Chapter 3
"Lady Ari, please be respectful," an attendant said firmly. "She had passed the Trial of Fire."
She sneered at me. I returned her dismissive look. Ari flushed.
"Even if that's true, my brother deserves better," she snarled. "You have no right to wear the queen's colors, human!"
I narrowed my eyes. "Is that because you want to wear them?"
She snarled and drew a sword.
The attendants went still, but I darted forward, striking her in the wrist. She let the sword go, and I snatched it out of the air. Ari stumbled and tried to swipe at me, but I dodged and shoved her back into the wall, then pressed the blade to Ari's throat. Ari gasped and flashed her sharp teeth.
"Your Majesty--"
"Let me make something clear," I said. "You may have run around being a terror before I arrived, but I'm not one to be bullied."
She snarled. Her eyes flashed with light. "You human wretch. You'll regret this."
"Not as much as you will." I pressed the blade closer to her neck. "The next time you pull a sword on me, I'm going to take your fucking arm off."
She snarled. "My brother will never accept you."
I scoffed and stepped back, dropping the sword at her feet.
"I'm not asking him to. I didn't ask to be here. Send me back."
The attendants looked nervous. "That's not possible."
Ari snarled, snatching the sword up from the ground. "You..."
"Lady Ari, you've attacked Her Majesty," the attendant said. "Under the law..."
Just... report it to whoever the powers
"Aren't there officials? Elders?"
this," the attendant said slowly, glancing at me. "They will also
"No, thanks."
"That's not an option."
have
Their eyes glinted. "No."
I scoffed.
at me. "Just you
out. Two attendants followed after
at Maya. "I have to report to the Elders about
She smiled as a
"What is that?"
just past dinner time, heading into the sleeping hours... As the new queen, it's your duty to bathe the King and
to change a man... twice my size? Who I have never met?
chuckled. "It
"I could kill him."
"Please
a concern?" I asked. "He's essentially forced me through a wall of magical
the dragon lineage has
back. "She seemed more than happy to take up that
gaze. Her lips twitched into a smile. "Lady Ari was
snorted. "Great. An enemy I didn't ask for. Why aren't there attendants to
tradition. You will understand the longer you are
"Highly doubtful."
shuddered. I watched Maya walk into the attached room. She brought back a bowl of
if you need me." She bowed out.
"Wait a second!"
I shuddered, feeling more sick by the second. I looked down at the bowl of
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