In Monteg, Loque Bella lay in her bed quietly crying to herself. Just then the door was unlocked and swung open and through it walked Princess Rada with a tray of food in her hands.
She walked in and put it on the bedside as she just lay there looking at her with a dead look on her face.
"I brought you something to eat," Princess Rada said. "I know you're hungry you haven't eaten in quite a while. Please eat something." Loque Bella turned to the side and gave the princess her back. "Can I sit with you?"
"Do whatever you want. I am your property after all," Loque Bella said.
"Please don't be like that."
"Don't be like what? Upset. You're keeping me here against my will and now your brother just forced marriage on me, what else do you possibly expect me to be if not upset?"
"But you said yes to his proposal," Princess Rada said.
"Because he left me no other choice. He said that if I didn't marry him then he was going to fly out to Hamps
In the village settlement, Prince Callum and Savage Rockvaine continued with their fight; with Savage swinging his sword with full force at the prince and him doing his best to dive out of the way and block his swings. "You're doing great your highness," Mr. Braun shouted as the lacertins had gathered around and formed a circle around the two of them; cheering and hissing. Savage kept on throwing everything he had at the prince and he did his best to hold his on. He threw punches at him a few of which caught him in the face and chest and even whipped his tail at him; a tail whip that knocked him to the ground and would have smacked him in the face had he not rolled away. They clinked their swords together fighting on and looking like Savage was going to win due to the good number of hits he had landed on the prince, the prince shocked him with an uppercut, a kick to the neck and a slice to his leg that sent him down onto one knee. Here, Prince Callum then hit
The afternoon came and in Monteg, Loque Bella sat in her room pacing back and forth. She had taken of her fur cloak and had hang it on the coat hang by the door.Just then the door swung open and in walked Prince Mangus."Hello darling," he said."Don't you dare call me that! I am not your darling," Loque Bella snapped turning to him."You seem upset.""Are you daft? I am upset. You said you were going to take me to see my family today and you went back on your word.""Oh for goodness sake it's not like I said no, I just moved it to after the wedding," Prince Mangus said."We had an agreement.""I know we did.""So you can't just go back on your word like that," she said. "I miss my father and my sisters so much I had been looking forward to seeing them all night.""I bet.""Goodness you are heartless. No wonder you live out here, the coldness matches the coldness inside of you.""You are being way t
The next few days before the wedding Prince Mangus tried to tap into his very small close to non-existent nice side to try and show Loque Bella that there was more to him than the side she had so far seen.He bought a bouquet of flowers and went up to her room to deliver them to her. He knocked on the door and stood with the bouquet hidden behind his back."What do you want? I said I didn't want to be disturbed," Loque Bella said."I know I . . . I brought you something," he said and removed the bouquet of flowers from behind him and stretched them out to her."What is this?""Flowers. Women like flowers so I brought you some.""If this is your way of apologizing I'm not accepting it," she said."Apologize, why on earth would I need to apologize? I have done nothing wrong.""Done nothing wrong, you have been doing nothing but wrong since you came back.""And you've been a saint?" Prince Mangus asked."Compared to
The night came and after dinner, another dinner that Loque Bella skipped, Prince Mangus sat in the lounge by himself; sipping on a glass of whiskey whilst staring dead into the fire that was burning in the fire place.Princess Rada walked in and joined him."Hello brother," she said."Rada," he said and took another sip from his glass."How are you doing?""I think it's pretty obvious how I'm doing. She's driving me crazy.""You're not trying," Princess Rada said."Of course I'm trying, I did everything you told me to do but it didn't work. She wants nothing to do with me and she's not afraid to say it. She hates me.""She doesn't." He looked at her and gave her a look. "Alright fine she does hate you." He looked back to the fire raising his glass to her and continued sipping from it. "She just needs time.""Time for what?" he asked."Time to get used to the fact that she will be here for the rest of her life and
On the road to Monteg, Prince Callum and Mr. Braun carried on. They had reached the snowy mountain range that surrounded the kingdom and were making their way down one of the many snowy paths through the massive mountains. "Goodness it is so cold out here," Mr. Braun said. "It is," Prince Callum said. "And quiet. I don't think I have ever been to place more quiet in my entire life." "Still there may be some stuff out here so best to stay close and not attrack too much attention to ourselves." "Yes sire," Mr. Braun said and they rode on. "So we're almost there, what exactly is the plan once we get there?" "We request to speak with whoever holds the throne." "And then?" "And then we ask them to give Loque Bella back to us," Prince Callum said. "Aha . . . Um I'm sorry to ask sire but is that all of it?" "All of what?" "All of the plan? Is that all of the plan to get Loque Bella back?" Mr. Braun aske
"What on earth do you think you're doing?" Prince Mangus asked."I think it's pretty obvious what I'm doing," Loque Bella responded."Goodness you are so impossible. We have been nothing but nice to you. We have done nothing but care for you and make sure your stay here is comfortable. I have tried to go out of my way to be nice to you and show you that despite my rough exterior I do have some decency to me but you refuse to acknowledge any of it.""Because I don't want to. I don't want to be here.""No you don't but this is where you are so you might as well learn to live with it," he said. "And I am trying to make sure that you're not so miserable here but you keep fighting it.""Yes and I will never stop fighting you. You can keep me here for a hundred years and I promise to fight you through each one. I promise to fight you every single day.""Like a child, how mature.""Yes like a child. I'll even cry. I'll cry all day and all ni
King Remine was back in Monteg. He was standing in the foyer with Queen Gwen and Princess Rada looking at him as though they had just seen a ghost; with Loque Bella and Prince Mangus standing on the side looking on."Impossible," Princess Rada said. "You were dead . . . We saw you. There was blood everywhere . . . You were dead.""I was dead but I came back," King Remine said."How?" Prince Mangus asked."I guess the fayagan blood in me could not allow me to die and so I came back.""I didn't know fayagan's could bring themselves back to life," Princess Rada said."They can't. You forget that I am half fayagan and half chryzome. My fayagan half can't bring me back to life but my chryzome half can and it did.""Goodness it's like seeing a ghost.""It really is," Prince Mangus agreed and King Remine just chuckled."It's good to be back home and to see my family. To see my love, my beautiful love come to me. I have missed y
Prince Mangus was in his room sitting shirtless on the floor with his back against his bed and his head leaning back; shaking a little and with his face, neck and chest still bruised and burnt and with deep cuts, with the moonlight coming in through both windows from the full moon outside. Just then his door opened and in walked Loque Bella. He turned his head to her and turned it back to continue staring at the ceiling. She walked further in and knelt down next to him; looking at his bruises and burns and instantly out of sorts. "Thank you," she said. "For what?" he asked. "For standing up to your father for me." "It didn't work." "That doesn't matter; you stood up for me and that is what I'm taking away from it," Loque Bella said and he turned his head to her. "You're welcome." "Will you please let me heal you now?" "He's a dying man. So close to death, it would take all of you to heal him. He will abs