land of tyrants

part 2

"Miraal, Miraaal"

"What do you want, this is not the time to try to brag with me, there is almost a wedding to prepare for," I asked impatiently.

"Calm down, beautiful, the king only wants you and he is in the queen's suite," he answered her, his playful looks flooding her.

"What do you say, why does he want me?"

"I don't know, he told me to hurry and fetch you, come on don't be late"

And indeed, I hurried to the queen's suite and found the door open, so she asked for permission to enter and bowed to greet both of them: "My Lord, My Lady, your house has told me that you want me."

Rudolph sighed and added, "Sit down, Miral."

I felt the strangeness of the situation, but I actually sat with features of amazement, as this scene was the last thing I expected to live.

Miral, I know you hate me.

“Of course not, Mola..”

He interrupted her insisting: "Don't interrupt me, please. I didn't come to rebuke you. You have the right to hate me after I abandoned your mother and you. But believe me, I was forced to do so because of my father. Even after his death, it was not right for me to tell people that I had a daughter out of nowhere." He added with regret. Clear

"Do not worry, my lord, I forgot this years ago, and I did not and will not ask you for anything," she replied, trying to control her nerves, as he braggingly reopened her wounds, which she struggled to bandage in order to pour salt on them.

He nodded understandingly to her, then added weakly: “I know, my dear, but in fact it is I who need you, my daughter, but the entire kingdom as well.”

She opened her eyes to the strongest of them from the pleading tone of his voice and from his calling her his daughter after he had rejected her because she was coming from a slave woman and not a princess, so she asked with apprehension: “What do you want, my lord?”

"Lillian has escaped," he replied with my hand and weakness followed by a shock from what appeared in front of him. She is sure of the black future that will await them as soon as the tyrant learns of this, but she asked suspiciously: "I am sorry, but how can I help in this situation, my lord?"

"You will go with Matthias as my daughter. Fortunately, your mother insisted that I put the royal tattoo on your hands on your birthday, on condition that you hide it all your life, as her last request before she died, and because of my love for her, I could not refuse, and I swear to you that I wanted you, otherwise I would not have agreed to grant you this." tattoos?

He tried to justify his heinous act in all ways, but he did not know that her ear only picked up the first sentence of his speech, what does it mean that she will go with the tyrant's minister, will she repeat the fate of her mother and be an abandoned mistress and perhaps give birth to an abandoned child like her, she refused categorically and added insistently :"You never have the right to do this to me, you rejected me and left my mother who died sad after knowing your intentions and I did not enjoy the warmth of her arms a day because of you, do not ask me now to sacrifice for you and you did not bother to do this" she exclaimed with emotion.

"And do you think that if you refuse, you will be happy? Alexandros will attack our kingdom as soon as he finds out about it, and his army will kill men, rape women and orphan children. Is this what you want? Will you be happy to see a sea of blood despite your ability to prevent it?"

She desperately tried to convince her, and indeed she knew that this would be the fate of their kingdom if the tyrant knew about the escape of the princess, and indeed she is now cursing her in secret for the misfortunes caused by that spoiled woman.

"Please agree, for our kingdom is not at all ready to go to war with some rebels, let alone a war with a tyrant whose armies no one can limit," the queen added with sympathy.

Then the king added: "And believe me, he will treat you in the best way, as he is generous with his wives. I swear to you that this is the dream of all the women of the kingdoms, and even if he gets tired of you, you will return safely to our land loaded with jewels."

She thought a little, and the looks of pleading appeared clearly on the face of the king and queen. Despite everything bad that happened to her in this palace, it is considered her home, and although the servants and maidservants are some of them bad and others messed up, they are her family. She was silent for a while, then she raised her head bowed She looked at the king's face and then said, "Agreed, not for you, but for the sake of the poor inhabitants of the kingdom."

His secrets rejoiced as soon as she uttered those words, and he hurried to Matthias to apologize to him for being late, and to argue that his daughter had not finished her adornment yet, and that she wanted to appear before him in the most beautiful manner.

You can't believe that she agreed to this disaster, but she had no other choice. She looked at the mirror, contemplating her narrow-waisted silk dress, highlighting her chiseled bust. The servants finished putting a little blush on her face. Everyone says that she was burnt since childhood and that her appearance is disgusting, so she does not reveal it, while in fact she was hiding her royal seal so that her protective father would not carry out his threat to kill her if anyone saw it.

She lowered the curtain over her face, following the royal customs, so that no one would see her before the king in his palace, then she went down to the council where the minister was.

Rudolph nervously: "Matthias, here is my daughter, Princess Miral."

"Miral?! Matthias's eyebrow raised with a question, and signs of doubt appeared on his face, so Rudolph hurried to answer him, trying to control his stuttering: "Her real name is Lillian, but those close to her call her Miral."

The other was not convinced, so he approached Miral until he heard the sound of her heartbeat and breathing, and he raised her hand, then signs of satisfaction appeared on his face when he saw the royal seal, so he called on his guards to prepare the carriage so that he could return with that seductress who recited the head of the maidservants poetry about her beauty and sculpted figure that He steals hearts.

