Maraji

chapter 3

Fiona was shocked when she entered the room, she opened and closed her mouth like a fish when she laid her eyes on maraji and father

She had expected everything, but she had never in a million years thought of what was happening right before her.

Maraji was laying right at the center of the room, she looked to be asleep and she was glowing in vibrant gold dusts. She was using her power, fiona realised.
She watched maraji like an hawk she was so captivated by the display of so much power in her presence, she wished with everything she had to absorb that power into her core and make it hers. She saw a movement in her peripheral vision and her attention was diverted. She angled her head as she followed the movement to maraji's father fingers, she watched transfixed as his fingers twitched again slightly.
She realised in shock what maraji was doing. She was trying to dream her father back into existence. She stumbled back and immediately regained her footings as she tried to lash out at maraji and wake her out of the dream state she was. She reached out and the gold dust formed into tendrils and immediately lashes out at her. She yanked her arms back in pain.

She staggered back and sat down leaning heavily against the door. She was breathing heavily, weighed down by dejection. She watched as what she has schemed and planned  for 12 years crumbled into nothing in front of her eyes.

She watched on steadily and suddenly she felt a forced calm descend on her...

She realised that both maraji and her father is yet to realise who she is truly and decided to continue with her deception when they both wakes up. She would warm her way into their heart deeper than ever, she smiled as she remembered how she came into their life's 12 years ago.

12 years ago.

Fiona was the queen of innaloo, a quaint town in size but majestic in look, other town who passes by envy and wished they can stay in the town.
When the sun rises the beauty rises with, all the houses appear smaller than they are and are lined neatly after one another with a neat lawn in front. It does not matter if you're rich or poor everyone have similar structures.

Only the castle where the queen lives in is different, it looked so majestic all other palaces in other town looked shabby in comparison with towering pillar holding the entrance if the castle and covered In pure gold and small windows taking a whole wall and mirror lining the inside in a way that shows all the angles of the castle.

The queen Fiona,  was sitting in her dressing room with maids at her beck and call,while two attended to her hair another took care of her nails and two others holding up her gown to prevent any wrinkle. She was relaxed back when they all heard a sudden banging on the door, the maid attending to her nails was shaken and mistakenly cut part of her flesh with the nails, she turned back on her furiously and flung her across the room violently with her power and absently waved a finger over the wound to heal the wound as she stood to see the person banging insistently.

She was about to lash out with her magic before she halted and stared at the seer standing in the doorway panting and looking flustered, she doesn't have to ask how she got through the castle guards. She ushered her in and promptly asked what the matter was.

The seer said, I have been shown a new power that's about to be born, I don't know how soon but the power is said to be greater than any another even more than yours.

Fiona, grew beet red with rage, she lost control and grabbed the seer by the neck as she shouted in her face
How dare you utter such words in front of your queen, I am the greatest that there is,nobody can be as powerful as I am, no one!
The seer struggled to breathe and managed to whisper, you only have a month before the child is born and you can decided what to do.
Fiona released the seer abruptly and left her coughing pathetically on the floor. She heaved and simmered inside.

Two weeks later
She had ordered her guards to bring all the pregnant women into the palace and had the seer check each of them one after the other to check for the powerful child but the seer did not affirm any of the pregnant women, not wanting to take any chance she ordered the 27 of the pregnant women to be killed.
She turned bitter over the following days and a small mistake from anyone is justified with death.

She was sleeping on a particular night when she was woken by an urgent feeling in her stomach, she felt drawn in the direction. She stood from her bed and followed the pull and she found herself at the edge of the woods and standing in front of her was a lone cabin of a total structure. It looked out of place and she was about to turn around to go back to the castle and allow the guards to deal with it when she heard a loud wailing sound of a baby !

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