A NEW DEREK IV

When Derek saw the shock that flooded his parent’s features, that flooded the features of everyone in the room, including the ancients, he laughed.

“Sorry, that didn’t come out right.”

“Better for you. Eva is too young to take up the throne. She is barely seven. She is still a child. I won’t support that.” Yodah spoke, landing another shock ball on the people in the room. When he realized that he had spoken when he shouldn’t, that he had spoken what he shouldn’t, he sighed, and rested back in his cocoon.

‘Don’t worry. They won’t be able to tell. Only the family knows.’

Well, that could be a wrong deduction. Yodah thought when he saw Eva staring at him, like she could see right through him. He squirmed in his seat, questioning himself the next second when he thought of what he was doing. He was squirming because of a six year old?

Yodah couldn’t believe himself. Yet, Eva didn’t stop looking at him with that blank stare. She only looked away when Derek, ignoring the possible implic