"What's lacking in our defense system, Queen Lashia?" the Queen at the right asked, sipping the URH tea. I can't help but stare at her outfit. I remember reading it in an E-Book of dress histories. A yellow sari definitely suits her. And her daughter too with a green one. Although she kept her head down at all times, her pair of gorgeous black eyes can't escape my sight.
"Take a look." Mother said as she zoomed in on the walls and spun the air to make the city face the other Queens.
"I still can't find the weak spots, sister," the Queen of India said, shaking her head in confusion.
"It's the gap." the other Queen said as she gently stirs her URH tea with the cup lid. Her golden hair ornaments twinkled under the sun as her long red cape covered her slender figure. Her daughter too, wearing a long traditional pink clothes.
"Huh? I don't understand, Queen Wu..." still not getting it, she zoomed in and lifts the whole city. "There's no space down here."
"Not there, Queen Jaezmina. Here." the Queen of China said, smiling as she put her cup down.
She pulled up a side of the outer layer of the walls. And for the first time, I realized how wide the walls were. Inside, was nothing but hollow.
"Well... that does surprise me."
"No worries, Queen Jaezmina. We don't know how difficult it is to press down the spark of a riot."
"Thank you for your understandings sisters. It meant more than anything," she said as she fixed her sari a little.
"I was thinking about filling them in, maybe with molten lava. To also help increase warmth in winter days and also decrease the chances of the Barbars trying to live inside them, hence increasing the chances of Great War II."
"I had some ideas in mind. By reinforcing the inner walls with rocks from Pluto and -"
"I was thinking of using rocks from Mercury." Shit. I shouldn't have said that.
Mother turned around and shoot me daggers with her eyes.
"Sorry..." I apologized, lowering my voice.
"No... please don't. I would like to hear your opinion." Queen Wu smiled as her eyes gleamed with excitement. This made all eyes shift to me. I looked at mother and she just rolled her eyes.
"Well... as we all know, Pluto is the coldest planet we'd known which we can easily reach. But, this matter is about the Main Lands. If ever, the rocks melted and the lava touches the wall..." I placed a timer on the right top corner and spun the city around, increases the transparency to 75% and pointed on lava to be spawned in the wall. In less than 5 seconds, the wall was bleeding molten lava and burning the whole city. "... this will happen"
"Hm... I didn't notice that. Continue." she said, more intrigued than ever.
"We, Indonesia can manage the materials and about the technologies, I believe your highness can manage that." I finished off with an awkward smile as Queen Wu has her lips pulled into a satisfied smile.
"And we, India has loads of people who can't wait to help us accomplish this construction." Queen Jaezmina giggled as her daughter smiled at me, shyly. I repaid her smile and nodded.
"The molten lava requires a special contraption and Mercury stones are not really easy to obtain and to add that, we don't have much stock here. So the contraption cannot be made of Mercury rocks. A piece of additional information, the nearest active volcano is 5.000 miles from Indonesia." Mother said, as she rhythmically tapped the table with her knuckles.
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Science Fiction-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_- "Saevi Amaeri, do you know what you've gotten into?" Mother asked as she stood up and stared at me. "Yes, mother. It's a risk I'm willing to take for the Main Lands. For the ICI." -_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_...
