~The Princess and her maid~"Do you still like him?"Malisa asked, turning slightly to Samantha who was seating next to her. Shocked, and too slow to hide it, Samantha spun too quickly around with such curious cum mysterious gaze.Malisa pushed a sequence of air through her nostrils."Don't lie to me."She probed. Sam looked to the endless greenery and smirked. They were seated in a plain garden far from the palace, a place bought by King Wealene for sightseeing. 'Twas by the road and almost every passersby could be seen in an eyeshot.The only thing which made the place special, was the defined geographic setting. 'Twas like a lawn, a seventy five square yard, bordered by different types of flowers, ranging from cyclamen, Poppy, Pansy, Bluebell, to some flowers Wealene ordered from Asian countries."I thought I did, but I was lying to myself."Samantha finally found her words. Malisa nudged,"You were disappointed? Beca

Along a quiet track. "Is that what it seems like?" Kie kicked gently at Talia, his horse, urging her to increase her pace, yet in the most stealthy manner it could go. Kie wanted to catch up with the man he'd seen few minutes earlier. At first, the man was tending to his sandals which seemed caught up in twigs. Something no one could ever explain but the victim. And when the man had looked back and saw a rider of a horse coming, he'd looked away but then looked back again as though he'd missed something. And after the second look, the man had left his sandal stuck in the twigs and started running, with one foot strapped, the other bare. Who wouldn't had thought of that suspiciously?! And since then had Kie been trying to catch up with the man. And he already had an idea of who 'twas. But he wanted to be sure. For all 'twas, he might be wrong. 'Tmight even be a new foe 'a marriage to the princess' had earned him. "Hold your peace or I'll run yo

Somewhere in the woods.Kie and Shamaica."Where's that sly fox. Would she keep me wandering about?"Kie halted at the front of a hut in the woods. He had walked around it for a while, entered inside and came out to no avail; he couldn't find the person he was looking for.Then a sudden female voice came from inside the hut,"I'm certain you know that I'm not as deaf as you are."Kie turned and entered again into the gloomy hut which had recently been lit by a sequence of tiny golden rays dancing off the flame of a red candle, which was placed on a small stool with a picky edge.Seated on a wooly chair was beautiful Shamaica with legs crossed, and a wily smile eating up the perfect curves of her face."Sit."She urged him, looking behind him. Kie looked in that direction, but there was no chair in sight."I'm not as dumb as you are."He repaid her. She scoffed and tossed her head in the same direction, defe

Night. In the Woods.~Samantha and her abductors~"Let go of me, you gutless excuse for men."Samantha yelled the threat now clearly. The cloth had been removed from her mouth but her eyes were still very much covered.None of the three men riding the carriage spared her a reply. But of a fact, the pace of the carriage was slackening and the stridulation of the crickets was deafening. Which gave her two impressions, they were in the woods and were also about to stop.And her guesses were right, the carriage stopped suddenly."Untie my hands and take this off my face now."She bit another sequence of threats. One of the men of Hanik shot,"This bitch is got quite the tongue for a maid. If your lips were the hoofs of a horse, hell, how quick it would be!""Stay your tongue."Hanik warned the man who'd just spoken. Then he ordered the other,"Untie her and remove her mask."Samantha opened her eyes to t

~ Along the route of a forest ~"Halt!!!"One of the elites of Xerxes II called the troupes of warriors arranged thoughtfully like multitudinous fallen leaves along the track of a large mango tree.There was an ocean of arranged warriors travelling with the great Xerxes. To be more precise, a million warriors, excluding himself and his elites.Hundreds of thousands of warrior armed with different types of weapons, ranging from swords, axes, spears to other deadly weapon carved from metals were behind Xerxes.Hundred of thousands of warriors were at his front too. But directly before and behind him were his elites, masked in bones of dead panthers. They were all marching towards Agranah.Aside the elites of Xerxes, there were a set of hundreds of slaves carrying the 'Object 279 kotin' type of carriage Xerxes was standing majestically on;But unlike the Object 279 kotic which had fighting equipment, this is plain. It's circular, and had