The Land Of The Dead

Chapter eight: Enhanced Bracelet

Hudville was melting, in the heat set by Glory Collberg, bodies full on the sidewalks and in burning houses. Glory was in the palace, at the top of the roof -- watching as the kingdom was perishing. Her smile of satisfaction served as a wake up call for Sono Mathonsi, who gasped as she awoke.

She woke up with a bracelet on her wrist. An enhanced bracelet. It was glowing with a bluish colour blending with white. Though, she didn't seem troubled by it. She already knew what it was, and she already knew what she had to do.

Glory wanted to burn the kingdom down to the ground, and if she had succeeded in trapping Tyandra. She would've became a lot more powerful, a lot faster.

In the morning, at the palace. Glory woke up to Source staring at her, she gasped in fright. "You scared me," she said, sounding relieved.
"Forgive me." Source nuzzled her shoulder with his lips. "Although, I didn't see or hear you come in last night."

Glory sighed, "yes, I can be sneaky, my love." She got off bed by means to avoid Source's curiosity. "Wait," he said. "Where were you?"
Glory rolled her eyes and spun around to look at him, "are you my father or my husband? You can't be both." She walked away.

Source looked at his bracelet intensively, it was as if he was not recognizing it. Three hours later, Glory had already taken a bath, eaten breakfast and tried to relax, but she wasn't exactly having a peace of mind, as she was troubled about what had happened on the previous day with Tyandra. She was walking slowly down the stairs, until she bumped into a painting of the late king, Ville Mathonsi.

She took a fixed look it, and when she met with his eyes...
Glory was in the kitchen, looking shaky as she was pouring wine for Source and king Ville. She separated the glasses after, and with precision -- she took out a small bottle of poison from beneath her dress. She poured it on one glass and she placed it further from the one that was without poison. She put the small bottle back where she took it and did a series of breathing in and out. After she thought that she was calm, she took the glasses, waited for her face to welcome a warmful smile, then she went to them and gave them drinks. They thanked her, then she walked away. Ville took a sip at his wine, and then later...Glory was alone with Ville, where he laid dying. "This is for my people, whom you killed. You should have given us this land." Her face was filled with anger, tears were coming out of her eyes.

"You killed the man that promised me the world and his son," she weeped. "I loved him, and you took him from me."

"You were sleeping with Source's father?" Ville coughed. "Oh, don't judge me." Glory stopped weeping and wiped her tears.

"My child, what you have done, will never bring you peace."

"Oh, shut up!" She was getting angry, "what I want you to know...is that...you-you suffered in the hands of Glory."

She gasped, as Source tapped her shoulder. "Are you alright?" He asked. "Yes." Glory said and walked away from him, threw a glance at Ville's painting as she climbed down the stairwell. Source also looked at it wondering why Glory was daydreaming on it.

Glory gripped on the balcony trying to fight off the flashbacks tormenting her, displaying in her mind. She took a deep breath and exhaled two seconds later, she kept repeating until she was finally calm. "Oh..." she uttered with relief until her mind - yet again turned on another memory from the past into play:

King Source was barking at queen Sono, like she was a retarded housekeeper. It happened soon after queen Source found king Source pounding the moaning Glory on their bed. Sono's quick reaction was "You bitch!" Followed by a rageful attack on Glory. She pushed her husband to the side, and unleashed a fistful of agony on Glory's face. A woman punching like that? Even Glory couldn't believe it.

Source was very quick to wear something to cover himself and stop Sono, before she left Glory lifeless. He went behind her and wrapped his arms around her, and yanked her off of their bed and threw her out the doorway.

Source barked at his wife and commanded her to leave his house. Sono reminded her that that was the Mathonsi household, not the Hudson's. He threw his palm in a haste to Sono's face. What sounded like an explosion of electrical wires, made Sono yelp and covered her face as quickly as she could.

Glory shook her head and walked back into the house, she saw Source coming through her way, she quickly turned around and walked back outside. "Love!" He called. "Leave me alone!"

She was walking like a drug addict that hadn't intoxicated in more than 48 hours. "You! Come here." She called a guard. "Go to Tyandra's, and tell her to see me at our usual place." She then walked out of the palace -- she was heading to the forest.

On her way there, she met with one white man who was reading a book under a tree. He smiled like he had missed her, when he saw her coming. Glory didn't look his way until she had to when she was about to pass him. "Glory, are you heading to your cabin?" He stood up, a smile had blotted his face and his body language was sure ready to follow her. "What did you just say?" She asked. "Don't tell me, you don't remember the day we spent together naked in your cabin." He walked to her and pushed her hair behind her ear with his knuckles. Glory waved her hand, the white man was hovering in the air, "how do you remember?" She asked anxiously. "What do you mean? What are you doing? What's going on? How are you doing this?" His tone was jittery. Glory made his heart stop beating by closing her fist and concentrate. His body dropped, she left him for dead -- then she continued with her way.