She cleansed Justin as Severus suggested and put him to bed. While he slept, she sat in a chair beside him with a book in her hands that she decided to read as a way to pass the ti. She had barely read the book for five minutes when she dozed off and fell asleep in the chair with Severus at her feet, dozing off as well.
Esong returned to the suite with the dicine which the doctor recomnded. He found his wife and son sleeping and for a few seconds, he considered waking them up. But when he took a closer look at Justin, his face was rosy and his temperature had gone down drastically. He knew that his wife was a pharmacist of sorts, and she had a private garden in the castle with dicinal herbs. It was possible that she had given him an alternative treatnt to what the doctor had recomnded.
He pulled closer another chair slowly, and silently, ensuring that he would not wake up anyone in the room. He took from Scarlet’s hand the book which she had been reading and he sat down in the chair.
"Greek myths and legends for kids." he read the title of the book under his breath. Even before opening the very first page of the book which appeared to be childish right from the yellow cover he found himself yawning and fighting the urge to close his eyes and sleep off. Determinedly, he opened it and took a look at the first page and got his first introduction to Zeus, the Greek god of the sky.
Zeus was called the father of both gods and n, he was the ruler and protector of the world. He was regarded as the sender of thunder and lightning, rain and winds. His weapon was the thunderbolt.
Esong scoffed as he read what he considered to be a fairytale, yawning again but persistently flipping the pages in fascination especially when he got to the part about Cronus the father who swallowed his children as soon as they were born. Still, he lost the battle to exhaustion and fell asleep right there in the chair with the book in his hands.
Elsewhere in the hotel, other guests were up to sothing else. The emperor and empress were receiving massages in an exclusive spa after what was a very long execution.
"We kill more and more space pirates every year and yet the number never goes down." the emperor said in a complainant tone.
"They are probably recruiting more numbers as we speak." The empress added to his words and sighed.
They all knew that space pirates hid on unclaid small planets which were unappealing to the empire as they offered nothing but ruins and dust. So of them remained empty after wars and famine ravished them. Others were hos to strong alien mutated beasts, while others were filled with endless vast oceans and forests. The pirates took advantage of such planets, hiding in there and sneaking on to the Sun star or hovering near it’s air space to attack.
"Year after year, we keep on doing the sa thing. I hate this day so much, I can barely stomach the stench of all that blood." The emperor complained further.
In another suite, Reya Marley who was in a hurry to publicize her latest creation, Titus 2 was with her so of her family mbers, including the Viscount Marley himself.
The proud viscount and so of the n were drinking, toasting and celebrating her great design with an executive from Pius cha studios, which was a fast rising cha producing company known for their unusual, ingenious and one of a kind chas.
"We have already arranged for the press conference, it will be happening right here in the Seven suns hotel." Viscount Marley told the executive excitedly. "We want to use Reya as the model for this series. She is already famous and her reputation is excellent all over the empire. It will be an excellent choice for our Marley house and your company. Our noble na will bring more business your way. More nobles and wealthy rchants will patronize your company, you will be languishing in vast wealth before the year ends. "
He painted the picture and the executive weaved dreams of wealth from his descriptions.
Inside a boardroom, Lady Gayle and a few people were concluding a eting which they held during the ti which others went to witness the executions. Even though they did not attend the ceremony in person, they respected the day by dressing in black.
"We are all in agreent, we will build a new branch of the Seven suns on the Blue star." she said with authority.
"Yes."
"Agreed."
Voices in collective agreent replied to her.
She stood up and said, "Then I will et their female governor and conclude the deal as soon as possible. When it goes through, we will need to choose one from among us that will run it."
Seven people were in this eting and six hands went up, all volunteering to be the one to run the hotel.
Lady Gayle was surprised by their enthusiastic willingness to take on the job. So of them were individuals that she only saw once or twice a year because they were too lazy to work in the hotel and preferred to stay ho and receive dividends. Most surprising was her husband whose right hand was among those raised up. He run this hotel with her, so what did he an by raising his hand? Did he want them to hand over the main branch and move to the Blue star? Apart from the endless supply of food, the Blue star held no attraction to her. It was too underdeveloped and she was unwilling to move there right now.
Pretending that she did not see him, she looked away and told everyone, "We will discuss this after governor Scarlet and I co to an agreent."
So ti later, Scarlet woke up and checked on Justin. The little one had successfully recovered but he was still sleeping. Esong too was sleeping deeply in a chair, with his legs up on the bed and his arms folded across his chest. The book about Greek mythology had fallen down on the side of the chair and it laid open on the ground.
She yawned softly as she picked it up and noticed a folded a corner which was not there before. So he was reading the book, she thought. She closed it and placed it on the small table in the middle of the room.
"Great, finally, you are awake." Severus voice sounded in her mind.
She saw him appearing out of thin air and her eyes darted to Esong imdiately. Her worry was that he would notice sothing abnormal if Severus just popped up like that. What possible explanation could she give him?
He ca closer and she sniffed the air. He reeked of hound wine and spice, as if he had just gorged himself on wine and beef BBQ.
"There is a mission for guardian reapers on the forum. Do you want to take a look?" Severus asked her.
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