Black Wings A Cast of Magic

Chapter 3

When I walked into the 'throne room' there were all kinds of things in there, armor, creepy heads, and the walls had cases with Gold and silver, it was a place that screamed wealth and power, at the end of the room was a throne with a man sitting on it. This man had a regale yet evil look to him. He looked at me like I was a piece of prey about to be killed by a cat.

He was definitely the cat.

"What is this filth? Have them showered and put into better clothes immediately! And brush the girls hair! I've never seen such a mess!"

I hated him. I hated every bit of him, but I bit back my snappy comeback.

We were directed to different shower rooms, given a towel, and a bar of soap. Afterwards I found a layered lilac dress and a matching hair ribbon on the bench by the bathroom. I had no idea how to put the ribbon into my hair, so I left it there and put my hair into a knotty ponytail. There was a woman in her older teens waiting outside the door.

"You Can't wear your hair like that!" She shrieked.

"Why not?" I asked.

He'll kill you! And me!" She yelled, pulling me back into the room, and sitting me down in a chair in front of a vanity. "Where's your ribbon?"

"Over there." I said, pointing.

"Right, do. Not. Move!" She ordered, picking it up and styling my hair, brushing, brushing, brushing then putting it in a down position with a braid and the ribbon in the back.

"Erm... thanks." I said, not hating it, but preferring the simple ponytail.

"You're welcome, the last girl who didn't do her hair was sent to the rooms for another year." stepping back to examine her work.

"The rooms?"

"It's what we call the circular rooms with iron doors. They forbid us to call them the dungeons."

"They?"

"All in due time, now hurry! Your almost late!"

"Wait!"I yelled, before she pushed me out the door, "What's your name?"

"Charity."

"Thank you, Charity."

"You're welcome. Now hurry!"

I met up with Kodi, We walked side by side for about five minutes before we found the throne room again. There were two guards in dark blue cloaks and they wore masks to hide theirfaces. They let us in and the "King" was sitting on his throne.

"Now that is better," he remarked. "Now you shall be working as my slaves until you give us the information we need."

Me and Kodi shared a glance. He never said what would happen if we didn't. Which sparked worry all over itself. We also both knew we would be slaves forever because Kodi wouldn't give him the information they needed, though I didn't want him to.

"Do we ever get to see our parents again?" Kodi said, out of nowhere.

The 'King' rolled his eyes and said, "Well obviously not, then you would give away all of our secrets! No! No you do not! Do you have any other stupid questions?"
"What do we call you?" I asked, hoping it wasn't something like "King" or "Sir" or "your highness", unfortunately, I was out of luck

"I am Nilex Callrook. But you will address me as "Master"." He said.

I vowed to never call him anything but Callrook when there was no one watching.

"What do we do, er, Master?" Kodi asked, with bow that looked more like an elegant trip; Ish.

"You, boy, will fetch the mop and bucket from the closet, The girl will go to the kitchen and make my breakfast with Charity."