The Queen of Iris

- Chapter Four -

I'm a mess...I stink, I'm tired, and I want to go home.  Quinn, Achilles, I walked silently up stone stairs too what must be the main part of the castle.  As we arrived at the top of the stairs, the inside of the big opening was beautiful, instead of stone walls it was now wooden.  With the dark wooden walls, the floor was a pale stone pattern, no one seemed to be near.

I decided to stay quiet, Quinn had my wrist tied up in a knot of ropes behind my back. As he pushed me to walk forward. Achilles was walking strangely beside me, I couldn't look at him though, I was scared with what I had already said to him.

"This way...". The 'Prince' mumbled as we walked up a large staircase that laid in the middle of the opening, leading up to another floor. I didn't see much of this part of the castle, but the ground was still stoned, with large green carpet over it. Eventually we made it too a room, I forced myself to look up.

The walls were still dark wooden, with now black tiles for the floor.  A little desk sat in the center of the room, along with three chairs.  A window rested right above the desk in the wall, it was clearly nighttime. 

I sighed with relief, I still had roughly eighteen hours till my potion went out.  I kept quiet once more, staring at a small painting on the wall.  The painting was a man with dark brown hair, a full mustache and the greenest eyes.  I furrowed my brows, it definitely wasn't Achilles.

"Sit." Quinn command while Achilles slid out a chair for me.  I mumbled a thank you, awkwardly and sat down.  Achilles sat at the other chair across from me, I expected Quinn to sit as well but he just stood in the corner.

"Let's get down to business, shall we?" Achilles started and opened up a little note book with a quill.  I couldn't help but roll my eyes, it was so stupid of me to be in this situation.

"We know that brown eyes have been sneaking off to God knows where...So tell me, where are they hiding?". He began, crossing his arms over his chest.  His brown hair flicked in his face as he blew it away.

"I dunno what your talking about...I haven't seen any browns eyes in weeks!" I exclaimed, making my story up as I went.  I wasn't prepared, I had to save myself but also save October and Victoria.

"Bullshit.  Where aren't stupid, you and your grey eyes were clearly hiding something.". He spit out, I was starting to lose respect for this strangely hot man.

"Well how would you feel, if troops came to invade you on a nice day, scared? angry? I sure as hell wouldn't be happy!". I growled, I wanted to bitch slap him across the face but my tied up hands wouldn't let that happen.

It went quiet for a moment and I stared at my now torn up shoes.  "Just let me go, please?" I begged, begged like a little bitch.  I looked back up where the face of Quinn looked amused.

"Look Brownie we really don't have time for your shit, so just tell us where they are and we'll kill ya m'kay?". Achilles stood up quickly and death stared Quinn in the face. "Shut. The. Hell. Up"

I laughed, the both of them looking over at me,I hushed myself quickly.  "You think it's funny?" Achilles questioned looking furious
"Hilarious, actually..." I chuckled back, grinning ear to ear besides the bruise on my cheek.

I saw the slight chuckle escape his mouth "Oh so you do have emotion?" I questioned teasing a brow, squinting my eyes at him.  He shook his head and looked at me longingly. 

He crossed his arms and began thinking, I'm guessing on what to do with me.  I'm useless when it comes to what they want, but I'll be worth a fortune in the next couple of hours.