THE STORYBOOK

H1: PART 4 (ENGLISH)

Bass listened to his old friend with a face full of surprise.

- "Are you sure?" - The young man asked as soon as Kong finished telling him what had happened that morning when he visited his father's bedroom.

The young man who, while relating the facts, had risen from his chair to walk around the private room, stopped to observe his friend.

- "I saw her myself" - an exasperated Singto answered while looking at Bas with a frown on his face.

The boy, with his eyes closed and in his favorite pose, was analyzing everything Sing had told him. No doubt trying to reach some answer that could explain the strange behavior of his stepmother.

Singto sighed. He knew his friend and, when he was in that state, he could stay like that from a couple of minutes to even a complete hour.

So the young prince decided to sit on his favorite chair while waiting for Bas to finally look up and tell him what he thought of the matter.

- "Have you tried to follow her?" - Bass asked suddenly.

The young man, completely shocked, only managed to shake his head.

Bass huffed. No doubt, Sing was still as innocent as when they were little. Luckily, now that he was there, they would get to the bottom of the matter as quickly as they could...

- "Tomorrow we will start" - said Bas as he got up and, being followed closely by Singto,  went to one of the tables that were in the room and took a bell - "but first we have to discover everything we can about her .... And who better to tell us about their customs than the servants?"

The young man smiled ironically as he rang the bell. A few minutes later, a young maid made her entrance from one of the doors.

- "Do you want something?" - the girl asked as she made a slight bow.

- "Tell Kimmon that I need to see him" - Bass ordered as Kong took a seat next to him.

FIFTEEN MINUTES LATER...

Kimmon closed the door and headed for the kitchens. No doubt that was the best place to start. His orders had been clear, to discover what plans the Queen had and inform as soon as possible.

The young man sighed as he ran his hand through his black hair. A custom that, since he had met the young Prince Bas, had been greatly exacerbated.

- " Can I help you? - asked a woman's voice behind him.

Kimmon turned, standing face to face with a middle age woman with a friendly smile and warm eyes.

- "The truth is that I was coming to see if I could eat something" - said the young man quickly and with a hungry expression - "I just arrived with Prince Bas's procession and...".

- "Of course!" - exclaimed the woman as she indicated one of the empty chairs. After which, she went towards the large pots that were heating up in the stove.

A few minutes later, the young man had before him a plate of freshly made soup, a loaf of bread and several pieces of fruit and meat.

Kimmon smiled after tasting the soup.

- "It's delicious" - he told the cook that, with a cup of tea in her hands, had just sat down in a chair next to him.

- "Thank you" - replied the woman - "you were lucky that the Queen had ordered that her lunch have to be served today before the usual time. If it were not like that, you should had had to settle with some bread and cheese, at least until lunchtime. "

The young man nodded, acting as if the conversation about the Queen did not interest him at all.

- "It must have been a problem that she requested her food that soon if it wasn't the usual..."

-" It was! But we are already used to her eccentricities. Much more now that she is so obsessed with the Beauty Contest " - replied the cook while making a slight gesture of boredom with her hand.

- "Contest?" - asked the young man with surprise and curiosity.

- "I can tell you are not from this kingdom..." - said the woman with a smile - "The queen is obsessed with the contest in which it is chosen the most beautiful person in the whole country. It's the only thing she thinks about... and obviously, how to make one of her daughters win it! "

- "Well, that will depend on the judges" - Kimmon said as he took a piece of meat to his mouth.

- "I do not know ... you hear rumors, you know?" - replied the cook while lowering the tone of her voice - "and with her calling the hunter ..."

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A little note:

Here it is the new chapter that I promised hahaha

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