Matilda still wasn’t sure where Band One was, as she still hadn’t looked into Kin or Matthew. She knew of their golden link but had not thoroughly investigated them…And well, wouldn’t Band One be with them?

…What if he wasn’t!?

It was only a matter of time though, before she found out Band One’s location. If he wasn’t with…Them…She would find him soon enough, it was easy now being practically at one with the spiritual essence.

Nonetheless, she will have to soon…She will have to leave them both a letter. Both Kin and Matthew were of age to rule. Of course, they could decline…

Will they decline? Matthew never showed interest upon being the Golden Haven…

Matilda stopped and breathed in, trying not to think too much. Because…If not one of them wanted to become the Golden Haven Emperor, that meant that she would not see them…

Did I…Had I wanted them to come here?

Matilda shook her head…

It doesn’t matter, whatever they decide to do…

The time was nearly there, upon knowing more about them. The time of knowing were to leave these letters, making sure that they read them too…

It was nearly time…

Her job…

…After all…This was why she was here…

***

Finally, with some adjustments to her letter, Matilda had finally finished them and decided to wait to do them all at the beginning of a new day…Well a new day starting with them…

Actually, Golden Haven was still quite dark when it was a ‘new day’ for the first lot of emperors.

Not once had Matilda ever seen Yellow Haven, ever! So, she decided to go to the Haven’s that she had not even been too first.

To her slight disappointment, Matilda did not see too much difference from each place. The emperor’s each had a palace and they each had the same type of technology within their palace. There were only slight changes that indicated different art and the way the cultivation had been used to do the walls and floors…That was it…

And so…Orange, Pink and Yellow Haven had been done…

Matilda let out a small laugh…

Pink Haven! How embarrassing! No wonder they changed the name of the Haven!

Nonetheless, to each of those three the emperors did indeed read it, as she left it for their eyes only, and so she’ll have to come back later to check out what they thought of it…

Three months was more than enough time to get here…It was about a two-month journey so really, they had a month to plan…

Next was those upon she did know!

One emperor in particular was someone she wanted to leave until last…That was obviously the Green Haven Emperor, her killer…

But the other two, well Emperor Seth looked around, and even asked who left the note there…

Matilda could see that he had an idea but after he opened the letter and read it, thoughts of her had disappeared…Just like she had all that time ago…

It was the Blue Haven Emperor that indeed loudly whispered out, “Sahara!”, while he was alone in his room!

Matilda shook her head and teleported herself to be in front of him. “Yes, Your Majesty. It is I!”

Doing a female bow, Matilda laughed upon looking up at him, while he was looking at her.

“You…You are back?”

Nodding, Matilda straightened up and nodded at the letter. “I’m currently sending that to many people, so I’m sort of busy…”

The Blue Haven Emperor looked at the unopened letter and then back at her, “Time to do something then? Do I need to go somewhere?”

Nearly ready to cry at his complete loyalty and obvious want to help her, Matilda nodded.

The Blue Haven Emperor took a deep breath in and shook his head, “You are too beautiful, my dear…You will make your prince feel like he will be betraying the other you.”

Smiling naturally, Matilda stood in a lessor lady like way and then shrugged, “I’m not here to seduce. That there is a hope to obtaining the new Golden Haven Emperor within just a few months! I will save you the best room!”

“Golden Emperor?” The Blue Haven Emperor frowned…

What’s that got to do with saving the spiritual essence?

He didn’t ask this out loud, as he did want to try and find his own answers, but Matilda continued to speak, “Getting a Golden Haven Emperor will help unite the people.”

Looking pensively at the letter and her again, the Blue Haven Emperor nodded, “Indeed, it does sound like it may help. Very well, I accept and will be there…Sahara…Will you do this man a great favor and just teleport me there closer to the time? I hope not to…”

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Matilda nodded and smiled, “Since you already know it’s me then I will, but only if you keep my identity a secret and don’t tell any others.”

“…You really won’t…”

Shrugging slightly again, Matilda attempted to smile but only made it halfway, “Not if I can help it. It’s already going to be difficult to accomplish this, then to add to that personal and mental problems would just…”

That’s right, I went to get away from stuff like this before, on that mountain…

Matilda lost her composure as she remembered that mountain and the last time that she had been there.

“Sahara!”

Matilda frowned slightly then said, “My name is Matilda now too. Forget about Sahara…Please.”

The Blue Haven Emperor quietly stared at the very beautiful woman across from him and nodded, “Matilda…”

Matilda nodded. “The name Matilda sounded like a name that would kick butt…Using powers…Using powers to kick butt…Yeah.”

Laughing, he walked over and took a hand of hers and kissed it, “It’s a pleasure to meet you, my dear Matilda.”

God it was nice to have someone that knew, well besides Katherine. Maybe, she thought, that she was a lot more fortunate than she originally thought!

Perhaps she should quit complaining and just do what she’s supposed to do!

“No more procrastinating.” Matilda mumbled with a nod.

“What was that my dear?” He asked, letting her hand go.

“It’s nearly time to leave a particular person a letter…” Matilda stated, then took a deep breath in…

Why did she feel out of breath lately?

“Then I will let you go then!”

Matilda nodded, while her eyes narrowed. “One more emperor to go…Green Haven…”

The Blue Haven Emperor saw it! He saw how her eyes changed to show such an anger…Perhaps even a fury, a deep fury? Was it resentment? What was that!?

…And after Matilda left, the Blue Haven Emperor widened his eyes…

Could it have been!?

