(From Blue's Perspective)
"Your Majesty, the Queen," the duke bowed. "I am very grateful that Your Majesty has co to the duchy."
"It's great eting you, Duke," I said.
"I should be the one grateful."
Dem helped get down from the horse and rubbed so dirt off my face. "How did you get dirt on your face? You were on the horse the whole ti," he muttered.
"Your Majesty must be tired. I have prepared a room for Your Majesty. You can rest there," the duke said.
"What...?"
I looked at Dem getting surprised. He said that we were going to stay out the whole ti, even at night.
"I have made a change of plan," he said. "You and I will be staying the night here and work only during the dayti. It will take two days instead of one to finish everything. But it's alright."
'Really? You changed your plan because of ?'
The knights were pretty happy to be able to take a break. I sighed and followed the duke inside. The duke's knights took the rebels away and locked them up.
It was my first ti visiting the Querencia duchy. The area was huge, but not as vast as the Imperial Palace. There was a rule that no one in the kingdom could own more land than the area of the Imperial Palace. No one actually needed to since the area of the Imperial Palace was just too large.
"Where is the duchess?" the duke asked his butler. "She was supposed to be here... Ah, there she is..."
I looked in the direction the duke was looking and found a woman with black hair and blue eyes, coming down the stairs with slow but impatient movents. Her blue eyes were not like mine, rather the color was a bit too deep, just like Evelyn's and Ava's eyes. She had most of the features of Detrius's father, King Axel. Her face was round and her face showed that she had a lot of energy.
"I greet His Royal Majesty, the King, and Her Majesty, the Queen," she greeted. "We are very grateful to be your very obedient servants."
"It must be a hassle since we visited all of a sudden," I said.
"It's alright, Your Majesty. We are grateful that both Your Majesty and His Majesty have co to the duchy," she said.
The duchess looked at her servants and told them to show us our room. Dem was going to stay with for a while and then question the rebels.
"Your Majesty can wash up. Breakfast is already prepared. It will be served soon," she said.
"Yes, thank you," I smiled.
It did not matter who I thanked, they always said that I did not need to thank them and it was their duty. The duchess was no different. I understood that they said that because I was their Queen. But I was afraid that if this went on, perhaps I would soday forget appreciating soone's hard work and think that it was natural for them to serve . That would be very wrong if it happened.
I was trying very hard so I did not lose my true self no matter what my status was right now.
I was not born a Queen, after all, just a normal human being.
"You want to take a bath?" Dem asked as he sent the maids away and closed the door.
"You do?"
"No, I don't need one. I will take one at night since I might be a bit dirty after coming back," he said.
What he ant by dirty was that he might have to take care of so trash, in his words. I had seen him like that twice. Once was when he killed the forr pri minister of Ataraxia in front of . And the other ti was in my dream when he took my baby boy from because the boy had black eyes like him.
Other tis, Ruby told that Dem ca back covered in blood sotis. But he never ca to our bedroom like that. He always took a shower in another room and then ca back.
I never asked him about it. I did not want to ntion it, at least not now. These days, I was getting used to these kinds of things. At this rate, I had no doubt that one day, I would not mind any of the things going on.
"I will take a bath then," I said.
"I will wash you up," he said. "Why are you looking at like that? It's not like I have anything else to do now. Besides, it's very normal for a husband to give his wife a bath, right?"
"We did it a lot last night," I said.
"We do it a lot whenever we can. It screams a great relationship between a husband and a wife. I don't want my wife to ever forget any part of ," he said and started taking my hair accessories off.
"How can I forget any part of you? I am your wife and I am going to be with you after all," I said.
"That's right," he smirked and kissed my cheek. "You are going to be with ."
"Let's not do it today," I said. "I have a bad feeling today."
"Bad feeling?"
"Like I am going to have my period... I can guess that," I said.
"Alright then. You won't be comfortable, so let's not do it. But I will still give you a bath."
I was getting used to being naked around Dem now. I was less shy. It was strange of to still be shy around my husband even though we had been married for quite a while now. Perhaps I progressed slowly in so things.
As I sat in the slightly warm water of the tub, Dem started washing my hands with soap. His moves were experienced. His hands were very hard and rough, but he was touching softly. Sotis I wondered how those hands could embrace so softly. It must be the power of love and care.
"You have been down these days. Is it because of those dreams, no, nightmares?" he asked.
"Hmm... They are draining the energy out of and filling my mind with nonsense," I said.
He did not say anything. His face showed that he understood what I ant. "Are you having nightmares too?" I asked. "You don't look so good these days either."
He gave a nod. "They are disturbing...," he said. "I won't lie- I am a disturbing person too. My personality, my activities- they are all disturbing. But even so, soone like found those dreams disturbing. They are all about the thing I fear the most."
'They are about leaving.'
"They are just dreams. Dreams won't be realities," I said.
He did not say anything again. It was like he was not sure if those dreams would not co true. But I knew that they would not. I did not want to leave him and if I was in my right mind, I would not.
"Dem, do you see any change in ?" I asked after a while.
"You have beco bolder," he replied without thinking even for a second. "And you have been working more these days. You think even more than before and sotis, you look into the air as if you are confused."
"Nothing escapes your eyes," I chuckled. "Ruby also told this. Luc told that I have gotten bolder while talking. Perita said that I fight with more confidence now. Reece said that I have been working more than before. I can also feel that sothing has changed in .
I just don't know if it's for better or not..."
"It's a good thing if you beco bolder since you are a queen. But you should not work more than you can. You might think that you can, but it's bad for your health."
"You work a lot too, all the ti," I pointed out.
"But I don't want you to do the sa and get sick. I am glad that you have more confidence now. You know, you can do anything. But I just don't want you to go out of your way to match sothing," he said.
"I am not. That's the weird thing. I am changing just like that," I said.
'Even my thoughts are changing. It was after that day when I felt the urge to kill that woman, Dem's mother, right there. It was also after that day that I stopped looking at her as Dem's mother. She was just a woman to , a woman who I did not like. Because he has made Dem like this. She has sse with his thoughts since he was a child.
Redemption is not possible in her case.'
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