So what are we hunting today?”, asked king Levi while patting his black stallion.
Antonio replied saying
“whatever animal you wish my king”.
“My king please how is the queen faring? I hope Arishem isn’t troubling her much?” asked Allegra.
“Oh trust me Arishem is the best baby on earth” answered Levi.
“Of course he is” said Allegra with anger dripping at the end of each word which she covered with an endearing smile.
Antonio had excused himself when the king and Allegra were conversing to call the others for hunting.
On his way, he saw minister Makari, king Quince and his pregnant wife Agatha, Priscilla the queen of Paeron, ministers Fegural, Aemond, Kentus, Damien, Syrax and William.
Since all the ministers were here already he decided to go call the other kings and Queens of their neighboring kingdoms still in their chambers.
When he went to call King Gerald and his wife Serma they knew the king was surely going to behead them today for coming late but Antonio assured them saying....
“King Levi is always awake so he will forever come to any place the earliest and besides he cannot behead you because you also are a King and your wife a queen except, you truly have done something you weren’t supposed to”.
“Are you threatening me advisor Antonio? You definitely do not want King Levi hearing you and your precious wife Allegra plotting his son’s death” laughed King Gerald.
“We both can agree the king is no merciful man when it comes to protecting his family whom I am sure he’ll even give his life for” said king Gerald.
“Be careful Antonio, the King Levi is not weak he never has been “.
So with that he left to join the others.
Antonio knew whom he was up against and truly Levi had never been weak even though he was younger than he Antonio, in fact Antonio looked up to Levi because he wanted to be like Levi until the king got married to Elena whom Antonio loved but never had the chance to confess to.
‘Levi had no weakness until he had his family, so I am going to use that to my advantage’ thought Antonio.
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All in all there are five kingdoms Dorne which is ruled by King Levi, Paeron ruled by queen Priscilla, Ankok ruled by King Gerald, Tolma ruled by King Kyle, Vermont ruled by King Lance.
King Kyle with his wife Bernice were already in the hunting ground with the King Levi while King Lance with his wife Cecelia were just arriving.
“Since everyone is here why not we head out into the forest? I heard there has been sightings of a new kind of animal. Any one to catch the animal will be rewarded a vast land in the kingdom of Dorne”, said King Levi.
“A gracious offer it is King Levi” said King Lance.
“My wife Cecelia can’t attend because of the baby in her stomach King Levi else she is one of the bests in hunting” said Lance.
“I am very well aware of that king Lance, queen Cecelia is a fine hunter” replied king Levi.
After every one had spread out some in pairs and others individually, Allegra had gone alone too.
On her way she met Priscilla and Serma so they began hunting. Priscilla caught a deer same as Allegra and Serma.
Allegra was in the process of helping Priscilla mount her deer on her horse they heard a scream.
They quickly rushed down when they saw Bernice looking frightened to her core and shivering.
“What happened?” asked Allegra to Bernice.
“ I caught a deer and I had gone to retrieve one of my arrows from where it had fallen.
On my way back, I saw something or someone feeding on it so I tried to shoot it with my arrows, I got it on the hand but it removed the arrow and healed almost immediately then it came at me and I saw it’s blood red eyes but as if sensing yours Priscilla and Serma’s presence it vanished like it was never there.
But something tells me it didn’t want to kill me because it had every opportunity to do so” said Bernice.
“We need to head back to the others now”, said Allegra to Priscilla, Serma and Bernice.
On getting to the men they also saw them gathered like they were waiting for some kind of attack.
When the men noticed their wives they put down their weapons.
Bernice also explained what happened then Lance said he saw the same thing, which meant something was going on.
Kyle was about asking Levi when he noticed Levi was no longer with them. What was happening?, and where was Levi? .