Diamonds and Demons Trilogy #1 Ruin and RIsing

Chapter Nine

Chapter Nine Awaiting you (Lena's Prologue)

The dinning hall was piled and piled with so many amazing scents, and smells, my nose could barely keep on just one of them. I wanted them all, even though I was sure I couldn't, this was a feast after all, but the food hadn't just been made for me to enjoy, but everyone else in the castle. The king, and his wife, the queen, and her daughter, princess Cleo. who had her seat made up perfectly beside me. The soft, material, of the red chair covers, were laced over the back, which rubbed up against the thin material of the dress she'd given me to wear. A light blue dress with yellow flowers, accompanied with short sleeves,

I was pulled so many different directions, from all the good food, I'd barely had any time to thank Cleo for inviting me. Especially since everything that has happened, the rotting body, and the.....I suddenly stopped as a cold chill caught me by surprise, exasperating my mind from my body, though it only lasted a moment, and I knew it wasn't because my nerves were getting the best of me, but because of some thing. Something sharp, that gave off a odd power about them. I wouldn't have known his name, if the king hadn't introduced him to everyone. A guard, out of uniform, with wavy bright red hair, accompanied by two silver streaks running down the sides of his head, with those light green eyes, and the way he sparkled when the dinning hall lights shined on him, he could've been compared to a jewel. A fine emerald, seemed about right. ''Will Scarlet not be joining us, tonight?'' Cleo spoke through bites, full of fresh picked vegetables, and some pieces of meat stacked on top of one another, all cornered to one side of her silver, white, plate. ''I'm not sure,'' he began. ''I haven't seen him for a while.'' The king answered his daughter, just moments before he aimed a knife and fork, about to the do the same to his block of meats, as his daughter. I eyed my plate for a long moment, although even though the presence of the red haired boy, still lingered behind me, and I knew he was trusted by the royal family, seening as there weren't any trouble, he mean't no harm, something about him, didn't sit right with me. From across the table, I made eye contact with captain Kairin, a few times, hoping he was feeling closely, to the way I was. Though, he barely returned my gaze. He just stood there, frozen, like some old statue, with his hands pulled behind his back, where they remained, for a long while.

His stare was blank, and his eyes barely moved, they were still all the same. Although the shine I'd seen in them, during our first meeting, still stayed there, inside those pale blue eyes. Brightest, yet pale in color all at the same time. The black fluffiness of his styled hair, I swore I could smell it from across where I was seated. I knew I was distracting myself, and that I was being rude, to the others around me, but I couldn't help myself, I just couldn't, something was going on, how come I hadn't been told about the new guard? Why hadn't Cleo introduced me like she had with Kairin? Did I matter so little to her and her parents, I just didn't need to know these things?

Figures, I wasn't even supposed to be at the castle regardless of who my friend was? Humans don't belong in the kingdom of magic. I had no place in a home built only for the magically gifted, I was a lone teenage girl, who'd gotten herself messed up with a demon. Although I didn't know it, when I was told the truth, that didn't make me want to leave. It only made me want to stay, so much more than I already wanted too. But now, he'd hurt me, shattered my life into a million pieces. I mustn't go home, not now. Not when there's nothing for me to return too. Father, mother, they never loved me anyways.

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Once the feast was over, and everyone had returned to what they'd previously been doing, I wandered around the castle for some time. I couldn't return to the room, the dead vampire corpse had been, even if the servants had been so kind to strip, re-wash, and make up the bed all for me. I appreciated everything they did, the time they'd taken just to help me become comfortable again, I just couldn't go back there. Not now. Not tonight, I decided. I managed to find a old sofa, that had a small blanket, and two pillows leaning against the end of it, and decided to just lay there, for a while. How was I supposed to know, I'd fall asleep there? Only then when I felt a new pair of arms, picking me up, did I decide to wake up. Though my eyes were firmly shut still, I made mental notes of everything that person had done. I'd be lying if I didn't think there were going to be some bad intentions, done to me. I mean, this was a regular perverts lucky day, to find some girl passed out, in the middle of a empty hallway! I was expecting this.