"I've put it on your table, but first let's talk to him."
Elizabeth accepted despite her dismay.
"I hear you," she ignored her hunger waited for him to explain.
Thinamen waved a hand in the air and an envelope appeared among a pinch of silver dust hastily moved to Elizabeth. She was touched by that move but didn't exhibit it on her face, showing interest in them was the last thing she desired to expose.
She grabbed the envelope and after a short glance at it, her eyes rolled on him, "should I read it out loud?"
"Depends on you! But my Queen wants to see you."
His Queen? Why would she want to see Elizabeth?
"I thought you just came from my grandmother but why does your Queen bother to meet a low-life creature like me?"
It was what they assumed her, a forbidden fruit from a forbidden relationship, a sin.
The faerie smiled again, he sounded soft and patient but she didn't feel good about his sudden emergence.
"Queen Helither Zavika Lithrothe is your grandmother."
He made it brief and her head chilled, her hand loosened and the envelope dropped on the floor. Her eyes were glued to those golden eyes, when she heard his voice in her head, "I am delighted to see you, Princess Elizabeth."
Elizabeth swallowed but her throat was hard like she had swallowed a bunch of sand. She sat and picked the envelope, stealing her eyes from him.
"What do you mean?"
She hardly unleashed the word from her lips. Her gaze toured on the merchant who wasn't surprised.
"Master, are they the kingdom of faeries you trade with?"
"Yes, darling! I didn't know the last part either but it didn't surprise me because Miguel told me only royal ones have the golden eyes, like yours."
Elizabeth closed her eyes and tried to hold herself back together.
"What does she want from me? I doubt if I'm acceptable in your land, and... Kin."
The smile on Thinamen's face was replaced with a blank expression. Did she say something unlike what he hoped to hear?
"Your safety was guaranteed here."
"Really? But why didn't anyone come to tell me what I am? I did not even know you exist!"
"How do you feel now?"
"Terrible, I don't know what I am, I don't know who I am, the people who forsaken me to be among humans shouldn't expect me to approve them easily. Do you know how does it feel when they told me that my human mother isn't my birth mother, and my father cheated on her? The worse part is that I have a beast inside me that might pop out of me. Do you know what will happen to me if people notice that I'm a hy..."
She paused, considering the place she was and ears that could hear the word of Hybrid.
"I might not be able to comprehend your agony but we had our reasons. You are the only one of your kind, we didn't know what you've become and the decisions were made by situations."
Elizabeth couldn't understand any of those words, getting on her feet, she ran out, leaving that place to seek air and breathe.
"Please give her time. She will listen to you."
~
Rof appeared inside the Rose mansion, the King was taking the human boy under watch who was attempting to summon the wind. Rof whistled when he saw the magical spells left his mouth and the purple symbol molded in front of his palm and the wind yanked him.
"She has been reading the books you have in that house, keeping that ring is related to her emotions."
"Are you here to tell me anything specific?"
His sharp eyes moved from the boy and stopped on the Alux, "why are you frowning?"
Rof was playing with his fingers, standing at the edge of the rock, it was difficult to tell him about the crown prince of Griffins appearing in Moon Lake.
"Your majesty, I saw someone there."
William hissed, he was twisting the bit over his head.
"Rof, should I stretch you to gain some words?"
The Alux jolted.
"Prince Thinamen was there to meet her, your father didn't want to let him see her but he menaced that if he rejected, then the Griffin throne would cut their ties with him."
William became like a fireball, his eyes ran gold and rage erupted in his vessels, and with the wind pushing his robe and hair back, he became scarier.
"What?" He shouted out, plenty loud that Frank flinched and the wind he was directing to the meadow, escaped to the forest and one of the guards yelled out.
"You fucking mortal, I'm peeling your skin."
"I'm so sorry!"
Master Peacock waved his hand and the boy floated in the air, upside down.
"The boy is still goofy." Rof nagged.
"Go back, listen to every single word that they trade, and bring them to me."
Rof eagerly obeyed and vanished as he didn't want his King to empty his anger on him.
He preferred not to show up across Ell's eyes, so he kept jogging in the shadows until they summoned Ell and he eavesdropped everything.
He flashed to the roof, even he was stunned, he needed to go to Elizabeth now and would persuade her to read the letter. He should take the words to William, especially, the Queen's wish. Additionally, she had plans for sending the crown prince of Zavika to meet Elizabeth. She wanted to bring her granddaughter back.
"Your highness, they are faster than you." He was certain that their spies saw William beside her and were tending to ruin the King of Abyss's plans.
They did not want any tie between Abyss and Zavika.
Rof snapped his fingers and disappeared. Emerging in her chamber, she was inside the balcony and the envelopes had sat on the table.
"I don't like him!"
It was all he said.
"Where have you been?"
"I saw him and had to hide."
Elizabeth was convinced, Rof didn't want to be caught.
"Why don't you like him?"
"He is the crown prince of Zavika, my dear Elizabeth but he didn't mention his title."