Silhouette

Chapter 13: Night Fall

The reunion of the long been separated mother and son were extended at Belasa’s prison cells.

They were put on a paralleled cells covered with black kisk where both of their dome have shrink onto their shadows.

“So this is how he felt when he saw his child imprisoned in front of him” Viola spoke relating the time Lumnoux royalties were her prisoners. Ethan lifted his head buried on his arm and turned to her mother.

“Stop right there and don’t speak any further!”

“Why Ethan…. Why have you put this family in peril?”

“You hadn’t change mother. I was hoping that someday you would come into your senses. Grandfather had worked hard to be granted an audience by the Lumnoux. He was able to pull off something our ancestors could not and in an instant ruined by his daughter by her mere short-sightedness.”

“Yes that daughter gave birth to a son who foolishly follow the Lumnoux and even accepted their serum for his own benefit. Do you think you are better than me, Ethan? You started it and left your own family.”

“You really succumb to the darkness. Have you forgotten that you are the one who put me into this kind of situation? And you don’t even have the slightest guilt for everything that happened to us.”

“I didn’t yield to darkness… come to think of it when did it all started? It wasn’t my idea in the first place”

“Still searching for excuses, you should have conceded by now.”

“Concede? Why? I didn’t do anything and I tell you I am not the nightfall you are expecting. It seems that something was behind this, I haven’t gained anything from this and yet my long term advisor suddenly disappeared like my presence has become worthless.”

“Enough of using him as a scapegoat, he was already mysterious in the first place yet you heed his advices, father would be furious if he will see you like this.”

“I know” her face changed from overbearing to being gentle. “He visited me in my dreams and tell me to stop.”

“Yet you still continued, how unreasonable. Now let’s end this you need to tell me where the antidote to the poison you gave to the King.”

“The antidote…” her eyes blurred with tears “Do you think he has a chance to survive?”

“You… you didn’t mean to use Newis’ venom to counter the poison don’t you?”

Newis’ venom can be used to kill and heal. His venom can be used in healing, by letting it eat up any poison within the body including injuries.

However his venom can only be used three times. Upon the third use, beside from being a cure it also become addictive causing the user to become dependent on it. A continues use would be required if not would cause a sudden death due to internal organ malfunction.

Soldiers had come and took Viola out of prison. Her eyes were fixated to his son. The eyes that tells how worried she was, a pleading eyes with sincerity expressing her atonement. Her expressions of comfort that  end has come.

She was dragged onto Belasa’s ground tied on pole made from black kisk. She was tortured and mocked by the Lumnoux. She was forced to reveal the King’s antidote but she continuously claimed that such doesn’t exist. 

Meera came to witness the fall of the Tanbrea queen but enraged by Viola’s stubbornness on providing information. She can’t extract any information from her and decided to take heed with the nobles and officers advises.