(From Blue's Perspective)
"Your Highness, His Highness, the King of Trouvaille sent this reply," Perita said, handing a royal blue envelope. "He wrote it right then. Can you believe it? Isn't it strange?"
"I see..."
He sent a reply right away? I did not expect it. King Ford seed to be quicker to act than I thought.
There was only one line- Of course; I will surely stand up for soone of my own kind, especially knowing that you and I can be great partners- don't think anything bad because I have no interest in soone who is married, at least, not romantically.
"Are you sure this one is ant for ?" I asked. I was very confused about what he ant.
"Yes, Your Highness. The king also said that if Your Highness thinks that this is not ant for you, then please be assured, because it is," Perita replied.
"Hmm... Why be so confusing if you knew?" I muttered under my breath.
Now being confusing ant one thing- he was being mysterious and wanted to be curious about what he ant. And I would only find out if we t. So, all his actions were leading to one thing- he wanted to et .
'But I'm not curious?'
Actually, I did not care much about what he wanted. Why would he want to be friends with ? And that was also to an extensive level it seed. He was an enemy of Detrius, which ant he was an enemy of mine as well. If he let his guard down around , I might betray him. And besides, I was just a human.
Why would he want to be friends with a human? And why would he say that we were the sa kind?
Not to forget, he also tried to kill . At least, Dem said so. Then again, Dem said that he was not sure that what he thought happened in his past actually happened the way he thought it did. I was kind of sure now that there might be sothing more going on and there was a mastermind behind it all. A dark mage definitely manipulated Dem's thoughts and perhaps for a long ti as well.
I sighed. There were a lot of things to think about. And every ti I tried to think deeply, my head would hurt. I decided to give it a break.
"Get so tea, Ruby," I said. "And Perita, take the letter on the table and give it to the queen of Ataraxia. Personally, of course. They would let you in if you show them my seal."
When Perita went to King Ford, I wrote another letter ant for the queen of Ataraxia. It happened right that ti and I could not just ignore it.
A maid brought a cup of black tea this morning, the one I liked, even though I did not order her. It was right after Perita left. She was nervous and was sweating quite a bit. So, I suspected that she had done sothing with the tea. And besides, I was never going to drink sothing soone gave all of a sudden even though I did not ask for it.
I told her to drink it herself. She kept refusing and when Ruby tried to force her to drink it, she started crying, saying that she made a grave mistake. That maid confessed everything.
She had poisoned the tea.
It was the first ti that I found soone poisoning . I heard before that I was almost poisoned a few tis, but I did not have to face them myself since Dem took care of them without getting involved.
I tried to remain as calm as possible even though my mind was screaming, "What the hell? She tried to poison ! That ans, she tried to kill ! For real!"
When I asked her who sent her, she said that soone wearing a white hooded cloak told her to do it or they would kill her family. It was a woman, she said. White was the royal color of Ataraxia. The person surely would not be dumb enough to reveal where she ca from. It was either intentional and she wanted to know that she was from Ataraxia for so reason. Or she was trying to deceive .
Or perhaps she actually was dumb and did not know that I would survive.
I sent a letter to the queen of Ataraxia stating what happened since I was a guest and this kind of thing happened when I was invited here. And I also sent a letter to Dem by another maid.
"Really? I can't relax for real not even for once," I sighed.
I heard loud boot noises as if soone was running this way. Well, I was not even surprised, nor did I have to ask to know who it was.
"Who the fuck tried to do it? Are you alright?" Dem asked breathlessly, opening the door loudly.
He grabbed my face and then checked my mouth and my entire body to make sure that nothing happened.
"You haven't drunk even a drop of it, right?" he asked, panting since he ca running. There were drops of sweat on his forehead and his face was filled with worry and anger.
"I haven't," I shook my head and wiped the sweat off his forehead with the sleeve of my nightgown. "I suspected her before. And why the hell would I even drink it? I don't even know her and I haven't even asked for it. I may be a bit dumb, but I know this much. So, don't worry and take a deep breath.
I am alright."
He sighed in relief and leaned against my hand that was on his face. "You are not dumb. Have you ever heard of a dumb person doing this much?" he muttered. "At least, you are able to save yourself in so cases."
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