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It was peaceful for a minute or two before her butt harshly landed on a thin cushion and caused her to jolt awake. It's only been few days since her unpleasant stay here in this gold and marble palace and she've already been in and out of unconsciousness for the hundredth times and sure as hell wasn't the best feeling especially not when being handled like a sack of potatoes.

Xena hisses and groaned when she was plopped down onto a chair. She squinted her eyes open to scan her surrounding, finding herself in a dining room with a long glass marble table and rows of white cushioned chair like the one she was sitting on. She painfully sat up as uniformed ladies entered the room with white plates and trays before serving them onto the table.

Her brains was still in the midst of processing the situation when the chair beside her was pulled back before somebody seated themselves beside her. Xena turned to the side and saw a red haired man with beautiful eyes already staring at her with his chin resting on his palm. She breathed out as the man had startled her but also helped her to be more awake now that she recalled everything.

Xena was about to get a grip on the man's hair or ears or neck, just something she could grab on to strangle him. Maybe not the best way to wake up but whatever. Suddenly, leather straps came out of nowhere and tied her hands and legs to the chair. Only then she realized her limbs weren't chained up anymore but she was still strapped to the chair. She snapped her head to the side where she felt the power came from and found the young king who was seated at the end of the table and sipping on his morning hot choco before arching a brow at her.

It almost went unnoticed by Xena when both the cousins eyed each other weirdly as if they were speaking through the air. She sent both of them a glare and Jimin looked away to eat his food but Taehyung seemed to have taken interest in the girl, out of the blue. The red haired man tilted his head and flickered his eyes between the girl and her toasts in amusement.

"Guess I'll be feeding today", Taehyung chuckled and picked up the utensils to cut the toast up. He drizzled some maple syrup and butter onto the cut piece before waving it in front of her tightly shut mouth. She was drooling inside her mouth, gulping in hunger and pupils dilated at the toast but her pride and dignity had shut her mouth up. Xena was not going to take any offer they made nor will she utilize their properties though she have been forced to sleep on the king's bed which she shall question him about later.

"Come on, sweetheart. Open up", Taehyung tipped the toast against her lips but Xena turned away, now facing Jimin instead. Geez, enemies everywhere. The young king put down his cup of hot choco and stared at the girl. Xena widened her eyes when she felt her head turned back to Taehyung and opened her mouth for the toast. All done involuntarily.

The girl snapped her head back at Jimin who was smirking and raised his brows at her. "Stop using your power on me", Xene warned through her stuffed mouth, making her less intimidating. This sly king of Inferno have figured a way to use his power on her and that's to channel more positive energy instead so their powers wouldn't repel and the General wasn't favoring it when she noticed his constant exploitation of that advantage.

"I'm not attacking you so I can use it on you. Too bad your power is all about attacks", Jimin whispered the last sentence with a breathy chuckle before sipping on his hot beverage. He was right though. Xena's power of Strength is all about the destructive element and filled with negative energy, causing her to be favored by the disadvantages because their powers will repel if she uses hers on him. This is so screwed up.

Xena clicked her tongue and glared at the young king. Then, something touched her lips and it was another piece of toast that Taehyung had cut and feed to her. She narrowed her eyes at the man's sudden change towards her. She was sure as hell that he was the one who was tempting her, tricking her and bullying her with his cousin but now he's smiling warmly at her while helping her eat after being tied down by the king. Whatever it was, Xena couldn't resist the toast anymore so she ate it with a scowl.