"How is he?"
"The conditions are getting worse, Queen."
Briskly walked into the chamber.
"Queen Naevisa, what should we do? My recovery magic is not that powerful enough to ease his condition."
The Queen sat beside the unconscious bedridden whose condition is incurable by such magic or medicine. She caressed the hand and gazed at the unconscious man.
"Aliya, your Recovery Magic is vital for him. Remember, that she gave you that power because you are powerless," The Queen uttered. Turned her gaze at the lady.
Aliya nodded.
"I understand, Queen Naevisa."
"Our Realm might be in great danger once he couldn't recover from it. He is our trump card against the enemies. Our weapon. We need to wake him up as soon as possible. My magic is not enough against the Elvians Society."
"But we have Cika —"
"She's too young for that." Queen breaks in.
Aliya just took sighed after that.
"Aliya, you're my only hope to awaken him. You need to find ways, I assigned this duty to you. You're not just a maid, a healer, and a mage. You are something else that is vital to our realm. Do your job," Queen uttered in conviction with grace and elegance in tone.
Aliya was pressured. The queen put too much obligation and reliance on the lady.
"I will, Queen Naevisa,"
The Queen stood up and with grace left the chamber, leaving Aliya and the bedridden patient in the room.
Raiyan's Ministry
"In recent years, the Raiyan Kingdom had been facing such difficulties for our people and the resources, creating misunderstanding that turns to cruelty and retaliation to each other, magic used in wrongdoings, the basic resources are now lacking because of immorality and climate changes which made our people commit a violation against the law and order of Alvenrass. Then, our relationship conflict with the oldest society in Alvenrass; the Elvians Society, had been getting worse day by day. Now that they wanted the Book of Secliast in exchange for gold, crops, weaponry, and wisdom, ..."
" — But, we can't just exchange the Book of Secliast for a material thing. It was a gift offered by Lord Landus Secliast of the Elven Society, ten-thousand years ago.
"But, the thing is — the Book of Secliast had been gone missing for a long time. The last time that we had and saw it, was during the reign of Leneira Royalty."
"Luckily, an individual said that the Book of Secliast had been found. It was inside the Stone Gate from the Realm of Haiyan,"
"Who's that individual?"
"It was Cika Salea, a kid born with a Reflection Magic and has the key to open the Stone Gate. She saw it when she attempted to steal inside the Stone Gate because of such hunger, that she decided to steal from our neighboring realm. She saw the Book of Secliast in a chamber full of gold, jewelry, weaponry, silvers, coppers and a lot,"
"But, how did it get in there? The Book?"
"Queen Diana Leneira had been the mistress of King Aros Qill; the fifth King of the Haiyan. She desires to be impregnated by King Aros in exchange for that Book of Secliast, she wants to bear a child with the blood of a Qill. That's why it got in there."
"But the case is — the law of Alvenrass; once a gift is given, it is already an owned gift. No such gift could be returned to the giver nor the giver could take back the gift,"
"That was a gift in exchange for a sexual desire of the Queen. We all know Haiyan's principle — what's everything, anything, and inside the realm was already theirs. The people, the resources, that book — it's already theirs."
"Then we are going to steal it," Queen said.
"What?!" uttered in sync, the chamber was all mumbling in utterances.
"This is against the law of Alvenrass, Queen!"
"Then what should we do? Do you have better suggestions?!"
"The Elvian Society knows the law of Alvenrass, they took the gamble to violate the law as they want the Book of Secliast in exchange for resources and gold. If we can't, then they'll create a war. We could violate the law as much as we want, and since then, everyone has been doing it naturally, we could avoid such war and benefit from their resources as we said, the realms were in production casualty, but then this happened — it started to problematize. If we couldn't fix this up...the prophecy might happen — the greatest world war will emerge,"
"Let's expect that if we try to steal it and they catch us, then another conflict will occur. Worst, a war."
