"YOU…!", "MELIAE!" Anna got the room's attention when her white eyes shone dangerously, a lot like Meliae's eyes were doing just a short while ago. Amalthea was the only one who was not surprised by her outburst, she could sense her becoming a ticking bomb for a few moments now, she knew her follower was about to explode at any second. "THE QUEEN OF NYMPHS HAS AN OFFER TO MAKE TO THE PRESIDENT, NOW EVERYONE BE QUIET AND HEAR OUT WHAT SHE HAD TO SAY." Everyone refrained from commenting afterward, Amalthea had seen it before, the quiet ones always scared a crowd whenever they lost it. She waved a hand to close the hole that was under her pair's feet and whispered to her wind to gently place him down. She was happy, for the second time just now, to witness his cousin visibly relax after her pair was back on the ground and out of harm's way. 'There is a history between these two that I must understand in order to judge the situation correctly.' Hylas felt conflicted, he was still impa
One thing was for sure, Amalthea's pair was incredibly smart. After the two nymphs and the heiress received Hylas's counteroffer, Amalthea asked herself one question.'Do I trust him?'The answer to her question was easy, the answer to her question was hard.'No, I do not'The nymph that he had in his arms during their first embrace, the one that bared her neck fully for him and wished their fall from the sky to last an eternity, that nymph was no more. While the significance of a nymph baring her neck to someone had nothing to do with survival, it had everything to do with the power of will, and surrender.It all came down to one thing and one thing alone. The nymph's sacred blood when they were in their human forms. To taste a nymph's blood was to have an ultimate power to order her, it was a lot like knowing a medium's name.Amalthea had longed since wondered what caused nature to come up with such a defect. Why would there be an option for creatures to rule over one another like t
Amalthea, was back in her human form, visible in front of her pair's satisfied eyes that she felt fixed on her all the way from his office. Anna and Meliae were invisibly kneeling in front of her. They spoke through the mental link once more.'What hurt you so much in that dreadful room Amal?''It was something from before your time, Meli.''Why do you not talk to me about it, why do you keep it bottled up inside until it applies that much pressure on you?''I do not do it intentionally. Now listen to me carefully, both of you.''Yes, heiress', 'Yes, Amal''My pair is my beloved, the master of my spirit, I belong to him as he belongs to me, but that is that. The nymphs, women island, our queen, and the rest of you. I will not watch as a single one of you gets hurt.''Amal…''No Meli, let me finish first. My pair is our political enemy, but he is not a hopeless case, not before I have the chance to change his heart, I will change him, for sure.'It was Anna who interjected this time.'
"Come in."Alexander had been standing outside of the presidential office for some time now, he was starting to get worried about his cousin with everything, or everyone, that was happening on Men's Island. But Hylas's voice sounded very calm.'Too calm'"Alex, where's Adrian?""He's waiting outside following your summoning orders.""Ask him to untie the rebel, ask them to come in together.""...You know yesterday, she did not need anyone to untie her, or anything.""She thought I would not see her, otherwise she would not have left her cross alone.""But why does it matter? As long as she can undo anything we put on her, why tie her in the first place.""It is not her body that I tie, counselor, it is her mind."Alexander unintentionally reminded the president of a promise he had made to himself."Alex, talk to Ajax, the miner, and ask him to install a cross for me. I want it in my castle by the end of today.""A cross? A cross, alright."Alexander took a glance from the window to th
What Amalthea had not planned in advance for was the reaction of Anna towards her father, the nymph's inner energy shook from deep within, it was a reflection of her father's own grief. The older man's tears started falling, heavy and cold, when his hand extended in the slightest reaching out to her, Anna ran over to him, throwing herself in his arms. He held her tightly but tenderly, and she pressed her cheek on his, they were exactly the same height, and everyone present as witnesses found a resemblance between the father and daughter once they were up that close. Hylas's voice came deep and dangerous."If this is not tr…"Amalthea's fingertips were pressed tenderly on his lips before he was able to continue, her head shook twice, and her voice was an octave over a whisper."Words would cut deeper than what hands can mend right now, my one beloved, this private moment belongs not to us, let us honor them with our silence."The president was conflicted, he was not used to taking orde
Hylas felt rather than saw his nymph's pain inside the pit of his stomach. She felt sorry for the male that had just disappeared."ALEX! TAKE ADRIAN AND HIS DAUGHTER OUTSIDE NOW!"While Alexander and Adrian complied without questions asked, Anna did not move until she locked eyes with her heiress and saw the approval in them, Amalthea felt her pair's need to be left alone with her, she felt how overwhelmed he was, and she felt his insecurities, she wished she could assure him while maintaining her dignity, without depleting her life-force that started wavering as it followed the direction the presidents' thoughts were taking him. He only talked to her once they were left alone in his office."How dare you hurt for another... after you shamelessly proposed to me, hm?"He closed the distance between them, his hand finding the roots of the hair over her neck again, he felt pure exhilaration at the feeling of her satin hair between his fingers, he twisted her black locks and pulled on her
Night came again over Men's Island, too many things had happened that day.Amalthea's heart was heavy after going back to the cross in the middle of the colosseum, she played back the look on the fire's face over and over again in her consciousness. She always dismissed the missing parts in her memory as to having lived for too long, memories of creatures - that live almost as long as immortals do - were bound to slip every now and then. Were they not?'Forgetting something like that is just unacceptable.'Never had she once learned the name of a medium she worked with, that was as true a fact as the sun rising and setting every day or the fact that she was in love with her pair the moment she laid eyes on him. So how could she have forgotten about something so rare that could only have happened once in her lifetimes.'No, someone did this to me.'It was time for her to admit that someone was intentionally blocking her memories from her, and there was one being that was powerful enoug
Hylas approached his witch in a hurry, time knew not how to move forward today, it was without room for comparison, the longest day of his entire life. The paperwork he had knew not how to end, his productivity was at its lowest low. He wondered how the early fathers got anything done with the anticipation of a woman's presence in their home. It must have been wonderful, coming back to her warmth, finding food on the table of a clean room, not worrying about the children growing up neglected, it must have been heaven to have the women in Men's Island.'I will get them back here soon.'His nymph was the key to all of that, but before he used his captured rebel to move forward with his perfect plan, he had to interrogate her and test the limits of her obedience.'At first, I wanted her to hate me, now I rely solely on her inexplainable twisted love.'There she was, right where he had left her the last he saw her from the window to his office, his new favorite view, and she was about to