Emlyn rembered when she was roaming Atlantea, she heard stories about the mysterious kingdom called Myreen that had disappeared for over a century. People said the kingdom was ruled by a very powerful wizard family.
The royal family didn't like living around regular humans from the neighboring kingdoms who were always waging wars, so they decided to go into seclusion and hid their kingdom from the naked eye.
But.. but, Myreen was just a legend, right? She thought it was not a real place...
And, even if it was.... what did Myreen have to do with her? Emlyn had never been there, never t anyone from there...
This was too weird.
"I've heard about Myreen," Emlyn said, to Bruinen's surprise. "But I have never t anyone from there. What does it have to do with my 'dark' aura?"
"What dark aura?" The king suddenly asked. He had heard about Emlyn having a dark aura from Bruinen and now was interested in knowing what it was actually.
Mars' heart skipped a beat when he saw his father furrow his brows and looked at Emlyn intently as if trying to see the aura that Bruinen ntioned.
Mars rembered the day when Emlyn cried as she told him how Mrs. Adler saw her having a dark aura and said she would bring him bad luck.
He shoved it off and told Emlyn that it was just an unfounded superstition on Mrs. Adler's part and that she shouldn't take it to heart.
Mars realized now Emlyn must be bothered by the fact that Bruinen also said the sa thing. He planned to talk to her about it later, and convinced her again that there was no such thing and that she was not bad luck!
However, seeing his father's interest in the matter all of a sudden, Mars decided it would be best to remove the topic from the conversation entirely.
He knew King Jared didn't like Emlyn and was still suspicious of her. If the king heard that Emlyn brought Mars 'bad luck', he might dislike her even more and treated her worse.
"Elr, I believe we are here to talk about the witch that has bothered my family, and not about so unrelated topic, are we not?" Mars turned to Elr, showing displeasure. The old wizard looked at Emlyn and Bruinen alternately, then he cleared his throat.
"Bruinen, please focus," he scolded his disciple and then turned to Mars and apologized. "I'm sorry, Your Highness. My disciple here is a seer, but he still needs to train his skills better. I will see to him to not bother Princess Emlyn again."
"I was asking Bruinen here, what dark aura?" Suddenly, the king spoke again. He looked straight at Bruinen and demanded an answer. "And where the fuck is Myreen?"
The queen was startled by her husband's words. She didn't think he was so easily agitated today. Perhaps, he really disliked their daughter-in-law, that even a little thing like Bruinen's remark could make the king suspicious.
"Your Majesty, let's not be rude to our guests and invite them to sit," Queen Elara quickly reached out to her husband's hand and grabbed it gently.
She smiled sweetly, like an angel, and tilted her chin to the beautiful chairs and sofa in the hall. She whispered, "I'm tired of standing for too long."
It worked like magic.
When King Jared heard his wife's subtle complaint, he nodded and motioned everyone to sit and make themselves comfortable.
They obeyed his order and took their seats. Emlyn really wanted to smack the king for his attitude. Sotis, she couldn't believe this man was Mars' father. They were so far different.
Not only Mars looked nothing like his father, but their personalities were also poles apart. The only thing that might seem similar was the fact that they both loved their wives so much.
And nothing else.
Emlyn wondered how Queen Elara could stand this man for almost three decades.
Mars pulled her hand to sit next to him on the sofa, opposite Elr and Bruinen, while the queen sat next to him, followed by the king. Emlyn looked at him and smiled, looking grateful.
She knew what he was trying to do. It's weird how she could read him nowadays. Maybe it's because they had spent so much ti together?
Or, maybe.. it's because he was always consistent with whatever he did. After going through so much together, Emlyn realized that everything her husband did was done out of love for her. He never changed.
So, it was easy to guess the reason why he complained to Elr about Bruinen, to change the subject so that Bruinen would stop talking about Emlyn's so-called dark aura.
Mars knew how much Emlyn was bothered by the prophecy and the notion that she was bad luck. That's why he wanted to stop any talks related to those things that would only make Emlyn feel distraught.
However, the king didn't share his son's mind. He looked at Bruinen intently and repeated his question.
"You ntioned sothing about Myreen. I have never heard of that. Can you tell where is it and what does it have to do with Emlyn?"
This ti, Bruinen could sense there was tension in the air. He glanced at Emlyn and imdiately felt sorry for her.
He realized, it was his fault, for bringing that up without considering how it would affect the people around her. He didn't know that this princess was not on good terms with the king.
What Bruinen saw as soon as he caught sight of Emlyn was darkness around Emlyn's body. It was ominous and reminded him of black magic from across the pond.
He loved reading, and a few years ago, he read sothing about people who were cursed by a particular family from Myreen. They would have this darkness surrounding them which would bring bad luck to them and the people they cared about.
It was the ultimate curse. If soone was cursed with death, they would just die and the problem solved. But seeing everyone they loved suffer and die one by one, was a punishnt worse than death.
Many parents would rather die for their children than bury their children one by one. The helplessness and sadness were enough to make people go crazy or want death.
This princess showed all signs of being cursed by that family. And this piqued Bruinen's curiosity to know who she actually was, and what did she do to offend that family.
However, she clearly told him that she had never t anyone from Myreen.? Also, the family had not shown themselves in the world for a really long ti.
So.. maybe Bruinen was wrong?
"Your Majesty, Myreen is a small kingdom across the ocean, very, very far from here," Bruinen explained. "I only read about the family who ruled Myreen from old books. People said that the kingdom has vanished without a trace more than one hundred years ago."
King Jared looked interested when he heard Bruinen's explanation. "Is that so?"
"Yes, Your Majesty," Bruinen replied.
Elr narrowed his eyes and turned to his disciple. He seed to know what Bruinen was talking about. He said, "The Leoralei family?"
Bruinen nodded.
Now, it was Elr's turn to pay attention to Emlyn. He looked at the woman from head to toe, as if trying to see the dark aura that Bruinen was seeing.
"Leoralei?" Emlyn muttered to herself. She had never known anyone from Myreen and never heard of the Leoraleis either.
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