Astri moves to sit closer to Koa and Elder Jin to hear more about what they’re teaching. The females in there are killing her with their eyes, but Astri ignores them.
While they were talking, Astri feels a call and knows it’s Nature warning her of sothing. She hides her head behind Koa and he gets impressed.
"Milady? Are you all right?" Jin asks worried.
"Yes. Just stay there, Koa." She says in a low voice and holds Koa in place.
When she touched him he could see everything she’s seeing.
The Elders poisoned a drink and they’re bringing it to Tyr.
"Excuse ." Astri stands up and rushes outside.
Koa blinks after realizing his eyes are not seeing a different place anymore.
Astri’s spouses follow her quickly.
"The Elders are trying to poison Tyr. If Nature is warning it’s because they haven’t noticed the danger." She says.
"We need a quiet place where no one can see us." Claud says to Koa.
"Co with ." Jin calls them.
All of them follow Jin to his cabin. Astri and Claud sit already and the others circle them to watch. Claud’s guards circle the cabin to keep people from coming near.
"You talk to Tyr and show him the faces he needs to know. I’ll look for more details in their minds." Claud says to Astri.
She nods and closes her eyes. She finds Tyr walking to the dining hall, followed by two of Claud’s guards.
"Tyr. It’s , Astri." She says in his mind.
Tyr stops, taken by surprise. He already talked to her other tis, but it’s always a great thing to hear her voice.
"Astri.. it’s so good to hear your voice again." He says in his mind.
"You need to be careful. Nature showed an Elder poisoning a drink they will bring you." She makes him see the scene and the faces of the workers who will bring the drink.
"All right. Thank you for telling this." Tyr says in his mind.
"Claud is investigating more details."
"Thank you. I’ll try to use this to my advantage."
"Good. Be careful, for goodness sake. Nature almost killed with this vision." She sighs internally.
Tyr smiles.
"I’m happy to know you’re that worried about . What about you? How are you doing?"
"Well, we arrived at the South rman Tribe to fix the propeller. We will be staying until it’s fixed." She tells.
"And how are the rn treating you?"
"The leader and Elder are respectful. They know about who I am. The females want dead as usual. They want to steal my spouses."
"I heard the rmaids act this way. You should be careful there. You have to co back to ."
"You’re getting braver and braver, Lion King. You could conquer anyone with these lines." She chuckles.
"But I want to conquer only you. I need to be brave to never lose you. I don’t talk like this with anyone else."
"Good point. Let go talk to Saul."
"Co back later. I love it when Claud is not around."
"Maybe another day. I stopped in the middle of dinner here to save you."
"The other day needs to be only you and too."
She chuckles.
"All right. Bye, brave Lion."
"Bye, beautiful Goddess."
She chuckles thinking he’s actually cute for trying this much. She talks to Saul and shows everything to him too. Then she opens her eyes and looks at the curious eyes on her.
"Everything is fine now." She says and stands up.
"Why did you talk to him without speaking out loud?" Lee asks, jealous.
"To avoid fighting and interruptions." She answers.
"I knew it! That mangy lion is hitting on you too much."
"He’s actually getting better than you with the romantic talking." She says to Lee as she walks to Claud.
"What?! He’s getting better?!"
"Better than Lee? Is he better than us?" Wayde asks.
Astri rolls her eyes.
"What did he say? I want to know." Zin says.
"Beau? Bring my spouses outside, please." Astri calls Beau.
Beau looks at them. He knows it will be painful for them, but he will always obey her.
"All right! We will stop. But we want to know details later." Lee speaks.
Astri touches Claud and closes her eyes to get the details he’s finding.
"Tyr is that lion who was left behind? The one who gave her that necklace?" Koa asks.
"Yes. That stupid cat." Lee mumbles.
"You know that Astri is one of the females with fewer spouses, right? Even for land beastn." Beau asks her spouses.
"We don’t want more males. She’s different and she treats all of us well and loves us equally. She expects us to live well together without fighting. That’s already hard for all of us. Having more it will get harder." Zin explains.
"If you know that she loves all of you equally, why fight?" Koa asks.
They don’t know how to answer.
