(Earlier this morning...)< Aero >Elijah continued to walk beside me when I entered the throne room. Two guards immediately lowered their heads. With a flick of Elijah’s hand, they left. I found this unusual. He usually wasn’t sensitive to extra eyes on us.“I’m happy to see you finally found your true mate, brother,” he stated, stopping at the base of the stairs while I continued to climb up.“Same goes to you,” I stated over my shoulder, hinting his relationship with Serena’s friend.“Well, ye...ah, about that,” he replied hesitantly. I picked up an uneasiness from him that instant.“You have a request,” I said, more of a statement than a question when I sat down my throne.Elijah wasn’t the type to ask a request from me. He only does it when needed, and I sensed this was exactly that time.“I’m planning to propose to Rhea, brother, and I n

< Aero >When I woke up earlier this morning, I found Serena surrounded by the bugs. Two were hovering above her, another two were perched on her shoulders while three more rested on her feet.This scene here wasn’t new to me anymore. I had been so accustomed with the bugs that their presence felt like a routine already in our lives. They didn’t stress me out like before nor did it evoke a jealousy within me.Serena was sleeping so calmly that I didn’t want to bother her. I just continued on staring at her whilst welcoming the blissful feeling growing inside me. This woman will be my life forever. No one will replace her and no one will take her away from me. She’d be the mother to my sons and daughters. She’d be this kingdom’s best queen.However, I couldn’t keep myself from thinking about her real identity. This one problem had turned out to be the biggest hurdle we had to face.

< Serena >‘You’re special.’‘You’re unwanted.’‘You’re ugly.’‘You’re weak.’‘You need to be strong.’‘You’re not allowed to go outside.’‘You need to practice more.’‘Your mother was better.’‘You could be better.’‘You have an amazing power inside you.’‘You’re unique.’‘You’re a freak of nature.’‘You’ll be alone forever.’‘You don’t own your freedom.’‘You’re not allowed to love...’As my sense of sight returned, slowly, so did my other senses. They all clashed inside me, filling me with a whole new perspective of my life.My reality.It had been years, hundreds maybe, since I last felt this way. It was both overwhelming and terrifying.I gazed at the cei

< Serena >I was nine when I first stepped out of the fae realm. My friends Ada and Ade, sons of my caretaker, High Elder Hanhena, helped me. They were called Adamar and Adaen, the twin swords of the Silken Family, but I preferred to use short names for them. I wasn’t adept much with speaking as I was a late learner...or so the Elders kept on telling me like a broken record.To be honest, I chose not to speak. I chose to stay silent. My mother before she died told me the fewer words I release, the safer I was. Safe from what? I didn’t know, but I had stayed true to her dying words ever since then even if it got me in trouble many times.Ada, Ade and their mother were the only people who showed me care. The rest of the Elders were quite strict with me, and it even got to the point where I felt they hated my existence.Again, I didn’t know why, but I was told I was a freak of nature many times.

<Serena >   “Leave Phanteon out of this!” I cried out. “The werewolf people have always lived a peaceful life. Yes, they maybe at times savage and uncontrollable, but they respect territory. Unless provoked, they keep to themselves. They don’t interfere or pry on the matters of the other realms.” “You sure speak exactly like their Luna, Ysanna, and this is unforgivable,” he told me, sneering. He then turned his attention to the panel around us and pointed a hand towards me. “Don’t you see Elders of the High Fae Court? She has done and told enough to show that she is indeed one of them! She could never be our High Priestess. She must be stripped of her powers and be sentenced to death!” That was quick, but I had an ace up my sleeve. “No, I demand you to listen!&rd