Φ As I play, I look down at the people below me and laugh to myself. Look at me and be entranced by my playing you fools. Your eyes, your mind, and even your eyes and hearts are forever transfixed onto my playing.

Now you beasts, become enraptured by my every movement. You lot get your kicks by insulting me calling me brash and stupid, but is this brash and stupid? Is my playing not the equivalent of the euphoria of sex dripped into your ears!

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

Soon, I finish and when I do I stand up to bow, then I say, “From the house of Faoláins, we all welcome you here to enjoy your time as members of the Red branch, and as the next king of Gorias I will be here to help you with any problems.”

I get off the stage and look around at all of the people who are tilting their way towards me. I told them to come talk to me if they had an issue, but it seems like they want to try and get me to talk to their kids or remember their names. What a bother.

But soon my annoyance vanishes, as I hear, “Cú Culainn over here.”

I turn my head to where the voice came from, and there I see, Laeg, Ibar, and Minagrain. Upon laying eyes on Minagrain, my heart stops and I almost fall to the floor.

This causes Minagrain to run over and hold me, but this causes me to spit up blood from my mouth, and I say, “Minagrain you’re too powerful right now you need to put some distance between us.”

Minagrain starts to panic, but Laeg hugs her and says, “This means he finds you pretty Minagrain.”

Embarrassed she hits me in the shoulder, and I say, “Any more of those blows and my heart might actually stop.”

Ibar says, “Looks like our future queen has as much destructive power as Ferdiad.”

As Ferdiad’s name leaves Ibar’s lips, Minagrain and Laeg all fall to the ground in despair, and Ibar says, “Oh come on it’s been months, and you still all allow Ferdiad’s very name to get you all depressed like this.”

“Maybe you're just heartless because you don’t actually care about him.”

Ibar embarrassed looks away from us, and says, “Of course, I care about someone who has saved my life. But getting depressed won’t bring him back, getting enough power to burn the Sealbhóirs to the ground.”

Standing up I grab Ibar hand and say, “You're right, revenge is the answer, not sadness.”

As the thought of revenge alleviates all their hearts one of the servants in the room steps on and trumpets play, then I hear, “From the house of Serlasracht, Spéirdeannach Ó Serlasracht, and Culainn Mac Serlasracht.”

Soon the main door opens and along with Culainn his family comes in behind him, and I quickly move towards him elegantly moving past the people who try to talk to me.

Then in front of Culainn, I say, “Former head of the house of Serlasracht, how does the night treat you today.”

He whacks me in the head, and says, “Whoever cursed you should be killed.”

“I haven’t been cursed I am just speaking with elegance.”

“Pfft!”

“HEY?”

Spéirdeannach looks at Culainn who is riding on another little munchnuncher and says, “Father, don’t you think that is kind of rude to say to the next king of our providence?”

Turning to her, he says, “I got to make sure this one turns out alright, so I can’t hold back on the discipline.”

Mocking him, I say, “I cAn’t hoLd Back on tHe disIcipliNe!”

“You see this, it’s why the boy needs correction.”

Spéirdeannach says, “I am starting to see your point.”

“Hey Spéirdeannach, don’t take his side.”

With a smile, she says, “Sorry, but I plan on taking his side for the foreseeable future.”

The father and daughter look at each other with affection, and I say,” Go be cute with your daughter in front of your grandkids not in front of me.”

“Don’t worry one day you will feel this way about your daughter.”

“I doubt I could ever be as insane as you.”

“All parents think that at first, but I know you will be a great day.”

Embarrassed, I say, “Annoying.”

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“Say whatever you want. But there is something I need to tell you.”

“Huh?”

“I will be opening back up my workshop.”

“Really? I never thought you would be allowed to do it again.”

“Due to all of the evidence Lugh presented, plus all of my work, and the support of quite a few Red branch houses, I was able to get back to chasing my dream.”

With a smile, I say, “That’s good to hear.”

“But there is a bonus to all of this. I should be allowed to bring Aurelius into my workshop, allowing him to stay there instead of his cage.”

“Really? That’s great news.”

“But it gets better, listen to this-.” Culainn then tells me something that brings a smile to my face.

And after digesting it all, I say, “I need to go tell Aurelius right now!”

I run away, but as I do, I am ambushed by a bunch of annoying people.

A young wolf, druid says, “My name is Fionnbharr Ó Cumhaill, next head of my house.”

A young lion, lady says, “My name is Peigín Ó Cathal, the successor of my mother.”

Then they both say, “Young king of Gorias we would love to make your acquaintance.

How annoying, ambushing me, and getting in my way.

But soon in front of me, Minagrain, Ruairi and the rest of the boys' troop appear, and then Ruairí says, “Our master is busy, so any questions should go to his mistress Minagrain.”

Minagrain gives a pleasant yet deceptive smile to the two in front of me, and then she turns around to wink at me. She is the best ever!

I run away at full speed, but then quickly turn around and grab Minagrains face, then I ask, “Can I kiss you?”

