The silent ones

Fear

Alice's POV
I walk in the dining hall and my eyes dart to the decorated ceiling and the magnificent glass chandelier hanging from it. No matter how many times I come here for meetings or dinner with the Queen , the dining hall always leaves me at awe. Delilah on the other hand walks in without even showing a hint of delight at the luxurious room we're in. Obviously she, as a princess and this being her residence, is used to eating everyday in this dining hall. She walks past me leaving a trail of her vanilla scented perfume and takes a seat at the long table decorated with what looked like an expensive mantle and had plates,forks,knives,spoons,napkins etc set up. I take a seat right next to her. "Hi!" She chirps and hugs me. "Hey" I say smiling and hugging her back. My dad enters the room and looks at me for a second. Then looks away and walks to a seat. The moment we're all seated the Queen enters and we all immediately stand up to hear the anthem of our country. It does not have lyrics or anything screaming "war or kill the rebels!" But the sound is ringing in my ears and I can't stand it. Deep down I know my thoughts about our government may not meet with the ones my father has and I can still remember how many times he has told me to shut up and just smile. "Don't ruin things for me" He would always say to me before walking into a meeting. I know that if I speak up, no matter what, no matter my social status, I would inevitably be sent to the "City of the Silent". We all bow to her and she smiles at us. She then walks over to her Throne-like seat right at the end of the table. She sits down and smiles to the people behind me who I turn to see and notice is the Parliament. We all sit down and the meeting commences. "Welcome all to the Monthly Meeting of the Federation of Justice and Liberty. We will be having a dinner as always provided by the best chefs of the country." She extends a hand toward the doors of the dining hall where four chefs are standing there looking quite exhausted.  "Please enjoy the meal and we'll have the meeting right after" At this the doors are opened and servants poured in the room pushing carts of platters with food. Everything is placed in the table with care. I smile at the sudden hunger producing scent the food brings to the room and look at Delilah. "Food is life" I say smiling. She giggles. "Yep" and then she fist bumps me. Even though I may have a bad temper at times I always try to keep a smile on my face whenever I'm around Delilah. I don't want her to be worried about me. The servants proceed to serve us some lobster soup. Delilah grins "My favorite" She squeals and digs into it. I on the other hand despise lobster soup and take a spoonful full of torture and try my best not to spit it out. I smile softly "It's lovely" Delilah smiles "I know right!" I giggle and nod. Moments after they serve us Sirloin Steak with Vegetables and mashed potatoes with a side salad. I grab my glass of water and take a sip from it. I look over my father and see him talking to the Queen. I narrow my eyes at them. Just what the hell can be so important that they don't share with all of us... Sometimes i get the feeling their hiding things from all of us. Well what the hell they're hiding the fact that they are killers!
Delilah waves her hand in front of me and I turn to look at her. She looks like a squirrel with all that food stuffed in her mouth. "Stahp acting weird and try da foodz. It's guud. " She says covering her mouth full of food. I giggle and take a bite from the steak. My eyes widen in delight. Now this is new.. Seems they have changed the chefs. Maybe they killed them too. I chuckle and look down. But, what if they did? I shake my head to try and clear my thoughts and I look up. I have to get to the bottom of this.
~time skip~
We all finish eating dinner and servants come in to pick up our plates and clear out the table. "Thank you" I mumble and wipe my mouth with the napkin and then place it on the table for them to pick up. "Well I hope all of you enjoyed the exquisite dinner. Now we will move on to the true reason why we came here. The meeting. So, as most of you know this Monarchy is divided into two. The FJL and the City of the Silent. I have come up with a new advance in security for the borders. The walls dividing us are high but with enough resources the rebels can easily jump over it. Of course we have some wires set up on the top of these walls but they can easily get out of there with only a few scratches. The walls will now be electrically charged so when they touch the walls they will be electrocuted" The queen says standing up. Everyone in the room claps at this except me and Delilah. Delilah gasps and mumbles "B-but they'll kill them.." Nobody else heard her but me because of the loud sound of applause. I frown and look at her . "Delilah atleast  we can take pride in something. The ones dying are them , not us. They are the rebels , not us"
The room goes silent
Atleast for now...

Author's note
So I hope you all enjoy this short chapter. I was gone for long but here I am. I know the character's emotions may change a lot in these chapters but I'm still developing them so be patient with me please.
Love you all!!