All Is Fair In Love and War (Red Queen Fanfiction)

Part 1 Chapter 5

Mare

  The Parting Ball is confusing mess of silver nobles dancing or chatting away while drink champagne. Maven got carried away by his mother to meet someone, leaving me alone to deal with the crowds that surrounded me like a cage made of silk and flesh. A red servant hands me a glass of golden champagne. As I sip it, I look around and after I drink about half of the shiny liquid, I set the glass on another red servant's tray and turn to go find where Maven went when I suddenly run into Evangeline.
   "Well, if it isn't the little tightening girl," she says with a smirk. I feel my face turn red with anger at the nickname.
   "Sorry, I was just turning and didn't see you there," I say regally. I took everything I had to hold in my angry towards the future queen.
   "Soon when I am queen, you won't be able to get off so easy," she snarls back. She then turns on her heels gracefully and walks away towards the food table. As I wonder the semi crowd room, out of the corner of my eye I see Maven slip out of the room with Queen Elara. Out of instinct I start to follow them out of the ballroom and into the hall. As continue to walk I hear Maven and the queen talking but I am not close enough to make out exactly what they are talking about. Queen Elara hearing my thoughts, turns to me, and  whispers to Maven before starting to walk towards me.
  "I'm s-sorry I j-j-just saw M-Maven come out here and," I start to mumble.
   "It's quite all right little lightning girl, in fact you are just in time,"
   "Just in time for what," I shakily reply. Something tells me that I won't like what I hear next.
   "We have reason to believe that Cal is a traitor to the throne, and once we know once and for all we will expose him," she replies with a gleaming smile. "Maven will then have to ascend to the throne even though he is so young. It breaks my heart for someone so innocent to have to bear the weight of the throne and especially after ascending to the throne under such dire circumstances. It seems impossible to me. Cal, a traitor to the throne Hearing my thoughts, Elara adds, "We have evidence to prove that he has plans to murder King Tiberas Calore the Sixth in order to ascend to the throne within a few days from now instead of waiting until my husband, his father, would peacefully step down." After the shock of Cal planning to kill the king slowly starts to fade, a piece of the puzzle slides right into place in my mind, hitting tens time harder than the last.
   "I-If Maven i-is becoming k-king, then does t-that m-mean?" The realization of what Maven becoming king means for me hits me harder than any strongarm punch to the gut.
   "Yes Mare, it means you shall be Norta's first Red Queen.