"You’re just selfish. I actually understand. If I were her mate I would act the sa way. It’s easy to tell if we are looking from outside, but once we’re living the situation it’s harder than imagined." Koa says.
Koa and Beau look at Astri thinking the sa thing, but then shake their heads afraid of where their minds are taking them.
——
Claud discovers more details of what they were planning and who to interrogate to have answers. Tyr needs to build ways to prove the Elders’ bad intentions and he will gather all the weapons he can get.
Tyr pretended he didn’t know anything during dinner and Saul will be the one to check and bring his food and water to prevent anything.
The Elders during the dinner watched Tyr like they were waiting for sothing to happen and Tyr could notice they were looking at each other.
"Don’t move and only speak inside your mind. It is Astri." Astri speaks in Elder Abel’s mind.
Abel choked with his water and coughed apologizing to everyone about the scene.
"I know so of your friends tried to poison Tyr tonight. And I know exactly who ordered it. I want you to investigate all providers of the castle and tell Tyr which are reliable and who are corrupted. Do you understand?" Astri speaks.
"Yes.."
"Good. Rember. This is your opportunity to survive and actually grow. They will fall and that will happen soon. You won’t want to be on their side when they fall. With Tyr I’ll give you the chance to live. I’m not giving this opportunity to any other Elder."
"All right.. I’ll investigate. Will you protect if I get caught?" Abel asks in his mind.
"That will depend on you."
He sighs internally, understanding what she said. If he gets caught and ends up saying anything she won’t protect him.
"You’re smart. You can do things without being caught. I trust your capabilities. Have a nice evening."
He stops hearing her voice and he takes a big gulp of water again. That day was proof enough for him that she really is always around even at a distance.
Abel didn’t know the other Elders were planning to poison Tyr that night and he needs to act as a double agent so they trust him again.
——
Watching Astri and Claud working together to act to protect soone from a distance like that made Beau realize even more how important Astri is. She left the King Of Beasts to survive on his own in a crisis to help the Queen of Aquaterra. Aquaterra will need to be grateful eternally for her help.
After finishing dealing with everything, they started to walk back to the Leader’s Hall. They see Xandra trying to co inside and Galion not allowing her.
"Let pass!! Who do you think you are?!" Xandra says pushing Galion.
"You’re not allowed inside. Please, leave." Galion keeps repeating.
"What are you doing, Xandra? Stop with all this noise." Elder Jin says annoyed.
"Why am I not allowed inside and she is?" She asks, angry and pointing at Astri.
"It’s my cabin and only who I want can co inside. Now leave. You’re annoying. Co, milady and lords." Elder Jin’s change of tone between Xandra and Astri is very different and that made Xandra even angrier.
Astri walked past Xandra circled by her spouses and Xandra’s killing eyes were burning in anger.
"I don’t like you, pale and ugly female." Xandra tells Astri.
Astri sneers.
"Yeah? Well, get in the line. Have a nice evening, beautiful rmaid." Astri says without stopping walking.
"At least you know I’m more beautiful."
"Quiet! Respect! It’s my last warning!" Koa coldly tells Xandra, who stomps away after hearing Koa’s loud tone on her.
"Don’t pay attention to her. You’re the most beautiful." Zin says to Astri.
"I don’t want to be the most beautiful. I want to be beautiful only to my spouses."
Her spouses smile and rush to get her hands. Zin and Claud got her first.
"What were you talking with Tyr?" Lee asks Astri.
"He said that I need to be careful and don’t let any rmaid kill because I need to go back to him." Astri answers.
"Go back to him? That insolent cat. I’m going to kill him. Only I am the romantic." Lee says.
"Who said that? All of you are in your own way." Astri says.
"You’re just the horniest." Wayde jokes, making them laugh in result.
"Why don’t you want more mates, Astri? If I may know." Koa asks Astri.
"I’ll live to prevent fighting. That’s a pain in the ass." She answers directly.
"Don’t say like we’re bad spouses." Cyprian whines.
"All right. I want Tyr, Beau and Koa to be my spouses then." She says, shocking everyone, and even the calm Wayde, Claud and Zin lost their steps.
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