His arm around my waist squeezed reassuringly, giving me strength. I was finally able to raise my head up and face the council members, and we started the meeting."First of all. Persephone's warriors. I have had my head of warriors form a small group to go far to the southern and eastern lands in search of any men or warriors that she has left. I want none of them living in my realm" he said immediately."Yes Sir. We have been speaking and he has gone even farther than you directed. All warriors found under her name are being annihilated" said one of the council members."Good. Let the news go far and wide. No warrior of hers is allowed to live, all must die. No one in support of her should live, no one that stands for her should live" he added gravely.There was silence in the room, a quiet intense one. The king had just given out an order, and all must follow. I took a deep breath and cleared my throat. That had been aggressive."Emmm. Mandira, you wanted to speak with us" I said i
"It did, and then some. We were all quite shocked when we finally met with you, you were calm and a way nicer version that what the books had painted you to be" said Feta."And you were so... different looking than what we had imagined. A beautiful Queen you made" added Ira."I guess" I said "but why are you barefoot though? I thought you would be getting on the horses?" I was still curious about that."Maids and servants are not allowed on horses, ever" said Ira quietly."Why not?" I asked."Well, we are only slaves," she said with a straight face, as if this was a normal thing to say."What? Slaves? Did you just sayslaves?" I asked her, I was truly shocked."Yes my queen. Our parents have served the royal family for generations. Thousands and thousands of us, we serve hell and it's master" said Rega happily."Thousands? And that is...normal here?" I asked, I didn't want to offend anyone."Of course. Only the strongest families are chosen to serve Hades. We were very honoured" said
I never realised but the history of hell went even farther than I had thought. It was the first realm that was created, an underworld filled with the darkest and deepest evil of all kinds. This realm was the beginning of life, and it made sense that it was also the end and where all life came back to after it had done its time.Hades had been King for all that time, finding solace only in doing what he had been made to do, collecting souls and transporting them into the afterlife. That was his job and responsibility as King, the work of moving lost souls through the barrier and into hell, and where these souls would change and be converted to a creature of sorts, depending on how bad a deed they had committed when they were alive. The not so bad ones were converted into high ranking creatures, and the most terrible ones into the very hideous ugly looking creatures, all depending on the severity of the bad things they did when they were alive.Hades crossed them over and changed the
We rode for the rest of the day, and I lived in my little world with the book as my universe. I let myself get lost in its pages, going from one thing to another and then back. There were just so many interesting things to learn about hell, the past and how things came to be the way they were now, I was completely captivated and didn't even realise time was going. I remember my maids coming back and serving me lunch, and then leaving again. I thought felt Hades presence at some point but that was it, my eyes were trained in the pages of the book for most of the duration of the travel that day, then it slowly became nightfall, the environment getting a little darker as the hours went by.Soon enough I could hear noises of servants and guards as they ran around and got busy, and that finally took me out of the haze I was in. Iraised my head up from the pillow and looked around below me, we had stopped for the evening. I could see a few tents had been made up and stuff, lots of servan
I sighed for what could be the hundredth time, I could see the side looks my maids were giving me, they looked a bit worried but they didn't have to be, since I had a huge smile on my face and a dreamy far away look on my face as well. My body rocked back and forth over and over, something I had gotten used to since yesterday when we started this journey. We had woken up at the crack of dawn and had immediately continued moving, I had been told we had about three cities to pass through today and we would be continuing the ceremony. Nobody realised that I and my husband and the creatures of the parallels had our own little....ceremony yesterday evening.After that beautiful kiss shared between I and Hades, he stepped away and let me do the rituals. Many of the parallels, older looking ones males and females had gotten around me holding differently coloured eggs, they had gone round and around me and then presented the eggs to me, apparently all I needed to do was blow air into them
"Should I expect anything? Maybe something different than what has been happening?" I wanted to know."No, of course not," he replied."Okay. I saw in our schedule that we would be staying there for two nights? And just seeing the people? Is that all?" I asked, wanting to know more."Yes it is. If anything else comes up l will let you know" he replied.The rest of the ride was quiet, I got lost immediately into my thoughts. I was loving how I and Hades relationship was, we both knew what time it was for certain things and we let things stay in their space. We could be romantic if we wanted, distant when it was needed and professional like when it was time. These past few days have been so hard on us with the cities and meeting the creatures and stuff, and I was guessing it would even be more busy when we finally got to the Central City. This whole trip would take about eight days back and forth from the castle, and we were only on the fourth day.Far away I could hear trumpets and
I sat as gracefully as I could with my eyes straight, I could feel Hades eyes onme but when I looked over at him, he turned away almost naturally as if he hadn't been looking.The rest of the day was spent that way, meeting up with the people and then interacting with them, they were all different and hence interacting with them was different, almost all of them brought gifts and it was all different. A goat, cheese, someone even brought me a crate of eggs. My maids were responsible for collecting and keeping them in an orderly fashion right through a curtain just behind us to the side.It was afternoon and then we took a little break to go have lunch and then immediately came back, and we continued that way all the way till nightfall before the meeting was closed for the day. I and my husband held hands as we walked towards the elevator surrounded by our guards and maids. My head was pounding so loud and I was so exhausted I felt faint and hence why I was holding Hade's hands, I co
I could hardly understand what they were saying because they were all talking at once, and excitedly too. So imagine me standing there trying to comprehend about a hundred children talking at the same time."Come on, let's go sit like we did yesterday" I said.It wasn't until I walked away that they quieted down and followed me. I could see some new faces and creatures I hadn't seen the day before, and I was genuinely excited to see them all.Parents stayed behind and even sat on some of the chairs as they watched us. More guards came in and surrounded everywhere, probably due to orders from Hades. I beckoned for Hashira to come close and together we were able to play and handle the kids together. I tried talking to them as individually as I could, going from one kid to another and talking to them. It wasn't until the tenth kid before it slowly dawned on me something I should have realised since yesterday. How the hell am I able to understand everything they were saying? These child