“you there, behind this lady. Get the hell out of my room, im not in the condition to deal with you.” Maeve was silent, as she looked back from the corner of her eye and then back at eloria, tilting her head while questioning “who are you talking to, your grace..?” Eloria’s eyes twitched in anger as her surroundings were starting to spin, not until suddenly everything felt better then before. The pain in her head became less, and her vision got better. She glanced at maeve and saw her smiling. Her smile made eloria abit assured and as soon as she felt safe in the sky, her hand that was holding maeve’s hand, slipped. She fell, high up from the sky in her pyjamas and she screamed. She saw maeve, high up in the sky as she fell as tears started to roll down her cheek again and she thought “I swear ive had enough of this dream! Please let me wake up from this dream anytime soon, please tell me this isn’t reality..”

Her eyes shut, she wished for this all to be nothing but a dream when she heard a large boom beneath her. It was as if a huge flower had suddenly bloomed, so when she opened her eyes to look as she fell from the sky, what she saw had her completely speechless.

The sound of boom was of a huge gate opening, a dimensional gate as she saw someone in that gate. That person however was still too down and far away so she couldn’t recognize that person. She fell and fell, passing through that gate and as soon as she passed through it, her speed increased and she fell on that someone like a snowball.

“ urgh..”

eloria frowned as she got up and looked around her surroundings.

“wheres that person from before…”

She looked around and then up at the sky, and froze when she saw the gate still open and with maeve falling down too. When maeve got closer to the land, she turned changed her position from upside down to standing straight and when the land touched the wind blowed strongly and slight glimmers of yellow thunder could be seen around her. She landed safetly and dusted her clothes gently then chuckled when she saw eloria with a clueless face.

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“you might want to get up, I think his body cant keep up like that.”

She spoke as she chuckled again and eloria looked down to see who maeve was talking about. Beneath her was a man with an excessively handsome face. His gray hair matched well with his velvet red-black eyes, his skin soft and warm. Eloria then realized that she had been laying on top of him as both of their faces turned red from embarrassment. She immediately got up, dusted herself and bowed down while apologizing

“im sorry, I didn’t mean to fall on you-“

The man stood up as well, and rubbed his nape as he giggled nervously while feeling flustered and responded

“please don’t be, I should’ve watched where I was going.”

“its not your fault im still in one piece thanks to you, though are you okay? You don’t have any injuries, do you?”

She stood straight and questioned worriedly as he laughed and shaked his head

“this is nothing, im fine. Though..”

He stopped when he recognized the black roses surrounding her left eye and black veins raising below her eyes, with black blood running through them.

“it couldn’t be…”

“indeed it is. This isn’t your imagination my lord.”

Maeve spoke from behind eloria and continued as she stood next to him

“representingto his highness the crown prince Severus Lyssa Solaria, the empress of the iliakós and Νύχτα, lady general Eloria Atemis Kyra.”

Severus stood there, blank as he stared right into eloria’s emerald green eyes. There was a moment of silence, when eloria’s face burst red as she stuttured to maeve

“wait wait, m-me? Empress? I thought all that was a joke!”

Maeve let out a snort as she widened her arms, releasing a powerful aura.

“your grace, does all this look like a joke to you?”

She spoke and eloria looked around herself once again, and realized where she was. This wasn’t her house, or any place she knew. She was inside a huge, huge palace garden, with roses black as coal and violet spider lilies everywhere. Instead of birds and sparrows, the garden was beautifully decorated with white ravens and lethal poisonous butterflies, releasing a strong sweet scent of toxic flowers. Ofcourse, the scent didn’t harm anyone who was known to the place and eloria was one of them.

Above, the sky had changed themes, and had turned into cloudy. Soon snow started to fall, and as soon as it touched the ground, every snow drop would grow to become either a flower or a plant, maintaining the garden all by itself.