Lost Kingdom of The Seven Seas

The Lonely Laces

Only by an elapse of moment passed is when somebody new entered the tower.
I breathe out Cassastra's name but instead I saw the young queen plugging out her knotted hair.

When she saw me, she raised an everybrow and went closer. She was aware I didn't came here by myself alone. She knew I was with her sister.

She takes the silver lace away from her hands and throws it on the ground, and then looks back at me.

"Why are you here?" She asks finally.

So I decided to tell the truth.
"Waiting for the young Princess Cassastra." I said. "Why are you here?" I stand upright bending back the question.

"Me?" She asks, almost getting snorted. "She sent me here. I just saw her running away from the tower. What did you do to my sister?"

Her voice sounds offensive and I have to defend myself.

"I've done nothing wrong. She just excuse herself and she said I should wait for her until she comes back." Or that's not what she means.

"You didn't argue on some problems, did you? Where were you yesterday?" She asks accusingly.

"I have to visit a friend." I said, not a good lie. "I didn't mean to make her wait for me. I apologized and she said it was fine, she would understand."

"What?" She shouted. "That's not a good explanation! My sister waited for you the whole day in here and prayed to Avah that she would keep you safe. I think the two of them talked."

In that moment, I wish I were dead. If Avah was really true and devine, then what had she told to the young princess about me? Don't she dare sabotage my plans, or I'll try to seize her neck.

"They talked?" I asked.

"They did. It was the first time Cassastra saw her. She was astonished. I didn't ask her what have they meeting about. But she was crying, my dear sister went down crying."

I'm sure that Avah had something to do between the two of us. That goddess had probably told her about the truth why I came here, that I used her only to live free for nine days and then escape.

That Avah. It's her fault. That's why Cassastra was talking weird earlier.

I stepped out the daylight of the radiant sun, hurrying to follow the young princess, perhaps ask forgiveness and favor within her eyes. Pleading for my life.

But the crimson young queen was waiting at my back, thinking when I would turn my head to her.

Just I was about to hold the knob of the door when a sharp dagger dashed deep into the wooded sculpture.

"Leave my sister alone. I will never let you hurt her again." She shouted. I think everything's going to end here. "Turn your head back." She commanded and  I do so.

Her eyes were mad and terrifying like a living ghost who would hunt me for the rest of my life.

"You will go with me. Make sure we have to stitch the lips of that Avah." She said, already on her way out.

That's not what I was thinking. She was still angry with their goddess. Maybe my life was saved in that split second.

I walk right after her, following her shadows like a male cougar looking for his mate.

The young queen is clenching her fist. She will turn into a mythical lioness when she's fully consumed with the darkness inside her. She's not even noticing the warning, no, she saw it but she neglected it.

We sneeked into a narrow chamber that leads to no end. It's just a metal of pathways and walls, like what we had in East Asia called tunnels.

"Watch your steps greeny. Some part of this place is an illussion."