The Falling Kingdoms: The Hidden Coffins

Chapter Seven: The Palace and the King

I once fell down in the middle of a road market and the whole crowd started laughing at me like maniacs. But when I fell down on the first step of the Palace's entry hall, six people ran towards me to hold me up and ask me if I was okay. Nick wasn't one of them, by the way.

"I'm fine, thanks." I hid my face in my face, blushing like a newly wed and said.

"Oh my Goodness! You should have taken a little more care, young lady." A woman in a thick British accent said to me.

I glanced up at her to give her a strange look but her face looked so worried and welcoming that I ended up giving out a smile.

"I said I'm fine." I announced, again.

"Nothing to worry about. She's just a little clumsy — little being 100 on the scale of 1 to 10." Nick chuckled and uttered, pushing my back with his palm to make me start moving.

I gave him a glare but kept forwarding, muttering incoherent words under my breath.

We crossed the hall, where every eye was laid me. Most of the men standing in the hall were soldiers/guards but their stares were still just on me. I didn't want to seem rude but their gazes were getting annoying so I rested my bitch face on and didn't give anyone another glare.

Reaching a huge case of staircase, my neck turned upwards and my eyes rolled seeing the number of stairs they were. It would take exactly an eternity for me to reach the top of it.

"You're not going to climb up by them right now. That's for sometime else." Nick muttered in all his seriousness again.

"Let's make that sometime else never, can we?" I forced a smile and told him.

"Come here," he held my palm and dragged me towards the back of the staircase, making me stand in front of a huge door.

"Prehensio," he mumbled, and the door slid open a second later.

Standing inside the room looking like an elevator, were Adrian and Tiara, a small set of smile on their faces.

"How did you get in here?" I asked them.

"They used the short cut, obviously." Nick rolled his eyes, stepping into the elevator, dragging me with him again.

The elevator closed as Adrian mumbled some weird words again and we started travelling upstairs.

"I don't understand. Why didn't we take the short cut then? You probably know how lazy I am." I folding my hands across the chest, asked Nick.

"Because you don't still know how to use your magic powers, dumb head." Nick told me.

"Aileen, don't mind his rudeness. Listen to me now." Tiara sighed. "Be patient. You'll get all the answers you need to know. Okay?" She kept both of her hands on my respective shoulders, trying to make me feel better by some words.

"I'm sorry. But I can't trust a girl who pretended to be my first friend. You could've just told me the truth when you first met me," I snapped away her hands and said in fury.

"We couldn't tell you that time. It was too early. We didn't have the orders to do so." Nick's voice turned bitter as he exclaimed these in anger.

"Oh, then you guys could have arrived only when you had the orders to tell me," I shrugged my shoulders and announced.

"We came early to protect you. Your life was in danger." Adrian spoke for the first time, giving me a look of compassion which made my lips seal.
I compressed them together and looked away, waiting for our next destination.