TWENTY THREE

HERA

      Humming under my breath, I take my time to water the emerald gold flowers in the coven room. They are ordinarily called the peace and well being flowers and they're the ones partly responsible for keeping war away from our kingdom for quite a long time now. I halt at the presence of prince Talon's aura approaching the coven room. Few minutes later, he knocks on the door and I open it up with a snap of my fingers. He gives me a polite smile and walks up to me. I can tell by reading his energy, that he's deeply troubled about something but he's doing a good job at covering whatever it is with several layers.

"Good day, Hera" he greets and I give him a smile.

"Good day, young prince" I say and he looks around the coven room.

"The peace flowers don't look as healthy as they looked before" he comments and I sigh.

"It appears so"

"You know what this means, right?" He says and I