The Clash Of Drakkon: Book Four Of The Drakkon Series

Chapter Four

Alessandra Drakkon

Queen of the Drakkon Empire

"I would like a moment alone to change if you don't mind." Kalo blinks at me for a moment in surprise before he glances down and notices the nightgown someone must have changed me into, his cheeks tint with a blush and nods his head.

"Oh yes, of course. My apologies, um, I'll just leave you alone." He stands up and then abruptly stumbles as he backs up into the stool he was sitting on, blushing even harder now he rights the stool and then slowly back out of the room.

Giggling at his behaviour allows me a moment of peace before I focus on the reason, I really wanted to be alone. I may have been given the gift of shadows by Numa but I had never used it before, I bring my hands together horizontally, fingers tips touching the other hands palm, I slowly drag them apart focusing on the shadows I could feel lurking in my being. Following my will, the moment my fingers stop touching between them spawns black smoke, shadows being harnessed, but I don't want to use them to hide me from sight or anything else, instead I try to use them to talk to the god who granted them to me, closing my eyes I try to summon him. "Numa." Not an order or a command to show himself, but a plea, because I desperately wanted to talk to him.

I open my eyes and I am in the realm of shadows as I had been once before. "Hello, Alessandra, why do you summon me?" The shadows were dense around him this time, I could not see the copper-coloured markings on his face, but only his burning red eyes.

"I want to know why you saved me, Numa? Surely I do not deserve such a gift?" I was confused, I knew that Numa had a preference for my mother's bloodline, but he had saved me from dying in space, I wanted to know why.

"I saved you because your work is not done in this world yet, you still have much to do, it wasn't your time to die. You were put in that position because of the emotion stealer's choices, I am only allowing him to live because he may repent his mistakes to you. Though I see that you have forgiven him, so easily, I expected more from you." I frown at him, not caring for his words and also not knowing how he even knew about that.

"How do you even know that I've forgiven him? That just happened." He seems to grow larger, the shadows swelling around him as I feel pressure weigh down on me and the air go cold. His head finally leaves the shadows, he stares down at me with narrowed eyes, his eyes twin red balls of flames ready to be cast down on me.

"I AM THE GOD OF SHADOWS AND STORM! Do you think secrets and lies are hidden from me? Where there is SHADOWS, I SEE and KNOW EVERYTHING! Do not think you are worthy to question me just because I saved your life! I could just as easily take it away NOW! You are blessed by me, which offers you certain protections, but it does not make you EQUAL to me! Do not think you have the right to show me INSOLENCE!" I fall to my knees, head bowed as I realize my mistake, I may be a Queen, but I was not above a God. He may have saved me but as he said he could just as easily take my life away again.

"I apologize Numa, my words were spoken callously, please do not take offence, I was merely confused." My words cause clouds of fog, the air so cold I tremble, but like a switch being flipped, after hearing my words, the shadows retreat and the pressure is released, the air warms back up as Numa returns to his normal size.

"Your contrition is acceptable. I understand that it has been a hard few days for you, so I will spare you from punishment this time, but do not cross that line again, I will not be so merciful next time." I nod my head rapidly, more than aware that I would never make that mistake again, I do not want to imagine what he deemed a respectable punishment for disrespecting him.

"I know that it may seem I have forgiven him easily, but when I thought of it, without him my father wouldn't have been missing, without him I never would have come to Draka to take my rightful place, I never would have went looking for my father and found my mother instead, never would have saved her life. So, yes I have forgiven him, because I believe in the end his choices caused more good than bad." My hands tremble as I wait for his response, it was the truth and yet I knew that he could take it the wrong way.