"Zande was with before Diana ca...." A look of fondness has overtaken Laura’s face, her eyes glossy as she began to speak about the girl that was no more, the girl that I had wished that I had t.
She seed to have made a significant impact on this family. Even Peter was shaken now. His hands were now unclasped, and he was rubbing them softly on his jean clad thighs.
"She was kind, and sweet with an air of freeness and gentleness around her. The community had been skeptical about her at first, because of the rumours about her using black magic to kill her parents, but with ti, she won them all over when she ca out from coma. She even attracted Queen Aliana’s attention who later wanted the girl for herself, but Zande had been firm with her decision to stay with . She had been the daughter that I have been praying to the goddess for. I thought she was the answered prayer, so I took her as one. It wasn’t long after her na got cleared up that she started going out with Aliana’s first son. I actually warned her against this; I had thought then that Aliana had set that relationship up to get closer to Zande-I was never sure why, but I knew that she wanted sothing from the girl. Well, that interest waned when her son successfully slept with Zande. His interest waned too, and it broke her. She was sorry about a lot of things, and got depressed especially since she had lost a couple of friends, whilst following Duke around."
So that was the idiot’s na, Duke. I couldn’t wait to see him, to transfer a transferred hate on him. He is making Laura cry. I didn’t like it one bit. But I listened on; she was still speaking.
"I rember that Dim and Lourdes were the happiest then. I still didn’t understand why that was so then, even now. There are a lot of mysterious things in this community, Maya. A lot of things that I have no answer to, despite my rank in the community. Well, during the last communal war, Zande had volunteered to fight, despite my warnings-I knew that she wanted to focus on sothing else, she wanted to vented her frustration. But she went when I was absent, when I had been in a eting with the queen. They brought her ho dead. Dead and pregnant."
I took in a large bout of air in through my nostrils, my heart beginning to burn within for so reason. Anger. I felt like smashing sothing, then I felt like shouting. Another tear slid past Laura’s cheek.
"I am not sure if she was aware. She was a little over three weeks gone. Duke had denied ever knowing , the queen too. Although, sotis I catch myself wondering how it had escaped her notice. She was the queen with extraordinary powers that so of us could only imagine to have; and she hadn’t noticed? I hadn’t believed her, but I had no choice but to bury Zande, and the unborn dead baby. I mourned her for months, mourned her until the fates decided to comfort with Diana." Laura completed, wiping off her tears with a flip of her thumb across her cheek.
"The children are all like that. Feeling like they are gods. I am happy that the goddess knows this and hadn’t given any of them the white hair, if not, all hell would have been let loose." Laura added, shedding another tear, aware of Peter’s comforting side hug.
I thought of ending the queries seeing the discomfort it brought them. I was actually about to stand up and excuse myself, and go to my room, but Laura was beginning to speak again.
"That’s why I am cagey around you, Maya. I don’t trust the queen with you, nor her children. So, promise that you will be careful around them." She said, peering at from within Peter’s embrace.
"I promise Laura. I won’t fall to the whims of the queen and her family." I agreed, knowing that I will keep to it, knowing that my plans for my life went beyond falling in love with so entitled wizard and giving birth to babies. I had my magic side to work on, I had my revenge plan to work on, I have to find my real parents. All these and probably more, there wouldn’t be a chance for relationships and dumb love, or so I had thought.
You know Fate is funny. The fates are really funny.
"One last question," I ntioned, causing them to look at . Peter’s nod indicated that I go on ahead. "The communal war. What was it about?" I asked, my eyes drifting to the clock. It was forty five minutes past nine. Fifteen minutes to go. That would be more than enough.
"The lycan king had wanted to colonise us, but we refused. It had sparked out war, when we suddenly found out the real reason why Queen Aliana’s sister had been murdered in cold blood years ago. We had always thought that she had died in childbirth. We fought until leaders of the supernatural realms had interfered. We won the case finally, but then lives had been lost. That’s why we share a boundary with them." Peter answered, and I nodded slowly, rembering the peace pact that had taken place in the pack a few years ago. That had been the second ti I had attended a public eting in the pack.
So, it was because of this?
I wanted to ask how Queen Aliana’s sister died, but I shut my mouth, deciding to leave the question till later, at an appropriate ti, when Laura was smiling, and no looking like she wanted to bawl her eyes out.
"Alright then. Thanks Laura. Thanks Peter for answering my questions. I do appreciate. I sympathize for the death of Zande too, and I promise not to cause you the sa heartache." I said, standing up from the seat.
Peter nodded at , and wished goodnight, hugging his wife tighter to himself.
This would be a long night for him. I thought, as I walked out of the hut, needing to rest my now heavy head on my soft bed. Tomorrow would be a longer day.
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