CHAPTER 19

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"I greet the shining moon of the empire, Empress Rexa-"

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"I greet the shining moon of the empire, Empress Rexa-"

"Oh my goodness! What happened to you Evanora!?" The Empress yelled in shock.

What just happened? What happened to me? What's going on?

"Your majesty, is something wrong?" I asked slightly, raising my head.

"Yes! Evanora, dear you are covered in blood! How could you move around like this?" The empress pointed out as I noticed, my expensive black gown was covered in dried blood and my beautiful black and silver heels were ruined. Of course there was blood all over my exposed skin which neither me or Sir Zaven noticed before we came here. Maybe we got too accustomed to blood.

"Call the imperial physician immediately!" the Empress ordered.

"Wait your majesty! This is not my blood!" I yelled to get everyone's attention who were rushing around to get the imperial physicians and doctors. They all stared at me, like I was crazy.

"Then did you take a blood bath?" the Empress asked as I sighed.

"Well, I was busy dealing with some thugs and human traffers. Which is why I couldn't attend to her majesty earlier. Of course I didn't want to show her majesty such a sight, but I couldn't ignore imperial order." I apologetically bowed down. "Please forgive me for this misunderstanding."

Forgiveness my ass! I wanna go home and sleep! Fuck you all and your imperial order!

"Oh my, you must have a hard day." the empress said with an unreadable expression as I just smiled at her. Empress Roxanna called one of her ladies in waiting and told her something. After the queen's order spread along the ladies in waiting, they all looked at me with a fiery expression.

"My lady, please come with us." one of the ladies said as she grabbed my arm. Oh my god, she has a strong grip.

"What? Where are we-" And before I could even finish, I was dragged away.

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In at least half an hour I was dressed in 10 different dresses. When the ladies in waiting dragged me away, they were ordered by the queen to get me cleaned up. Of course my black dress, shoes and the cloak I usually wear were thrown away. Did I mention that the Empress favoured me because I was pretty? Of course it never happened in the original novel because Evanora didn't get many chances to catch people's eyes. She didn't finish her studies and neither achieved what she could, so no one even knew her as the Matriarch of Illusions. As my actions changed many things from the original plot, it even caused me to catch the empress' attention. But sometimes it just crosses the line.

"This dress was created just for you!" The empress smiled as I twirled around. I was wearing an A-line Lavender dress with a turtleneck and long sleeves with long flutters at the end of the sleeve. White silk material at the middle of the dress and purple silk was used over the white silk over the dress from the back and only the leaven from the open to keep the white silk visible. Of course it was decorated with jewels and other ornaments. The dress was simple and elegant, but why does the empress have dresses which fit me!?

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