Seized Crowned Queen

Episode 21 Request and Petition granted

So the King and Zattu went to dine with Queen Zuriel, and as they were drinking wine on that second day, the King again asked, Queen Zuriel, what is your petition? It will be given you. What is your request? "Even up to half the kingdom, it will be granted."

The Queen Zuriel answered, "If I have found favor with you, O King, and if it pleases your Majesty, grant me my life___ this is my petition. And spare my people ___ this is my request. For I and my people have been sold for destruction and s*******r and annihilation. If we had merely been sold as male and female slaves, I would have kept quiet, because no such distress would justify disturbing the King."

All of the guest were astonished after hearing what the Queen said. It never occured to them that their beloved Queen is suffering from such unjustifiable situations. Who would have thought that their beloved Queen, so kind, and so innocent would be in this an undercurrent distress of sorrow and painful emotions. She had been the apple of the eye of the entire citadel of Carcas eversince she won the favor of becoming the new chosen queen. And witnessing how the King treated her as his very rare and finest gem, she brought delights to the King's lonely heart and it brought eased to the palace as well. This man asked for his own life.

Ignoring the voices of all the guest, King Aram mainly focused was his heart aching for Zuriel's dilemma, his raged is incomparable at this time. King Aram asked Queen Zuriel, "Who is he? Where is the man who has dared to do such a thing?" Zuriel said, "The adversary and enemy is this vile Zattu." 

Then Zattu was terrified before the King and Queen. The King got up in a rage, left his wine and went out into the palace garden. Aram didn't know that his speculation in some of Zattu's under business exceeds worse than he expected to be and it was his beloved Zuriel whom he never imagine to be the one involved  on his evil desire. He will never show any penitence for his wrong actions. But Zattu, realizing that the King had already decided his fate, stayed behind to beg Queen Zuriel for his life. She would not give him any chance  of sympathy, he crossed his limits and she will make sure he will taste his own medicine.

Just as the King returned from the palace garden to the banquet hall, Zattu was falling on the couch where Zuriel was reclining. The King exclaimed, "Will he even molest the Queen while she is with me in the house?" As soon as the word left the King's mouth, the King's officials covered Zattu's face. Then Jammal, his right hand and first attendant of the King said, "A gallows seventy-five feet high stands by Zattu"s house. He made it for Matthan, who spoke up to help the King." And also the copy of his issued script with your signet ring stamped on it was found to be in regards to his plotted plan of destroying the Queen's kins. And all Matthan's kins, my Lord!

The King said, "Hang him on it", yes my Lord. So the King's officials hanged Zattu on the gallows he had prepared for Matthan. Then the King's fury subsided. He takes Zuriel's in his arms desperately trying to console her and let her feel secured in his broad arms.

That same day King Aram gave Queen Zuriel the estate of Zattu, the enemy of the Horons Lecans and Addons. And Matthan came into the presence of the King, for Zuriel had told how he was related to her. The King took off his signet ring, which he had reclaimed from Zattu, and presented it to Matthan. And Zuriel appointed him over Zattu's estate.

Zuriel again pleaded the King, falling at his feet and weeping. She begged him to put an end to the evil plan of Zattu, which he had devised against Horons Lecans and Addons. Then the King extended the gold scepter to Zuriel and she arose and stood before him.

"If it pleases the King," she said, "and if he regards me with favor and thinks it the right thing to do, and if he pleased with me, let an order be written overruling the dispatches that Zattu, General Gihon son, devised and wrote to destroy the Horons Lecans and Addons in all the King provinces. For how can I bear to see disaster fall on my people? How can I bear the destruction of my family?"

King Aram replied to Queen Zuriel and to Matthan, the Lecan, "Because Zattu attacked the Horons Lecans and Addons, I have given his estate to Zuriel, and they hanged him on the gallows. Now write another decree in the King's name in behalf of the Horons, Lecans, and Addons as seems best to you, and seal it with the King's signet ring ___for no document written in the King's name and sealed with his ring can be revoked."

