144 I need to dissect you

[Past]

"Quiet!" The queen commands from the crowd. Silence befalls as subtle pressure is executed in the air. Her people bow down their head, including her daughters except for the one standing in the middle. She looks at the cockatrice as black as the night. Her fourth daughter's head is still held high; her eyes are fixed on her without any fear. 

Kiluan is right. Her fourth daughter is the only one who inherited her mate's look. Even the look in those black eyes is identical. And it doesn't reassure her. Everything that happened to them is the result of her mate's decision, but she knows that her king only wanted peace. He was too good for this world.

Isn't that the reason she fell in love with that man?

Nevertheless, her authority doesn't work on her fourth daughter. Arrja has the strength to become the next leader of their kind and meet her destiny as the heavenly ruler of this world as the late king had prophesied.