The Devil's Kingdom

A Path called 'Life'

A DECADE LATER

" Ssshhhhh! " a little five-year old girl slaps a hand on her seven-year old brother who sat beside him. " Lower your voice, someone will hear us! " she warns her brother cupping a hand around her mouth and lowering her voice even more than before.

Both the kids sat behind a small wall in a little garden located near to the broad pathway where a royal carriage has been parked, near at the end of stairs of a palace door.

" Seol! Let's go back. Doing this without mother or father knowing is a very very bad idea. " he warns his sister for good.

But in vain.

She ignorantly speaks looking in another direction, " Don't you worry brother, nothing will happen. We'll just quietly sneak behind them to wherever they're going leaving us out. "

Meow.

Her eyes lands on the kitten hanging on her brother's shoulder and brushing her face affectionately with her brother's neck. His hands stroked her thick furs softly, from time to time.

Meow.

The sleepy cat meows again. The little princess snaps in frustration, " Brother! Leave her otherwise she's going to make both of us caught. "

As though, the kitty understood her words, she turns her head to the Princess and meows at her, with a threatening look.

" I'd found her stuck on a tree few days ago. I'd climbed the tree myself and had saved her. She was scared of me at first but did came to me afterwards. And now she has grown quite affectionate of me & very rarely leaves my company. "

" Don't worry Seol, she won't make us caught. I'll try my best to keep her silent. " her brother assures her when the sounds of footsteps approaching the carriage comes.

Seol's ears suddenly became extra big as she listens the sounds carefully.

After a moment of examining, she holds her brother's hand and pulls him with her towards the carriage. Quietly walking to the back of the carriage of their parents, they sneak inside it. And lowering themselves down behind the long seat in the front, they cover themselves with the curtains so no one will found them.

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Jungkook forwards his hand to me to help me climb inside the carriage. I take his hand gladly and walk inside the carriage before taking a seat beside him.

I told him, we can go through the secret dungeon and walk through the city but he preferred us to go in the carriage just because I've had a fever two days ago. It had made my body weak, I agree but still I could've walked through the city.

" Let's move. " Jungkook asks the coachman handling the horses in the front of the carriage and with that we left for the west hill forest.

The carriage moved through the city markets, in the main pathway of the Kingdom. I could see people gazing at the moving carriage curiously from inside, through the translucent curtains.

As we became closer to our destination, the strong smell of wet soil & trees hits my nose. The wind becomes stronger and colder. It reminds me of that day from ten years back when master had bought me here for the very first time to show the place where the late Queen is sleeping in her deep slumber. Now joined by her husband as per his last wish.

Once in every full moon, both Jungkook and I comes to visit the late King & Queen. And not a very long distance away from them were sleeping the late Queen & King of Riveryn.