May we (never) meet again

Chapter 5- Arkadia's treasure

The market in Sanctum, Arkadia's capital city, was full of people, small children that were running with their friends or siblings in-between the stalls, while their parents tried to sell their goods to anyone who even just looked their way-and had at least a little bit of money to spend-.

Arkadia's market was known for it's variety. Anyone could find anything there, if they know where to look and was willing to throw in some extra cash for the right people, even things that weren't quite legal to sell, special technology like radios, voice convertors, lenses and electric parts that you wouldn't find anywhere else. Or the more ordinary things like drugs, mechanical weapons and ilegal Moonshine that wasn't approved by profesionals.

Moonshine was something like Arkadia's traditional drink. It was a secret mix of ingrediences that was carefully mixed together and produced alcohol with ireplacable original taste. People loved it, every tavern in Arkadia's territory had it, but they had to import it from the Dropship, because that was the only place which was allowed to produce it. Others were just illegal copies that tasted similarly, but could never replace the original.

Others clan's citizens traveled a long way to the market, some even from Trikru or Azgeda. Arkadia's relationship with the Ice Nation was mostly cold, they didn't respect each other but also neither of them wanted to start something they couldn't finish right now, because that war would be long, massive and most probably without a winner.

They're relationship with Trikru was the absolute oposite, fortunately the two clans were very far away from each other, so it wasn't that usual to meet someone from Trikru just visiting Arkadia without a reason. Most people from there were ambasadors who visited for a meeting, or travelers who were just passing by. Conflicts between them were pretty normal, few deaths there and few missing people here, after King Titus tookover the reign over Trikru, their relationship became even worse, and everyone are now just waiting for the final snap, that will escalate in war.

Everything went quiet, in what seemed like a second. Kids stopped playing and ran to hide behind their parents. Sellers steped aside from their stalls and some people even knelt down, when they saw the flicker of a familliar carmine red hair.

The Queen was coming to the market with two warriors next to her. Her hair was finely combed in little braids, every strand was in it's perfect place like always, the steel mask on her face was shining in the sunlight like silver and her cold blue eyes, that one could describe as a mix of color between ice and sky before a thunderstorm, were looking between throughout the people as if they were searching for something, or rather someone. Her gaze stopped at a young, probably around nineteen years old or less, woman with long, dark brown hair and brown eyes. She looked absolutely normal, quite attractive other that that there was nothing exceptional about her appearance, most of her clothes were in a pretty neutral colors, that were typical for an Arkadia's citizen.

Wanheda slightly gestured at her guards and to the woman's direction, without a word. The guards looked at each other for a second, like they were pitying the young woman, before they accomplished their leader's wishes and captured her.

The woman didn't even try to resist them or seemed panicked, she looked like it was an everyday situation for her, she even looked a little bit annoyed but tried to not show it. The Queen just turned around on her heels and the quards with the brunnete followed her.

People at the market looked terrified, some looking pityingly ath the young women's direction, others relieved that it wasn't them in her position right now.

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The guards brought the young woman to their Queens chambers and forced her to kneel before their leader to show some respect.

"Leave us." The Wanheda said, with cold, almost robotic voice, for a first time to her warriors, that immedietly bowed and walked out of the room, with one last glance at the brunnete, who still surprisingly didn't look very scared.

After the two of them were in the room alone and closed the door, the young woman raised from the ground and scoffed, while she tried to fix up her clothes that were creased from the guards hold.

"Well, you have an interesting ways to get people in your castle. But it's still better than last time, when your guards decided to dignify me with their visit in the middle of the night and forced some old bag on my head." The brunnete looked at her Queen, with a slight smirk on her lips.

"So, I guess that's a plus. Well, what do you need, C? I don't have all day and the radio's won't make themselves."

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So, who do you think is our new character? And what do you think about Arkadia? 👀 Let me know your thoughts about this story in the comments 🤍.
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