In that mont, the entire world around stilled completely. It ca to a halt.
The words Tristan spoke were not what I had expected in any manner. The letter was here. The ssage from Estelle was here.
A real ssage sent by her and intercepted by no one.
Authentic, uninterrupted, original.
"W-where?" I whispered, stuttering out the word. "Where is he?"
Tristan glanced at the palace before looking bacl at , "Hold , I will take you there quicker."
Reacting to his words, I barely touched his shoulders as I moved towards him but it appeared that he was in a hurry as well. Tristan grabbed my shoulder quiet firmly before I felt the rush of wind on my face and we ca to a standstill.
My eyes widened and so did my stance as I tried to stablise the world that was circling around my head, almost as if it was revolving.
"Geneveie, I apologize," He held onto my shoulder and elbow that he had previously let go of. "It was your first ti, you must be dizzy."
It was, it really was. "Slow.." I whispered, my throat on the verge of vomiting everything out, "slow..next ti." It felt like I would drop dead at any given mont. My organs were also pushed against each other and I felt queasy.
"Yes, my Eve." he whispered above and helped stand. Tristan did not remove his hands and I was thankful for it. Otherwise I knew, for sure, I would have fallen to the ground.
Solomon was in my line of sight. The man brought back to reality and I straightened up imdiately. The urge to vomit out the contents of my stomach remained but at least the world stopped its circling.
"Can I.." I did not need to finish as he moved towards without having to complete my sentence. He stretched out his hand, holding the letter in them for to take.
I suppose my desperation was visible to everyone.
"We will leave you to read it." Tristan kissed my forehead and with solomon behind him, left alone in the room which was his office.
"Estelle," I whispered. This was from my sister. Opening it, I noticed how thick it was. She wrote a lot and it ant a lot to .
’Evie,
I take imnse pleasure in writing a letter to you which will reach you safely. Given that I have been shown a broch that belonged to mother and then you by The man who is standing in front of .
So for once, I have chosen to trust this man in front of who has also inford that you have been living quite well and I need not worry about you.
Apart from that, I shall reach the news you have been waiting for.
Imagine my surprise and when I say that, I really want you to imagine it was a surprise because I swear to the gods above, none of what you wrote reached out to !
I always knew of the possibility that soone could read our letters, but I had never thought of exchanging the content inside them. What you wrote to in the previous letters, I had the complete opposite of them delivered to . I have unfortunately sent my army up north, most of it. That was my first order in business, I am also assuming you would not know that I am on the throne currently.
Yes, I succeeded, but the entire ministry is in turmoil and I need to have people in my court that are all on my side. They are lockless in numbers, as from what I had previously assud, but I have to be sure that no one would go against .
So, yes, the court is not completely stable from the inside yet.
From what I have received in your letters, all I can say is I have done the opposite because I received the opposite of what you wanted to do. Soone has intercepted our letters, and at the mont, it pains to admit, but I am at my weakest in my ministry and in my defense.
It has almost been a few days for to have sent my army in the north, and it would take at least a day or two of continuous riding for the ssenger to reach them. If from what you have told , and my army does end up reaching the north, then I would really be left defenseless.
I do not understand how I did not catch on to it sooner, but it was almost impossible to differentiate between the letters sent by you and letter sent by the impersonator. They were almost very similar and sense. It was one of my people who were bringing the letters back and forth, I never looked for any kind of errors.
As for the help you have offered, I am not exactly keen on allowing the vampires to help , but if that is the only solution, and if you trust them, then I am ready to receive their help.
I need help Geneviève. Otherwise, it is only a matter of ti until our kingdom is dissolved into nothing.
This ans, that you have to co to at the soonest possible. I do not know how much ti we have or if anyone is planning an attack at the mont against us. It is too much too difficult for to handle.
You have to help , Sister.
Estelle.’
My sister just asked for help in a letter.
To all the gods above, what had happened in my country? Because this was bad. If she was asking for help so directly, then it was out of hands.
I stayed at the papers in front of . Why would she not write what happened exactly?
But I had to put that aside. For now, I had to ask Tristan for the help that my sister and I desperately needed.
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