***

Matilda had teleported back to Katherine and held a letter in her hands. She hoped that the Green Haven Emperor would not do or say anything…She hoped that he wouldn’t think of anything, nothing!

She just wanted to drop off the letter and watch him from here, where he would read it and accept it! If he made his way to Golden Haven and did not make any fuss, she could endure that! She could endure it and pretend that he had done nothing!

Closing her eyes, she teleported the letter and watched, waiting for a good time for when the emperor was alone.

On three emperor’s already she had to wait, but this time she didn’t. He was eating his lunch and the ones in the room were just maids and eunuchs.

Taking the chance that no one seemed to be looking, Matilda teleported the letter in between some papers and waited patiently, hoping that the emperor would go through them.

It took a while, and he even finished eating, when finally, he came across the pretty letter, that had his name written on it in gold.

So far so good!

He had not thought much at all about it!

That’s good!

Reading the letter, the Green Emperor frowned and put it down…

A memory came through to him and the Green Haven Emperor frowned again.

He wasn’t sure on what to make of the letter, which was actually a normal reaction that she had seen so far.

And…He had not thought about her at all!

Then the normal question came, “Who had delivered this letter!?”

Matilda took a deep breath in and nodded.

It seems that it’s alright, I’ll check back…

“That letter does not look familiar, Your Majesty.”

“Oh, so then who brought it here!?” The Green Haven Emperor asked.

The room was full of bowing people and the Green Haven Emperor stood up and looked at every single one of them.

The last time that he thought of the Golden Emperor, was at that meeting, a meeting when a particular person was still alive!

Now, suddenly, a letter out of nowhere had come!

He knew…He knew he had ended her but…The fact that her body had gone missing straight after being placed in the cold palace still gave him shivers…

It can’t be her! It’s not her! I killed her and she’s gone!

Matilda didn’t know she was holding her breath until she felt like she was gasping to inhale some air.

It wasn’t like the Green Haven Emperor could see or hear her, but Matilda had gone very still and quiet at that moment, almost like she had been hiding.

How do I feel right now?

Even though she asked herself this question, Matilda wasn’t too sure about what to think…

The killer of her, the murderer…The one that also killed Band Two!

Right here…

How do I fucking feel!? Can I handle this or do I just…

As she was trying to perhaps calm herself down, she watched and followed after the Green Haven Emperor and found him suddenly standing in front of Felix, the Crowned Prince.

“Did you do this!?” His yell came out, shocking both Felix and Matilda!

Felix looked at the letter and then back at the Green Haven Emperor, his father, and said, “This Prince is unsure upon what you are asking…”

“Did you put this in front of me!? Did you make it look like it just ‘appeared’? I told you This King does not like that!” The Green Haven Emperor bellowed out.

He was getting old, his voice and his looks showed it…

Felix held his stare at his father and stayed respectful, even though he was getting yelled at, “This Prince did not do that.”

As he was glaring at his son and Felix stared back at him. For so long he had been bullied by his own father!

He had nearly lost his title of Crowned Prince twice in the last ten years! Nothing of what his master had taught him was something that he could do while being around his father!

Oh yes, Felix had his ideas upon what had happened to his master…He was almost sure of it!

Being Felix though, especially when he had already gone through so much, he had not found evidence and so he had kept his mouth shut about his opinion…He didn’t even tell Matthew…

“Boy, you better not be lying to me!” The Green Haven Emperor said through clenched teeth. “I’ll hang you dry and in no time make my next boy the Crowned Prince!”

It wasn’t the first time that this had been said to him and so Felix was not stunned or panicked. “I assure you, Your Majesty, that this Prince has not done it…I don’t even know what that is…”

With a sneer, the Green Haven Emperor turned and whipped at his sleeves, “Apparently it is only for emperors, so it is of no concern to you…Boy!”

Seeing his father walk away, like he always did, Felix took in a breath and really wondered what it was that his imperial father was talking about.

To become so…What was in the letter?

Felix let out the smallest smiles and then moved his head around in a circle before closing his eyes and pulling out a small pebble from his pocket.

It was only bad if you get caught!

Matilda smiled at her apprentice and watched through his head upon seeing his curiosity upon the letter.

She had missed him…

Never knowing how much she had liked him until now…Oh, he had been such the obedient one!

Wanting so much to teleport to him, as he continued doing what he was doing, Matilda stopped herself…Barely!

She really had no time to stop and chat to everyone!

She still had about nine Golden Heirs to do!

…Just a little bit longer…

“Golden Heirs?”

Hearing him state that, Matilda watched as his thoughts raced. He was much older now! He was a man, not a scrawny teenage boy!

He even had a beard!

If he were to still be her apprentice, it would be weird!

“Sahara…”

Matilda went still and quiet to his thoughts now changing to someone who does indeed teleport.

To get a letter about Golden Haven…How had it really come to be here!?

And so…He had said a name he hadn’t uttered in such a long time…

Matilda once again wanted to go to him…

She did have words to say to him, she did but…Wasn’t she going to stay in the shadows!?

Already she had shown herself to the Blue Haven Emperor!

Letting out a deep breath she teleported herself to Felix and sat down in front of him.

He hadn’t realized as he was still looking at the letter and thinking about it but…When he opened his eyes to see a blonde-haired beauty directly in front of him, he was in shock!

Matilda looked at him as though waiting.

Well? You rang!? What do you want!?

It was all written on her face!