A Court Of Love & Sufferings

ch.11

While the king was searching for dread trove and the cauldron he learnt that he could not wield the dread trove himself to open portals to another worlds. Opening a portal to another world would require an immense amount of energy. The person wielding the dread trove must have raw powers to wield them.

Theia had powers of raw flames and shadows so she was able to wield the dread trove. The king needed a powerful being to wield the trove for him.

He started searching for someone everywhere. Now my story starts how i become hybern's hostage.

I was an illegitimate child. My father spent a night with my mother leading to me. He didn't want anything to do with me. He was the high lord of night. He already had a wife and a son. Being a high lord it would ruin his reputation if others knew he had a child out of wedlock. The fact that i was a mix breed was more of a reason to hide me. My mother was an illyrian woman. The Illyrians are a warrior race of faeries,living in the northern region of Illyria in the Night court considered by many to be violent and warmongering people. High faes don't like them. They both don't get along with each other.

So he left me with my mother. My mother and i lived in illyria. Until one day we were attacked, it was hybern's men they were there to take me. My mother fought trying to save me they killed her taking me with them.

I was prisoned in a cell i don't know how long till the king came. He told me i was special. He needed me to achieve greater things. He needed my powers for that. I was confused i didn't have any power. I was just a normal girl living with my mother.

For centuries i was locked up in his castle. Occasionally he would have his subjects perform some tests on me. Your father was a soldier working under the king. He was a good man circumstances made him work for the king. We both shared the hatred for the king. We fell in love. We kept it a secret for a long time.

One day the king told me everything.  What he needed from me.

The king told me about theia. He believed i possessed the same powers as her. He wanted me to open portals to another world. He used his ancient spell books to locate me. He said my bloodline  is the most powerful one.

He told me about my birthmark. I have an eight pointed star on my neck. He said this is the mark theia had that it describes me being a starborn. How some heirs of night court often had this mark. He suspects that those who bore this mark had starborn powers.

I don't think my father knew i had this mark or he never suspected that a  bastard like me could have it.

They tried every way to see if i could conjure the powers. I never did till one day..

I found out i was expecting,me and your father were happy but we were worried for you. We couldn't go on like that. So we planned to run away. We did. We ran away. But the happiness was short term the king found us. He punished your father for betraying him.

I was to be whipped but i was pregnant we couldn't take the risk so your father told him about my pregnancy.

The king was furious. He tortured your father till his last breath and i was made to witness them all. I couldn't handle seeing him in so much pain and suddenly light exploded from me. My powers surfaced for the first time.

The king was right. It was an immense power. I couldn't control them so i was caged in a cell. They gave me faebane to neutralize my powers. He had your father executed. I spent the next months in that cell.

The tests they did, made them find out  about you. You were strong even with that constant faebane in my body you were strong enough to survive against it.
They concluded that you may have powerful abilities even more than i did.
So they let me give birth to you. So they could use you as their weapon.
Use you to win the war they would start  against prythian and mortals.

My baby am sorry for bringing you in this cruel world. You have to go through this hell because your parents couldn't protect you. The king will soon start the war and after he has the cauldron and the dread trove he will need you.

I know you might hate me for putting you through this but you are my only hope. You are strong. Very strong. You can end this all. All the suffering hybern has inflected on everyone. So you must not give up. End this. End the king. For yourself, for your freedom, for us, for every sorrowful soul.

After that live a joyful life. Free of pain & sufferings. Find someone fall in love with them. See the world. I will watch over you. I love you my sweet child.

Live my love.

Live.