"And what if I spoke the truth", Prince Dwayne, finally recovering from his shock, snapped. His glare swivelled from Alexis and Alastair, that prank Alexis pulled already frustrated him, but then the Emperor actually appeared.
'Was it even a prank?' He thought, clenching his teeth. He had always felt inferior at his lack of ability to perform that inherited technique and now it felt as though Alastair was laughing at him. His inferiority complex at full throttle.
"Trying to undermine
"Agathus, I've gone through it a lot of times and I don't think there's anything to fix". Alexis spoke to the hybrid man with bags under her eyes, he didn't glance away from his own pile of documents, "Please. I can't go through it another time!"At the desperate cry he finally looked at the sleep deprived girl."Fine. Place it over there and get some sleep." He pointed at his desk, adding it to his mental list of tasks to be done. She threw the finished exam down where he pointed, i
The exam had finally been sent off to the Capital orphanage and questions of who could supervise the exam raised. All the while, two weeks had passed and through sleepless nights and sheer determination, Alexis had finally read through all the books.Whether she actually took in any of it was a question only she could answer. During these weeks, she had a surprising amount of visits from Joshua who interrupted her intense reading with strange demands, once he asked for a hair, another time for a drop of blood and another time to ask if she felt upset when people called her by her name.
Alexis soon found herself in a carriage, a sense of excitement and adventurous romances taking her logical thinking away as she had her head outside the window.'Like a child', That's what Alastair thought as he stared at her.Whether it were the purple hills filled with colourful flowers, or the white lakes with large salt rocks at it shore.
Soon enough the orphanage staff created two separated groups of desks. One side for the Eastern Empire children and the other for the born and raised Kaedman Empire. The kids piled in and sat in seats, their ages ranging from 11-13, no younger and no older. It was the age in which most kids went to apprenticeships and schools in this worlds."Hello kids, this exam is a very special exam", Alexis spoke reading off the script Hector had helped her write in the carriage, "If you do well in it you will have the chance to hone your skills in school or in work", Alexis noticed how the Kaedmen kids faces brightened up and couldn't help a chuckle. Understandab
"Why didn't you come sooner!" A youth shouted at Alexis who was taken aback. His body was only barely smaller than hers and those familiar red eyes that she couldn't place anywhere unsettled her."What do you mean?" Her voice seemed to echo in the strange place she was in. It wasn't a room, but a space her brain had made for this dream.The youth didn't hear her at all and continued to glare at her until his eyes glistened and his face dropped slowly to his fisted hands.
"You already sorted out all the work places and scholarships?" Alexis' brows rose well beyond her forehead as she stared at Agathus in shock. "But, why? Aren't you busy?"She full well knew that the amount of work she had to do would take at least half a day and waiting on letters of admissions would leave a longer waiting time. She shuddered at the thought.Agathus gave a smile, one that for once, wasn't tired or bothered looking. He looked... happy.
When Alexis next woke up she couldn't see anything. But a nasty musty smell met her nose, and she crinkled it as she looked around.She was on a cold stone ground, it was chilly and the sounds of a draft travelling through pipes rumbled all around her.Her eyes adjusted to her surroundings eventually and she realised there was a very faint light above her. Thanks to the light she could make out the iron gates surrounding her and behind her where there was a stone wall. But nothing el
"What's this I hear about Alexis being in the dungeons?" Hector spoke as he burst into Alastair's office with an angry expression.Alastair who had been grimly looking through documents lifted his head with a glare, it wasn't as bad as his one before, in fact, this one was slightly guilty."She broke our contract". He icily replied.
“Are you sure about this?” Emilia asked one final time.She held a book, large and heavy, full of flying specks of dust that would’ve had a human coughing fits. It was a spell book. Full of ancient spells that were pretty forbidden… and also illegal.But what greater hypocrites are there than the ones wh
The bill passed sooner than most would have thought. The aristocratic’s did ask for a few other conditions which were thoroughly reviewed, but other than that things sailed smoothly.All there was left was for Alastair to finalise a contract with a recovering Shane. And so he was invited to the palace. Something no vampire had ever had the displeasure of. He looked to every corner of the palace in caution, expecting an assassination any moment. Of course, nothing happened.
“So, I take I he wasn’t too pleased with our proceedings?” Hector was perched up on the chrysanthemum tree, idly reading a book when Alexis had sat down to pour her troubles to him. His reading would have to wait.Alexis gave a dry laugh, “I’m not entirely sure. Why do you t
The secret garden was the same as ever. In all honesty, Alexis hadn’t visited it after Alastair had showed it to her. She was always busy. Busy and scared.She wasn’t sure why. But, the place seemed sacred. It was almost as if she didn’t belong there. In its majestic beauty she felt like dirt. Ironically…
The appearance of vampires dates back to as far as 1700, a far cry from the current 3562 century, back then they had a population of a billion and come the current years have dwindled down to only a handful. Their existence is currently on the brink of extinction.This was because of the stigma they carried. Shadow magic was already an isolated form of magic, and with vampires being natural users they were also isolated.
“Oh my head. Oh god my head is splitting” groaned Alexis.“It doesn’t get easier” Alastair agreed through pained groans.“This is a familiar situation, isn’t it?” The gender less voice made Alexis perk up.
It was almost comical when the three sat on Alexis’ dinner table. Glaring at each other.The aroma of fresh bread and pepperoni taunted the serious expressions on their faces. They deeply inhaled it, unable to stop their hands from inching towards the box.It was only a matter of seconds before Ale
It was only minutes after when Alastair’s stomach rumbled. It was the first time Alexis had seen him so embarrassed.“Haha, let’s get you something to eat” she helped him up, not noticing the looks of interest he threw the bathroom. He touched the shower head, flinching when a droplet of water fell on his hand.&l
“-Lexis. Alexis!”The said girl jumped in alarm, barely knocking over her soda as she turned to her friend Blair.“What?” She asked, after forcefully swallowing the chunk of bread she hadn’t chewed for the past five minutes.