"I saw him once, I suggest you open that letter and stop overthinking."
Elizabeth glanced at him lazily, "I don't cherish it."
"What if they asked you to marry him?"
Rof tested her.
Elizabeth jerked back, getting back to her room quickly, she closed the door. Her room was damp and cold now.
Lighting up the candles, she dragged back the chair, "can they force me to do it?"
"Yes, you are the princess's daughter!"
She frizzed for a moment, her hand grew numb.
"Fuck!"
Rof shrugged.
"Why?"
Tears beaded in her eyes, the princess was killed, it meant her mother was murdered. Did her father know? Who killed her?
With her shaky hand, she opened the seal but took a deep breath before beginning to read it.
"Let me read it for you."
Elizabeth keenly accepted that favor and the Alux began to read the letter.
"This is Queen Helither Zavika Lithrothe. Your dear grandmother. My darling Elizabeth, we require you to come back home where you belong and see where your mother was born and grew up.
Please Join Thinamen and come to visit me."
Rof paused, the Queen began dryly and demanded her as if she was determined to do that if not they would force her to follow that wish.
"Why don't you read?"
"Would you go there?"
"I won't go there without my uncle's consent."
Rof couldn't be happy at all since he saw the crown prince that came here personally.
"I've heard that you had met the guards of Abyss and the King of that murky place. I expect you to keep your distance far from those dangerous and greedy people for your sake.
I will talk to you more when we meet, I am certain that you have questions that need answers, especially about your power that soon will be revealed to everyone.
Elizabeth, we can protect you so I wish you reply to this letter.
Yours sincerely,
Your grandmother."
For a moment, silence just ruled among them. Elizabeth could not even cry because she didn't know for who or what she must mourn but her heart was heavy. She couldn't sense a tinge of sympathy in this letter that the queen thought mercifully she had written...
"The Abyss court might be strict but it is not bad. The King of Abyss is just a loner that no one could accept him."
She erupted. These words had lingered in her head for a long while and now she could let them jump out of her lips.
"He is, Elizabeth. The sword you have belongs to the King of Abyss and he is in love with you. You are the only woman that he can touch and kiss."
Rof explained, she could feel that his body heated, despite the fact that he suffered in the King's mines, yet he was taking his side.
"William is alone! Why?"
"He was raised among humans, then the king brought him and gave him the title of the Crown prince because Leon was a Beta and Holcane was born to be an Omega. No one liked the previous Queen also her son."
Elizabeth wanted to scream and run away to find and hug William, saying that sorry for misjudging him and what he had encountered. She put her hand in her collar, took the chain out, and squeezed the ring in her palm.
"How much do you know about Griffins? I'm not talking about what we learned about clans trees in that book. I want to hear you from experience."
She cleared it for him, her hands scrubbing her pants and she couldn't survive the damn chill that was biting the tip of her fingers.
"They are proud, mysterious! They know everything about all of us, faeries, but we don't know much about them. They are even more mysterious than elves."
Elizabeth sighed and put her forehead on the table.
"I hope Luna had sent me good words so I can survive this misery."
She put up her head and clawed Luna's letter. Consuming more time was impossible.
She began to read it and smiled, releasing a puff. Elenore was with Luna and covered her back, she had mentioned that everything was fine. But the last part was a bit unpleasant, Vanessa was chosen as the mistress.
"My sister has to overcome a demon. I must push myself and go to help her."
"So it means you will reject this."
Elizabeth nodded, they didn't show up until now and were commanding her what to do or what not to do.
"Yes, for now." She paused, wearing a thoughtful face, "Rof, I must see William. I want to hear everything from him and why did he hide his position. Can you help me?"
"If you ask me to bring him I will."
Elizabeth wanted to ask that but changed her mind, if he was the King of Abyss then no wonder why he left quickly. They were at war.
"No, we must wait, I'll go there as a merchant, later. For now, let's test my faerie grandmother. I am not a princess and I won't be chained in a palace for the rest of my life."
Rof smiled, yet was worried! The rumors were saying that the Griffins killed their princess as revolutionary. It was what Elizabeth needed to discover on her own.
"So we must dismiss that pretty prince!"
Her lips twitched, why did they send the crown prince here? Why couldn't she feel well?
"Yes, Rof! Let's do it and go to William's house."
Despite her head that was about to blow out, she shoved the thoughts and questions down. All of these people owed her a large explanation.
~
Back to the present...
William was near his father's house. He turned to a dark lane and climbed up the roof, silently going to her room. After his mistake with Anita, he couldn't suppress himself for some damn reason.
He could smell the scent of Thinamen and it made him certain to have a short conversation with him.
He slowly went to the girl's chamber, the stunned girl was beside the window, her room was dark and cold.