What Happened That Morning
“I will have to play my cruel card if she does not listen.” Erebus spoke to Cassia as he pulled his over shirt on.
She shook her head and stood. “Please don’t…you’ll scar her for life an---“ When she stood from her kneeling spot, he vanished. “….King Erebus…”
The sun had just peeked in the realm. Erebus appeared in Hawa’s house and stepped into Katri’s room. He locked the door and slowly made his way to the bed. “Katri? Hey Katri? Wake up.” He began to shake her a little bit.
She didn’t really want to, but after a bit of shaking she sat up. Opening her eyes she jerked back. “G..grandfather!” She was clearly startled.
“We need to have a little talk.” Erebus held the centerfold up from the recent playboy that he got from Darl.
She turned her head from him. “Don’t start on me. I’m a star here. People love me here. I regret nothing.”
He tried several times to talk her into speaking with him, before taking a deep breath. He then began to speak cruel, non-loving words. “You are no longer a child, therefore I will hold nothing back. You are eye candy to people here. No one likes you for you as much as for your body. Merely a whore.” He continued so he wouldn’t have to think about what he was saying. “Have you no dignity? No self worth? How many men have added a notch to their bed in remembrance of you? Huh?? How many?”
“None,” She nearly whispered the squeak out during the little bit of time he gave her.
“Have you no respect for our kingdom? For Naria and Ander’s?? He wont be allowed to marry used merchandise! Elves have much more respect than that.” He paused and when she did not respond he started again.
“Look, Mother!” He mocked a young boy’s voice. “The single playboy slut princess! Boy, oh boy…I want a piece of her one day!”
“Shh” He now played the role of his mother. “She may hear you and take you away to her harlot now!”
Again at hearing nothing he kept on going. “ I pray the gods have mercy on your soul because I wont if you choose to not change. You will quit that ridiculous job, college and whatever else you’re doing and you will come back to be a respective princess with manners and your legs clamped!” He stood and walked out, vanishing.
“A deviant? A whore? Bedspread? A slut? A bad princess? An embarrassment to our realm an to the Elven realm? Selling my body? No one likes me? I will always be alone? No true love? A life of sadness? No respect towards me? Nothing? Am I just nothing? A possession? A statue that stands dressed in golds, silvers and jewels that is merely shown off as if it is a trophy? A valuable?” She laid back down slowly, stating all of her interpretations.
“Is my fate to be bound forever unhappy? To be nothing? Does Naria hate me just because of my occupation? She did like me and she did like the fact that I was going for a sports major, did she not?” Her eyes swelled up in tears.
“I was given a life where my mind would be taken from me? What evils did I do, what crimes did I commit to be punished with such a life as a young princess, whom likes the opposite of what she should?” She again sat up and ran a hand through her hair as if trying to comfort herself.
“Oh, but Katri.” She slid out of the bed and began to talk to herself. “Being a princess gives you a lot of wonderful things, does it not?”
With a smile she answered herself. “Oh yes. I am never alone. I am closer to the man who calls me a whore. I have Anders…though he hardly is around…which matters not, I will always have him. The knights. I have them and of course the mindless maids.” As she spoke she counted on her fingers. “I have as much money as I ever needed to treat myself to ice cream or a taste of wine.”
“Ah so you see. You have counted something good and bad, have you not? Anders is yours now, right? Isn’t that what you wanted? Are you bored with him already?”
She backed up as if trying to get away from herself. “Bored of him? How so?”
“Don’t act silly, Katri. You look at that Cairo with lustful eyes. Is he your next target? Are you out to hunt?”
Katri jerked back and clenched her fists in anger. “I am engaged to Anders and I am in love with him.”
“Oh are you? Or are you a deviant little girl? A lusty princess, one that only wants something until it is hers and then gets bored with it? What life do you live?” A smirk crossed her face. “A perfect or innocent one? I think not. You are a naughty whore, a loving slut. Yes, that is what you are.”
She took another step back, shaking the grin from her face. “No! …no…am I? No! Anders is my fiancé and a great friend. I will marry him for love and at the same time, help his realm.”
“A great friend? You love him not. You love no one, you love being a bedspread; you wish you could be. And if you could love Anders, what does he feel about you? You are merely his realm’s gain and aid, nothing to him. Can Anders handle a lust crazy animal that may turn on whom it sleeps with? One that wishes to own all the men and make them hers?”
She screamed out and grabbed her head. “Stop it!!!” Her voice was loud enough to stir Hawa.
“Damn I forgot to tell her that Anders is at war…I did hit her hard. I was far too harsh, hearing that would merely upset her more.” Erebus shook his head, before returning to Pearl in their bedroom.
Days passed and there was no sign of Katri’s give in, when a messenger paid a visit to Erebus. He handed him a letter before bowing and walking off.
“Siynat Hospital?” Erebus ripped the envelope open and pulled the letter out. He froze and skimmed. “……"