"A war to another war from another war, the once harmonious and peaceful Alvenrass will now turn into its Dark Ages, the emergence of Dark Curse lives stronger than we expected,"
"Then, what if we couldn't able to offer back the Book of Secliast to the Elvian Society? How can we stop them from the war?"
"Sha Anib,"
"The Alvenrass Great Sorcerer Sha Anib. The Raiyan's trump card, he is our only hope."
"But where is he now? He's nowhere to be found! He might be deceased or hiding anywhere!"
"Cika Salea, her magic power is strong enough —"
"She's too young for a war!" Queen said.
"Sha Anib, Cika Salea, and Queen Naevisa were our realm's prominent and potent trump cards, the trifecta of Raiyan. But let's avoid war as far as we can, let's just think wisely in such cases like this. Surely, we will not win against the Elvian Society of Elviasque."
"So, what will we do?"
"Queen Naevisa hired some group of people known as the Back Society to travel to Haiyan and steal the Book of Secliast from the Stone Gate. Together with the Back Society is Cika Salea, the kid with the key of the Stone Gate,"
"So, we're going to steal it,"
"We have no choice, we have to save our realm from war and famine. No one knows this mission. It remains confidential, not unless — someone spying on us. I take full accountability for this. I am Queen Naevisa daughter of Queen Diana Leneira and this is for the realm, our kingdom,"
"I hereby conclude this meeting, if there's any violent reaction please do react, if none..."
"Meeting adjourned." The Queen uttered. Adjourned the meeting of the ministry. One by one, leave the chamber.
...
As the Queen was about to leave the chamber, a man grabbed her hand from the back, and the Queen turned around at him with a look of disgrace.
"Please, stop this! Don't be a nuisance to me! This ain't the time right now, Manuel! The ministry might see us!" Queen uttered in irritation with glaring glances.
"What do you know about the relationship between your mother and the Qill!"
"Get off my hand!" As the Queen struggled to take off her hands from grasping.
"I know less about them! That's it! Don't talk to me like that! In case you have forgotten we already end up and I'm now the Queen of Raiyan! You're nothing to me now!" The Queen added.
The man let go of grasping the Queen's hand. Deep sighing and staring at the Queen's eyes down to her lip, the man silenced for a moment before he uttered.
"Okay, I guess this is it, I don't care anymore about that. But in case you know that I'll never give up on the truth. Time will tell, Queen. I will be the one who will tell the truth, because I know you couldn't, I know you, love."
The man leaves him in the chamber. The Queen followed him with her gaze. But the man halted for a while and turned around at the Queen. They've been staring at each other for a bit. Then, the man smiled, genuinely.
"I guess you should stop visiting the house, I might going to sell it or probably burn it. Forget about the memories, let's start over again without each other's side." the man uttered and walked away along the corridor. Leaving the Queen with conscience and discomfort.
Queen Naevisa walked stealthily through the unfamiliar corridor of the Raiyan Palace, glancing her gaze around making sure that no one would see her. She pinned her gaze on the plain white wall and arched her magical wand. The wall slowly became transparent as crystal clear as it is, viewing the other side is a chamber where the bedridden sorcerer was, Aliya welcomed Queen Naevisa and bowed after, The Queen entered the chamber then slowly, the wall started reappearing as soon as she arches her wand at it.
"How is he?" Queen asked Aliya.
"Still the same, Queen Naevisa," Aliya responded.
Queen took a deep sigh. She seems anxious.
"Don't worry, Queen. I'm still working it out to treat him, I'm looking for ways,"
Aliya reassured Queen Narvisa and smiled at her.
"Make sure that you can heal him. I'm doing my best to keep this hidden from the public, so do your best to treat him," Queen Naevisa uttered.
"...and I demand that," she added.
She took a glance at the bedridden Sha Anib.
"We need him to protect our realm from the Elvian Society. He's our only hope if ever we couldn't take back the Book of Secliast,"
"He is our weapon,"
- END.