Several days passed like this, things had changed a bit in the palace. She noticed Roger and the other knights appeared more often than a bit around the palace. She didn’t know they existed up until recently and now they walked the grounds as if they had always been there.
They were all friendly too, waving anytime they noticed her and calling her out as Miss Fairy. Even the serious Sir Roger was calling her Miss Fairy. It was embarrassing.
Alexis stared at the thin man who was crouched down in front of her. Long dark green bangs obstructed his vision and bright blue eyes were visible between the strips of hair that covered his face.“Ah…” it was sad to say that she had completely forgotten about him.She was so glad she won the match and got her sight back tha
“This is ridiculous! How could so many people be supporting the scumbag prince?” She was ready to tear the book to shreds along with her hair at the sheer frustration of it all.Alastair’s supports were zero to nothing or they were when he ascended the throne anyway. As of right now she knew he had the support of the Enflada’s and the Wolfe dukedom. But that wasn’t nearly enough to help him survive the Cold War of these factions. The other three dukedoms were the Silvers, Jewels and the Crotinas.
The Wolfe family gardens were lovely, the area itself was far off from the Capital and the air seemed much fresher and clearer. It was an area famous for the different crops it produced. The agriculture was more advanced here than any other area. Because of this they were also famous for their array of cuisines.Alongside their advanced agriculture they were also amazing huntsmen and were thus given the name of Wolfe. The story of how they obtained the name was much longer however, and Alexis unfortunately paid it no mind because of the jitters in her stomach.
“No”.“Please Alastair!”“Leave. This conversation ends here”.
Alexis beamed at her words giving a gasp of relief, but her happiness didn’t last long as she noticed the uncomfortable glance Emilia gave Shane.“Are you okay?” She asked but her voice was over spoken by Shane.“Emilia Chamomile… it’s been a long while” his voice was sarcastically welcoming.
Alastair glared at the paper work at his desk, he diligently worked through it, stamping here and there or just plain burning the sheets. His mind kept creeping back to the girl he left in the dungeon.‘Was she okay? Was it too cold? Would she be fine?’ The questions seemed to make him second guess his judgment and he had walked to the door a dozen or so times with intention of freeing her and then returning with a reluctant face.
They walked ahead, the smell of vanilla stronger with each step. The most eerie bit was the lack of sound up ahead and when they finally reached the entrance, Hector was first to enter the large clearing.Followed by him was Adam and Alexis, the latter of which paused and looked behind her with a frown. It was for a split second, because she thought she heard a grunt a ways off but she was wrong and continued. She hoped she was anyway.
The Duke and Duchess has been so grateful when they came out that of the cured mine, that they ended up offering their family heirloom to Alexis who repeatedly refused. When the finally backed away, they had then bought out bags upon bags of jewels and money and again, she refuted, more flustered this time as her eyes lusted after the sparkly jewels.“I don’t need anything since it was my job as a command of the emperor. So I’m not the one you should be thanking”, she gave an awkward smile noticing the conflicted faces of the Jewel Duke and Duchess. The hands that readily help ba