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At lunch time, in the eating room in the castle - it’s a large room, with just few paintings and pictures on the walls, and a large table covered with gold and on it a blue silk tablecloth - the queen is always sitting in front of the table and on her right sits Ilay, and on her left sits her daughter. While they are eating, Mina is always thinking about the perfect time to ask her about Cyrone, the accident, her father. As a result, she isn’t eating well. Instead, she is playing her spoon in the soup, her hand under her cheek and she didn’t eat anything until her mother realizes that and she asks her:
The queen: Daughter, why aren’t you eating?
Mina: I want to ask you a question and you answer me sincerely and promise me don’t get angry.
The queen: Ok I promise you.
Mina: Please do not get angry.
The queen: Ok I promise you, I won’t get angry, ask me.
Mina: For the Goodness don’t get angry.
The queen: Ask me, daughter!
Mina: Ok, (she breathes anxiety) who is the killer of my father?
Shocked cause of his cousin’s question and expecting the reaction of his aunt, Ilay kicks Mina’s leg, under the table, and asks her by the grimaces to stop asking her mother and to apologize to her. But she looks at him as she’s ordering him to not interfere. Besides, Masha stops eating and takes the napkin which was on her thighs and cleans her mouth and hands, and then she says while she’s looking at her soup to not watch her daughter’s reaction:
The queen: You’re close to be thirty, so you became adult and you can discover the killer of your father, he’s alien, but no human knows him and the UPO doesn’t know what he’s doing…he’s… Cyrone…
Mina: (she stands up) Cyrone!!
The queen: You know him?
Mina: I’ve just heard about… please tell me more, who is Cyrone, and how…?
The queen: Stop! One moment! I’ll tell you everything, since your father died and I was always trying to keep that secret and never reveal it. And I got suffered when I keep it when you ask me. And I got more suffered when you ask me “when does my father come back?” until I revealed the half of that secret. And now, I can’t support more keeping the secret after I revealed its half. I want to reveal it so much as that thirsty guy in the desert who wants and needs some water to survive. I need to reveal it to survive! If you didn’t join University of the soldiers, I could tell you that secret really comfortably. But I know you; you’ll decide to avenge to him when you know everything about that animal, when you know what the hell did he do and he’s still doing it to the entire galaxy. Please, you know that I need to reveal the secret, and if I did, you could avenge to him. Please, please if you love me, promise me that you’ll never travel to the space and avenge to him.
Mina: How could I travel to there?
The queen: I know you; you’ll try as best as you can until you find the perfect solution for your problem. Daughter, I’m afraid for you. Don’t you know? He can disappear, he has the invisibility power, and this super power is one of most dangerous super powers ever!
Mina: (she sits down) I didn’t know that he has this super power, Astrona planet…
Ilay: Even my aunt allows you to avenge to him, your team is too weak for this impossible mission.
Mina: And if my team contains some aliens, with different super powers?
Ilay: Maybe…
The queen: What do you mean, Mina?
Mina: Mum, I want you to trust me now like every mission I perform…
The queen: I don’t trust you in every mission, instead, I get afraid and frightened each time you even get ready to a mission, I just allow you to because you are bullhead.
Ilay: It’s true, you have already right, aunt.
Mina looks at him angry, and then she continues her sentence:
Mina: Please, just regard my revenge to Cyrone as it’s just a normal mission.
The queen: I don’t want to lose you like your father, brother and uncle.
Ilay: And what about me? Don’t you want to lose me?
The queen: Stop kidding! It’s not the perfect time to!
Mina: Give me just one month, one month, you forget completely that I’m here. Just imagine I’m in a hard mission that takes a long time. Please tell me how did he kill my father, this is the other half that you want to reveal, isn’t? Just say it, quickly, as taking medicines. Besides, I can’t go to the space; I don’t have spaceships. At least, if I didn’t succeed, my death will have a good impact; maybe people will get interested by fighting Cyrone, as many wars happened in the history, and then they kill him. And if I succeeded, we’ll be free again! As before the coming of the UPO!
Ilay: She’s right.
The queen: I know you, and I know you’ll nag me every day to tell you and you’ll agonize me. Ok, I’ll tell you the rest of the secret.
Mina kisses her mother’s front and thanks her then she sits again on her chair and gets ready to listen to the “story”, while Ilay is stopping eating and moving the bowl away to put his ancones on the table and his head between his hands. Then, Masha starts speaking:
The queen: Cyrone is a very foxy man, I don’t know exactly how did he become so strong, but I know that he’s very powerful, and he’s famous in the entire galaxy, and everyone says his name gets afraid. I remember until now how did he kill you father without mercy or pity, on your and your brother’s birthday. Cyrone landed his spaceship on the ground near the castle, and his guards started k********g the guests inside and outside the castle while he was walking slowly and with a huge smile as he was walking in heaven. I ordered our guards to take you and your twin away. Though the noise, the yells and the screams that our guests were making, your father kept his wisdom and strength, and walked toward Cyrone until he stood in front of him, face to face, and asked him to make a deal. But no! The son of b***h took his sword and killed your father. Finally, he looked at me, laughed and got out with his guards and approximately 1000 people who were our guests…
The queen dries her tears, and looks at her daughter who her eyes are full of tears, while Ilay is completely calm as a statue, but his eyes are focused on the table. Masha continues her speech, and that crying voice is accompanying the story:
The queen: I didn’t know why he didn’t just kidnap him? That night, after Cyrone left the Earth, it started raining until the morning, as the sky was crying with us. After that night, we passed three days of mourning, in that duration, we were preparing William, your father Ilay, to be the king.
Mina: F**k him… I swear mum that I won’t avenge to him until I get prepared one hundred percent and…
The queen: What? No no no, you won’t fight him, understood? And this is an order!
Mina: Ok, but why didn’t he even touch you? He didn’t even injure you?
The queen: A… M… A … I don’t know, ok?!
Mina: This AMA means you’re lying.
The queen: Don’t say one day that I’m lying! It’s rude to say that to your mother. But … I’m lying… that’s true. I won’t tell you. However, you’ll discover it, very soon…
Ilay: I know what do you mean when you say “you’ll know so soon”, means Mina won’t know, forever…
The queen: Ilay!
Ilay: Sorry…
Mina: I’ll forget this. Anyway, do you know how much there are planets in the galaxy? Inhabited planets? And their names?
The queen: I forgot the names, ask Colonel Charles.
The princess looks at her cousin, surprised while the queen becomes surprised also and guilty to say that, and she starts repeating:
The queen: I wish I didn’t say that, I wish I didn’t say that…
Mina: Does Colonel Charles know that?! Knows everything about Cyrone?! Why didn’t you say that?! (She kisses her front) Thanks mum! (She stands up) Excuse me, I need to go. A very important business is waiting for me…
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