“Yes, this is definitely my safest”
Eliza stood in the balcony of her room, which looked out over a wide green space, her eyes watching the beautiful young woman with short chestnut hair, she enjoys every day watching her entertain or train with Thomas, It’s a copy of her brother Edward, Is she really his daughter as she expects? But it has not received any tangible evidence except that great resemblance between them. she was wrong when she left the planet Gliza and her twin Edward.
While her eyes were still fixed on Erura, one of them put his hands over her eyes to block her vision.
She put her hands in an attempt to keep the anonymous person away, but she couldn’t “ who are you?”
“Angel of Death,” he said sarcastically, she recognized his voice.
“Joseph I knew you,” she said smiling.
“It’s really sad that you don’t even notice the entry of your husband,” he said after he removes his hands from her eyes.
he approached her before the vision was clear before her, he said: “Enough watching that girl I’m fed up with you”
“she is just “ she silent a little and then followed with sad features “she reminds me of him”
he raised his eyebrows and then said, “she reminds you of the young man who I killed nineteen years ago”
“What do you say, Joseph? I told you a thousand times not to remind me of him again,” she said angrily.
He bent to put his arms on the porch wall and then said: “Do not you think Erura is spending a lot of time sitting with this young man?”
He watched while she laughed with Thomas, “He is a friend of her childhood and she has no other good friends”
“what do you mean?” He said as he looking at her after sensing her hints.
“I mean, all the men in the town are almost devouring her by their eyes because she is a girl, although she always hides her femininity but is useless and Thomas is the only one who respects her and treats her as a friend or sister”
“did you forget my kindness toward that girl If I had not been here and protected her, you would not have seen that smile on her face,” he said, his eyes burning with rage and anger at her denial of his sacrifice.
She opened her mouth to answer him, but the knocks that ran on the door of the room interrupted her thoughts.
“Enter,” he said just after he was shocked by those sudden knocks on the door of his bedroom.
One of the guards pushed the door of the room and then he said, and he was panting “sorry my lord for interrupted you, but something important has happened”
“what is it, speak” He replied wearily.
The secret prison was broken into by a young man from the town and he was arrested and now we are waiting for your trial. “
“Well, I’m coming,” he said, and then turned to the guard, pointing to him to leave.
“I’ll come back to you, and do not forget to take care of yourself a little bit,” said his last sentence, and then he walked toward the door with a provocative smile on his face.
Erura looked around at people’s gatherings with surprise and the chaos suddenly appeared in that small town. Thomas approached the crowds to ask them about why they gathered, Erura watched him as he approached them and went into talking with them to catch his expressions of his face, Thomas turned back after he finished talking to them, he sighed away and then hurried to satisfy Erura’s curiosity.
“Secret prisons have been broken into by one of them,” he said, and the expressions of anxiety appeared on his face.
“What does this mean?” she asked him, impressed by his dismay and anxiety.
“This means that has been messed with Joseph himself and crossed a red line and this never bodes well,” he said in desperate.
“Who did this?”
“You will not believe me, Leo who did it.” Her eyes widened with shock, and Thomas continued, “They have arrested him and now he is in Joseph’s hands”
Erura was silent thinking about the fate of that unknown young man Perhaps Thomas had the right to be shocked and upset,
Thomas grinned and then said: “I did not expect it to happen so fast, it was planned for a long time but the mission failed quickly”
“What will happen to him in your opinion?” Then she looked at him with expressions that expressed her concern.
“We can not be certain”
“I’ll see for myself,” she said, then headed for the road to the palace.
“Erura waits, what are you going to do?” He said as he ran after her.
He stood in front of her, blocking her way, then went back to ask her the same question.
“I’ll go to the palace and see what they’ll do with it,” she said wearily.
“Erura, you’re going to throw yourself into a lot of problems gonna kills you, no one plays with Joseph and gets released without punishment. No one stands up against him, you follow your heart and your emotions, but here none of that matter.” He said seriously and then followed, “That’s what makes you a girl in their eyes. A girl her place is among the four walls has no rights and no demands, They only need it to not be extinct”
she felt frustrated, Is she need to remain faithful to the demands and standards of society? Are not she strong enough to do what she wants? But one headline was written on her forehead in front of all the people “girl”.
“I believe we need those sincere emotions to color our bleak lives. We need strong girls with a big heart like you,” said Thomas, trying to swallow her thoughts and sorrows.
“The truth is, you’ve illustrated the place, boy,” Joseph said with a sarcastic grin as he entered the throne.
He sighed and then laid his long robe on his throne and sat down. he looked at the young man who dared to break into the secret prisons, knowing his identity to smiled broadly.
“Boy, I was waiting for your visit a long time ago. you were too late,” he said, without allowing the expressions of shock and anger to appear on his face.
