Rof traced the scent of his king and it sparked in Sargona. It made him certain that he was still alive.
Flashing out to Sargona, he saw the king inside the station's yard and appeared on his shoulder.
Sniffing him, William cursed, "were you hit by dark magic?"
"Yes, Lady Elizabeth rescued me, she had amazingly developed her magical power."
William smirked, his little thing was smart but she didn't know it, he was proud of having her, she deserved to be a Queen but the Queen of his throne and he wasn't going to hand her to the Griffins court.
"Was she concerned about me?"
"Yes, but her situation is twisted, her sister's pregnancy is revealed."
"The prince doesn't know it, I didn't interfere."
Rof gazed around, "couldn't you find the prince and Ryan James?"
"They went to the abyss of hell! Destiny dragged them there."
"Should I tell the ladies? They are suffering."
"Tell them. But don't speak too much about that place but tell them that it will take time for them to return."
Rof nodded, his king was fine and he immediately vanished but didn't go to Bolingtone. He went to meet Lord James but William also was going there and the Alux wasn't aware of it.
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Inside the mess hall, soldiers were eating...
Holcane was growling at Sigo, they saw that many reptiles escaped to the cracks and they should have followed them instead of wasting time with humans.
"Cut it off for gods' sake."
Sigo nagged and it made Frank growl. He put the bowl of stew down. He could finally fill his barking tummy.
"Do you want me to go and ask when would we move?"
"Would you?" Holcane didn't want to ask his brother.
The human jumped to his feet, smirked, "what will I gain in exchange?"
He teased.
"Forget it, we will find out anyway."
Frank slouched, nothing would come out of this stingy prince of Abyss. He took long strides while growling and got out of the mess hall. Drawing his path to the Lord's office.
Reaching the door before knocking on it, he heard words and swallowed, his stomach boiled.
Inside the Lord's office, William sat on the chair, finally he got a chance to ease his legs, even during eating some food he could not sit well.
"I apologize for not letting you have some rest, but there are things we must discuss and now I see Elizabeth had sent me this letter."
His eyes were still on Rof who was playing with his fingers.
"When did she write it exactly, Rof?"
William meant it, it was almost half an hour that Rof was there and reported but his main reason was to watch over his king's health.
"When prince Thinamen was in Moon Lake."
William pinched the bridge of his nose, even talking about Griffins would bring discomfort to him.
Miguel put the paper down and said, "She wanted me to permit her to come with you. But I need time to think about it, I have no idea what Queen Zavika has in her mind so I would rather not cause a war."
William wanted to squash Rof's head. He had not given him this important letter.
"I respect your decision. I will go and clean the rest of the reptile beasts to make our shield more resistant then I'll come to you and her."
It was a sudden decision but Rof left him no other way.
The Alux came forward and bowed to his King, "I must go to her. She was worried about your health."
William bared his teeth for him.
"Go!" Get lost he meant with that expression, indeed.
When Rof vanished the king looked at Miguel, "we couldn't congratulate prince Wilmore for his first child."
"William, I can't lie to you, had the abyss of hell a way to rescue humans?"
"That counts on the soul, if they kill the demons to survive, they have to struggle there for a long time. For me, it was different! After being lost in the deserts for months, I went to a temple and served the gods as a servant."
He didn't want to describe the beasts he faced.
"The abyss of hell is a mysterious place that has a different feature for each race."
Miguel leaned back. He could not free his mind off the horrible thoughts that were forming like blades and scrubbing his skull.
"Anyway, I didn't ask you to come here for this. It is about King Rozen. Do you think that he is fishy?"
"His dilly dally for helping us made me suspicious but I will search to know the elf magicians beside him, by the way, Tristan didn't lie to us. The King simply played with all of us but what makes me worried is the reason behind his wills."
"Yes, this is what only you can survey, I am not permitted to meddle with them but you have spies."
William nodded, his eyes were drifting all around to protect the Abyss that his father left to him.
A knock on the door interrupted them.
"Who is that?"
Behind the door, Frank was trying not to show what he had just eavesdropped on. He changed his flustered skin and said, "it is Frank Foley!"
"Get in, son!"
Frank walked inside and bowed before them, "Your highness, are we moving to hunt the rest of the reptiles?"
William snorted, Holcane! Surely, he was growling that William was friendly with humans.
"We do, go tell the faeries to gather. We are going now."
They would want to track the blood traces that the reptiles left behind, they were going to be attracted by faeries magic to recoup stamina, so it was clear where they would go.
Frank peered at him for a while then turned and left.
William stood up, "I must go, please be safe and take care of Elizabeth for me. Unless she is in Bolingtone I can't be calm."
"Just focus on what you must. I'll take care of the rest."
Getting out, he went to the courtyard when he saw Hashin who was sitting in a corner.
"He is alive, don't worry about your Lady."
Glancing back at the King of faeries, he said, "can they survive the hell?"