He began to shine his dear sword, his loyal companion who never let him down, for he is the great leader known for the power of his sword and the strength of his grip. His life is as much as his desire to possess it between his arms and spread his longings, as the curse has been disturbing his sleep for years.

"Captain, O Commander"

He interrupted his straying, the voice of one of the soldiers, calling him in a loud voice, and damn how much the loud voice annoyed him. He furrowed his eyebrows and turned to the soldier, with signs of annoyance showing on his face: "What do you want, this man?"

“My lord King Alexandros is about to arrive, are you going to receive him or what?”

Damn, how annoying it is for someone to cut off his privacy without a strong reason: “Do you have children?”

"Yes sir"

Remus yelled angrily, "Well, I'll take it as a gag, and I won't shove my sword down your throat. Go away now!"

"We felt it, sir," he answered with a stutter, then left, and as soon as the guard left, he continued polishing his sword as if nothing had happened.

"It's impossible for me to wear that, Zinda."

She exclaimed in resentment, which made the other try to convince her: "Mrs. Rose, the commander will be very angry if you wear something other than that at the princess's reception."

She laughed in sarcasm and combed her hair, ignoring the other: "As if the leader cared about me at all, in addition to what is the reason for holding a party in the first place, for the love of the gods. She is not a wife, but just a new mistress who will join his squadron of scum, since when are the celebrations held for slave girls?"

Zelda quite calmly: "Ma'am, you repeat that sermon every time the king brings a new princess to the palace, and I always have to remind you that the king does not choose my concubines, but princesses, and therefore a welcoming ceremony worthy of a princess must be held."

"Well, well, I'm not going to talk again about throwing parties for my brother's new toys, but believe me, is this a dress fit for a glamorous princess like myself, or a grumpy old woman like you?"

Zelda opened her eyes to the fullest, and every time the princess dazzled her with her unparalleled insolence, and indeed now she had to give a lecture on good manners every time she sat with the spoiled princess, but fortunately someone saved her from the beginning of that lecture.

"I know, my dear, that you prefer to look like bitches, so I made sure to choose your dress myself."

Rose turned to the source of the annoying, masculine voice that loved her heart: "Lady Zelda, please leave me with my future man."

"Your man?" asked Remus, a mixture of rude and malicious looks appearing on his face.

She approached him coquettishly until the distance between them did not exceed an inch, and she placed her hand in the place of his beating heart with her name, then she began making circular movements as if she were writing something, and added in a seductive tone: "Yes, Remus, you are my man."

He couldn't control his nerves, so he kissed her unwillingly, whispering: "Marry me Rosie."

She looked at him lost for several seconds, then returned to her usual cunning look: "Not yet, my beast."

Anger appeared clearly on him from her usual delay, and he asked in a voice that struggled not to startle her with it, but no matter what, it appeared like a snake hissing: "Why the curse on you?"

She stretched her lips, responding with feigned innocence: "I have not yet enjoyed a sufficient sermon period."

Well, he got fed up with her bravado, so he made up his mind to leave before making her sleep in her grave that night: "I'm going to receive your brothers, and you have five minutes to wear the damned robe, or else I'll make your dear skull today hanging on my wall."

He left angrily, slamming the door, leaving behind a silent Rose. How dazzling is this huge man's mood swings. You know how reckless he is not afraid of anyone in this kingdom, even if it was Alexandros himself. A fool has the right to brag about his strength, as it is a testament to the hardness of his body and muscles that he wishes to dive into, but not now.

She went to her locker and opened it, looking at all the clothes she owned until her eyes fell on a tight red robe inlaid with a little silver at the chest area, revealing a good part of the area there: “Well, Rose, according to your jealous fiancé’s desire, now is the time to act a little bit. too wild"

She feels as if she is chained, unable to move in a wide, dark arena, and the last thing she remembers is someone putting something on her nose: “Ahh.” A slight groan escaped from her lips as she recalled the events of yesterday.

"Hey, hey, did the sleeping princess finally wake up?"

"Who are you, where am I, and how dare you kidnap me from the palace. You have no idea what you got yourself into, you rabble. My father will prepare an army, the first at the Black Rock, and the last at the Great Hill, until he takes me back, you scum."

She screamed angrily as soon as she regained part of her strength, and her anger increased over her anger, coldly standing in front of her

"You can clean the room, Your Royal Highness, first, then go to the barn to help the girls clean there, and then you can join them in preparing the food."

Lillian stared at her as if she had just cast a spell on her. She ignored every word she said, and even commanded her to do the work of servants. She did not know what the cleaning tools looked like, so she spoiled her father. The maximum punishment for her was depriving her of her favorite shoes.

Lillian got up from the shabby bed and said seriously: "I want to speak to your master, to the savage man who kidnapped me."

"My master went hunting, and he will return in the evening, and believe me, he is the last person you need to see. Come on, do what I commanded you to do, and stop fussing, because you are no longer in your palace, princess."

She replied mockingly, then left, leaving behind Lillian burning with anger and fear at the same time, as the kingdom is in imminent danger, as she is aware of the sea of blood that will occur as a result of her disappearance.