Leonardo stared at him without believing the extent of the coldness that enveloped his features and the smile on his face as if he were talking to his best friend.
Joseph hit his forehead and then said,” How I forget, We have not prepared anything worthy of your grace, But you did not tell us that you would visit the royal court, And to be our honorable guest” Joseph sighed then followed” you get the bad habit from your mother, boy” he said then he laughed hysterically until Leonardo almost burst out of his rage and anger.
“but we do our duty with your mother, you can ask her she will tell you everything, I brought her your father to receive her, It was a great meeting but you miss it, you came late, my little “ He continued his hysterical laugh and then said, “Here where you stand was the greatest meeting”
Leonardo almost broke the palace above Joseph’s head and watched his provocative laugh, which ignited the fire inside him.
Joseph suddenly stopped laughing and the cold expressions returned to his face and said to him seriously and in a tone filled with anger and anger. “ you also inherited the insolence from your mother, Is this my reward because I kept you alive?”
“I warn you to talk about my mother did you understand?” Leonardo said, and evil flies from his eyes.
Joseph’s eyes widened and smiled sarcastically and then said:
“You have grown up, boy, and you threatened your master. I have killed your father and imprisoned your mother to get rid of their similarities, but they left their son to complete that strain, Your existence is a disgrace in itself.”
Leonardo felt in anguish and distress. How much he wished to get rid of the restraints of these two guards to show him the little boy that he talks about”
“What was your name? I do not have the memory to keep the names of your likes” Joseph said but Leonardo was silent and did not answer him and completely ignored him.
Joseph got up to punch him in the face to throw him to the ground and said after that freed
the devil inside “When I ask you, you answer, did not your mother taught you that?”
Leo rose quickly to return the punch, but before he could, the guards grabbed him to keep him away from Joseph.
“I will not waste my time on your likes, as I did on your parents, but I’ll make you regret a lot,” he said, pressing his teeth angrily.
“Take him and show him the honor of our hospitality,” he said to the guard.
They took him outside and while the guards tried to pull him away from the throne hall, Erura and Thomas see him, and the blood on his face because of that punch.
“Thomas, look they already beat him,” she said with shock.
“This is just the beginning dear, you do not know anything,” Thomas said.
Erura walked into Joseph room with Thomas and as soon as she arrived she told the guards she wanted to see Joseph.
One of the guards knocked on the door and entered “Sir, Erura stands out and asks for your permission to enter”
“Let her in” He answered him immediately and only seconds later until she entered.
“Sir, I want to talk to you,” she said calmly.
“At any time honey,” he said to her smiling.
She smiled gratefully at him and then said, “Please sir, forgive that young man”
The expressions of his face changed as soon as she uttered her request, which seemed ridiculous to him, and he tried not to disturb her: “My dear, do not think about such things, it does not deserve your attention, I know how to act with the rebels”
“But he is not a rebel. he did it because he longs for his mother and you have deprived him of her since childhood,” she said without thinking of the consequences of her words.
Joseph looked at her angrily and then said: “Do you see me as a devil in front of you”
“I did not say anything like that,” she replied eagerly.
“and I order you to not interfere in my business, Giving you that freedom to ask me wherever you want does not mean to intervene in my own business”
“I just want to ask you to awaken your conscience a bit,” she said angerly.
He is shocked by her courage. She is not like all the women he met. She is distinguished, not subject to the power of men, but seeks to prove her existence. he starts thinking of the way he would respond to her, he said coldly and his eyes were still angry: “Get out before you see my anger”
she looked at him coldly and disappointed and then turned left and once she opened the door until his eyes fell on that who was standing out, it is the same young man who was with her today in the yard, he Rubbing his head trying to remember his name and after a moment of thinking, his name jumped to his weak memory, “ yes, Thomas”
He shouted to the guard standing outside and his mind is still not aware of the reaction of Erura saying: “ you look like your annoying aunt” and once the guard entered to said to him and a slurred smile on his face: “Put the name of Thomas at the top of the list of departures to the planet Gliza”
She stands in the garden of her luxurious palace where the red roses are in line with the color of her beautiful dress, She picked up one of those open flowers and put it on her blonde hair, Even though was a few gray tufts of hair, but it looked beautiful. a guard interrupted her meditation saying “ Lady Victoria, the man who came a few days ago and asked for an appointment to talk to you is waiting for you out”
Queen Victoria turned to look at the guard, who was waiting for her orders and then said: “Let him enter”
The guard nodded to her and then asked her permission to leave. Only a few minutes later, a man with long hair and blue eyes entered. He said softly: “Sorry to interrupt your own privacy but I came to you with an important topic”
He stared at her, thinking of her harmony with the red roses, ignoring his presence. She uprooted another rose from its roots and then smelled its wonderful smell, she was in another world even almost forgot the presence of that man.
