【𝐀 𝐕𝐞𝐢𝐥 𝐅𝐨𝐫 𝐂𝐡𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐛𝐞𝐥】➛𝓑𝓵𝓪𝓬𝓴 𝓑𝓾𝓽𝓵𝓮𝓻

25

"I...lost..."

Shocked and stuck in place, the Queen slowly approached Agni with a gentle smile, "Mr. Agni...wasn't it? Your curry's flavour did not lose. It was also a curry I would like to enjoy at the white tower."

Solemnly the man nodded, "I'm not...worthy of such words."

Not too far, crushed, was Harold West, whose four-year plan had come tumbling down within minutes. "My plan...the royal warrant..." He stumbled about, a hand on his head as suddenly a woman was seen running towards him.

[Name], who at this moment was at the prince's side, followed his line of sight to land on an Indian woman, yelling and running towards Harold in comfort. Although she could've very well stopped the prince from yelling out her name, she allowed him to with a small guilt guilt-stricken look,

"Meena?!"

The woman had snapped her head around at the sound of the prince's voice, and Agni, seeing this, attempted to yell to stop him, but it was already too late, Meena had already noticed the prince, "Prince...Soma...?"

The plum-haired boy, in the moment, ran up to her, "I finally...found you!!" he embraced her in a warm hug, "Meena..!!" one that she did not reciprocate. "I've been looking for you! For a very long time! You must have been so worried when you were kidnapped to England! I finally...finally found you. You don't have to worry anymore. Let's go home together" Such a cheerful expression painted onto his face that [Name] almost felt bad for what was to come, although she had no control.

She had moved over next to the Earl before Meena had snapped her head up to look the prince directly in the eye before speaking the next words,

"Are you some kind of idiot?"

"Eh..?"

The poor prince, baffled, was shocked and silent as Meena went on, "Who the hell do you think you are, coming this far, just to get in people's way?!

Come home with you?!
Don't make me laugh!
Who'd want to come home to a place like that?!"

Not too far away, on the stage, [Name] caught in the corner of her eye, Agni falling to his knees as he was forced to watch this play out, slowly she had gone up beside him, even on the stage, making eye contact with Sebastian as she knelt next to him, 

"Agni..."

"I'm sick of looking after such a selfish master!"

Now the entire room was stunned silent. Agni, in his sorrow, slow, crimson tears began to stream down his face, a gentle hand on his shoulder made him look up at the figure with a trembling lip. Despite her comforting look, he shook his head until the prince's sudden apology made his head snap back over.

"Sorry.

We were that close and I didn't understand one bit of Meena's feelings. I'm sorry for never thinking about being a bother, and chasing you all the way to England. And...thanks for everything up until now." Soma has matured over the week without Agni, and maybe or maybe not— the shock he received from a certain butler...but a much needed one. The prince gathered his courage and walked past Meena, up towards the stage where his eyes locked onto the fallen figure of his Khanasama, "Up until now, I've always blamed other people. Being alone in the palace was my mother and father's fault. Meena's disappearance was West's fault. But I was wrong." He walked past Sebastian, crouching before Agni as [Name] slowly stepped away, "Even though I was gnawing at my parents' ankles, I did nothing but complain. There's no one who'd love a brat like that. But...