right?"
"Yes."
The teenager nods her head before standing upright, her two big breasts swaying back and forth.
"Why am I here,?, Why did you summon me?"
I asked the first question that came to my mind, I thought Kamila would take a while to answer but her voice came after I finished speaking.
"Well", Kamila made a gesture with her right hand, as if she was trying to explain something to me, "Sir, I want to say, to gain strength, the Arlott Kingdom has several enemy Kingdoms that want to take our territory...", Kamila answered,
"So where are those other kingdoms?
"A few thousand miles away Sir", Kamila smiled lightly, her bright eyes looked at me as if she was waiting for me to praise her.
But I kept thinking,
What does that mean?
That means that at least two thousand miles away there was nothing but forest, or desert or whatever it was that surrounded this kingdom.
I looked at Kamila with puzzled eyes, Is that distance considered short?
I shook my head slightly before asking another question.
"So, Are you sad?, I mean, I... Sorry?"
Kamila said nothing, her smile didn't change, her glittering golden eyes watched me, almost, almost like a porcelain doll, an empty, lifeless expression.
"Hey... Did you hear me?", I asked after a slightly awkward silence, Kamila startled in her own place before apologizing.
"I'm sorry sir, I'm not feeling very well, food is ready... hmph, please don't be late...", having said that, Kamila ran off in a random direction.
"This is...", I squinted my eyes, looking away, I could see the door of Huanca's room slightly open.
Curious, I decided to investigate a little.
Slight noises of something strange reached my ears as I approached Huanca's slightly open door.
Peering through the crack in the door, my eyes are slightly knowing.
Is Huanca having sex with whom?
I quickly turned away from the door with a slightly flushed face, I never imagined seeing Huanca naked, and on top of that, Who was that girl?
Taking a second look I could see more clearly, a maid like Kamila. But, "Hmph... Fuck it!, what do I care..."
I thought before closing my door and walking through the corridors of this place, trying to find the dining area Kamila had mentioned.
I had never been in a medieval castle before, I am not from Europe, so, this view is simply wonderful.
It is a large hallway where to many strange decorations, such as sculptures of two-headed leopards that spit a slightly powerful flame that illuminates the place.
Getting lost in these decorations, my mind went to light calm, soon, at some point I reached the end of the corridor.
Ahead was a sort of hall with several people walking from left to right, servants by their attire, I ignored them as they bowed to me before walking to someone in particular.
"Poki you're here" I said, interrupting a teenage boy who was flirting with a rather beautiful servant girl.
The teenager turned around and I saw his big white-toothed smile.
"Hey, Quasimodo, hehehe, I haven't seen you in over fifteen years. I thought you had died, especially after your trip out of the country...", Poki said as we shook hands.
"No, actually, I almost died, but, fuck, hahaha, it say weeds never die....", I said, I paused for a moment remembering a few things before I moved a little closer to Pioki.
"I want to know, that thing you said more than fifteen years ago, Is it true?", I asked with genuine curiosity.
Poki's face showed genuine surprise, then his smile faded and his deep black eyes looked at me.
"Ha..." he paused, "I don't think so", I saw him wince genuinely before sighing, "I had a family, you know, a beautiful daughter, a wonderful wife and a job, a good job... I don't know why---", Poki paused before looking to the right, following his gaze I could see a group of girls walking down the hallway.
I wasn't surprised, looking towards that place, there is Poki's high school girlfriend, but, maybe he still has feelings for her... It's not something I care about, at the end of the day I just wanted to know if Poki had intentions to accept the plan I'm making...
For now I only have in mind Huanca in my list of people I could invite to form a small alliance.
My objective, to escape from Arlott.
I don't know why that guard brought me the decapitated head of a maid girl last night, but, in my paranoid mind I can only think that this could have been provoked by King Valverde.
Maybe a way to threaten me by telling me that I know what will happen if I am not loyal to Arlott?
It doesn't matter, only one thing matters, "Escape". Thanks to the knowledge transmitted by Valverde yesterday I have a clear understanding of the economy in Arlott and the society itself, and I can deduce how other kingdoms may be.
"Michael, Axel...", a delicate, soft and kind voice made me wake up from my thoughts, I observe her, the owner of the voice, a teenager, beautiful, her pink lips seem to glow while her slightly large eyes leave a strange feeling in my being.
I squint as I see her hair spread out like a waterfall, loose, each strand of her hair is well separated one from the other, and her eyes seem to watch me with the kindness that always watched me so many years ago.
"You, hehehe...", her nervous laugh hints at sadness, looking closer the dark circles under her eyes seem to have taken over her beautiful face, "I wanted to know if we could go to breakfast, all of us, together like before...", hope reflected in her tone of voice.
Like before?
I thought for a moment, like before, beaten, humiliated, totally, a totally unbearable childhood, but, this girl doesn't seem to remember it this way.
Have this bitch forgotten that I lived through hell when I was a student with them?
I narrow my eyes in slight annoyance, however, this quickly fades into the background when Poki smiles slightly.
"Caero, it's nice to see you again, we weren't very accustomed yesterday, I mean, everything that is happening, the mental shock of coming to this world still...", Poki pauses.
By the way, I haven't heard Poki's real name, Michael, nor mine, Axel, in a while, it's nostalgic.
"It's okay, I guess...", I replied making Poki smile sadly.
The three of us walked down a hallway together, Caero leading the way, I didn't know what to say and apparently neither Poki nor Caero had any topics of conversation either.
After a moment of walking, we arrive at a dining area with a large rectangular table in the center, twenty elaborate chairs are arranged, and the food is served on the table like a banquet, to the left and right you can see several maids and the windows let us see a wonderful green landscape.