Prince of RAVENTHORE |•KTH•|

28. Ancestral Prayer

"Father, Are you going to our Southern neighbours for the negotiations?"

Alpha King Hyejin was standing before the mirror with his tall figure clad in royal fur clothes with his signature tiger skin draped over his broad shoulders. He was fixing the golden crown over his head with his fingers clad in shining rings. Hyejin's gaze averted to Prince Jaehyun standing behind him, through the mirror.

"Yes, Why, Jaehyun?"

"I'll accompany you to the south."

Hearing Jaehyun, Hyejin raised his eyebrows in both question and confusion. His eyes looked at Jaehyun from up to down in the mirror. "You'll accompany me?" It was like King Hyejin didn't believe his son. Since Jaehyun has come back from Ruwana, something seems changed within him.

What changed?

The king doesn't know, he is unable to lay a finger on it. Hyejin was expecting his son to act stubborn as always and demand a declaration of war with Ruwana or something planned to abduct Princess Jeong Y/N. The King was expecting anything ridiculous but this silence?

The Royal Alpha was utterly surprised that Jaehyun didn't say a single word about the Princess or even a reaction towards the news of her wedding.

The King wasn't believing in the silence of his son. There should be anger, hatred or resentment or anything but this.....unless something is being planned under this deceiving serene ground.

Watching Jaehyun Nod in response, Hyejin turned around and walked to him while staring. "Since when did you start taking interest in royal matters, Jaehyun?"

"Should I not prepare to take your throne?" Jaehyun looked into his father's eyes with his red ones underlined with hidden determination. The abrupt words made Hyejin frown but he soon laughed it off.

The Royal Alpha patted Jaehyun's shoulder. "I'm proud to see you in this form. It's good that you forgot what happened in Ruwana. That isn't worth keeping in memories ,anyway." bringing his hand back, Hyejin smiled a little. "We are leaving within half an hour." With that said, Hyejin walked past Jaehyun before leaving the chamber.

While Jaehyun wasn't having any expressions except blankness. He lifted his gaze towards the mirror, staring at himself. "Forgot?" His lips rasped the word in the air.

The red Ruby eyes averted to a scabbard tied around his waist in which a dagger was supposed to be resting, except the fact that it wasn't a dagger inside but his half broken sword.

Suddenly Jaehyun gripped the scabbard so tightly that his knuckles turned almost white, his jaw clenched. The red orbs traveled back up to stare into their own shine through the mirror.

"Never."

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Silver sparkles falling and filling the air. Flower of God's swaying, shining bright before disappearing....

The pair of eyes which were closed and dreaming, got flutter opened followed by an inaudible gasp. "Same dream again?" The woman muttered, staring at the wooden ceiling of her home in the middle of woods, surrounded by dense and dark.

She slowly sat up in the bed, her white hair sprawling on her back, disheveled. "Was it really the Sacred Flower of God's?" A frown took over her pretty smooth features. It would be better if no one took her beauty for granted because of her white silky hair.

The woman left her bed before grabbing a thick black robe. She gazes around her room which was filled with shelves of ancient magical and ritual books, her grimoires , bottles of different kinds of potions, rare and sacred herbs and several powerful stones. If anybody would mistake her as a witch, it wouldn't be wrong at all. She is really a witch afterall, hidden away from human settlements.