At once the royal secretaries were summoned___ on the twenty third day of the third month. They wrote out all Matthan's orders to the Horons, Lecans and Addons, and to the satraps, governors and nobles of the one hundred twenty-seven provinces stretching from Madan to Zephan. These orders were written in the script of each province and the language of each people and also to the Horons Lecans and Addons in their own script and language. Matthan wrote in the name of  King Aram, sealed the dispatches with the King's signet ring, and sent them by mounted couriers, who rode fast horses especially bred for the King.

The King's edict granted the Horons Lecans and Addons in every city the right to assemble and protect themselves; to destroy, kill annihilate any armed force of any nationality or province that might attack them and their women and children; and to plunder the property of their enemies. The day appointed for the Horons, Lecans, and Addons to do this in all the provinces of King Aram was the thirteenth day of the twelfth month. A copy of the text of the edict was to be issued as law in every province and made known to the people of every nationality so that the Horons Lecans and Addons would be ready on that day to avenge themselves on their enemies.

The couriers, riding the royal horses, raced out, spurred on by the King's command. And the edict was also issued in the citadel of Carcas.

Matthan left the King 's presence wearing royal garments of blue and white, a large crown of gold and a purple robe of fine linen. And the city of Carcas held a joyous celebration. For the Horons, Lecans, and Addons it was a time of happiness and joy, gladness and honor. In every province and in every city, wherever the edict of the King went, there was joy and gladness among the Horons, Lecans, and Addons, with feasting and celebrating. And many people of their nationality became one of them because fear of the Horons Lecans and Addons had seized them.

The edict commanded by the the King was carried out. On this day the enemies of the Horons Lecans and Addons had hoped to overpower them, but  now the tables were turned and they got the upper hand over those who hated them. They assembled in their cities in all the provinces of King Aram to attack those seeking their destruction. No one could stand against them, because the people of all the other nationalities were afraid of them. And all the nobles of the provinces, the satraps, the governors and the King's administrators helped the Horons, Lecans and Addons, because fear of Matthan had seized them. Matthan was prominent in the palace; his reputation spread throughout the provinces, and he became more and more powerful.

Next day, Zuriel sent a message through her right hand Carshena, she ask Gabin, the queen's personal guard to summoned Kish and Hadassah, and Matthan's aged father Jair, her uncle to joined her and Aram at a special luxurious dinner she asked Perez to prepared. They will first be stay on the guest chamber, while the King was doing his routine check on his officials quarters and tents for they just came from a physical training held in Arisai army base at the South of Bashan. 

Zuriel became emotional when she saw her adoptive parents and Jair her uncle. She ran fast to them and hugged them tightly. Father, mother you are here, tears falling she sobbingly speak to his uncle Jair, uncle I had been missing you, thank the Lord for your good health. My Abiscus daughter, he held her in his arms, you are beautiful and very strong my niece. Your grandfather must very proud of you and your aunt Martha. She lifted her head and asked Jair out of tears, where is aunt Martha and Nina? They're fine my daughter. 

Kish tribe and some of Jair's didn't leave their place for they are contented living in Abarim mountainside. They are more eased to stayed on cliffs and caves which they called home and moreover relieved that nothing will harmed any of them. This were the scene that Aram seen after eavesdropping behind the door with Jammal. Looking to each other after hearing about Martha, he was startled and confused. He needs to know the whereabouts of Lady Martha after long decades of searching for her and his lost twin brother, Arum. His looked to Jammal insinuating him to make a thorough investigation. He will not gave in his hope to a promise he made to his mother Queen Marrione. He will make sure the safety of Lady Martha and Arum. And Zuriel is his ticket to this promised. What on earth that the powerful God had this fate of finding Zuriel in the time where he sees no hope, no hints, and no chances to reached his goals.