Chapter (79): Oath

The maiden return with dishes of food. Hux's eyes sparkled. The girl put a plate in front of Eliot and smiled at him sweetly.

"Girls fond of you!" Rave blurted.

That made Eliot peek at Natasha but she was already drowned in her thought.

"Leave him alive, Rave!"

Hux alerted him. Eliot picked the silver fork and dropped it hastily.

Wilmore's eyes met his. The boy couldn't use the silver that humans extract from the mines while his sword was made of Faerie silver. On the other hand, he could walk in the sun, near the fire, and could do whatever that the rest of the vampires weren't able to do, included eating something except blood.

Hux glanced at the boy and his eyes rolled on Wilmore who just ignored and kept eating, whatever it was the prince was taught before. This was why he brought him with himself because he wasn't a person to let regular people join him.

Rave wasn't in a normal state and just kept devouring his food, licking the fishbone that he took out from the white flesh, he paid no attention, probably ignored. And Natasha, she handed the young man a pair of gloves.

"It is cold, wear them."

She smiled, Eliot didn't look at her but she knew and it could not be the prince who told her! His mother! She let her know when she shouted at him for packing.

"Thank you."

They ate their meal in silence although Natasha barely had the food. She was thinking about everything and how would she report to princess Livia. It was the first time she doubted and loathed to report her.

"What's wrong Natasha?"

Wilmore knew her enough to realize she had a problem.

"Your sister! She will extract everything from me."

She blurted, her eyes rolled on Wilmore who was already done with eating.

Natasha used to report her because of her mother's position and begging, their mother feared the princess a lot and forced Natasha to report every single move of Wilmore while their mother never dared to ask Huxley.

"Wow! How scary!"

Rave babbled. A cup of coffee landed in front of him.

"Drink!"

Hux ordered, his eyes were flaring out disgust.

"Why?"

Rave was teasing his nerves, Rave was a coward but also a clown.

"Because if you don't drink I would replace your head with a ball."

Rave frowned and picked the cup, he began to have the bitter drink that recently had founded a popular place in all of Velator.

"Continue Natasha."

Wilmore asked. He was keen to know what changed her mind. What about loyalty that she cared about too much? Was it for this youth beside her?

"I just don't want to make these people suffer more. They are already targeted as betrayals."

"But we are not betrayals," Eliot replied.

"People seek for democracy and freedom but I doubt that the court considers this your right!"

Eliot was poked by the back, a shock that he was unaware of it, and the prince hush already approved what she reflected.

"Their inhabitants had affected you, didn't it?"

Asked Hux. She was his twin and he knew that no longer she could hang on toward the princess's desires with this soft carrying heart.

"If I deny, I'd lied. The Queen would take both of the girls if she gets the chance to see them."

Wilmore scowled. That was true and terrifyingly true. His mother would make them the wives of some generals to make them dedicated to the court and avoid their possible power that might persuade the people of Greenwood against the throne.

"Why do you say that? Why do you think she would desire to see them?"

Asked Eliot. He saw Elizabeth and how powerful she was but not that was a reason to entice the Queen to bound her.

"If the lord marries princess Livia then it wouldn't be strange if she desires to see their family."

What? Eliot left with no word, how complicated these people were! Lord James was a married man. He couldn't understand why would the princess wish to do that while she had many Generals that would give their lives for her.

"My guts are telling me that we would see them soon." Announced Hux.

Wilmore kept being a muffler. Natasha was telling something that he did not think about. His mother would never put those girls in a high position, like making them mistresses but she would force them or draw the life to the way she craved for them.

"An oath can help them if my mother would menace them."

Rave spat out the coffee. He coughed as he heard everything carefully. This one was terrible than all. His father was right, Bolingtone family was uncommon. But he couldn't step back! He swore to his father to protect the Lord and his family.

"Gods damned you nasty creature."

Hux cursed, as the coffee scattered on his uniform.

"Wow! Your grace is fantastic! The only way to save them is to give them the power that they don't want!" Rave stated.

Wilmore raised an eyebrow! No one disliked power.

"What do you think of it?"

"Just let this family alone, if you tend to play with their warm family, it means you will play with the fire of Griffin tamers. The rumors about them aren't just myth."

Replied Rave to warn them, after a short pause he added, "their love can bring peace but their fury can bring ruin and ash."

If they ever had read about Miguel James' power they could notice that they were not regular warriors. If they looked back and searched about their great Father, they could grasp that he had the blood of a faerie werewolf, not a typical one. Their great father was the bastard human-faerie son of the Faerie king, the king who died ten years ago.

"You things we don't know, am I right?"

Natasha noted but Rave shook his head.

"I am just talking about those myths, the running blood in their veins. Look at their generation, the beauty, the power, the intelligence."

Natasha swallowed, was he describing Elizabeth James? Because she had all of these despite denying them, she had a hidden beast within her. But their blood already returned to human folk, and these could be all rumors! No, the girl's eyes ran gold! Like the royal family of faeries that she had read about them, the Abyss clan. Princess Livia, nor Wilmore, nor anyone else would know this. The girls' life was in danger and the Lord knew it, all these years he kept them far from the Bolingtone family because of these things.