Chapter 6
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“I'll go.” Queen Bridget said as she joined the council, they were discussing the envoy to send to the Cambrian banquet.
“No, mother.” Kane stood, “it's only befitting I go.”
“Says who?”
“Mother, each kingdom is sending a representative, as the heir to the throne it's only befitting...”
“Heir, says unpredictable future, as the queen and mother to you, I'm going and nothing is changing that.” she looked at the council then nodded slowly and took her leave.
“Mother?” Kane went after her immediately after the court was dismissed, “you can't do this, this is my only chance to see Eleanor, we don’t know how she's taking the news, Sky killed her father, she must be stressed.”
“All the more reason for me to go.” she looked at him, “she will need a lady by her side, a mother figure to help her understand...”
“Sorry to interrupt but you are the mother of the person who took her parents from her.”
“And you are his brother, you don't choose your family.”
“Mother, he heaved, “I need to...”
“Will you stop creating excuses and man up, you are the future king of Belize, start acting like one.” she pushed him out then closed the door to her room and started packing, when she went to the car, Kane was there.
“What are you doing?”
“I'm coming with you.” he help her in
She sat next to him and looked at him then smiled proudly, he's definitely her son.
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“Mother.” Sky hugged his mum and ignore his brother, “you are early?”
“You will need all the help you can get.” she patted his shoulder
"I thought father was going to send one envoy?”
“well I'm here already.” Kane smirked
He nodded, “brother.” he said stiffly
Kane exchange a hand shake with him, “where's Eleanor?”
“Me first.” the queen said and Sky led her to Eleanor's chamber
He knocked twice when she didn't reply, he opened the door but his mother stopped him and send him away.
“But...”
“We will be fine.” she patted his shoulder then walked in, she looked around the room and saw Eleanor sitting on the chair looking at the mirror in daze, her hair has more gray and has turned whitier, “oh darling!” she dropped her purse on the bed and hugged her from behind.
“Oh, I...” She stood and turned to her, “I'm sorry, I didn't...”
“Shhhh... It's okay.” Queen Bridget pulled her closer, “lie in.” she gesture to the bed.
“What? no, the ceremony...”
“f**k the ceremony, you need the bed so, get in.”
“But Sky...”
“Forget him, he'll solve his problem himself, he's the one who created the mess in the first place.”
Eleanor lay on the bed looking at the ceiling nervously,
Queen Bridget studied her, then removed her pillow and sat there instead, she gently place Eleanor head on her thigh
“I...”
“Shhhh, just relax.”
“But sky will, the people.” she stuttered incoherently.
“Huh?”
“Sky will punish my people if I don't get down for the ceremony.”
“Did he say that to you?" Queen Bridget exclaimed
Eleanor shrugged.
“Well, look at you, letting that i***t fool you.”
“Huh?”
“It's no ceremony but a dinner and you are not required to attend.”
“But he...”
“He lied, you should know that by now.”
She looked away sharply as tears threatened to fall, “that all he does nowadays.”
Queen Bridget took the brush Eleanor was holding unto tightly away from her, and help her brush her hair, “why do you supposed he lied?”
She kept her gaze away, “I don't know, that what he has always done.”
“Not always,this started just a couple of weeks ago.”
She looked at the Queen, “yes my dear, Sky has always been truthful and transparent, easy to read were his emotions and thought.”
“Then... Why...” she looked at him, “why did he changed?”
“You will have to find that out yourself.”
“As if, even if I were to ask him, he will just lie to me.”
“It's fear, dear.”
“Fear?”
“Yes, the only reason anyone would lie to another is because of fear.”
“Huh!" she scoffed, “Sky doesn't look afraid of anyone if you ask me.”
“Not who but what?”
“What?, what is he afraid of?”
“That remains to be known.”
She heaved.
“Sorry dear.”
“Huh?”
“I shouldn't have bothered you with my problem.”
“Oh no, thank you, you help me understand him a bit more.”
“You do?” she looked at her
“Not exactly, I'm still enraged but, not like before when I was mad at everything and everyone, not I ... My anger has direction, it's a straight line.”
“I noticed.”
“What?”
“Your hair, you just gain must of you colour back, all but this single streak.”
“Oh!” she sat up and went to the mirror to check, “it's still visible, there's no way I can hide it.”
“Then don't.”
“I can't, Sky needs...”
