Unforeseen

24: Requests

The queen looks at the king with an unreadable expression before bringing a small smile to her face.

"I'm sorry, your highness, I was just so concerned about you," the queen says. "I heard screams and cries coming from your room and only wanted to check in on you."

The king looks back at Queen Eun-Kyung in disbelief.

"Well I am fine, so you can leave," he says.

He nods at Namjoon to close the door but before he can the Queen speaks.

"Were you recalling what happened to your mother?" The Queen asks.

Yoongi ignores her and walks away from the door. 

Namjoon bows at the queen before closing the door behind him.

The king sits down on the sofa bench in front of his bed and puts his head into his hands. 

He loathes that crooked eye woman, the woman who made his life as a young child miserable. She knows how to get under his skin and he is trying his hardest to not just turn around and kill her, have her be the first and last woman he'll behead in his life. He surprises himself every time he encounters her because he never has thrusted his sword like he has done to others when they get on his nerves. However, if she keeps trying him, he will not be surprised if he beheads her without warning.

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Agust lays back on his bed with his right arm over his eyes. He can't stop thinking about Tiana and he wants her to finish her sketches so that he has an excuse to see her. He loves the way she looks at him with her almond-shaped dark-brown eyes and the way her plump lips form a smile when he smiles at her. 

He thinks about possibly stopping by the palace tomorrow to check in on her, but he shakes his head in denial, thinking that would make him look too desperate and have Hoseok thinking that he likes her. He already saw her at the palace today, but the king interrupted them. It was the chance he had to sit down and actually talk to her and get to know her because when he thinks about it, there isn't much he knows about her. 

All he knows is that she came from a land called America that has many high-tech inventions that are all new to him. He wishes that she will tell him more about them so he can mimic them and be able to experience their conveniences. 

Thinking about all the products Tiana has told him has him itching to start studying the sketches he drew while she was talking. He wants to begin creating a blueprint for them so that after he makes the items his brother asked for, he can work on another important project.

Agust gets up from his bed and heads over to the wooden chest in the corner of his room. The chest is full of booklets of his sketches that almost meet the top of the chest. He takes the top book off the other finished sketchbooks and flips through its pages until he gets to the sketches he drew while Tiana was talking. 

Before he could get started on getting invested in his sketches, Young-ho calls him in a worried voice.

Agust asks Young-ho to come and he does so.

Young-ho's usual sharp eyes are as wide as the king's best pigs as he looks back at Agust.

"The princess is here," Young-ho says. 

He shifts from side to side

"She's asking to speak with you," he finishes.

The inventor shuts his eyes so tight he can see faint colors when he closes his eyes. He lets out a sigh before asking Young-ho if he had let her in.

The inventor's helper nods his head at Agust D and states that he had no choice because she's the princess and a crazy one as well. Young-ho was afraid that if he didn't allow her to come in, she would beat him and try to hang him as she did to Aeri who is still recovering from the incident.