Pick Your Path: Book 1

8

" I... Um... I prefer not to..." after all you just met these people, even if she is a queen. You don't go around telling people your name. Lauren glares at you but says nothing. Daniella mutters something under her breath. Yep, they don't agree with your decision either.

" No? You won't tell your name?" the queen's voice held a hint of annoyance, " You do realize I what I can do right?"

" Your highness, please, he/she can still be useful. He/She just needs to brush up on his/her manners." Lauren spoke quietly, a feeble attempt at defending you. " It will just take time, I assure you, he/she will learn."

" Now who's interfering with the conversation..?" Daniella muttered, glancing at Lauren, " If I can't interfere, you can't either."

" What?! I'm just-"

" That's enough, Daniella, Lauren." both freeze as the queen addressed them. " It is not ideal for arguments to start in my throne room. If you need to argue, do it outside of my castle." she turns back to you, " We can't trust those who don't trust us. Just tell your name, it's not like you're doing something crazy." You don't respond. There's no way you could trust them, no matter what the consequences are right?

" I-I can't..." the queen sounds like she's attempting a threat. Doesn't sound that scary, right? How much damage can she do? Unless there was someone else's in the room, then it's highly unlikely that anything major would happen. Daniella and Lauren don't fight as far as you could see. There was no one else in the room other than the queen, Lauren, and Daniella. No sound or movement gave away a hidden person. Any average person would have been spotted by now.

" If that's how it is, you leave me no choice.." she quietly raises her hand, " This is how it must be. Go ahead, you have my permission." nothing happened for a couple of heartbeats.
"Another empty threat? She knows that th-" The room is plunged into darkness as the candles abruptly black out. " What's happening?! Lauren, Daniella?! Where are you?!" You hear Daniella scream and Lauren yell and footsteps running towards you. You feel a sudden presence appear behind you as a abrupt blow to the head knocks you to the ground. The blow wasn't extremely strong, but it was still powerful enough to determine that it's delivered by a professional fighter of some sort. But any fighter would have been spotted and no fighter could pull off plunging the room into darkness without being noticed. Unless... This person's... A trained assassin..! If it is an assassin, why would he or she be after you?! You're not from royalty, or at least not that you know of. You could be held for ransom, but what for?! There is someone much more important than you in the room. Could the assassin mistaken you for the queen?.. No that's not possible...

"..." a quiet voice whispers in your ear. Who is this? Your vision is spotted with black spots as you fall unconscious " Should have done what Her Majesty asked..." you catch a glimpse of dark fur and glowing eyes before the world went black. " This is your consequence."

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Her highness' orders... Sorry, can't disobey them... Come Shadow, time to execute our plan. -R

Raven seems more serious than usual. There's a hint of excitement under her mask of seriousness and composure. She's looking forward to another capture. I don't blame her, we haven't had one of them in ages! I'm also looking forward to this task! -S