Siren's Song

Episode 25

After making the mess inside the palace, King Mathurs closes the maids' and servants' mouths with extra bonus golden coins. And then, he put the guards and assassins around the queen’s room to provide extra security to guard her all day long. The king's personal maid, Onnela, always sent food and other medicine to the queen by the king’s order. Since that day, the queen denied eating and drinking any medicine. So, the queen’s personal maid, Ommela, felt sad for her queen. One day, the maid Ommela decided to get help from the princess. So, she went out and paid the guard to send the letter to the princess’s maid, Ella. The king ordered the guards around the queen’s door to report to him whatever happened. So, the letter from the queen’s maid reached the king directly. The queen’s maid waited for the reply and help from the Princess. But none of those effects reach them. Three months later, the maids got the news of the consorts arriving to serve the king. The other smaller kingdoms sent their princesses to Evalon palace for their own benefit, benefiting from trading business and other issues. The princess from Lapland was the favorite consort of the King who could stand beside her. The other princesses, Talarza, Ronya, and Sonzakan get jealous of her. During the newest battle starting in the south wing, the princess Lily of the north wing heard the latest news about her father and mother. She also faced bad times when studying with her cousin Phobe.

Studying time at her own palace was as likely as hell. She didn’t want to face her sister there and her hateful fiance. At night, she wanted to go to the west wing to meet her friend. So, she left secretly and headed to that wing. When she arrived, she saw someone standing in front of the huge window in the hallway. She wanted to ask but she was too frightened to get closer. At that time, the person turned his face towards her. She saw its face under the dim light. The torches were lit around the hallway. She said, “how could you get in here?”. It said, “I am here to meet you and ask you”. She said, “Ask me for what”. It said, “ Don’t you remember me”. She said, “if you didn’t say, how would I know?”. Then, it got closer to her. She had been moving back ever since it stepped forwards to her. Then, she turned her face to another side to get away from that. It ran up faster and grabbed her hand. Her hands were shaking too much because of fright. She knew she was frightened. So, it let go of her hand. Afterward, she turned back and looked. She saw the full body structure of it and said “Siren is that you”. It nodded towards her and said, “I must thank you for letting me move freely around at night, but I really miss you”. She moved up to him and looked closely at his face. He had beautiful brown hair and was equal in height to the demon Abil. So, many times she was mistaken by them when he appeared in front of her. This time the roots, like feet, disappear, and then she sees his boots and the last clothes he wears to come and work at the palace’s garden. She put her hand on his hand and said, “I was giving my promise to you to let you free again”. He held her hand and looked into her eyes with belief. He said, “I really believe you and I don’t know why I feel like something telling me to go and find you”. She said, “I want to meet you too but I was getting busy with my studies all the time and also because of the castles’ condition”. He said, “ What happened?”. She said, “let’s talk outside”.

When they left outside, bypassing the door of an abandoned room, someone was following them. They didn’t realize who was following them. They went to the back garden and sat on the marble stone bench near the pond. He sat next to her and then she said, “I can’t see my mother and father’s faces once a week”. He asked what happened. She said, “there are many things happening here and things I can’t understand hide inside my parent’s past”. He said, “ Oh, right, I forgot to tell you about it”. She said, “what is that?”. He said, “I saw consort Eudora come to the back garden and take something from the cursed magical tree over there”. She said, “why haven’t you told me since we met”. He said, “I don’t think it’s necessary”. She said, “ Then what happened?”. He said, “I know something bad happened inside the castle because I saw the old lady and her demon come out from the basement and head towards here to take some branches from that tree too”. She said, “what are they up to”. She asked, “so do you think they relate to the cursed tree”. He said, “Yes, I think so but the demon treats her like a master”. She said, “ It’s strange what else is behind their complex past”. He said, “don’t think about that much. It can cause you illness”. She said, “I know but I must fix it somehow”. She wanted to dig into more about their past.

After that day, she decided to invite the Maya village girl as her study mate. She went to her father’s room to get approval. Her father would like to ask her why. But he saw the face of his daughter get paler than before. He knew her health wasn’t good enough as a normal child. So, he allowed her everything, whatever she wanted. After that day, she knew how to take chances of getting things from her father one by one. Her father allowed her everything, including the passage authority to his secret rooms. On another hand, the consorts tried to get the love of the king. But the king slept inside his study room every day. He never allowed them into his study room. Inside his room, there is a picture hanging on the wall. The princess asked him about the warrior lady in his picture. He said, “that’s the brave princess of Moryan”. She said, “so it is mother”. He said, “Yes she is”. However, the queen hid many secrets. It couldn’t make him hate her. That’s the reason why he locked her up until he could make up his mind to forgive her. All the royal family of Evalon had the old tradition of punishing the person who makes trouble for innocent people. It’s prison time that can cause the biggest problem for them. So, he punished her like that for thinking about what she had done over and over again. He also ordered the new maids to go near her to spy upon what she said there.

Day after day, the new maids reported to him that the queen didn’t wash, sleep, eat or talk once. He felt down to hear news about his queen like this. Afterward, he decided to make her jealous and get back to his own himself again. On the other hand, the princess sent her maids to keep watch on her father's steps. When his father moved his steps to the princess of Lapland, she said, “he broke my last trust". She decided to help her mother out. Whenever she got into her father’s secret library room and study room, she found the evidence and love stories beside her mother. She recorded it all in one book. She found the evidence which shows the consort Eudora of Pascestor Abyss. At that time, she found her father's love. Until she found the document of her ancestor inside the library’s upper shelf. She couldn’t connect with the lady who was imprisoned in the basement for long years and the consort Eudora who was her father’s love. She read the document left by her ancestor and said, “are they the mother and daughter who cause my family like this”. She said, “why are they doing this?”. She said, “is that so lady Eudora curses me by using the cursed tree and trying to break my family like that”. If she hasn’t seen or felt about them, she will not know about them yet. She couldn’t even believe her eyes and feelings. But the fire inside her heart burned stronger than before. It caused her sickness and lack of eating and sleep. Wizard Magot who took care of her health, found a mind-causing problem. So, he tried to find more herbs and potions which could help this child. His lady Hermus also tried to let her feel relaxed for a while, teaching her herbs, plants, and others. But they didn’t know about her feelings inside. Prince Vlain thought of himself trying to get her love during the study times. Phobe was paralleling with her all those times. Maya and Irithrel tried to help her as much as they could. The other teachers saw her sadness in mind clearly on her face.