AM/VW: The King & The White Petal

VI: Merging With Sothis In The Realm Of Shadows

After she discovers the same assassin who tried to kill her father five years earlier is still alive, despite Dimitri warning her not to go without any of his soldiers, Sarai travels straight to the sealed forest in hopes of killing her to give the church's enemies the message they better let her father remain alive, but she ends up falling into a trap they set up for her. "Ready to die, you foolish queen?", the assassin asked before revealing herself to be a bright orange haired woman holding a unusual dagger in her right hand and a cursed sword in her left hand. "I know it was you who tried to take my father away from me with your dagger!", she said. "I was almost completely successful in my goal, but that rather rotten husband of yours saved your father's life and helped him escape right from the abandoned chapel safely!", Kronya told Sarai. "Afterwards, I fled right from the chapel before any of our enemies could find me!", she added angrily before Sarai charged right at her with her hero's relic in her hands. But just as the lovely young queen was about to kill her, a male dark bishop appeared right on the tile behind Kronya before she turned her gaze to him. "Don't you dare!", she said to him and charged at them both, bent on killing her opponent before he can sacrifice her. After she successfully does so, Solon imprisons Sarai in a shadow filled crystal. Back in Castle Blaiddyd, Savanna was extremely worried because she hadn't seen her liege since that very morning. Wanting to find Sarai, she made her way to Dimitri's office and asked him if he'd seen her. "Damn it, Sarai! I thought I warned you not to go to the sealed forest alone!", he said before Savanna left his office and closed the doors behind her. Once he was done with paperwork in his office, Dimitri left his office and gathered some of his soldiers before they headed for the sealed forest to rescue her. By the time they got there, Solon had already sacrificed one of the other enemies and trapped Sarai in the realm of shadows. "Where is Sarai?!", he asked him. "Don't you dare bother with trying to get that queen of yours out of the shadowy realm I sent her to!", he said. Wanting to see his bride alive and unharmed, Dimitri charged forward. While the two were fighting against each other, Sarai jumped through a crack in the sky she had just used to safely get out of the realm of shadows with her hair and eyes now a pale green instead of teal & blue. Wanting to ensure the church's enemies get her message for them, she charges at him with her hero's relic in her hands. Sarai is joined by Dimitri in the fight. After the fight, he turned to her, but she snapped and made it clear she wasn't in the mood to be scolded for going into the sealed forest by herself before  she walked out of the sealed forest with fury in her green eyes. By the time Dimitri get back to Castle Blaiddyd safely, Sarai had already made her way to their bedroom and closed the doors behind her. He knocked on the doors to see if she'd come out for dinner in the castle's dining room. "Leave me alone!", she snarled from in their bedroom. "You're still mad at me for the incident earlier.", he said in acceptance before he made his way to the dining room without her. Not wanting her to start starving herself, Patricia walks into the bedroom and sits down on the bed next to Sarai before wiping the tears from her bright green eyes. "I know Dimitri's a really good person, but sometimes I just can't handle being scolded by him or anyone else.", she said tearfully as she recalled her very lonely past. Patricia stroked Sarai's green hair lightly as the young queen cried before they went to the castle dining room for dinner.