I can tell by how erratic it makes her, and that countless thoughts are moving through her mind, but in the end, she says, “Yes.”

And I lay a kiss right on her lips and run away again, whilst saying, “Any perceived slight against her means war, so behave you two.”

I can tell that both of my ambushers become extremely tense at that declaration, but I ignore them and continue moving till I leave the hall.

I move through the corridors and prepare to jump out of the first window. But when I reach the first window, I am struck in my neck and knocked downwards onto the floor.

Looking at who struck me, I say, “WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT FOR!”

But in front of me, I see the cooks of the castle looking at me with a pissed off expression, and with demonic voices, they say, “WE KNOW WHAT YOU DID!”

“Huh?”

They grab me and then drag me off.

-Break-

Location: Kitchen

Strapped to a chair, the head chief Bríomhar looks at me and says, “You know what you did you piece of trash.”

“What did I do?”

“You ate all our flour in the storeroom, right out of the bag as well!”

“WHY WOULD I DO THAT!”

“That’s what we want to know!”

“Think about this for a second. I am the one planning this wedding you think I would do something so dumb?”

They all look directly at me, and I say, “I WOULDN’T!”

Bríomhar says, “This is classic Faoláins behaviour, so why would I believe a single thing you say about this!”

“This is treason!”

“You know what else is treason? Eating all the, FLOUR RIGHT BEFORE A WEDDING!”

As I hear a quick noise, I say, “Wait, everyone shut up.”

Breaking the restraints, I move towards an area of the walls, and then I send my fist right into it and the bricks break down without even the least bit of a struggle.

Then in front of me, I see a druid snake girl around my age with dark purple hair and in a pretty dress chugging a bag of flour down her mouth.

We both lock eyes, and then she tries to run away, but I easily capture her and place her in a chair then tie her with rope.

Standing beside Bríomhar, we stare at the girl with blood-lusted eyes, and I say, “Choice your next few words-,”

Bríomhar says, “Carefully.”

The girl quickly composes herself, and then says, “Hello, I am a genius, a beauty, a warrior, and a glutton. Nice to me you both.”

“Let’s execute her.”

With a cocky composed grin, she says, “Are you sure you want to do away with such an existence as mine? For wouldn’t it be an affront to the Tuatha Dé Dannan to allow some like myself to die.”

Clapping my hands, I say, “Let’s get this execution rolling guys we don’t have all day.”

The chef moves to get the biggest knife they can find, and she starts to sweat and say, “ARE YOU REALLY GOING TO KILL ME!”

Getting close to her, I say, “YES!”

She kisses me on my cheek and then says, “But that would be unfair.”

“How so?” I say giving her an evil glare, as I wipe the kiss-off.

Composing herself, she says, “Because I didn’t do it.”

“You do realize we saw you.”

Looking at Bríomhar, she says, “But did you all see what you think you did?”

Clapping her hands, she says, “Think about it like this. Setanta Ó Faoláin has spent months planning this wedding and during that time he has gotten ever so close to his precious Minagrain.

Every single day they get closer, they touch each other more, and they kiss more than ever. And when faced with that at a constant never-ending pleasure, Setanta noise starts to bleed.

His nose bleeds so much that his regeneration can’t keep up, and he needs to find a way to resupply his body with nutrients. So, he finds an easy and quick supply of carbs to refill his body, something that there is a lot of and people won’t tend to notice is missing. Flour.”

All of the cooks look at me, and I say, “SHE IS OBVIOUSLY LYING!”

“Am I really? Doesn’t eating an entire bag of flour sound just like common Faoláin behaviour, and think about do you think a frail girl like me could devour all those bags in a single night? Or was it the child with regeneration powers who could use his influence and lackeys to constantly eat and hide his crimes over time?”

They stare at me again with faces that make me look like I am guilty.

“WE FOUND HER CHUGGING A BAG!”

They turn back around to her, and she says, “Me and my family came all the way to Failas for the wedding and the house of Faoláin paid for a lot of food for those who couldn’t afford it.

And on the streets, I heard people saying that you could just walk into the castle and grab any free food you could find, so I thought of grabbing something for me and my siblings to eat.

But I found this pretty dress lying around, and I know while it might be immoral I thought a little farm girl like me would have the chance to be pretty, so I snuck into the empty kitchen to try it on, and during that time I found Setanta chugging the flour, so he put me in a wall with a bag and left me there.

I had no choice but to eat it since I hadn’t eaten for a while, and just when I started chugging it. He revealed my location to you all, so he could throw the blame for his actions onto me,” she says with tears falling down her face.

My servants crowd around the crying girl and look at me with disgust, and then she sticks out her tongue at me.

This lying bitch! But guess what I know a gluttony when I see one.

Moving at high speed I grab the half-eaten bag of flour she had and then I throw whatever ingredients I can find in a high speed, and then using my same speed I move fast enough to heat the ingredients, and then inside the bag forms a mismashed cake.

Cutting the bag open I throw it towards the ground and the girl moves at high speed then like a rabid dog she eats it off the floor and says, “DELICIOUS!”