Her Majesty

The Queen is here

The Queen walked into her chambers from the council room with heavy rapid breaths, she paced from a corner of the room to the other with the look anger upon her. She was extremely furious, it was evident.

“Your Majesty, steady yourself . Do not cause yourself to stress” Jasmine said

“They ask me about a monster whose parents wiped away my entire family? I never got a chance to even say goodbye and they speak of mercy? Did anyone show me mercy when I needed it?” Eugene asked Jasmine,

Jasmine was silent and she knew that those questions are not one to reply.

“My queen, steady yourself let me get you out of these clothes and into the bath. You will feel better after a cool bath” Jasmine said.

The moment the Queen nodded in agreement Jasmine signaled the maidens that stood behind her to run a bath. The queen took several baths a day. She was immersed in water mixed with essential oils which were known to reduce stress levels. The purpose of the bath Her Majesty took were less likely for cleansing and more as a stress relief.

Jasmine stood in front of her majesty to take off her clothing starting with the crown on her head.

“Your Majesty, your eyes are of a different color today, it looks as tho they are slightly yellow” Jasmine said.

“Really?” Eugene said looking in the mirror to confirm what was said.

“I would send for the royal physician to take a look at you before night fall” Jasmine said.

Eugene got into the bath tub, slowly immersing herself in water and she tried to think of happy thoughts to cloud her mind with the aim of dropping her stress levels, but all she could think was sad thoughts and of her revenge plot on the kingdom of Ahedonia for what they did to her family. The prince in her dungeon was the first of many things to come.

Eugene spent an hour in the bath tub but yet she felt no relief. This therapy usually worked anytime she felt stressed out when she performed it for about an hour. She felt a little lightheaded with her energy level dropping rapidly. She felt as tho the room was spinning and her eyes were unable to focus on an object.

“My Queen your skin is still burning up even after the immersion in bath water and essential oils” Jasmine said as she placed her hand on the arm of the queen who was still inside her bathtub finding it even more difficult to come out of it.

“I have sent for the royal physician, he would be here any moment now” Jasmine said as she rubbed the hair of the queen as a method to reassure her.

Her majesty stood up from the bath tub feeling worse than how she felt when she got into the tube for the first time. She stood up slowly guided by Jasmine. Water dripped from her body back to the bath tub. Her body was so perfectly shaped but she always kept it hidden under those near battle clothings of hers. Her ample breast and slender waist and her wonderfully carved torso was out on full display but not for long. Two maidens holding a large soft towel walked up from behind her on Jasmine’s instructions and wrapped her in it.

She went to lay down on the king sized bed awaiting the royal physician.

He arrived not long after and with the permission of the queen he approached her bedside.

He took a good look at her and examined her body from her head down till all ten toes. After his assessment he looked at the queen with an expression a little bit out of sort.

“And?” Jasmine asked breaking the silence.

“What is the issue as regards the health of the Queen?” Jasmine asked.

“I believe it is as I fear, the queen is down with rupiah disease” The physician said.

“Start the treatment immediately!” Jasmine ordered.

The queen had began to grow weaker with each passing minute, everything was happening quite fast and this scared Jasmine. She was a maid, a sister and a friend to the queen and every other thing in all the ways that mattered.

“Why do you still Stand? Gather the herbs, do something!” Jasmine exclaimed

“I am afraid I can not. The certain diseases in question is not common in the kingdom so I have not been able to acquire skills enough to attend to it” the Physician said.

“Is your intention to appear amusing as you are clearly succeeding” Jasmine said.

“I am afraid I am not” the physician said with his gaze lowered down in shame.

“Do something, this is our queen, your queen” jasmine said with tears gathering in her eyes.

“I am afraid I am not capable of combating this illness, perhaps we should send for physicians from other regions who are more familiar with the condition” He said.

The queen was growing weaker by the minute, in such a short period of time a whole lot of things had changed. She was too weak to move, to talk or to even react to things that were said before her.

“It would take us nearly a day to send word for another physician outside the kingdom” Jasmine said

Everyone who was gathered in the queens chamber was quiet including the physician as they all watched the Queen while the feeling of powerlessness and hopeless were setting in.

“Perhaps we should try prince Richard” a little voice came from behind jasmine.

“What?” Jasmine asked looking back to know who had said that.

“I believe we should try bringing up prince Richard of Ahedonia to take a look at Her majesty” the young maiden said with a tune a little higher than the first.

“The last time I took food to him in the dungeon he saw rashes on my hands and told me the combination of herbs to use on it. After I had done that within a day it was all gone” she said.

“I also heard word that he is the best physician in all of Ahedonia” the second maiden said.

Jasmine looked at the royal physician and she cursed him within herself for his inability to help at this moment when she needed him most.

Jasmine was forced to look at her Queen growing weaker on her arms. She was the last of the Royal family of Arandia , if anything were to happen to the Queen the kingdom Arandia was bound to break up to shambles. And yet again Jasmine knew about the Queen’s hatred for the People of Ahedonia and most especially for the royal family of Ahedonia. Jasmine was quite certain that the Queen would choose death as opposed to getting help from a citizen of Ahedonia not to mention the crown prince of Ahedonia. But this was not the Queen’s decision to make, she was weak, unable to speak and at the mercy of her maid servants.

“Bring in Prince Richard” Jasmine finally said after a brief minute of intense thought process. She was not going to watch the queen die, she had pledged to care for Eugene all the days of her life. She was not stopping now.

After jasmine had ordered the prince to be brought up from the dungeon, she stopped to think of her actions. Her head would definitely be on a spike if the queen recovers and realizes that she had let the prince of Ahedonia lay hands on her.

Secondly, why should the prince save her? He had endured a lot of torture, wrongful detention and being treated below his social status in the kingdom of Arandia. He had be starved and neglected in the Queen’s dungeon for nearly four days now, why should he agree to save her life?