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42. The Cottage
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2024-10-29 19:42:56The three kingdoms were unknowingly bloodline related. Except the relation between King Julian and Lady Hilda, they were cousin, his mother was the younger sister of her father. Aside from that, they were clueless that they were actually related from the great grandparents of their great grandparents.
After the land was become one solid and safe place for witches and non-witches, it led by one person. He didn’t call himself as king or some other title that sounded the same. He was the richest person across the land, kind-hearted, and help a lot.
Time had passed and generations changed. The successors couldn’t maintain the land’s unity. Sometimes greediness and selfishness took over made family forgotten. The founder had long gone along with his wisdom, made them more and more forget about their root.
Each of them claimed that as a witch, they were powerful enough to protect the land and deserve to rule. Then ego won. They separated the land into as many of th
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Mago stood as soon as he saw Deandra walked out from the open door. He approached her, she smiled. “Why are you alone? Where’s the king and his friend?” “They need to see another king and Lady Hilda told me to wait, here, with you. Where’s Pipi?” They started to walked aimlessly. “I don’t know, she said she wanted to look around the area.” Mago halted his pace. “So, the woman in green coat is Lady Hilda?” “Yes. You know her?” “No, but I heard many things about her.” Deandra stopped, she put her hand on the wooden fence. They wandered to the different path. “What did you hear?” “They used to hold annual ball among three kingdoms, before the unmelt snow covered the land. When king Julian hosting the ball, I like to sneak and hide in the shadow, looking for food, and sometimes people went to the garden for fresh air, women often talked about the king and how he only dance with the lady.” “That’s maybe because she i
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Closing the door, Hilda’s expression turned serious. She walked with her light steps passing a long large square table towards where Julian and Sebastian were. They moved to the room deeper inside the cottage. The room had a secret passage that connected the three kingdoms. They never used the passage before, even when thing got worse, they used the outside path. But lately, since Lucas left, King Armand started to use the passage along with his advisor. Because of that, there they were waiting. Julian and Sebastian were already sitting on the couch in front of the fireplace. There were two armchairs on each side of the fireplace and a large couch situated in front of it. Hilda put herself on the farthest armchair. “Please tell me you already know everything about her! Or I will think you have a very worse idea to show her up in here.” Said Hilda. “My thought exactly.” Said Sebastian. Julian gave Sebastian a glare briefly. “At lease by bringing her he
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Quarter hour had passed, Sebastian was peeping through the narrow gap in the door. He saw Julian and Hilda moved gracefully. They needed to wait for those dark creatures to leave the room and make sure that the room completely free from them before they went out of the passage to find where King Armand and the rest member of the castle were, while Sebastian tasked to guard the door. They were at King Armand’s study. The room was nothing like it used to before, it was in a huge mess. Chill air blew from the broken glass wall, made Hilda tightened up her coat. They took careful step towards the door. avoiding blood stain on the floor. Julian gestured to Hilda. His hand was on the door knob. Hilda nodded at him. she was leaning on the wall beside the door. Her eyes fixed at the blood, she prayed inside that no one was badly hurt. She stepped outside the room with her light feet. “Come.” She whispered to Julian. Then both of them walked along the aisle as
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“Come in.” Said Julian. Irina stepped in to his study inside his castle. He was reading some book, then he stood after put a mark between the pages. “Hey, I hope I don’t disturb you.” “It’s a pleasure to have you here. What can I do for you?” Julian motioned her to take a seat. She pulled a chair behind the clean polished round table, before Julian could do it for her. Julian took a seat across her right after she was settles in her seat. “I want to see how are you doing. You were not there, in the cottage, when we were saying goodbye to Deandra this morning. Lucas taking her back.” That look again, thought Irina. The miserable mixed with sorrowful in blank look. It was just too sad to see. Irina could sense the hurt that he felt in his heart. It seemed he truly love Deandra. “I know.” He said. “I’m so sorry.” Julian wanted to look alright, that’s why he smiled at her as he couldn’t mutter any good respond.
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Irina was climbing back through the transparent hole. She put firmly her foot one by one in Deandra’s bedroom. Her face was sour and she was sulking. She was never be in this worse of mood. Deandra stepped back. As the hole diminished, her conscious came. She blinked, then her eyes normal again. “Miss Irina?” Narrowing her eyes for a second at Deandra, making sure that she was free from any form of her mother’s influence. Irina closed her eyes, she forced herself to stay in control. The door swung open. Lucas was still able to see the diminishing of the hole as he came in before Julian and Hilda. “Good. You’re back.” Irina didn’t mean to sound harsh, but she sounded like one and startled Deandra. “Where are you from?” Lucas snapped. His eyes drilled into Irina’s. Hilda and Julian exchanged a look, then threw Lucas a questioning look which ignored by the later. At the same time, Deandra became more and more uneasy. Irina
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Plakk… Deandra felt burning on her face as the tickle sound and smell of flesh burning filled the air. She fell down the floor, on one side of her body with her hand supporting her weight. Knowing that tear only made the burning felt more painful, she held in as hard as she could. “Now I have to deal with this stupid war.” Lady Cotts looked down at Deandra with loathe in her red eyes. “Milady, I have nothing to do with the war. They hate me. Especially Miss Irina, she AAAAAAAHH…” The palm that marked in her face burnt deeper into her flesh. “Don’t you dare talking about my daughter with your filthy tongue, useless human.” Right, Deandra was an ordinary human before she met the lady whose look bear a resemblance to someone she missed very much, she used to address her dearly with Miss Irina. The one who left right after her wedding. Leaving her father, Master Danieal, and Deandra. It was then in a middl
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Squeaking slowly, an older scholar two seat from Master Tobias pushed his chair back as he stood. Master Z, Lucas said inwardly. Then he turned to Julian who gave him a shrugged as he too didn’t understand. “Antony, don’t give me further reason to regret my decision of letting you pass the final assignment.” Master Z scolded the young scholar. He turned gracefully to face all the royal members in the room. “His highness is not done talking. Please continue, Your Highness. We all are listening.” Lucas nodded. “Thank you, Master Z.” He directed his stare to Antony and all of the younger scholars at the back sit. Antony got up then bowed. “My apology, Your Highness. I was wrong, jump into unreasonable conclusion.” Second later all the younger scholars raised then bowed, murmuring their apology. Taken aback by the sudden bows. What is this? New tradition to become a scholar? Thought Lucas. He swiftly shook the thoughts away. Absurd. Pullin
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