The Kingdoms

Chapter 1

It's been centuries since werewolfs, fairies and witches were allies, now they are just strangers and enemies, they made a pact hundreds of years ago to avoid each other and to live only among their fellows without having a connection with each other, to not go to someone else's property ,to live in peace and harmony without seeing between them.

But this is changing and a war can begin.

                                 *****

      In the bathroom, the smell of rose petals began to be felt, which I prepared to sprinkle over the bathtub with water. I take the rose oil and drop it into the water to make the foam. I turn on the water, noticing how the tub starts to be covered with water and foam. I take the rose petals and press them on top. The evening rituals are some of my favorites, they are the ones that relax me after a tiring day of work. I arrange the towels on the edge of the tub, put the toiletries in order and I think I'm ready to call on Her Majesty, Queen Morrigan.

    
     I slowly leave the bathroom through the dressing room and open the door to Her Majesty bedroom and see the queen on the bed full of blood, forever asleep. I almost fainted when I saw her and I started to scream and cry sitting on the bed next to her.The guards entered the bedroom in alarm, their expressions changing immediately upon seeing the queen.

 
- What happened here? asks one of the guards looking at me without any exppression.

- I-i just prepared the bathroom for Her Majesty and i came here to tell her that everything is ready , and i saw her like that, i say this crying.

- You should leave, now! We will take care of it, says one of them angrily.

     I nod as if I understand and get up from the bed with small steps towards the door hoping that the culprit who is responsible for this will be found. What will happen to the king, but the two children? They are so young, I can't believe that everything fell apart so easily. The queen was one of the most beloved of the royal family, I don't understand who could have done this to her. I close the door and leave as if from a nightmare.

                             *****

      I roam the corridors as if on some indistinct labyrinths in the castle, the last two weeks have been extremely difficult, I haven't even had the chance to talk to my father at all, that's why I'm heading to his office. I haven't seen him at all since my mother's funeral, and I understand the suffering that the whole kingdom and the family are going through, but that doesn't mean that he has to isolate himself from me and Linne, I think I'm ready to have a discussion with him.
       
     I arrive in front of the office doors:

- Good afternoon, Your Majesty, both of the guards says at the same time opening the doors for me.

     I don't respond as usual, in the last two weeks i didn't think to be polite, nor did I manage to put my thoughts in order after the last events, so I choose to remain silent.

     I enter the huge office, the doors closing behind me. I haven't been here in months, I usually choose not to interrupt. But everything remained the same, many shelves, archives and documents but in the middle an office, even if it is huge, it remained organized.

  
   He occupied his time working to forget the pain, I couldn't do that, the only thing I could do was train and remove all the anger. His eyes lifted from the sheets looking directly at me.

- Dain, says him hesitantly with a tired expression that shows that he has worked a lot in the last few days without resting.

- Dad, i wanted to see you.

- Did something happened? asks him concerned.

- No, i wanted just to talk, i didn't saw you in the last few days, you should rest, you look really tired, you worked all day?

    He looks at me without answering my question. After a few minutes i understanded that he has no intention of answering i asked:

- Did they found who did that?
  

    I asked this with anger, i worry about him and he doesn't even care to talk normally to me or Linne, we are his children, the only ones left for him.

- No, he answers quietly.

- They didn't found any weapons to identify fingerprints, or to talk to someone that maybe saw something weird in that night? How they didn't found nothing? I ask almost shouting.

- They did found something, they found fairy dust on the floor next to the bed.

     I look at him shoked and say:

- How is this possible? I don't understand, what would fairies look for in our land?

- I don't know, he answers with an overwhelmed expression. How is Linne?

- She trains, like me. What are we going to do now? We have to find who is responsible for all this, but we can't start a war with fairies!

- Who says we can't? he asked me directly.

- What do you mean? I say confused.

- Go to your room, i will take care of this.

- But-, i try to say something.

-Go to your room, he orders me.

      
      I nervously leave the office, I can't believe what he told me, I have to tell Linne. We need to find the criminal but a war with fairies? I don't understand what they had against my mom and what they were looking for here? I only heard about them in stories it shouldn't come to that,my mother wouldn't have wanted a war. She was not a bad woman, she was a fair leader and worthy of her position. The criminal must pay indeed.