Taste of ecstasy

Chapter 28

Dark silence spread across the chamber, and he asked everyone not to bother him for the rest of the night. The chamber feels heavy with unspoken grief, the shadows on the walls seeming to echo his inner turmoil. Despite the grandeur of his surroundings, the king appears smaller, consumed by the weight of his emotions. The once-mighty ruler is, in this moment, just a man grappling with sorrow, The air is thick with silence, broken only by the faint crackle of a dying fire in the hearth. He chose to draw in the sorrow as his beloved one suffered the loss of his only family, his identity, and his overall existence. Mighty King Alexander the Second was speechless for the first time in his life he felt so helpless-hopeless he could feel how Magnus had suffered the loss of his parents, veiled life in Alicante, Alec couldn't bear the thought of not living his life without his name, individualism but Magnus, Magnus lived his life in total darkness. A kind of a man his fairy is who is kind, beautiful, humble, ambitious, brave, and skillful and who has a heart as wide as a sky containing love as deep as the ocean. When Alec first encountered the fabulous sight of his Magnus in Brocelind forest that day he knew this fairy is more than just a scented ball. Magnus is magical, as pure as a holy heavenly fire burning in Alicante.

As Ruelle was telling everyone about Magnus's past fury and anger within him surfaced instantly, someone else as cruel as a demon in hell had ownership of his fairy. Alec wanted to touch Ruelle's feet to honor the sacrifices she made to protect Magnus from Killian also she gave away her own life to protect Magnus's essence of life. Alec couldn't imagine being in Magnus's or Ruelle's shoes, the most surprising thing for Alec was his father knew the whole thing but he never uttered a word or mentioned such incidents occurrence once in his lifetime, Robert didn't say anything after Ruelle left with Magnus and Raphael. He couldn't leave his hold on Magnus while he was sitting on Alec's lap Magnus wiped off Alec's tears twice while murmuring some sweet words into his ears assuring him that he was now all protected and happy but Alec didn't budge, his zero-degree intense stare made Magnus scared to death Magnus had to forcefully remove Alec's hand from his waist when Ruelle was asking him to leave the palace. 

"Sweetheart,.....! You missed your dinner..." Mayres stopped her sentence in the middle when she saw her elder son looking into nothingness his face was miserable and sad. She enlightened the lamps and stood closer to him moving her hand over his back. Alec closed his eyes leaning into his mother's touch "How can one live a life like this mother..? having someone owning you, the constant fear of getting sabotaged by some beast-like man is horrible..and Magnus...my beautiful Magnus is....." Alec had tears in his eyes his eyes still closed. "He is truly beautiful, you know he just looks like his mother..absolute mirror image.....and he is kind yet bold, confident just like his father," Mayres said with a fond smile on her face. "I never knew....you and father knew his parents..knew him at all" Alec looked at his mother with a questioning look mayres nodded sighing "We were good friends with both of them...both of them were pottery artists..excellent, smart, and intelligent people both of them were..! (She was lost in the past memories she held Alec's wrist and dragged him towards the chair near the fireplace and made him sit there) you know...Robert is the one who got them married.." She sat across Alec holding his hand Alec smiled slightly "What do you mean...?" He asked. "Leila was a fairy one of a kind we both met when Rise was in the building she was selling water pots in the market...and Asmodeus joined the army unit which was responsible for the overall construction of the rise...he was brave, rigid, blunt and a wise strategy planner...Robert met him when Cravens tried to hit the half-built rise wall...Robert got injured and Asmodeus saved him from getting bitten by that beast...Thane suggested Robert appoint Asmodeus as a royal advisor, asmodeus showed his brilliant planning and strategic skills in a really skillful way while we idris confronted Prantha (one of the kingdoms in the north-east) with their secret trades with Calamaria" She paused to offer a soup and toast to Alec as he missed the dinner she hoped Alec will eat something while she tells him his parent's past engagements with Bane's.