Down With The Bloody Big Head

Chapter 4

What Wilkins wished to inform him was that he had a guest waiting for him in his parlor, one that had an urgent message for him.

Walking down the black, dimly lit, him-shaped corridors he wondered who was waiting for at his destination. He hoped it was her Iracebeth. Nothing could have prepared him for who was really waiting for him.

When he opened the door he was surprised to see a man he knew to be dead, he closed his watch himself. When the man turned to face him, he saw no scarring and two perfectly good eyes. Which lead him to remember that there were two Stayne boys, Ilosovic and Felmont.

The boys were identical in there youth, but Ilosovic struggle whiles training for his position at the royal court during his teen years. This struggle led to him losing his eye and injuring his face whiles completing examinations for which he still the scars, until his death.

Felmont however was naturally gifted and sanded to royal court with ease, long before his older brother but after his brother's injury he left to tend to him until he was better and then to his mother when Ilosovic's recovery.

Madame Stayne clung to life for many years. She lived long enough to see her eldest son pass his examinations and be elected to the royal court, taking Felmont's place as Knave. When she died there was no place for him in the Red King's court. Not that he wanted to go back. He could tell that Underland was heading into darkness, dark times indeed.

His suspicions were confirmed when he watched the Red King's head fall to the ground, executed on his wife's orders. His older brother standing at the Queen's side.

That was when Felmont went into hiding. Hiding from the tyrant Queen, who would, no doubt, try to convince or rather force him to be the commander of her army. He knew if he declined, if he refused that he would be beheaded and beheaded if he made a mistake, beheaded if he failed her.

He was safer away from all that, but his other had other plans for his own safety. Ilosovic had the Queen rapped around his little finger. At least he was safe, was Felmont justified it. Was is what he emphasized when he thought back to it bitterly.

Remembering all this and seeing the looks of hatred, hurt, grief, anger, loss and all the rest that he used to see in Iracebeth's eyes, Time wondered what could Felmont possibly want with him.