Turned to see that gentleman, saying coldly opposed to his gentle: “Do you like to talk here?”
“I like to talk inside the palace, the subject is secret and it is not good to talk here”
Victoria sighed in annoyance and then said to him coldly: “What is this important subject that you want to talk to with the queen of Gliza herself?”
“I’m the first person to see the vehicle that landed on Earth coming from your planet nineteen years ago”
Her eyes widened while the rose that was in her hands fell to the ground as she staring at him not believing what he just said.
She sat on her knees as usual in front of the grave of her two daughters, she looked older than her mother, the grief had killed her youth and her youthful flower had been uprooted from its roots, She rubbed the dust of the grave with pain, as she was touching her little one, She was wearing a simple white dress. She did not want to choose dark colors as she visited her little ones because they did not deserve less than a pure white color, suddenly she felt a hand pat on her shoulder relieve some of her sufferings, she raised her head and looked at his body. He was a young man of seventeen years old with a long stature and two charming blue eyes.
“Mom, why do not you relife yourself a little?” He said to her looking at her with sadness and pain.
He sat in front of her, wiping her chestnut hair and her tears, hugging her, trying to console her as much as possible.
“Come on, my beauty, that’s enough for the day,” he said, smiling at her, giving her some hope.
she hugged him with love and then she said in a voice accompanied by crying: “ I do not know how I would live without you, you are my only hope, you are everything in my life, If I remained on my depression and did not get married despite it was a failed marriage, but it led to your coming to this world”
He smiled cheerfully and then said: “Mom, I’ve memorized this talk, can you change it a bit”
she laughed a laugh mixed with the rest of her tears, he alone capable of making her smiling.
“Come on, sweaty let’s enter the palace or go for a short walk,” he said.
“I have to change my clothes first,” she said, pointing to her white dress, which had become muddy.
“Come on, you really need to change your clothes, if my grandmother sees you like this, she will get angry,” he said, smiling and remembering the wrath of his grandmother and her constant reprimand to his mother for neglecting herself and not behaving like a princess. he pulls her arm to help her stand up.
Queen Victoria opened the door of her room to let the stranger enter, to see the brushes of her beautiful royal room, with the beautiful beige furniture, she asks him to sit on the couch near the window.
He sat on the couch and his eyes were still examining the details of that room.
“Will you tell me more about it?” She said after sitting on the couch, relaxed.
“Everything you want to know, we share one goal dear, we have to agree that we both seek revenge,” he said, smiling.
She raised her eyebrows in surprise and said: “you want revenge from who exactly?”
Leaned forward with his back and then said in a tone filled with hatred and anger: “From the governments of the Earth planet, we as a people stand like sheep, they manipulate us without being able to speak”
“And what is my place in your own plans?” she looks at him coolly, whit not interested in what he was saying.
“we need external power To eliminate those scum of monsters, I tried to turn the scales by inciting people to fight in a new war, but it was impossible. people so afraid they just looking for peace”
“So far I do not understand my role in this game,” Victoria said raise her eyebrow.
“Your role here my dear is to achieve your goal to return to Earth simply,” he said, smiling and then followed, “but there is one condition If we didn’t agree about it, forget everything I said”
She felt furious about manipulating her, she responded with impatience: “ W
hat is it?”
He sighed and then said: “I warn you against hurting any inhabitants of the ُEarth planet”
She raised her eyebrows with disapproval and then said: “and you call this a revenge!! “
“Your revenge will be to the government and not to the people dear, do not mix things up”
she was annoyed by his provocative style, to say in a sharp tone after losing her patience: “If you call me dear again, I will cut your tongue, do you understand?”
He smiled sarcastically and then replied, “ you should learn my lady to break your pride a little until you achieve your goals or you will live and died and no one heard about you”
she looked at him with disgust and then said: “Respect yourself, have you forgotten that you are in my palace”
“Yes, I forgot my lady so I will leave you to achieve your goals yourself, you do not need me,” he said and then got up to leave.
Her heart almost stopped when he start walks away, she did not know yet what happened to that vehicle, she interrupted his departure saying: “Well I agree, come on tell me what I want to know”
He sighed and then returned to sit on the couch saying: “So we can talk about what matters”
she ignored his actions and then asked him: “What happened to the vehicle?”
“It was carrying a young girl and a baby, the girl with regret died but the baby is still alive” Her eyes brightened when she heard this joyful news. she finally got back to work on her goal.
“Listen ...” She stopped because she did not know his name, how did not know what his name so far.
He smiled then said “Albert, my name is Albert”
“Listen, Albert, If I did not get this girl, that means all my plans failed”
He rais his eyebrows in surprise and then said: “What do you want from her?”
“This girl is the key to our return to the planet where we can penetrate the membrane of the planet and enter our vehicles”
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