The king's eyes

Iris

Romeo... Life is very surprising. The son of the worst wizard of all time is a hybrid. Well, not fifty-fifty, but there’s elemental magic in him... I couldn’t figure out what exactly.

I have to focus my newfound energy to call Samael. I don’t know if I’ll make it this far, in such a sterile environment... But I have to try.

I finished eating everything Romeo brought me. Then I lay down. I’m still stunned by the beatings I received. Sleep is easy to find, but I have to concentrate to stay on course, my goal.

I am in a city plunged into darkness.

The moon forms a fine crescent, and illuminates me enough for me to find my bearings.

I look around me... I don’t know this place.

I walk in the streets, these houses are atypical. It’s a region further south...

the ground is drier... so is the air... The air is loaded with minerals...

it smells... Sulfur?

Why does it smell of sulfur? And the air is different as if we had moved the ground, dug...

Sulfur is used for... Mining?

.. Mines, south of Amben...

Wizards are based here for a reason, this reason, is mine... Gems?

They want to find precious stones to amplify their powers... They know that Samael is strong, and that he knows how to counter Shezaar’s spells.

A gem mine south of Amben...

Drazzel.

I’m in Drazzel.

I have to warn Samael. I have to go further...

But sleep overtakes me... I find it difficult to walk...

Samael is so far away...

I have to send him impressions, I can’t walk to him...

I sing I don’t really know why, but I concentrate so that he perceives in his dreams, my call, maybe he will hear me...

I send him an image...

The smell of sulfur...

The stones I find on the ground, are not precious but they can give him a lead for the mine...

I can’t stand up anymore, I let myself fall to the ground...

I can’t sing anymore...

I whisper “Samael...”

I look at the moon above me... It has changed...

The crescent has grown... Hope...

The power of hope...

I fall into the limbo of sleep...

(Warning, the rest of the chapter may offend the sensitivity of readers, it is particularly a question of sexual abuse).

The day after...

I wake up thinking about Romeo.

Hybrids are everywhere. It is madness to reject whole species when so many of us have their blood in us.

Love... I want to believe that love is what binds us all, regardless of species. It is the purest, it is the essential and the basis of everything. It’s powerful and magical, it’s what we seek all our lives...

I hear voices in a hallway in the distance.

This Rognus... And another twisted mind...

I try to listen and understand their exchange.

"... We don’t have time to wait, we have to act quickly... We need her information, we have to get her to talk at all costs..." I recognized Gregoire's voice.

"Lord Romeo didn’t take care of that last night?" And that man, Celerus.

Gregoire :"He said he had cast a spell that was going to take time to work. I don’t feel it, I’m starting to doubt him..."

Celerus: "You are crazy! He is the son of the greatest wizard who ever lived, he has a legacy that makes us all proud. He is too full of himself to miss such an opportunity to shine.

He was trained all his life to take over from his father. Be careful not to put yourself on the wrong side Gregoire, you can easily be punished for treason if you start to question the son of Shezaar."

Gregoire: "Forget it. We don’t have time to wait anymore. Samael will certainly want to find his new lady companion...

Our plans have twisted, we’re wasting time and we don’t have any!

Do your part, Celerus, we need to know how she could reach Samael with a spell! he has been untouchable until now! Even Shezaar could only strike when he was already down because of the loss of his wife...

...that gives me an idea...

If he gets this far before we can launch an assault... We’ll have to finish off the blonde in front of him, it’ll weaken him...

We can all get on with it put both, to kill him, this time."

Celerus: "In the meantime, I’m going to take care of her. She must need a little warmth."

I hear him coming...

This horrible man..

He was with Rognus sometimes when he came to interrogate me... He is repulsive and he has the smile of a totally deranged pervert...

I shiver, I’m scared.

I want him to go away...

“So sweetie, are you better?

Damn, he beat you up so badly... Leave you to me.”

He enters my cell.

He soaks a cloth in the stagnant water they serve me every day.

Then he approaches me with the intention of wiping the dried blood off my face...

I back up as much as possible

“Do not touch me..." I said.

"Come on sweetie, I just want to clean up your pretty face.

It’s a shame to hit such a beautiful face, he should have aimed elsewhere, what a jerk. Either way, he doesn’t know how to do it.

Me, I’m a gentleman, my doll. A very pretty woman you are." He told me, with his disgusting gaze...

I’m shaking violently...

This guy is worse than all the others, I can feel it... I’d rather have Rognus hit my face than let this sick man approach...

God, he’s wiping my face...I want him to go...Leave me...

"Go away... Leave me alone..." I begged.

"Why? It is not well? I take care of you, you need a little cuddle.

So tell me a bit. I’m not fooled you know, I guess pretty well how you got close to the king.

You used your charms, your beautiful feminine curves, your gorgeous breast, your pretty smile... It’s clever, you use the weapons at your disposal. It’s not a crime, you know...

And it worked you see, who wouldn’t succumb, huh?" He said, smiling.

He starts caressing my thighs...

He caresses my arm... He looks at my breast...

I want to hide...

Disappear...

He stretches his horrible finger to my mouth and brings it down gently...

My chin, then my neck... I start moaning in fear.

“Leave me alone. Stop touching me.

Stop!”I yelled.

He continues to lower his finger towards my breast, I grab his finger which I twist in rage to break it.

“AAAAAH!! BITCH!”

loud slapping sound

“Ah, so you prefer it to be wild, right??! Of course, it is, forest witch... You want the bestial... No problem..”

He grabs my hair to hold me down, I struggle but he holds me down, he tries to take off my dress,

lift my skirts...

He starts unbuttoning his pants...

I start screaming

“NNOO!!

NOOOOO!!...

I FORBID YOU TO TOUCH ME!!

I WILL KILL YOU...

LEAVE ME!!!

PLEASE GO!!!” I screamed, panicking.

"You can scream as much as you want my pretty, no one will come to get you out of there, you’re just baiting... You’re going to help us get the head of the king, nothing else, so it’s a shame to not take good time don’t you think?" He said, obstinate.

He grabs my hips and lies on top of me...

I try to free myself from his grip but I can’t...

My teary and distraught eyes look everywhere by reflex to find a way out...

I look at the lit torch at the end of the corridor...

I concentrate with all my strength on it,

Push the face of my attacker from my body...

I shout as loud as possible to summon all the energy a mile away...

I feel the fire in my hands...

Slash his face, I grab his neck to strangle him with all my rage...

“AAAAAAHHHH!!!!”

I tremble to give all my power in my hands, I give all my strength to annihilate it...

I feel the evil and the need to kill him invade my being...

My burning hands sink into each side of his neck... His carotid arteries melt between my fingers...

I have an irrepressible urge to laugh... Laugh at his disastrous fate.

“Wretched rot...

I rejoice to be the one to end your degenerate life...

BURN IN HELL TWISTED MAN, HUMAN TRASH!!!.”

I let go of his inert body and move as far away as possible from this half-charred body...

I don’t know what I just did...

I didn’t know it was possible...

I continue to shake violently without being able to stop, rage still possesses me, he was going to...

He touched me... My hips... He was lying on me, with his dirty hands...

No, I don’t want to think about it anymore...

I turned into... an evil witch?.

I mastered an element to kill...

I had never tried to manipulate fire... But I... I can’t master fire?

I can tap into the energy of the elements, but I can only manipulate the earth.

Earth is the element of the elves.

Air is the element of fairies.

Water is the element of nymphs.

Fire is the element... Of demons.