“You truly love him, don't you?”
“Huh?”
“All you've thought about since I've been here has been Sky, even now, you are still putting him first.”
“Well he's got my men...”
“Not anymore.”
“Huh?”
“For the sake of your people and for the sake of Sky himself, you need to start putting yourself first.”
“I wish I can but I'm the prisoner.”
“Are you?”
“Huh?”
“I do not think you are aware of how much power you hold.”
“Just healing, I can't even fight with it.”
“And naive." She looked at her through the mirror, “Listen.” she held both of her shoulders, “flaunt your beauty any way you wish to.”
“But Sky would want me to hid it.”
“Forget Sky, he will slave at your feet at the end of the day.”
“But if it all leads to a bigger problem?”
“Then let's Sky deal with it, it's his fault everyone is here anyway, let him solve it himself.”
Eleanor smiled and looked at the queen from the mirror, “aren't you supposed to be him mum?”
“I am, and I love him but that doesn't mean I'll condone any nonsense from him or red flags and mistreating a lady, is the biggest red flag of all.”
She smiled at her affectionately, “you are different...”
“I hope it's a good difference.”
“Huh.” she nodded
“Where's your mum?”
Eleanor looked down and shook her head
“Oh no!” she groaned “Don't tell me that i***t is keeping you apart?”
She smiled at her sadly
“That's i***t, who's son is he?”
Eleanor chuckled at the mortified expression on the queen's face
“Dress, I'll go send some sense in to that boys head." she marched out without taking her purse
Eleanor smiled, then select a new dress, she reminded him of Sky or at least the old Sky, she chuckled, he did use to say he takes after his mind, well. He might have been right, he definitely has her wit.
Queen Bridget returned to the banquet hall where the dinner was being held, the dinner was already in full swing and people where all hanging around, not giving a real consideration to the princess's they claim to have come to protect.
“Mother.” Sky nodded at her and help her sit
“I heard you've been keeping her mother hostage.” she raised her brow and looked at her son deadly
“I...”
“Release her.”
“No, she's dangerous, she curse at me every day...”
“You killed her husband, is she supposed to hugged you?”
“I...”
“I gave her my word.”
“Mother.”
“You can make your mother untrustworthy or you can let's her be honourable.”
“Mum?”
“Is that the prince of hollorango, I should go say hi.” she walked away and left him standing frustratedly
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Knock! knock!!
Eleanor turned and looked at the door wondering who it's was, “who is it?”
Kane walked in, holdings a bouquet, “hey?”
“Hey, long time no see.”
“Yeah.” He gave her the flowers.
“For me.” she exclaimed, “thank you, its beautiful.” she went to the window stand and began to arrange the flowers
“Are you okay?”
Before Eleanor could reply her chatise himself, “of course you aren't okay, what did I expect?”
She looked at him, “you don't need to be uncomfortable, your brother was the one who sinned not you.”
“I'm sorry still, I should have come for you right away."
“There was nothing no one could do.”
“Well, that was then.”
“Really.” she put the flower in vase, “and what can you do now?”
“Well, we could make a run for it."
She looked at him taken aback, “you are funny.” she laughed
“I wasn't joking, I have a car parked just outside the gate.”
She looked at him again, he was dead serious, she smiled then sat on her bed, “thank you."
“Huh!, I haven't done anything yet?”
“You comforted me, brought me my favorite flower, that's more than enough.”
“Still, I should be offering to take Sky's head for you.”
“Kill your brother, now what type of person will that make me?”
“Still... he deserves to be beheaded."
She chuckled, “I won't argue with you.”
“Then let's go.”
She looked at herself in the mirror one last time, “How do I look?” she turned to him
“Well, beautiful as always.” he looked at the white rose on her head, “is... Is that your hair?”
She nodded, “Is it very visible?”
“Not really, most will not know.”
“You spot it right away.”
“Lets just say I'm more observant.”
She smiled at him, “well I might nit be eloping with you today but, will you escort me down?”
“I think you might want to consider the eloping again, I doubt the scene downstairs will up to your taste."
“Still I'm their princess, the least I can do is show my face, it's wouldn't do any good for them to see me running away, it's won't do well for my untarnished image, not to mention how disappointed my people will get.”
“Okay, if you insisted."
“I do."
“Fine.” he extended his arm to her and she held on as they made their way to the banquet
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